Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 118

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

CHAPTER 2 Curiosity About Action According to the Chandogya Upanishad,” “A man is primarily his will. As is his will in this life, so does he become when he departs from it.” It is the firmness of his will in one life that determines what a man will be in the next. Man is thus born in bodies that are shaped by his own will. So death is a mere physical change: the Self does not die. Krishn again emphasizes the same imperishability of the Soul. नैनं छिन्दन्ति शस्त्राणि नैनं दहति पावक:। न चैनं क्लेदयन्त्यापो न शोषयति मारूत:॥23॥ [ ‘‘This Self is neither pierced by weapons, nor burnt by fire, nor made damp by water, nor dried up by wind.’’ ] Weapons cannot cleave the Self. Fire cannot singe him. He cannot also be drenched by water, nor withered by wind.