The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
The Real and the Unreal Sloka 16-20
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 19
Ya enam vetti hantaram yah cha enam manyate hatam I
Ubhau tau na vijanitah na ayam hanti na hanyate II sloka 19
य एनं वेत्ति हन्तारं यः च एनं मन्यते हतं ।
उभौ तौ न विजनितः न अयं हन्ति न हन्यते ।। श्लोक १९
He who holds Atman as slayer and he who considers It as slain, both of them are ignorant. It slays not nor is It slain.
"I am ruined" laments the man who suddenly loses his very much loved fortune. Though he is different from his wealth, identification with it drives him on to this deluded position. Attachement to the body makes one feel that physical death is death to the Atman. But the immortal self remains unaffected by all bodily changes. As the sky is ever itself in the midst of clouds coming and going, the Atman is changeless while the body changes.
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