Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2- Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 13

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Nature of Death - Sloka 13

 

1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 13

Dehinah asmin yatha dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara I

tatha deha antara praaptih dhirah tatra na muhyati II sloka 13

देहिनः अस्मिन यथा देहे कौमारं यौवनं जरा ।

तथा देहान्तर  प्राप्तिः धीरः तत्र न मुह्यति ।। श्लोक १३ 

As the indweller in the body experiences childhood, youth and old age in the body, he also passes on to another body. The serene one is not affected thereby.

The born one passes through babyhood, youth and old age. It is the same entity that experiences all these changes. It should not be held that the individual that is the baby is quite different from the individual that is the youth. Likewise, the individual that transmigrates from one body to another retains his individuality. The enlightened one sees into this truth and remains unperturbed under all situations prepares himself thereby for enlightenment. Changes pertain to body and changlessness to Atman. The knower of this fact is truly enlightened. 

Though Atman is imperishable, does he not subject himself to heat and cold, pleasure and pain and such like experiences? The explanation comes in the next sloka.