Ramanuja's Gita Bhashyam - Chapter 2 - sloka 22

The entire content of this mail is from Swami Adidevananda translation of Sri Ramanuja Gita Bhashya, published by Ramakrishna Mission.

Rebirth of the embodied - 22

1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 22

Vasamsi jirnani yatha vihaya navani grhnati naro parani I

Tatha sharirani vihaya jirnani anyani samyati navani dehi II sloka 22

वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय नवानि ग्रह्णाति नरो पराणि ।

तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णानि अन्यानि संयति नवानि देहि ।। श्लोक २२ 

As a man casts off worn out garments and puts on others that are new, so does the embodied self, cast off Its worn out bodies enters into others that are new.

That those who give up their bodies in a righteous war get more beauteous bodies than before, is known through the scriptures. Casting off worn out garments and taking on new and beautiful ones, can be only a cause of  joy, as seen here in the world in the case of new garments.