Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 2, verse 22
The well-known image of changing clothes, used to explain rebirth in simple, everyday terms.
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वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि ।तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णान्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही ॥
vāsāṃsi jīrṇāni yathā vihāya navāni gṛhṇāti naro'parāṇi |tathā śarīrāṇi vihāya jīrṇānyanyāni saṃyāti navāni dehī ||
Just as a person throws away worn-out clothes and puts on new ones, so the embodied Self leaves worn-out bodies and enters new ones.
जैसे मनुष्य पुराने कपड़े उतारकर नए कपड़े पहन लेता है, वैसे ही देह में रहने वाली आत्मा पुराने शरीर छोड़कर नए शरीर में चली जाती है।
जसा माणूस जुने कपडे टाकून नवे कपडे घालतो, तसा देहात राहणारा आत्मा जुनी शरीरे सोडून नव्या शरीरात जातो.
In Sanskrit, sounds at word edges merge (sandhi), so a line looks like one long word. Split it to see each word and its meaning.
वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि ।तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णान्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही ॥
वेदाविनाशिनं नित्यं य एनमजमव्ययम् ।
Arjuna, if a person knows the Self to be indestructible, eternal, unborn and unchanging, how can that person kill anyone, or cause anyone to be killed?
2.23नैनं छिन्दन्ति शस्त्राणि नैनं दहति पावकः ।
Weapons cannot cut the Self, fire cannot burn it, water cannot wet it and wind cannot dry it.
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