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Bhagavad Gita 2.13

The self passes through childhood, youth and old age and then into another body, and the steady are not troubled.

देहिनोऽस्मिन्यथा देहे कौमारं यौवनं जरा।
तथा देहान्तरप्राप्तिर्धीरस्तत्र न मुह्यति॥

dehino 'smin yathā dehe kaumāraṃ yauvanaṃ jarā
tathā dehāntaraprāptir dhīras tatra na muhyati

Translation

"Inside one body the dweller passes through boyhood, youth and old age. In the same way it moves on to another body, and a steady person is not shaken by this."

Hindi

"एक ही शरीर में देही बचपन, जवानी और बुढ़ापे से गुज़रता है। उसी तरह वह दूसरे शरीर को पाता है, और धीर व्यक्ति इससे विचलित नहीं होता।"

Commentary

Krishna compares death to the changes that every body already undergoes. Nobody mourns the child who becomes a young man, because the person is felt to continue. The same continuity of the self carries across rebirth (samsara). The next verse, 2.14, turns to how to live with the changes.

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