Chapter 2 · Verse 13 · Sankhya Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 2.13
Sanskrit
देहिनोऽस्मिन्यथा देहे कौमारं यौवनं जरा। तथा देहान्तरप्राप्तिर्धीरस्तत्र न मुह्यति।।2.13।।
Transliteration
dehino ’smin yathā dehe kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā tathā dehāntara-prāptir dhīras tatra na muhyati
In plain words
You are terrified of loss—of time passing, of your body failing, of people slipping away. But Krishna says: you are not this body that ages and breaks. The deepest part of you has already survived every change you've ever gone through, from childhood to now, and it will survive what comes next. When you stop clinging to your body as your identity, death and change lose their power to destroy you.
हिंदी अर्थ
जैसे इस शरीर में बचपन, जवानी और बुढ़ापा आता है, वैसे ही आत्मा एक शरीर को छोड़कर दूसरे शरीर में जाती है और बुद्धिमान इससे व्याकुल नहीं होते। आत्मा अविनाशी है इसलिए शरीर के नष्ट होने से कोई दुःख नहीं करना चाहिए।
Word by Word
Just as the embodied soul naturally transitions from childhood to youth to old age within a single lifetime, so too does consciousness move from one body to another across lifetimes—this is the eternal law of becoming. The wise one, grounded in this understanding, does not become bewildered by the apparent death of the body, for they recognize the deathless Self that witnesses all these changes.
When you truly internalize that you are not your body but the unchanging awareness inhabiting it, the fear of change and mortality dissolves into a serene acceptance of life's eternal continuity.
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Bhagavad Gita 2.13 — BG 2.13
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