Chapter 2 · Verse 22 · Sankhya Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 2.22
Sanskrit
वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि। तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णा न्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही।।2.22।।
Transliteration
vāsānsi jīrṇāni yathā vihāya navāni gṛihṇāti naro ’parāṇi tathā śharīrāṇi vihāya jīrṇānya nyāni sanyāti navāni dehī
In plain words
You are not your body, and your body is not you—and this is not cold comfort, it's the doorway out of the terror that's choking you right now. Whether you're watching someone you love slip away, or feeling your own body betray you, or terrified of what comes next, Krishna says: everything you can see and touch is temporary, like clothes you wear and shed. Your deepest self is the witness to all of it, unchanged, untouched—and learning to rest there is how you stop drowning in loss.
हिंदी अर्थ
जैसे एक आदमी पुराने कपड़ों को उतारकर नए कपड़े पहन लेता है, वैसे ही आत्मा पुराने शरीर को छोड़कर नए शरीर को धारण करती है।
Word by Word
Just as a person discards worn garments and naturally puts on fresh clothes, the eternal Self within you sheds exhausted bodies and enters new ones—this is the rhythm of existence itself, not something to fear but to understand. The soul is the unchanging witness to all these temporary forms; your true nature transcends every body you've ever inhabited or ever will.
In this understanding lies freedom from the desperate clinging that makes us suffer when bodies age, sicken, or pass away. When you truly recognize yourself as the deathless consciousness observing the costume changes of life, you stop resisting change and start flowing with reality as it actually is.
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Bhagavad Gita 2.22 — BG 2.22
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