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The unborn · The body and its dweller

Bhagavad Gita 2:19–25

2:19The one who considers him a slayer and the one who thinks him slain: neither knows. He neither kills nor is killed.

2:20He is never born and never dies; having existed, he does not cease to exist. Unborn, eternal, enduring, ancient, he is not killed when the body is killed.

2:21One who knows him as indestructible, eternal, unborn and undiminishing: how can such a person, O Partha, cause anyone to be killed or kill anyone himself?

2:22As a person casts off worn-out clothes and takes others that are new, so the dweller in the body casts off worn-out bodies and enters others that are new.

2:23Weapons do not cut him; fire does not burn him; waters do not wet him; wind does not dry him.

2:24He cannot be cut, burned, wetted or dried. He is eternal, all-pervading, stable, unmoving, primordial.

2:25He is called unmanifest, unthinkable and unchanging. Therefore, knowing him to be so, you should not grieve.

Reading notes

The comparison of bodies with clothes explains the claim that what dwells in the body does not perish with it. The selected verses concern the indestructibility of the self and the limits of bodily change.

Kṛṣṇa speaks these words to Arjuna before battle. The passage offers a metaphysical argument; by itself it does not settle the permissibility of every act of violence. Judging conduct also requires the circumstances of the conversation and the Gītā’s further argument.

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