देहिनोऽस्मिन्यथा देहे कौमारं यौवनं जरा।
तथा देहान्तरप्राप्तिर्धीरस्तत्र न मुह्यति
In simple words
Opening the explanation…
A CONNECTION TO LIFE TODAY
These verses offer a spiritual view of the enduring self. In a period of loss or change, you can consider that perspective without demanding that grief disappear or neglecting care for your body.
A MOMENT TO REFLECT
What support would help me meet this change gently?
As the dweller in the body experienceth in the body childhood, youth, old age, so passeth he on to another body; the steadfast one grieveth not thereat.
These verses offer a spiritual view of the enduring self. In a period of loss or change, you can consider that perspective without demanding that grief disappear or neglecting care for your body.
A MOMENT TO REFLECT
What support would help me meet this change gently?
As a man, casting off worn-out garments, taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, casting off worn-out bodies, entereth into others that are new.
Translation · Annie Besant, 1922
A modern application
EDITORIAL REVIEW PENDING
These verses express the Gita’s understanding of the enduring self. They are a spiritual perspective, not a demand to suppress grief or agree with a belief before receiving support.
An everyday example
You might write a memory of someone you miss and share it with a trusted person.
