Sankhya Yoga

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THE LORD SAID:

 

11. For those who deserve no grief thou hast grieved and words of wisdom thou

speakest. For the living and for the dead the wise grieve not.

 

12. Never did I not exist, nor thou, nor these rulers of men; and no one of us

will ever hereafter cease to exist.

 

13. Just as in this body the embodied (Self) passes into childhood and youth and

old age, so does He pass into another body. There the wise man is not

distressed.

 

14. The sense-contacts it is, O son of Kunti, which causes heat and cold;

pleasure and pain; they come and go, they are impermanent. Them endure bravely,

O descendant of Bharata.

 

15. That wise man whom, verily, these afflict not, O chief of men, to whom

pleasure and pain are same, he for immortality is fit.

 

16. Of the unreal no being there is; there is no non-being of the real. Of both

these is the truth seen by the seers of the Essence.

 

17. But know that to be imperishable by which all this is pervaded. None can

cause the destruction of That, the Inexhaustible.

 

18. These bodies of the embodied (Self) who is eternal, indestructible and

unknowable, are said to have an end. Do fight, therefore, O descendant of

Bharata.

 

19. Whoever looks upon Him as the slayer and whoever looks upon Him as the

slain, both these know not aright. He slays not, nor is He slain.

 

20. He is not born, nor does He ever die; after having been, He again ceases not

to be; nor the reverse. Unborn, eternal, unchangeable and primeval, He is not

slain when the body is slain.

 

to be continued...