Some Versus from Holy Gita- About “Atma” (Soul)

1. Wise grieve neither for the living nor for the death. !
2. Since there was never a time when I, you or these kings did not exist, nor shall we ever cease to exist in the future. !
3. Just as soul acquires a childhood body, a youth body and an old age body during this life similarly soul acquires another body after death. The wise are not deluded by this. !
4. Contacts of senses with sense object give rise to the heat and cold, pain and pleasure. They are impermanent and transitory. Therefore endure them. !
5. A calm person who is not affected by these feelings is steady in pain and pleasure and becomes fit for immortality. !
6. Know that by which all this universe is pervaded, to be indestructible. No one can destroy indestructible (Soul). !
7. Those who thinks that soul is slayer and those who think that soul is slain, both are ignorant because soul neither slays and nor in slain. !
8. Soul is never born nor it dies, nor having been it will cease to exist again. It is unborn, eternal, permanent and primeval. It cannot be destroyed when the body is destroyed. !
9. Just as person puts on new garments, similarly soul acquires new bodies after casting away the old bodies. !
10. Weapon do not cut this soul, fire does not burn it, water does not make it wet and the wind does not make it dry. !
11. Soul is said to be unmanifest, unthinkable and unchangeable. !
12. Death is certain for one who is born and birth is certain for one who dies. !
13. ome look this soul as a wonder, another describes it as wonder and others hear it as wonder. Even after hearing about it no one actually knows. !
14. Souls dwells in the body of all is eternally indestructible. Therefore you should not mourn. !
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