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Bhagavad Gita 2.20: The Soul Is Never Born, Never Dies
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The self is unborn, eternal, and is not slain when the body is slain. Krishna's counsel to Arjuna in grief — a verse many return to in bereavement.
“na jāyate mriyate vā kadācin”
Bhagavad Gita 2.20 · Chapter 2, Sankhya YogaThe soul is never born and never dies; eternal and ageless, it is not slain when the body is slain.
Spoken by Krishna to the warrior Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra — the Gita sits within the Mahabharata's Bhishma Parva — as Arjuna, overcome with grief and unwilling to fight his own kin, laid down his bow before the war.
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The soul is never born and never dies; eternal and ageless, it is not slain when the body is slain.
Spoken by Krishna to the warrior Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra — the Gita sits within the Mahabharata's Bhishma Parva — as Arjuna, overcome with grief and unwilling to fight his own kin, laid down his bow before the war.
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The soul is never born and never dies; eternal and ageless, it is not slain when the body is slain. (Bhagavad Gita 2.20 · Chapter 2, Sankhya Yoga.) Godify shows this verse verbatim from a verified corpus with its exact source, never a paraphrase passed off as the original.
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