एक मूल शिक्षा · विराट भाव · थोड़ा संदर्भ सहायक
“What changes form is not what you truly are.”
देहधारीके इस मनुष्यशरीरमें जैसे बालकपन, जवानी और वृद्धावस्था होती है, ऐसे ही देहान्तरकी प्राप्ति होती है । उस विषयमें धीर मनुष्य मोहित नहीं होता ॥
श्लोक क्रम में — हर संस्कृत शब्द और नीचे उसका अर्थ। किसी शब्द पर जाकर उसे देखें।
शब्दशःthe embodied one · in this · just as · in the body · childhood · youth · old age · so · attaining another body · the wise · there · not · is deluded
The body changes through stages, and the one living in it moves on to another body. A steady person does not get confused by this.
यह श्लोक Krishna द्वारा कहा गया है, कुरुक्षेत्र की भूमि पर, अध्याय "सांख्य योग" में।
श्लोक 13 भगवद् गीता के 2वें अध्याय में है — सांख्य योग। इस अध्याय में कुल 72 श्लोक हैं।
You watch an old photo and barely recognise yourself. The face, voice, and fears have changed — yet something in you has kept witnessing all of it.
Did you like this verse?
It shifts attention from the body’s changing stages to the steady awareness that outlives them.
इस श्लोक का अर्थ
The body changes through stages, and the one living in it moves on to another body. A steady person does not get confused by this.
संदर्भ और टिप्पणी
On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, Arjuna is frozen by grief. Krishna first reminds him that no one was truly born or lost, then gives a human example: the body moves from childhood to youth to old age, and the embodied one moves on as well.
आज के जीवन में महत्व
You watch an old photo and barely recognise yourself. The face, voice, and fears have changed — yet something in you has kept witnessing all of it.
“There is relief in seeing change as natural, not tragic.”
संबंधित विषय: atman (12 श्लोक), sankhya (11 श्लोक)