वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहायनवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि ।
तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णान्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही ॥
तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णान्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही ॥
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मनुष्य जैसे पुराने कपड़ोंको छोड़कर दूसरे नये कपड़े धारण कर लेता है, ऐसे ही देही पुराने शरीरोंको छोड़कर दूसरे नये शरीरोंमें चला जाता है ॥
— Krishna
भगवद् गीता · 2.22
अंग्रेज़ी अनुवाद
As a person discards worn-out clothes and puts on new ones, the embodied being discards worn-out bodies and enters new ones.
Worn-out clothes come off and new ones go on; Krishna says the embodied being changes bodies the same way.
इस श्लोक का अर्थ
The true self passes from one body to another the way a person changes clothes.
संदर्भ और टिप्पणी
Krishna has just said the true self is unborn and indestructible. Now he gives a simple image: bodies are like clothes, and the embodied one moves on.
आज के जीवन में महत्व
Standing beside a hospital bed, you watch a loved one weaken and feel helpless. This image does not erase grief, but it reminds you that change touches the body, not the deepest reality.
“A fear of bodily loss softens when you see change as a transition, not an ending.”