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“What you are does not end when one body is left behind.”
मनुष्य जैसे पुराने कपड़ोंको छोड़कर दूसरे नये कपड़े धारण कर लेता है, ऐसे ही देही पुराने शरीरोंको छोड़कर दूसरे नये शरीरोंमें चला जाता है ॥
श्लोक क्रम में — हर संस्कृत शब्द और नीचे उसका अर्थ। किसी शब्द पर जाकर उसे देखें।
शब्दशःclothes · worn-out · as · having discarded · new · takes · a person · other · so · bodies · having discarded · worn-out · other · goes to · new · the embodied one
The true self passes from one body to another the way a person changes clothes.
यह श्लोक Krishna द्वारा कहा गया है, कुरुक्षेत्र की भूमि पर, अध्याय "सांख्य योग" में।
श्लोक 22 भगवद् गीता के 2वें अध्याय में है — सांख्य योग। इस अध्याय में कुल 72 श्लोक हैं।
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.
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It shifts attention from identifying with the body to seeing the body as a temporary covering.
इस श्लोक का अर्थ
The true self passes from one body to another the way a person changes clothes.
संदर्भ और टिप्पणी
On Kurukshetra, Arjuna is frozen by grief and fear. 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.”