[ BHAGAVAD GITA · 2.13 · spoken by Krishna ]
Child, adult, old man — death is just next.
Just as the embodied self passes through childhood, youth, and old age in this body, so too does it pass into another body. The wise are not deluded by this.
SANSKRIT
देहिनोऽस्मिन्यथा देहे कौमारं यौवनं जरा । तथा देहान्तरप्राप्तिर्धीरस्तत्र न मुह्यति ॥२-१३॥
KRISHNA’S LINE
“Death is just the next puberty. The self that survived the first will survive this one too.”
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