[ BHAGAVAD GITA · 2.21 · spoken by Krishna ]
Know the Self — and there's no one left to kill.
O Partha, the one who knows the Self to be indestructible, eternal, unborn, and changeless — how can such a person kill anyone, or cause anyone to be killed?
SANSKRIT
वेदाविनाशिनं नित्यं य एनमजमव्ययम् । कथं स पुरुषः पार्थ कं घातयति हन्ति कम् ॥२-२१॥
KRISHNA’S LINE
“If you know you cannot die, who is there left to kill? The blade reaches the body. It never reaches you.”
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