[ BHAGAVAD GITA · 2.30 · spoken by Krishna ]
What cannot be killed lives in every body — so grieve for no one.
O Bharata, the embodied Self within the body of every being is eternally indestructible. Therefore, you should not grieve for any creature.
SANSKRIT
देही नित्यमवध्योऽयं देहे सर्वस्य भारत । तस्मात्सर्वाणि भूतानि न त्वं शोचितुमर्हसि ॥२-३०॥
KRISHNA’S LINE
“In every body — yours, theirs, all — lives the one that cannot be killed. So there is no one to grieve for. There never was.”
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