ગીતા અધ્યાય ૨ અંગ્રેજી
Sri Krishna said Your words are wise, but your sorrow is for nothing. The truly wise mourn neither for the living nor for the dead.
There was never a time when I did not exist, nor you. Nor is there any future in which we shall cease to be.
Just as the dweller in this body passes through childhood, youth and old age, so at death he merely passes into another kind of body. The wise are not deceived by that.
Feelings of heat and cold, pleasure and pain, are caused by the contact of the senses with their objects. They come and they go, never lasting long. You must accept them.
A serene spirit accepts pleasure and pain with an even mind, and is unmoved by either. He alone is worthy of immortality.
That which is non-existent can never come into being and that which is can never cease to be. Those who have known the inmost Reality know also the nature of is and is not.
That Reality which pervades the universe is indestructible. No one has power to change the Changeless.
Bodies are said to die, but That which possesses the body is eternal. It cannot be limited or destroyed.
Some say this Atman Is slain, and others
Call it the slayer: They know nothing.
How can It slay Or who shall slay It?
Know this Atman Unborn, undying,
Never ceasing, Never beginning,
Deathless, birthless, Unchaning forever,
How can It die?
Knowing It birthless,
Knowing It deathless,
Knowing It endless,
Forever unchanging,
Dream not you do
The deed of any kind,
Dream not the power
Is yours to command it.
As worn-out garments
Are shed by the body:
Worn-out bodies
Are shed by the dweller
Within the body:
New bodies are donned
By the dweller, like garments.
Not wounded by weapons,
Not burned by fire,
Not dried by the wind,
Not wetted by water:
Such is the Atman.
Not dried, not wetted,
Not burned not wounded,
Innermost element,
Everywhere, always,
Being of being,
Changeless, eternal,
For ever and ever.
This Atman cannot be manifested to the senses, or thought about by the mind. It is not subject to modification. Since you know this you should not grieve.
But if you should suppose this Atman to be subject to constant birth and death, even then you ought not to be sorry.
Death is certain for the born. Rebirth is certain for the dead. You should not grieve for what is unavoidable.
Before birth, beings are not manifest to our human senses. In the interim between birth and death, they are manifest. At death they return to the unmanifest again.
He who dwells within all living bodies remains for ever indestructible. Therefore, you should never mourn for anyone.
Gandabhai Vallabh 