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देहिनोऽस्मिन्यथा देहे कौमारं यौवनं जरा। तथा देहान्तरप्राप्तिर्धीरस्तत्र न मुह्यति।।2.13।।

dehino ’smin yathā dehe kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā tathā dehāntara-prāptir dhīras tatra na muhyati

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 2, Verse 13
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Just as the embodied soul passes through childhood, youth, and old age in this body, so too does it pass into another body; the steadfast one does not grieve over this.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: the soul passing through childhood, youth, and old age the way it later passes into another body grounds an abstract claim in something you can personally verify.

In life: you are not the same person you were at ten, yet something continuous carried through all those changes.

Teaching: use your own life as evidence. You've already survived becoming a completely different person more than once.

dehinaḥof the embodied
asminin this
yathāas
dehein the body
kaumāramchildhood
yauvanamyouth
jarāold age
tathāsimilarly
deha-antaraanother body
prāptiḥachieves
dhīraḥthe wise
tatrathereupon
na muhyatiare not deluded

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
2.13 देहिनः of the embodied (soul)? अस्मिन् in this? यथा as? देहे in body? कौमारम् childhood? यौवनम् youth? जरा old age? तथा so also? देहान्तरप्राप्तिः the attaining of another body? धीरः the firm? तत्र thereat? न not? मुह्यति grieves.Commentary -- Just as there is no interruption in the passing of childhood into youth and youth into old age in this body? so also there is no interruption by death in the continuity of the ego. The Self is not dead at the termination of the stage? viz.? childhood. It is certainly not born again at the beginning of the second stage? viz.? youth. Just as the Self passes unchanged from childhood to youth and from yourth to old age? so also the Self passes unchanged from one body into,another. Therefore? the wise man is not at all distressed about it.