Bhagavad Gita
    Chapter 2 · The Way of Knowledge

    Verse 13

    Sanskrit Text — Chapter 2, Verse 13

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

    Transliteration (IAST)

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

    Translation

    Just as the self associated with a body passes through childhood, youth, and old age, so too, at death, it passes into another body. A wise man is not deluded by that.
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