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Mahabharat

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श्रीभगवानुवाच । अशोच्यानन्वशोचस्त्वं प्रज्ञावादांश्च भाषसे । गतासूनगतासूंश्च नानुशोचन्ति पण्डिताः॥६-२४-११॥

The Blessed Lord said: You grieve for those who are not to be grieved for, yet you speak words that resemble wisdom. The wise lament neither for the departed nor for those still living.

english translation

न त्वेवाहं जातु नासं न त्वं नेमे जनाधिपाः । न चैव न भविष्यामः सर्वे वयमतः परम्॥६-२४-१२॥

Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor these rulers of men; nor shall there be a time hereafter when all of us cease to be.

english translation

देहिनोऽस्मिन्यथा देहे कौमारं यौवनं जरा । तथा देहान्तरप्राप्तिर्धीरस्तत्र न मुह्यति॥६-२४-१३॥

Just as, in this body, the embodied self passes through childhood, youth, and old age, so too it attains another body; the steadfast are not deluded by this.

english translation

मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः । आगमापायिनोऽनित्यास्तांस्तितिक्षस्व भारत॥६-२४-१४॥

But sensory contacts, O Kaunteya, give rise to cold and heat, pleasure and pain; they come and go and are impermanent—endure them, O Bhārata.

english translation

यं हि न व्यथयन्त्येते पुरुषं पुरुषर्षभ । समदुःखसुखं धीरं सोऽमृतत्वाय कल्पते॥६-२४-१५॥

The one whom these do not disturb, O best of men—steady and equal in pain and pleasure—becomes fit for immortality (liberating realization).

english translation