Chapter2 Shloka18 - Shrimad Bhagvad Gita

Shrimad Bhagvad Gita

Chapter 2 : Sankhya Yoga - The realm of truth

Ch 02 : Sh 18

अन्तवन्त इमे देहा नित्यस्योक्ताः शरीरिणः ।
अनाशिनोऽप्रमेयस्य तस्माद्युध्यस्व भारत ॥

Transliteration

Anthvanth eme deha nitashyoktah shariranih,
Anashino aprameyashya tasmat udhyashva bharat.

Translation

Only the bodies of this unceasing, immeasurable and eternal soul are destroyed. Therefore, get up and fight, O Arjuna!

Purport

About the soul, Bhagvan Shri Krishna further says, the killing or getting killed is all the process of the physical body, done by it and faced by it. The eternal soul neither slays nor got kills. Anybody however who considers the soul as killed or slain does so under the spell of ignorance.