Chapter2 Shloka22 - Shrimad Bhagvad Gita

Shrimad Bhagvad Gita

Chapter 2 : Sankhya Yoga - The realm of truth

Ch 02 : Sh 22

वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि ।
तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णा-न्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही ॥

Transliteration

Vasansi jirnani yatha vihaya vihayanvani griyahati naroparani,
tatha sharirani vihaya jirna-nyanyani sanyati navani dehi.

Translation

As a person puts on new clothes, discarding old and torn clothes, similarly a personified soul enters new material bodies, leaving the old bodies.

Purport

After explaining the secret of death of birth, which is nothing but the phenomena where soul changes one body for others, Bhagvan Shri Krishna, further explained the characteristics of soul.