Never was there a time when i did not exist, or you, or these kings;
nor will there come a time when we cease to be. Just as, in this body, the Self passes through childhood, youth, and old age, so after death it passes to another body. Physical sensations - cold and heat, pleasure and pain - are transient: they come and go; so bear them patiently, Arjuna. Only the man who is unmoved by any sensations, the wise man indifferent to pleasure, to pain, is fit for becoming deathless. Nonbeing can never be; being can never not be. Both these statements are obvious to those who have seen the truth. |