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Article CXVIII: Transmigration In Chapter II, Verse 22, Krishna analogizes the transmigration of the soul with the changing of clothes. Clothes can be understood as the physical body where the person underneath represents the Self within. In this analogy, death represents the removal of old clothes, and birth represents the donning of new clothes. When the clothes are changed, the person underneath continues to be unaffected. Similarly, only the physical body ends with death while the Self continues unchanged. Reincarnation implies that the Self enters a new body at birth, which is analogous to how a person dons new clothes. Consideration and appreciation of reincarnation allows one to become less attached to one's own physical form as well as the physical form of others. Gita Full Text: http://www.chinmayauk.org/Resources/Downloads.htm Bhagavad Gita: Chapter II -- Translated by Swami Chinmayananda
19. He who takes the Self to be the slayer and he who thinks He is slain, neither of these knows. He slays not, nor in He slain. |