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The one who lives is eternal

Verse 2.30:

The one who lives in the Deha, Shareera is the Dehi or Shareer...

No need to worry ever

Verse 2.27:

जातस्य हि ध्रुवो मृत्युर् ध्रुवं जन्म मृतस्य च ।
तस्माद् अपरिहार्येऽर्थे न त्वं शोचितुम् अर्हसि ॥ 

jAtasya hi dhruvo mRityur dhruvaM janma mRitasya cha |
tasmAd aparihArye'rthe na tvaM shochitum arhasi ||

Jatasya: For the one who has got birth, certain and change...

Whether Atma is eternal or not!

Verse 25: Avyakta, Achintya, Avikarya Avikriya: This Self is unmanifest as it is not an object to all senses including the mind and intellect. Therefore it is beyond thought. That which can be perceived by the senses is alone object for thought. This Self is not a...

Bodies are dropped like old clothes

Verse 22: Vasamsi Jirnani: Clothes become old and weak and people of the world abandon them and take up new - very new clothes. In the same way people give up their old bodies and collect new bodies. The Atma, like the Purusha, is free from modifications.

How is it ...

Purusha is unborn and eternal

The Purusha, know O Arjuna is indestructible. He is unborn and eternal. How can one kill that Purusha and how is death possible for him?

Know O Arjuna, the Purusha has no modification of destruction. Nityam or eternal means it does not go through any modifications such as...

Neither kills nor gets killed

If you think that I am killing Bhishma and the others in this battlefield and I am the killer, that thought is illusory. How?

Verse 19: The one who knows himself as the killer of the Self, and the one who knows himself as the one, being killed, both do not know that the S...

What is Sat?

What then is that Sat which is always there? It is said...

Verse 17: That by which everything is covered is indestructible. None indeed can destroy that which is inexpendable. Avinashi is that which does not have the nature of destruction. Tu is an adjective to point out that Sat is great...

"What is" exists;  "What is not" doesn't

16: For what does not exist, there is no existence. For what is, there is no non-existence. The people who knew the truth, know the reality of these statements clearly.

For the qualities such as heat and cold, joy and sorrow which are A...

Sense organs and sense objects

Wisdom and Ignorance

The actual commentary of the Srimad Bhagavad Gita by Bhagavan Sri Sankaracharya begins with chapter 2, Verse 11: Shri Bhagavan said: You are worrying about Bhishma, Drona and others who need not be worried about as they are of good conduct and from a supreme point of view too the...