श्रीभगवान् उवाच
अशोच्यान् अन्वशोचस् त्वं प्रज्ञावादांश् च भाषसे ॥
गतासून् अगतासूंश् च नानुशोचन्ति पण्डिताः ॥
न त्व् एवाहं जातु नासं न त्वं नेमे जनाधिपाः ॥
न चैव न भविष्यामः सर्वे वयम् अतः परम् ॥
देहिनो ऽस्मिन् यथा देहे कौमारं यौवनं जरा ॥
तथा देहान्तरप्राप्तिर् धीरस् तत्र न मुह्यति ॥
मात्रास्पर्शास् तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः ॥
आगमापायिनो ऽनित्यास् तांस् तितिक्षस्व भारत ॥
यं हि न व्यथयन्त्य् एते पुरुषं पुरुषर्षभ ॥
समदुःखसुखं धीरं सो ऽमृतत्वाय कल्पते ॥
नासतो विद्यते भावो नाभावो विद्यते सतः ॥
उभयोर् अपि दृष्टो ऽन्तस् त्व् अनयोस् तत्त्वदर्शिभिः ॥
अविनाशि तु तद् विद्धि येन सर्वम् इदं ततम् ॥
विनाशम् अव्ययस्यास्य न कश् चित् कर्तुम् अर्हति ॥
अन्तवन्त इमे देहा नित्यस्योक्ताः शरीरिणः ॥
अनाशिनो ऽप्रमेयस्य तस्माद् युध्यस्व भारत ॥
śrībhagavān uvāca
aśocyān anvaśocas tvaṃ prajñāvādāṃś ca bhāṣase ||
gatāsūn agatāsūṃś ca nānuśocanti paṇḍitāḥ ||
na tv evāhaṃ jātu nāsaṃ na tvaṃ neme janādhipāḥ ||
na caiva na bhaviṣyāmaḥ sarve vayam ataḥ param ||
dehino 'smin yathā dehe kaumāraṃ yauvanaṃ jarā ||
tathā dehāntaraprāptir dhīras tatra na muhyati ||
mātrāsparśās tu kaunteya śītoṣṇasukhaduḥkhadāḥ ||
āgamāpāyino 'nityās tāṃs titikṣasva bhārata ||
yaṃ hi na vyathayanty ete puruṣaṃ puruṣarṣabha ||
samaduḥkhasukhaṃ dhīraṃ so 'mṛtatvāya kalpate ||
nāsato vidyate bhāvo nābhāvo vidyate sataḥ ||
ubhayor api dṛṣṭo 'ntas tv anayos tattvadarśibhiḥ ||
avināśi tu tad viddhi yena sarvam idaṃ tatam ||
vināśam avyayasyāsya na kaś cit kartum arhati ||
antavanta ime dehā nityasyoktāḥ śarīriṇaḥ ||
anāśino 'prameyasya tasmād yudhyasva bhārata ||
Shri Bhagavan said: "You grieve for those who should not be grieved for, and yet you speak words of wisdom. But the wise mourn neither the dead nor the living. Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor these rulers of men; nor shall there ever come a time hereafter when we shall cease to be. As the embodied one passes, within this body, through childhood, youth, and old age, so too does he pass into another body; the wise one is not bewildered by this. The contacts of the senses, O son of Kunti, give rise to cold and heat, pleasure and pain; they come and go, and are impermanent. Endure them, O Bharata. That steadfast man, O best of men, whom these do not trouble, who is the same in pleasure and pain, becomes fit for immortality. Of the unreal there is no enduring being, and of the real there is no ceasing to be; the seers of truth have perceived the boundary of both. Know that to be indestructible by which all this is pervaded: no one can destroy this imperishable. These bodies are said to have an end, but the one who dwells within them is eternal, indestructible, and immeasurable. Therefore fight, O Bharata."
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Krishna immediately shifts the ground of decision from the body to the atman. Arjuna's grief arises from identifying his kinsmen with their bodies; Krishna shows that the true person never ceases to be, while the body inevitably changes.