Word meanings
- dehinaḥ
- of the embodied
- asmin
- in this
- yathā
- as
- dehe
- in the body
- kaumāram
- childhood
- yauvanam
- youth
- jarā
- old age
- tathā
- similarly
- deha-antara
- another body
- prāptiḥ
- achieves
- dhīraḥ
- the wise
- tatra
- thereupon
- na muhyati
- are not deluded
Translations
Just as the embodied soul passes through childhood, youth, and old age in this body, so too does it pass into another body; the steadfast one does not grieve over this.
As the soul experiences infancy, youth, and old age in this body, so finally it passes into another; the wise have no delusion about this.
As boyhood, youth, and decrepitude are to an embodied being in this present body, so is the acquisition of another body. Therefore, an intelligent person does not get deluded.
देहधारीके इस मनुष्यशरीरमें जैसे बालकपन, जवानी और वृद्धावस्था होती है, ऐसे ही देहान्तरकी प्राप्ति होती है। उस विषयमें धीर मनुष्य मोहित नहीं होता।Commentary
Just as there is no interruption in the passing of childhood into youth and youth into old age in this body, so also there is no interruption by death in the continuity of the ego. The Self is not dead at the termination of the stage, viz., childhood. It is certainly not born again at the beginning of the second stage, viz., youth. Just as the Self passes unchanged from childhood to youth and from yourth to old age, so also the Self passes unchanged from one body into, another.
Therefore, the wise man is not at all distressed about it.