Bhagavad Gita 2.22
Sankhya Yoga · English Translation
Sanskrit
वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि | तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णा- न्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही ||२-२२||
Transliteration
vāsāṃsi jīrṇāni yathā vihāya navāni gṛhṇāti naro.aparāṇi . tathā śarīrāṇi vihāya jīrṇāni anyāni saṃyāti navāni dehī ||2-22||
Just as a man casts off worn-out clothes and puts on new ones, so also the embodied Self casts off worn-out bodies and enters others which are new.
Word by Word
वासांसि clothes, जीर्णानि worn out, यथा as, विहाय having cast away, नवानि new, गृह्णाति takes, नरः man, अपराणि others, तथा so, शरीराणि bodies, विहाय having cast away, जीर्णानि wornout, अन्यानि others, संयाति enters, नवानि new, देही the embodied (one).No commentary.