He who knows him as indestructible and eternal, As unborn and imperishable, How does that person, O son of Pritha (Pārtha), Cause anyone to be killed, or whom does he kill?
Arjuna, when a man knows the self to be indestructible, enduring, unborn, unchanging, how does he kill or cause anyone to kill?
(21) If a man knows it as indestructible, eternal, unborn, never to pass away, how and whom can he cause to be slain or slay?
2.21 O Pārtha, he who knows this One as indestructible, eternal, birthless and undecaying, how and whom does that person kill, or whom does he cause to be killed! [This is not a question but only an emphatic denial.-Tr.]
2.21 He who knows this (self) to be indestructible, unborn, unchanging and hence eternal --- how and whom, O Arjuna, does he cause to be killed, and whom he kill?
2.21 Whosoever knows It to be indestructible, eternal, unborn and inexhaustible, how can that man slay, O Arjuna, or cause to be slain?