Bhagavad Gita
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Verse 21
Chapter 2
Verse 22 of 72
Verse 23
Verse 2.22
वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि। तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णा- न्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही ॥2.22॥
2.22 vāsāṃsi jīrṇāni yathā vihāya; navāni gṛhṇāti naro ‘parāṇi tathā śarīrāṇi vihāya jīrṇāny; anyāni saṃyāti navāni dehī
Translations
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BradOriginal Translation

Just as casting off worn-out garments, A man takes other new ones, So casting off worn-out bodies, The embodied one (dehī) enters into other new ones.

Stoller MillerLiterary

As a man discards worn-out clothes to put on new and different ones, so the embodied self discards its worn-out bodies to take on other new ones.

ZaehnerJesuit

(22) As a man casts off his worn-out clothes and takes on other new ones, so does the embodied [self] cast off its worn-out bodies and enters other new ones.

GambhiranandaAdvaita

2.22 As after rejecting wornout clothes a man takes up other new ones, likewise after rejecting wornout bodies the embodied one unites with other new ones.

AdidevanandaVishishtadvaita

2.22 As a man casts off worn-out garments and puts on others that are new, so does the embodied self cast off Its worn-out bodies and enter into others that are new.

SivanandaVedanta

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.

Commentaries

English
Sanskrit Original
Verse 21
Chapter 2
Verse 22 of 72
Verse 23