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“Contacts with the earthly, causing cold and heat, delight and pain,
Come and go, for they are fleeting; child of Bharat, bear them sane.

“For the man whom these afflict not, who is firm in weal and woe—
Best of men! the man is destined unto deathlessness to go.

“What is not can ne’er be, Arjun; that which is can ne’er not-be;
Of these two they see the limit, who the truth of things can see.

“Know that That Which spread out All This, is indeed unperishing;
None can ever cause to perish That Which is a waneless thing.

“These are call’d the dying bodies of the ’bodied soul of men,
Which is changeless, deathless, boundless; child of Bharat, fight thou then.

“He who deems the soul a killer, he who deems it kill’d again,
Neither of them seěth rightly, for it slays not, nor is slain.

“And ’tis never born, it dies not; was not born, nor will be so;
Birthless, changeless, prime, eternal, deathless, tho’ the frame may go.

“How can he who knows it to be deathless, birthless, free from wane—
How can he, O son of Pritha, slay one, cause one to be slain?