Lord Krishna

Divine Teacher

The Supreme Lord, the charioteer and divine guide of Arjuna. Krishna delivers the eternal wisdom of the Gita, revealing the nature of the soul, duty, and the path to liberation.

Speaking: Chapter 2, Verse 13

Verse 13

Hard Verse

Sānkhya Yoga — The Yoga of Discernment

As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A self-realized person is not bewildered by such a change.

Context & Meaning

Just as the soul passes through childhood, youth and old age in this body, it passes to another body at death. The wise are not deluded by this.

Scholar Commentaries

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Adi Shankaracharya

Advaita Vedanta

Krishna uses an experientially verifiable fact — that one self persists through the childhood, youth and old age of a single body — to ground the teaching of transmigration. Just as the same person experiences different stages of life without ceasing to be, so the individual self, after the death of one body, passes into another.