Bhagavad Gītā: Chapter 2 : Text 22
Bhagavad Gītā: Chapter two: Contents of the Gītā Summarized, Text 22 वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय नवानि गृह्णाति नरो ऽपराणि │ vāsāṁsi jīrṇāni yathā vihāya navāni gṛhṇāti naro 'parāṇi तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णान्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही ││ २२ ││ tathā śarīrāṇi vihāya jīrṇānyanyāni saṁyāti navāni dehī Figure 01: Lord Kṛṣṇa said, “As a person draws on new clothes, yielding up old ones, the soul likewise accepts new material bodies, yielding up the old and useless one.” (2.22) (Prabhupāda 2017) Vocabulary vāsāṁsi—garments; jīrṇāni—old and worn out; yathā—just as; vihāya—giving up; navāni—new garments; gṛhṇāti—does accept; naraḥ—a man; aparāṇi—others; tathā—in the same way; śarīrāṇi—bodies; vihāya—giving up; jīrṇāni—old and useless; anyāni—different; saṁyāti—verily accepts; navāni—new sets; dehī—the embodied. Translate the following verse into English As a person draws on new clothes, yielding up old ones, the soul likewise accepts new material bodies, yielding up the old...