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Chapter 2

Bhagavad-gītā 2.13

Read once with your eyes. Read again aloud.

देहिनोऽस्मिन्यथा देहे कौमारं यौवनं जरा। तथा देहान्तरप्राप्तिर्धीरस्तत्र न मुह्यति।।2.13।।

dehino ’smin yathā dehe kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā tathā dehāntara-prāptir dhīras tatra na muhyati

Plain English

Just as the embodied self passes through boyhood, youth and old age within this body, so it passes on to another body. A steady person is not bewildered by this.

The argument is finished before it begins. The first word is dehinaḥ, "of the one who has a body", not dehaḥ, "the body". A word meaning possessor already assumes something other than what is possessed.

A four-minute practice

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A simple learning rhythm

Do more than reread

  1. 1ReadTake in one small piece.
  2. 2RememberClose it and bring it back.
  3. 3UseConnect it to a real choice.
  4. 4ExplainSay it clearly in your own words.