1751. Bhagavad Gita. Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989

Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.


NUMBER:	1751
AUTHOR:	Bhagavad Gita
QUOTATION:	Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams! Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit for ever; Death hath not touched it at all, dead though the house of it seems! Who knoweth it exhaustless, self-sustained, Immortal, indestructible,—shall such Say, “I have killed a man, or caused to kill?” Nay, but as when one layeth His worn-out robes away, And, taking new ones, sayeth, “These will I wear to-day!” So putteth by the spirit Lightly its garb of flesh, And passeth to inherit A residence afresh.
ATTRIBUTION:	BHAGAVAD GITA.—The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita, trans. Sir Edwin Arnold, pp. 10–11 (1934). This is chapter 2, sections 20–22 in other editions.
SUBJECTS:	Spirit