Chapter 2

Shloka 2.22 “As a man discards worn-out clothes and takes new ones, so the soul discards old bodies and enters new ones.” Key Teaching: The soul’s transmigration is like changing clothes, emphasizing its continuity. Theme: Guidance, Dharma, Spirituality. Description: Krishna compares the soul’s transmigration to a person discarding worn-out clothes for new ones, illustrating that […]

Shloka 2.21 “O Arjuna, knowing the soul as indestructible, eternal, unborn, and unchanging, how can one kill or cause to be killed?” Key Teaching: The soul’s indestructibility negates the act of killing. Theme: Guidance, Dharma, Spirituality. Description: Krishna asks Arjuna how one can kill or cause killing, given the soul’s indestructible, eternal, unborn, and unchanging

Shloka 2.20 “The soul is never born nor dies; it is eternal, ever-existing, and primeval; it is not slain when the body is slain.” Key Teaching: The soul’s eternal nature transcends birth and death. Theme: Guidance, Dharma, Spirituality. Description: Krishna teaches that the soul is never born nor dies, being eternal, ever-existing, and primeval, unaffected

Shloka 2.19 “He who thinks the soul kills or is killed is ignorant; the soul neither kills nor is killed.” Key Teaching: The soul is neither killer nor killed, dispelling Arjuna’s fear of killing. Theme: Guidance, Dharma, Spirituality. Description: Krishna teaches that believing the soul kills or is killed reflects ignorance, as the soul is

Shloka 2.18 “These bodies are perishable, but the soul within is eternal, indestructible, and immeasurable; therefore, fight, O Arjuna.” Key Teaching: The body is temporary, but the soul is eternal, so Arjuna should fight. Theme: Guidance, Dharma, Spirituality. Description: Krishna contrasts the perishable body with the eternal, indestructible, and immeasurable soul, urging Arjuna to fight.

Shloka 2.17 “Know that which pervades all is indestructible; none can destroy the imperishable.” Key Teaching: The soul, pervading all, is indestructible. Theme: Guidance, Dharma, Spirituality. Description: Krishna teaches that the soul, which pervades all existence, is indestructible and cannot be destroyed. This verse reinforces the soul’s eternity (2.12–16), addressing Arjuna’s fear of killing kin

Shloka 2.16 “The unreal has no existence; the real never ceases to be. The truth of both is seen by the seers of truth.” Key Teaching: The real (soul) is eternal; the unreal (body) is impermanent. Theme: Guidance, Dharma, Spirituality. Description: Krishna explains that the unreal (temporary, like the body) has no lasting existence, while

Shloka 2.15 “O Arjuna, the man who is not disturbed by pleasure and pain, and remains steady in both, is fit for immortality.” Key Teaching: Equanimity in pleasure and pain qualifies one for spiritual liberation. Theme: Guidance, Dharma, Equanimity. 500-Word Description: Krishna teaches that a person undisturbed by pleasure and pain, remaining steady in both,

Shloka 2.14 “O Arjuna, contacts with material senses give rise to cold, heat, pleasure, and pain; these are temporary, so endure them.” Key Teaching: Krishna teaches that sensory experiences are temporary, urging endurance. Theme: Guidance, Dharma, Detachment. Description: Krishna explains that sensory experiences—cold, heat, pleasure, pain—are temporary, arising from contact with material senses, and urges

Shloka 2.13 “As the soul passes through childhood, youth, and old age in this body, so it passes to another body; the wise are not deluded by this.” Key Teaching: Krishna explains the soul’s transmigration, urging detachment from bodily changes. Theme: Guidance, Dharma, Spirituality. Description: Krishna teaches that the soul transitions through childhood, youth, and