BG - 2.22

वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि। तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णा न्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही।।2.22।।

vāsānsi jīrṇāni yathā vihāya navāni gṛihṇāti naro ’parāṇi tathā śharīrāṇi vihāya jīrṇānya nyāni sanyāti navāni dehī

• vāsānsi - garments
• jīrṇāni - worn-out
• yathā - as
• vihāya - sheds
• navāni - new
• gṛihṇāti - accepts
• naraḥ - a person
• aparāṇi - others
• tathā - likewise
• śharīrāṇi - bodies
• vihāya - casting off
• jirṇāni - worn-out
• anyāni - other
• sanyāti - enters
• navāni - new
• dehī - the embodied soul

Translation

Just as a man casts off worn-out clothes and puts on new ones, so too the embodied Self casts off worn-out bodies and enters others that are new.

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