ved’aavinaasinam nithyam ya e’nam ajam avyayam / katham sa purushah paartha kam ghaathayathi hanthi kam O Arjuna, how can a person who knows that the Spirit is indestructible, eternal, unborn, and immutable, kill anyone or cause anyone to be killed? vaasaamsi jeernaani yathaa vihaaya navaani gr.hnaathi naro’ paraani / thathaa sareeraani vihaaya jeernany-anyaani samyaathi navaani de’hi Just as a person puts on new garments after discarding the old ones, similarly, the living entity or the individual soul acquires new bodies after casting away the old bodies. avyaktho’ yam achinthyo’ yam avikaaryo’ yam uchyate’ / thamaad e’vam vidhithvainam naanusochitum-arhasi The Spirit is said to be unexplainable, incomprehensible, and immutable. Knowing the Spirit as such, you should not grieve for the physical body. jaathasya hi dhruvo mr.thyur dhr.uvam janma mr.thasya cha / thasmaad aparihaarye’rthe’ na thvam sochithum-arhasi All beings are unmanifest, or invisible to our physical eyes, before birth and after death. They manifest between the birth and the death only. What is there to grieve about?