Chapter 2 · Knowledge of the Self
Bhagavad Gita 2.22
As worn-out clothes are changed for new.
Shri Bhagavan
वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय
नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि ।
तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णा
न्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही ॥
vāsāṁsi jīrṇāni yathā vihāya / navāni gṛhṇāti naro’parāṇi / tathā śarīrāṇi vihāya jīrṇā / nyanyāni saṁyāti navāni dehī
As a man puts aside worn-out clothes and takes up new ones, so the one who dwells in the body puts aside worn-out bodies and enters others that are new.
हिंदी · जैसे मनुष्य पुराने वस्त्र उतारकर नए पहन लेता है, वैसे ही देही जीर्ण शरीरों को छोड़कर दूसरे नए शरीरों में चला जाता है।
What it means
As worn-out clothes are changed for new.
As a person puts off worn-out clothes and takes new ones, so the embodied Self leaves worn-out bodies and enters new ones.
This is the Trust’s own reading, written for this site. The verse above it is the text.