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Bhagavad Gita 2.20

Chapter 2 · Edwin Arnold’s Song Celestial (cited by classical reference)

“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!”

Bhagavad Gita 2.20 · Arnold

Translation: Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial; or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ (1885), public domain, via Project Gutenberg (ebook 2388). Arnold’s Song Celestial is continuous English verse in 18 chapters, without numbered slokas; each passage is an exact excerpt, located by content and cited by the classical chapter.verse reference it renders. The key passages 2.20, 4.7-8, 9.26 and 18.66 were validated against the source before publishing. Poetic line breaks are shown with a slash.

Christian comparison

How this connects to Jesus

Krishna teaches that the true self is never born and never dies, deathless behind the body that seems to die. The Gospel shares the hope that we were made for life beyond death, yet locates it differently: not in an eternal self we already possess, but in a resurrection given by God, for Jesus said, I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live (John 11:25). Compare the undying self of the Gita with the risen life Jesus promises.

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