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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 1751 |
| AUTHOR: | Bhagavad Gita |
| QUOTATION: | 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! Who knoweth it exhaustless, self-sustained, Immortal, indestructible,—shall such Say, “I have killed a man, or caused to kill?” Nay, but as when one layeth His worn-out robes away, And, taking new ones, sayeth, “These will I wear to-day!” So putteth by the spirit Lightly its garb of flesh, And passeth to inherit A residence afresh. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | BHAGAVAD GITA.—The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita, trans. Sir Edwin Arnold, pp. 10–11 (1934). This is chapter 2, sections 20–22 in other editions. |
| SUBJECTS: | Spirit |
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