Bodily change and the soul

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What changes in these passages, and what is described as enduring?

1. BG 2.13

   As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change.

   Read BG 2.13 in context · Source: Vanisource

   Edition and source record

   Edition: 1983+ · page 13644, revision 781097

2. BG 2.20

   For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.

   Read BG 2.20 in context · Source: Vanisource

   Edition and source record

   Edition: 1983+ · page 13651, revision 781105

Related contextual definitions

• Jarā: old age
• Mṛtyu: death

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