सञ्जय उवाच
तं तथा कृपयाविष्टमश्रुपूर्णाकुलेक्षणम् ।
विषीदन्तमिदं वाक्यमुवाच मधुसूदनः ॥१॥
Beyond Life and Death: Discovering the Soul’s Eternal Journey
Giving importance to one’s discretion and performing one’s duty – if a person uses any of these measures firmly, then sorrow and worry disappear.
All the bodies that we see are perishable, they are going to die, but the one who lives in them never dies. Just as the body leaves childhood and takes on youth and youth leaves youth and old age, similarly the one living in the body leaves one body and takes on another body.
Just as a person leaves old clothes and wears new clothes, the one living in the body leaves one body and wears another.
All the favorable and unfavorable circumstances that come, they were not there before and will not be there in the past either and in between also, there is separation from them every moment. It means that those circumstances are going to come and go, they are not going to remain forever.
In this way, if there is clear discretion, there is no turmoil, sorrow, or worry. Whatever duty is received as per the instruction of scriptures, if it is performed by remaining equipoised in completion or non-completion of the task and attainment or non-attainment of the result, then there will be no disturbance.
एषा ब्राह्मी स्थितिःपार्थ नैनां प्राप्य विमुह्यति ।
स्थित्वास्यामन्तकालेऽपि ब्रह्मनिर्वाणमृच्छति ॥७२॥
