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The most famous
ethical text of ancient India, the Bhagvadgita
explains that the death of the body does not involve the death of the
soul :
“It (soul)
is never born and never dies
nor, once it exists,
does it cease to be.
Unborn, eternal, abiding
and ancient,
it is not slain when
the
body is slain.”
“As a man puts
off his worn out clothes
and puts
on other
new ones,
so the
embodied puts
off worn out bodies
and goes
to others
that are new.”
“Weapons do
not
cleave
it,
fire
does
not
burn
it,
waters
do
not
wet
it,
wind
does
not
dry
it.”
“It cannot
be
cleft
or
burnt,
or
wetted
or
dried;
It is
everlasting, it
dwells in
all things
firm,
unmoving,
eternal.”
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