वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय
नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि ।
तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णा-
न्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही ।। २-२२ ।।

vāsāṁsi jīrṇāni yathā vihāya
navāni gṛhṇāti naro’parāṇi |
tathā śarīrāṇi vihāya jīrṇāny-
anyāni saṁyāti navāni dehī || 2.22 ||

As the dresses put on the body are left and new ones taken instead, so the indwelling spirit leaves the aging bodies and move to new ones.

Note: Bodies falling and new ones being there are like our wearing clothes, discarding them to take on new ones. It is like waves emerging on the sea, and then subsiding, giving place to new ones. As the sea is there, so are the waves too on its surface.

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