Sanskrit
न त्वेवाहं जातु नासं न त्वं नेमे जनाधिपाः । न चैव न भविष्यामः सर्वे वयमतः परम् ॥
na tv evāhaṃ jātu nāsaṃ na tvaṃ neme janādhipāḥ na caiva na bhaviṣyāmaḥ sarve vayam ataḥ param
Translation
Nor at any time verily was I not, nor thou, nor these princes of men, nor verily shall we ever cease to be, hereafter.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
Krishna makes the claim atemporal, not just about this life: he, Arjuna, and everyone present have always existed, and will never cease to exist. This isn’t a claim about reincarnation offered as an afterthought — it’s stated as a basic fact about the nature of selves, extended backward and forward without limit.
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