Sanskrit
देही नित्यमवध्योऽयं देहे सर्वस्य भारत । तस्मात्सर्वाणि भूतानि न त्वं शोचितुमर्हसि ॥
dehī nityam avadhyo'yaṃ dehe sarvasya bhārata tasmāt sarvāṇi bhūtāni na tvaṃ śocitum arhasi
Translation
This dweller in the body of everyone is ever invulnerable, O Bhârata; therefore thou shouldst not grieve for any creature.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
The closing line of the whole immortality argument that began at verse 12: what’s been shown about “the self” in the abstract is now stated for every embodied being without exception — “the dweller in the body of everyone.” It’s the last word before Krishna pivots, at verse 31, to a completely different kind of argument: not what the self is, but what Arjuna’s own duty as a warrior requires.
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