Bhagavad Gita
Bhagavad Gita on Death
Much of Chapter 2 is a teaching about what dies and what does not. Later chapters discuss the state of mind at death.
This is scripture about the self and the body, not a substitute for grief counseling or funeral guidance.
Bhagavad Gita 2.20
The self is not born and does not die.
This Atman is never born nor does it ever die; nor having once been, does it cease to be. This Atman is unborn, eternal, everlasting and ancient; it is not destroyed when the body is destroyed.
Bhagavad Gita 2.22
As a person casts off worn garments, the embodied one casts off worn bodies.
Just as a person casts off worn-out garments and puts on new ones, so does the embodied soul cast off worn-out bodies and enter into new ones.
Bhagavad Gita 2.27
Death is certain for the born, and birth for the dead; therefore Arjuna is told not to grieve over the inevitable.
Death is certain for one who is born, and birth is certain for one who has died; therefore you should not grieve over that which is inevitable.
Bhagavad Gita 8.5
One who remembers Krishna at the time of death is said to attain Krishna’s being.
And whoever at the time of death relinquishes the body remembering Me alone—he attains My nature; of this there is no doubt.
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