Quote by Bhagavad Gita: “The self is never born nor dies at any time.”

In Vedantic thought, the deepest part of you — the witnessing awareness, the atman — is beyond the cycle of birth and death that the body undergoes. This isn't a claim about survival after death; it's a claim that your truest nature was never mortal to begin with.

Chapter 2 of the Bhagavad Gita contains Krishna's first extended teaching to the grieving Arjuna, who refuses to fight in a battle that will kill his relatives and teachers. Krishna's response draws on Upanishadic philosophy of the immortal atman to reframe Arjuna's grief as a misunderstanding of what is truly real about the people he fears losing.

Ancient Sanskrit text that forms part of the Hindu epic Mahabharata, composed between the fifth and second centuries BCE. It takes the form of a dialogue between the prince Arjuna and the god Krishna on the eve of a great battle, addressing duty, action, devotion, and liberation. It is one of the most influential spiritual and philosophical texts in world history.