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Never have I not existed, nor you, nor these kings; and never in the future shall we cease to exist.
Contacts with matter make us feel heat and cold, pleasure and pain. Arjuna, you must learn to endure fleeting things—they come and go!
When these cannot torment a man, when suffering and joy are equal for him and he has courage, he is fit for immortality.
Nothing of nonbeing comes to be, nor does being cease to exist; the boundary between these two is seen by men who see reality.
Indestructible is the presence that pervades all this; no one can destroy this unchanging reality.
Our bodies are known to end, but the embodied self is enduring, indestructible, and immeasurable; therefore, Arjuna, fight the battle!
It is not born, it does not die; having been, it will never not be; unborn, enduring, constant, and primordial, it is not killed when the body is killed.
Be intent on action, not on the fruits of action; avoid attraction to the fruits and attachment to inaction!
Perform actions, firm in discipline, relinquishing attachment; be impartial to failure and success— this equanimity is called discipline.
When suffering does not disturb his mind, when his craving for pleasures has vanished, when attraction, fear, and anger are gone, he is called a sage whose thought is sure.
