non-being can never be; being can never not be

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Never was there a time when i did not exist, or you, or these kings;
nor will there come a time when we cease to be.
Just as, in this body, the Self passes through childhood, youth, and
old age, so after death it passes to another body.

Physical sensations — cold and heat, pleasure and pain — are transient: they come and go; so bear them patiently, Arjuna.
Only the man who is unmoved by any sensations, the wise man
indifferent to pleasure, to pain, is fit for becoming deathless.

Non-being can never be; being can never not be.
Both these statements are obvious to those who have seen the truth. 


—Bhagavad Gita

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in the heart of every creature

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Creatures rise and creatures vanish;
I alone am real, Arjuna,
looking out, amused, from deep
Within the eyes of every creature.

I am the object of all knowledge,
Father of the world, its mother,
Source of all things, of impure and
Pure, of holiness and horror.

I am the goal, the root, the witness,
Home and refuge, dearest friend,
Creation and annihilation,
Everlasting seed and treasure.

I am the radiance of the sun, I
Open or withhold the rainclouds,
I am Immortality and
Death, am being and non-being.

I am the Self, Arjuna, seated
in the heart of every creature.
I am the origin, the middle,
And the end that all must come to.


—The Bhagavad Gita
Lord Krishna to Arjuna
Stephen Mitchell version

 

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who is seen or not seen, sees or does not see?

 

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Invisible before birth are all beings and after death invisible again.

They are seen between two unseens. 

Why in this truth find sorrow?


The Bhagavad Gita 2:28 
Juan Mascaró translation

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listen

 

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. 

As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. 

The wise are not deluded by these changes. 


—The Bhagavad Gita

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take nothing with you

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As a person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.

–Bhagavad Gita

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not to worry

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Thou grievest for those whom
thou shouldst not grieve for,
and yet thou speakest words about wisdom.
Wise men do not grieve for the dead or for the living.

Never was there a time when I was not,
nor thou, nor these lords of men,
nor will there ever be a time
hereafter when we shall cease to be.


–The Bhagavad Gita

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