Chapter 2: Sānkhya Yoga – Yoga of Contemplation on Self: Verse 26
अथ चैनं नित्यजातं नित्यं वा मन्यसे मृतम् ।
तथापि त्वं महाबाहो नैवं शोचितुमर्हसि ॥
atha cainaṃ nitya-jātaṃ nityaṃ vā manyase mṛtam
tathāpi tvaṃ mahābāho naivaṃ śocitum-arhasi – 2.26
Even if you think of the Soul as ever getting born or ever dying, then too, O Mahabahu (Arjuna), you should not grieve like this.
Chapter 2: Sānkhya Yoga – Yoga of Contemplation on Self - Verse 26
Ma Gurupriya
After exposing the imperishable Soul, Krishna brings a set of facts and reasoning, to confirm what he has already conveyed. By this, he holds that the Soul-vision has no conflict with the lines of reasoning and evaluation about the evident facts and truths of life.
Everyday one witnesses birth and death of many bodies.This is attributable to the same Self. One may hastily think the Soul is born and also dies every day. Even if this view is allowed, argues Krishna, there is no ground for lamenting death.
Even if the Soul is taken as being born and dying ceaselessly,is there any ground, he asks, for grieving as Arjuna does? Bodies are born, and then they grow.At one time their growth ceases, and decline takes over,following which death befalls.
What is wrong or disharmonious in this orderly course of events? Where is the cause for grief over it? See the whole process together, not in a fragmented way.
