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Bhagavad Gita 2.27

जातस्य हि ध्रुवो मृत्युर्ध्रुवं जन्म मृतस्य च।तस्मादपरिहार्येऽर्थे न त्वं शोचितुमर्हसि॥

jātasya hi dhruvo mṛtyurdhruvaṃ janma mṛtasya ca |tasmādaparihārye'rthe na tvaṃ śocitumarhasi ||

For the born, death is certain, and for the dead, birth is certain; therefore, you should not grieve over the inevitable.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

For death is certain for that which is born, just as birth is certain for that which is dead. Therefore, do not grieve for what is inevitable.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.

Bhagavad Gita 2.27 · SatsangVidya