In fact, there was never a time when i(god incarnated as) was not, or when you or these kings were not. Nor is it a fact that hereafter we shall all cease to be.

Just as boyhood, youth and old age are attributed to the soul through this body, even so it attains another body. The wise man does not get deluded about this.

The contacts between the sences and their objects, which give rise to the feelings of heat and cold, pleasure and pain, etc... Are transitory and fleeting, therefore ignore them.

The wise man to whom pain and pleasure are alike, and who is not tormented by these contacts, becomes eligible for immortality.

The unreal has no existence, and the real never ceases to be, the reality of both has thus been perceived by the seers of truth.

Know that to be imperishable, by which all this is pervaded, for none can bring about the destruction of this indestructible substance.

All these bodies pertaining to the imperishable, indefinable and eternal soul are spoken of as perishable, (therefore fight...)

They are both ignorant, he who knows the soul to be capable of killing and he who takes it as killed, for verily the soul neither kills, nor is killed.

The soul is never born nor dies, nor does it exist on coming into being. For it is unborn, eternal, everlasting and primeval, even though the body is slain, the soul is not.

How will the man who knows this soul to be imperishable, eternal and free from birth and decay, cause anyone to be killed, or kill anyone?

As man discarding wornout clothes, takes other new ones, likewise the embodied soul, casting off wornout bodies, enters into others which are new.

Weapons cannot cut it nor can fire burn it, water cannot drench it nor can wind make it dry.

For this soul is incapable of being cut, it is proof against fire, impervious to water and undriable as well. This soul is eternal, omnipresent, immovable, constant and everlasting.

This soul is unmanifest, it is unthinkable, and it is spoken of as immutable. Therefore, knowing this as such, you should not grieve.

And even if u regard this soul as constantly taking birth, and constantly dying, you should nt grieve like this.

For in that case the death of him who is born is certain, and the rebirth of him who is dead is inevitable, it does not, therefore, behove you to grieve over an inevitable event.

All beings were unmanifest before they were born, and will become unmanifest again when they are dead, they are manifest only in the intermediate stage. What occasion, then, for lamentation?

Hardly anyone perceives this soul as marvellous, scarce another likewise speaks thereof as marvellous, and scarce another hears of it as marvellous, while there are some who know it not even on hearing of it.

This soul residing in the bodies of all can never be slain, therefore, it does not behove you to grieve for any being.

Besides, considering your own duty you should not waver, for there is nothing more welcome for a man of the warrior class than a righteous war.