Chapter 2 · Verse 20
सांख्ययोग
न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचिन् नायं भूत्वा भविता वा न भूयः | अजो नित्यः शाश्वतोऽयं पुराणो न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे ||२-२०||
na jāyate mriyate vā kadācin nāyaṃ bhūtvā bhavitā vā na bhūyaḥ . ajo nityaḥ śāśvato.ayaṃ purāṇo na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre ||2-20||
You should feel completely secure and free from fear, because your true Self is never born and can never die. While your physical body undergoes constant change, your soul remains eternal and changeless. Embracing this jnana, or spiritual knowledge, helps you rise above maya, the illusion that death has power over who you really are.
2.20 It (the self) is never born; It never dies; having come into being once, It never ceases to be. Unborn, eternal, abiding and primeval, It is not slain when the body is slain.
This Self (Atman) is destitute of the six types of transformation or BhavaVikaras such as birth existence growth transformation decline and death. As It is indivisible (Akhanda). It does not diminish in size. It neither grows nor does It decline. It is ever the same. Birth and death are for the physical body only. Birth and death cannot touch the immortal allpervading Self.
न not जायते is born म्रियते dies वा or कदाचित् at any time न not अयम् this (Self) भूत्वा having been भविता will be वा or न not भूयः (any) more अजः unborn नित्यः eternal शाश्वतः changeless अयम् this पुराणः ancient न not हन्यते is killed हन्यमाने being killed शरीरे in body.