12.na thu eva na aham jaathu na aasam na thvam na ime naraaDhipaaH
na bhootho nabhavishyaamaH sarve vayam athaH param
Never was the time when I or you or these kings ceased to exist nor will be a time when all of us will cease to exist.
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13.dheinaH asmin yaThaa dhehe koumaaram youvanam jharaa
thaThaa dhehaantharapraapthiH Dheerah thathra na muhyathi
The individual self assuming a body, passes through childhood, youth and old age. Similarly it acquires a different body after death. Wise never get worried about this.
You are not overly worried about changing from boyhood to youth or to old age which you consider a natural occurrence. So too death is only natural change about which you need not worry. The relations and attachment to them and grief over losing them, all this pertains only to the particular body the self is occupying at the time .
There is a story in Mahabhartha to illustrate this. Chithraratha , a king lost his son because his other wives gave the child poison and the mother of the child and Chithraratha were grieving when Narada came there. The King told him about the cause of his sorrow and Narada said he would bring his dead son in front so that he could get solace. When the son came Narada told him that his parents are aggrieved over losing him and asked him that whether he would like to come back to life to console them. The son replied, I had so many births with so many fathers and mothers . Whom should I satisfy? Then the king understood about the karma and its effects and hat everything happens with a cause and with the divine will. This happened to him because he was destined to become a great baktha of the Lord and it was he who took birth again as Gajndhra and got mukthi.
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But even to the wise the contact with senses will bring pleasure and pain. This point is answered in the next sloka.
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