# Bhagavad Gita 2.20

**Canonical reference:** `gita.2.20`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचिन्
नायं भूत्वा भविता वा न भूयः।
अजो नित्यः शाश्वतोऽयं पुराणो
न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे ॥

## IAST

na jāyate mriyate vā kadācin nāyaṃ bhūtvā bhavitā vā na bhūyaḥ
ajo nityaḥ śāśvato.ayaṃ purāṇo na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

It is not born, nor does it ever die, nor, having existed, does it exist no more. Unborn, everlasting, unchangeable, and primeval, it is not killed when the body is killed. O son of Pṛthā! how can that man who knows it thus to be indestructible everlasting unborn

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