The one who truly understands My transcendental birth and activities, is not born again after leaving this body and attains My abode.
We are born into the world of nature; our second birth is into the world of spirit.
Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.
After taking such a birth, O Arjuna, one regains the knowledge acquired in the previous life, and strives again to achieve perfection.
If you think that this (body) takes birth and dies perpetually, even then, O Arjuna, you should not grieve like this.
Because, death is certain for the one who is born, and birth is certain for the one who dies. Therefore, you should not lament over the inevitable.
They, whose mind and intellect are absorbed in the Self, who remain firmly attached with the Self, who have Self as their supreme goal, whose sins have been destroyed by the knowledge, do not take birth again.
For certain is death for the born and certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable thou should not grieve