CHAPTER 1 VERSE 13
"As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change."
Since every living entity is an individual soul, each is changing his body every moment, manifesting sometimes as a child, sometimes as a youth and sometimes as an old man. Yet the same spirit soul is there and doesn't undergo any change. This individual soul finally changes the body at death and transmigrates to another body; and since it is sure to have another body in the next birth - either material or spiritual - there is no cause for lamentation (sorrow) on account of death. Rather, we should be rejoice that the body is changed from old to new ones, thereby rejuvenating their energy. Such changes of body account for varieties of enjoyment or suffering, according to one's work in life.
Any person who has perfect knowledge of the constitution of the individual soul, the Supersoul, and nature - both material and spiritual - is called a most sober (sensible) person. Such person is never deluded (mislead) by the change of bodies.
