Q. The Lord asserts that the Self is indestructible. How is the Self Indestructible?

Q. The Lord asserts that the Self is indestructible. How is the Self Indestructible?

Answer:

वासांसी जीर्णानि यथा विहाय
नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि।
तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णा-
न्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही॥ २.२२॥

मनुष्य जैसे पुराने कपड़ों को छोड़कर दूसरे नये (कपड़े) धारण कर लेता है ऐसे ही देही पुराने शरीरों को छोड़कर दूसरे नये (शरीरों) में चला जाता है। (२.२२)

Just as a man casts off his worn out clothes and puts on new ones, so also the embodied-Self casts off its worn out bodies and enters others which are new. (2.22)

Just as changing the dress is no pain to the body, so too, when the dweller in the body leaves the envelopment there is no pain possible; again, undressing does not mean that thereafter we will ever live naked, so too, the embodied Self, ere long, discovers an appropriate equipment from which to function so as to earn for itself new sets of experiences.

Evolution and change are all for the mind-and-intellect and not for the Self. The Self is perfect and changeless, and needs no evolution.

Om Namah Shivay.