# Bhagavad Gita 2.22

**Canonical reference:** `gita.2.22`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

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

## IAST

vāsāṃsi jīrṇāni yathā vihāya navāni gṛhṇāti naro.aparāṇi
tathā śarīrāṇi vihāya jīrṇāni anyāni saṃyāti navāni dehī

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

casting off old clothes puts on others and new ones so the embodied (self) casting off old bodies goes to others and new ones.

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