Text1.ru Nilambary - Soul

nainaṁ chindanti śastrāṇi
nainaṁ dahati pāvakaḥ
na cainaṁ kledayanty āpo
na śoṣayati mārutaḥ
acchedyo ’yam adāhyo ’yam
akledyo ’śoṣya eva ca
nityaḥ sarva-gataḥ sthāṇur
acalo ’yaṁ sanātanaḥ
na jāyate mriyate vā kadācin
nāyaṁ bhūtvā bhavitā vā na bhūyaḥ
ajo nityaḥ śāśvato ’yaṁ purāṇo
na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre
The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon,
nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water,
nor withered by the wind.
This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble,
and can be neither burned nor dried.
He is everlasting, present everywhere, unchangeable,
immovable and eternally the same.
For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time.
He has not come into being, does not come into being,
and will not come into being.
He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval.
He is not slain when the body is slain.