No one can bring about the destruction of the self, this immutable principle. It is eternal, imperishable, immeasurable. He who thinks it (self, atman or soul) to be a slayer and he who thinks it is slain, both are ignorant (of the truth); it (self) neither slays nor is slain. It is not born and it does not die at any time. And it does not again come into existence by being born. It is birthless, constant, eternal and ancient; it is not slain when the body is slain. Weapons do not cut it, fire does not burn it, water does not wet moisten it, and wind does not dry it. Just as a person gives up worn out clothes and puts on other new ones, even so does the embodied self give up decrepit bodies and enter other new ones.
(Mainly based on the English translation of Srimat Swami Vireswaranandaji Maharaj)
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