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Երից գազ  - քանի որ  Երից գազ  է մեծ մասը։
[Ch. 2
vāsāṁsi jīrṇāni yathā vihāya navāni gṛhṇāti naro parāṇi tathā śarīrāṇi vihāya jīrṇāny anyāni saṁyāti navāni dehī
vāsāṁsi —garments;  jīrṇāni —old and worn out;  yathā —as it is;  vihāya —giving up;  navāni —new garments;  gṛhṇāti —does accept;  naraḥ —a man;  aparāṇi —other;  tathā —in the same way;  śarīrāṇi —bodies;  vihāya —giving up;  jīrṇāni —old and useless;  anyāni —different;  saṁyāti —verily accepts;  navāni —new sets;  dehī —the embodied.
TRANSLATION
As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, similarly, the soul accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.
PURPORT
Change of body by the atomic individual soul is an accepted fact. Even some of the modern scientists who do not believe in the existence of the soul, but at the same time cannot explain the source of energy from the heart, have to accept continuous changes of body which appear from childhood to boyhood and from boyhood to youth and again from youth to old age. From old age, the change is transferred to another body. This has already been explained in the previous verse.
Transference of the atomic individual soul to another body is made possible by the grace of the Supersoul. The Supersoul fulfills the desire of the atomic soul as one friend fulfills the desire of another. The  Vedas , like the  Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad , as well as the  Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad , compare the soul and the Supersoul to two friendly birds sitting on the same tree. One of the birds (the individual atomic soul) is eating the fruit of the tree, and the other bird (Kṛṣṇa) is simply watching His friend. Of these two birds—although they are the same in quality—one is captivated by the fruits of the material tree, while the other is simply witnessing the activities of His friend. Kṛṣṇa is the witnessing bird, and Arjuna is the eating bird. Although they are friends, one is still the master and the other is the servant. Forgetfulness of this relationship by the atomic soul is the cause of one's changing his position from one tree to another or from one body to another. The  jīva  soul is struggling very hard on the tree of the material body, but as soon as he agrees to accept the other bird as