न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचि- न्नायं भूत्वा भविता वा न भूयः | अजो नित्यः शाश्वतोऽयं पुराणो न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे ||२०||
na jāyate mriyate vā kadāchin nāyaṁ bhūtvā bhavitā vā na bhūyaḥ ajo nityaḥ śhāśhvato 'yaṁ purāṇo na hanyate hanyamāne śharīre
靈魂從不生，亦從不死；亦非曾存在後就不再存在。靈魂是不生、永恆、常存、古老的。身體被殺時，它不被殺。
The soul is never born nor does it ever die; nor having once existed, does it cease to be. The soul is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, and primeval. It is not slain when the body is slain.
這是《薄伽梵歌》中最有力的宣告之一。克里希那（Krishna）以六重否定來描述靈魂：不生、不死、不滅、不生（ajaḥ）、永恆（nityaḥ）、古老（purāṇaḥ）。最後一句以其簡潔而震撼人心——即使身體被毀滅，靈魂依然不受影響。
This is one of the most powerful declarations in the Gita. Krishna stacks six negations to describe the soul: not born, not dying, not ceasing, unborn (ajaḥ), eternal (nityaḥ), primeval (purāṇaḥ). The final line is devastating in its simplicity — even when the body is destroyed, the soul remains untouched.