Q25. He Passed Away?

When a person dies, we say ‘he passed away’. The body is right in front of us, but still we say, ‘he passed away’. This implies there are 2 entities, the ‘body’ and the ‘he’. The ‘he’ is the soul, the real person. This is the fundamental teaching of the Bhagavad-Gita, the real ‘he’ is the soul and not the body. “Just as a person gives up old and worn out garments for new garments. In a similar way, the embodied soul accepts new bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-Gita 2.22)