वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय
नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि ।
तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णा-
न्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही ॥22॥
vāsāṃsi jīrṇāni yathā vihāya
navāni gṛhṇāti naro’parāṇi
tathā śarīrāṇi vihāya jīrṇā-
nyanyāni saṃyāti navāni dehī
vāsāṃsi = garments; jīrṇāni = old and worn out; yathā = just as; vihāya = giving up; navāni = new garments; gṛhṇāti = does accept; naraḥ = a man; aparāṇi = others; tathā = in the same way; śarīrāṇi = bodies; vihāya = giving up; jīrṇāni = old and useless; anyāni = different; saṃyāti = verily accepts; navāni = new sets; dehī = the embodied.;
Just as a man casts off his worn out clothes and puts on new ones, so also the embodied-Self casts off its worn out bodies and enters others which are new.