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The phrase is from the Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2, Verse 27:
jātasya hi dhruvo mṛtyur
dhruvaṁ janma mṛtasya ca
Full meaning:
“For one who is born, death is certain;
and for one who has died, birth is certain.”
This teaching is spoken by Krishna to Arjuna during the crisis before battle.
In Advaita Vedānta, the verse points beyond mere reincarnation doctrine. It directs attention to:
- the impermanence of body and personality,
- and the changeless nature of awareness (Ātman).
The logic is:
- everything born changes,
- everything changing passes,
- therefore attachment to transient forms creates suffering.
The witness-consciousness alone is treated as unborn and undying.
A common Advaita interpretation:
Death belongs to the body,
change belongs to the mind,
but the Self is neither born nor destroyed.
The verse immediately after this continues the same idea:
the inevitable should not be a cause for grief.
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