We see how the embodied Self passes unchanged in the present body into the three stages (avasthas) of childhood, youth or the middle age, and old age or the age of decay, all distinct from one another. At the close of the first of these stages the Self is not dead, nor is He born again at the commencement of the second; on the other hand, we see the Self passing unchanged into the second and third stages. Just so does the Self pass unchanged into another body. Such being the case, the wise man is not troubled (in mind) about it.

Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain

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• of the embodied soul
• in this body
• just as (there is)
• childhood
• youth
• old age
• so too
• the acquisition of another body
• the wise/steady person
• is not deluded about that