Bhagavad Gita 2.28
अव्यक्तादीनि भूतानि व्यक्तमध्यानि भारत। अव्यक्तनिधनान्येव तत्र का परिदेवना॥
avyaktādīni bhūtāni vyakta-madhyāni bhārata avyakta-nidhanānyeva tatra kā paridevanā
Translation
Beings are unmanifest in their origin, manifest in their midmost state, O Bhârata, unmanifest likewise are they in dissolution. What room then for lamentation?
What it means
Beings are unmanifest before birth, manifest in between, unmanifest again at death. Why lament a brief interval of visibility? The middle chapter of existence is not the whole book.
Try this today
Life is a brief visible interval between two invisibilities. The interval is what we get; lamenting its edges misses the middle.
Something to reflect on
Do I mistake the visible middle of a life for the whole of it?
Read it in Yathora