You are strong ! You are not weak.

Sankhya Yoga

Chapter 2, Verse 26

 

atha cainaṁ nitya jātam 

nityaṁ vā manyase mṛtam 

tathāpi tvaṁ mahābāho 

naivaṁ śocitum arhasi

 

Even if you think of the Self as being constantly subject to birth and death,  

still, O mighty-armed, you should not grieve.

 

Here the Lord explains that the soul is not “subject to birth and death”, what dies is only the body. But you as the soul, you are eternal. He says, “Don’t grieve, My dear, because grieving makes you weak.” Learn to accept this as the Will of God. And when you learn to accept life – everything that happens in life as the Will of God, as a present from God – then you will be free from grief.

 

Krishna says, “Grieve not, ‘O mighty-armed’.” Again Krishna is addressing Arjuna as the, “mighty-armed,” mahābāho. He means, “You are strong! You are not weak.  

Don’t go into weakness.”

Bhagavad Gita