Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)
[4]Beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their middle state, O Bharata, and unmanifest again in their end. What is there to grieve about?
BG 2.28
अव्यक्तादीनि भूतानि व्यक्तमध्यानि भारत। अव्यक्तनिधनान्येव तत्र का परिदेवना॥
avyaktādīni bhūtāni vyakta-madhyāni bhārata / avyakta-nidhanāny eva tatra kā paridevanā
"Before birth: unmanifest. After death: unmanifest. The life between is the brief visible part — what is there to grieve?"
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Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)
[7]Invisible before birth are all beings — and after death invisible again — they are seen between two unseen states. Why grieve for what is usual?
K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)
[9]Beings are not manifested before their birth, and are not manifested after their death; they are manifested between the two. What occasion is there for grief?