Sāṅkhya Yoga · Verse 17

"अविनाशि तु तद्विद्धि येन सर्वमिदं ततम् | विनाशमव्ययस्यास्य न कश्चित्कर्तुमर्हति"

"avināśi tu tad viddhi yena sarvam idaṃ tatam | vināśam avyayasyāsya na kaścit kartum arhati"

But know that by which all this is pervaded is indestructible. No one can make that which is immutable destroyed

The imperative viddhi (know, know!) is direct. The ātman is avināśin (indestructible) — privative of vināśa (destruction). It is that yena (by which) everything is tatam (expanded, pervaded, permeated) — the substratum that sustains manifestation.

Avyayasya (of the immutable, of that which does not diminish) — the ātman is not only indestructible, it is inexhaustible, not consumed. Na kaścit (no one) can kartum (make) vināśam (destruction).

The argument is ontological: by definition, the indestructible cannot be destroyed. Death is impossible for the ātman.