Krishna is God, the Supreme Person; He is the original cause of all causes. From Him emanate the countless Avatars, as well as all living beings.
A great writer wrote: “Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to converse with us and help us decide our lives.” This is false, for we do not have a soul, since each of us is in reality an eternal spiritual soul. Too many people make the mistake of speaking of their soul as if it were a being external to them, added to them, or living alongside them. But the truth is quite simple: “We are the soul.” The soul is our true Self, our true spiritual identity.
Lord Krishna reveals the soul to us:
Never was there a time when we did not exist, I, you, and all these kings; and never will any of us cease to be.
At the moment of death, the soul takes on a new body as naturally as it passed, in the previous one, from childhood to youth, then to old age. This change does not trouble one who is conscious of their spiritual nature.
Know that which permeates the entire body cannot be annihilated. No one can destroy the imperishable soul.
The soul is indestructible, eternal, and immeasurable; only the material bodies it inhabits are subject to destruction.
Ignorant is he who believes that the soul can kill or be killed; the wise man, however, knows well that it neither kills nor dies.
The soul knows neither birth nor death. Alive, it will never cease to be. Unborn, immortal, primordial, eternal, it has never had a beginning, and will never have an end. It does not die with the body.
How could one who knows the soul to be unborn, immutable, eternal, and indestructible kill or cause to be killed?
At the moment of death, the soul dons a new body, the old one having become useless, just as one sheds worn clothes to put on new ones.
No weapon can pierce the soul, nor can fire burn it, water wet it, nor wind dry it.
The soul is indivisible and insoluble; fire cannot touch it, it cannot be dried out. It is immortal and eternal, omnipresent, unalterable, and fixed.
It is said of the soul that it is invisible, inconceivable, and immutable. Knowing this, you should not lament over the body.
And even if you believe the soul is endlessly taken up again by birth and death, you have no reason to grieve.