Lord Krishna reveals to us that it is He who directs our existence: I am in the heart of every being, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge, and forgetfulness. The Supreme Lord is in the hearts of all beings and directs their wanderings, each of them being as if on a machine (the material body) constituted by material energy.

Lord Krishna reveals to us the beautiful qualities of the soul that each of us is: The soul is indestructible, eternal, and immeasurable; only the material bodies it borrows are subject to destruction. Armed with this knowledge, engage in battle. Ignoring the one who believes that the soul can kill or be killed, the wise man knows well that it neither kills nor dies.

The soul knows neither birth nor death. Living, it will never cease to be. Unborn, immortal, original, eternal, it 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 puts on a new body, the old one having become useless, just as one sheds worn-out clothes to put on new ones.

No weapon can split the soul, nor fire burn it, water cannot wet it, nor wind dry it.

The soul is indivisible and insoluble; fire cannot touch it, it cannot be dried up. It is immortal and eternal, omnipresent, unalterable, and fixed.

The soul is said to be invisible, inconceivable, and immutable. Knowing this, you should not lament the body.

No man, whoever he may be, whatever his responsibilities, can do anything without Krishna's approval.