Thus the beginning
point for Gita is ignorant Arjun’s identification of himself
with his body and not with soul.
Second point is his fear pertaining
to sins described in the scripture or fear of religion.
Krishn who is
creator of everything discussed at length what should be done and
what not and where the actions lead. Although Arjun claimed complete
submission Krishn, it wasn’t so because Arjun was following
religion and not Krishn. Gita contains various approaches described
in Ved and Upnishad.
Krishn tells, ‘Every
living being has soul which keeps the individual alive. Soul is
indestructible. It has no origin and it will have no end. Soul can
neither be created nor be destroyed.
As a person replaces old, worn
out clothes with new ones, soul changes bodies; leaves one body and
enters into a new one. Thus individual never dies, what perishes is
the body. Soul cannot be burnt, it cannot be cut, it cannot be made
wet, it cannot be dried (meaning no material force has any impact on
soul), it cannot be divided into subdivisions, it cannot be seen by
material eyes.
Soul is divine in nature. Soul is my element in this
world. (from the point of view that it is one of the aspect or power
of God and it is not cut away fraction of God). Soul does not
originate from me as a new creation but it just emerges from me where
it was preserved after the destruction of the previous world order.
On death, soul travels to various places depending on its actions
performed in human life. After subjected to outcomes of actions in
hell or heaven, soul returns to this world. Only my divine abode is
the one where once soul reaches, enjoys the divine bliss forever and
does not return to suffer in this world.’