At the conclusion of Arjuna’s Dejection, Arjuna declares to Krishna,

“ Krishna, I see my kinsman gathered here wanted war. My limbs sink, my mouth is parched, my body trembles, the hair bristles on my flesh. The magic bow slips from my hand, skin burns, I cannot stand still, my mind reels” (24-5).

The clash between Arjuna and Krishna is not in reality of personal thoughts, but of philosophical ideology. In order to come to a conclusion on what actions Arjuna must take in this war, one has to either side with the idea of reincarnation and that the physical “body” dies, as opposed to the entire body, or side with the opposing side in that there is no life after death.

The explanation the Krishna gives is that when someone kills a human being, they kill the body, the physical being. However, the person is not solely made up of the physical attributes. The majority of the person is their soul and their mind. Furthermore, there is only one life and one consciousness and because of this, it takes on many different forms (reincarnation). As a result, when a person is killed, or dies, their “body”, the physical object, dies, but the person themselves, the “soul”, is placed into another body. As a result, according to Krishna the person never really dies; thus, Arjuna’s argument regarding killing

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