A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in Bharatham.2. : The Bhagavadgita - Swami Krishnananda
======================================================================== ======================================================================== 21/12/2019 2.THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL 3. GOD, THE ALMIGHTY -1. ======================================================================== 2.THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL : Krishna commences his teaching with a declaration of the indestructibility of the Soul and the futility of grief over the death of what cannot die. The birth and death of the Soul are like the changing of one's clothes while the person in essence undergoes no change in the process. All experience of change like pleasure and pain is the consequence of the contact of the elements with the essential consciousness projected through the mind and the senses. The contact, naturally, is impermanent and hence its reactions are to be endured with fortitude. The unreal cannot be, and the real cannot not be. The Soul is real. The contacts are not real. No one can destro...