The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 7.2 Swami Krishnananda.
------------------------------------------- Sunday, October 04, 2020. 11:38. AM. Chapter 7: The Nature of Right Understanding-2. --------------------------------------------- 1. Now, when it is said that something is destroyed, one does not properly understand what one is speaking. There is only a change of form; the name-form-complex undergoes a transformation in the process of evolution in the universe. But even in this transformation, a total destruction of any element does not take place. There is a decomposition of the parts and a rearrangement of the parts in a particular manner under a given condition. And when one lacks the knowledge of this peculiar process through which everything passes, one regards it as a destructive process, or death. 2. Hence, the fact being that the essence of everything is immortal—we call this essence of things the soul of things—there is no need for entertaining the fear of such a thing as death. If death that seems to be imminent o...