... when Krishna is teaching Arjuna on all the reasons to fight, to follow his cast duty and to almost do away with the renunciation of not fighting. Krishna says "You sorrow for men who do not need your sorrow and yet speak words that in part are wise. Wise men do not sorrow for the living or the dead". Krishna also talks to Arjuna about the Undying self to persuade him even more that action is the right option to take. He says, "As a man casts off his worn-out clothes and takes another new ones, so does the embodied self-cast off its worn out bodies and enter other new one". This is the new understanding that Krishna teaches Arjuna which is very similar to Yama, which teaches Nachiketa in the Upanishads. He uses these analogies and metaphors to translate that the body lives and dies but the atman just ...

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