existing everywhere, and that one is the all-pervasive divinity. Why should anything ever frighten you? What can possibly make you afraid? Death is really just a kind of joke in this play of life. If the role calls for you to fall and die on the stage, will you, the actor, be affected? What is earth shaking about the death of a body that is born to die? The body, which is made of the five elements, has to be destroyed someday. For the sake of such an impermanent thing why should you worry yourself? ‘Arjuna, you are not the one who is going to kill, nor will those you fight be killed. The only thing that can be killed is the body. You yourself are the Atma and not the body’. This is the truth that Krishna taught to Arjuna and thereby made him fearless. Fearlessness is a quality that is as vital and important as the life breath itself. It is the foremost of the virtues taught in Gita. The Lord’s command is, ‘Be fearless! Surrender to Me : Then I will take care of the rest’. (DBG, p. 195)