Kṛṣṇa does not say that "You become a nonviolent." No. Never says that. When there is question of fight for right cause, you must fight. There is no question of becoming nonviolent. You see? Now, now, He is saying that "Don't be aggrieved. Even your grandfather, Bhīṣmadeva, dies, even your Droṇācārya . . . it will be good for them, because they are now old enough, and as soon as they are dead, they get a new body. So you should not be discouraged."
Then one thing is that "Do you mean to say that therefore a man should be killed?" No. We cannot kill without reason. No. That will be a great sin. But this is a fight. This is a fight for a cause. They are not killers. It is said that a kṣatriya who lays down his life in the battlefield, he at once rises up to the higher planets. You see? Because for right cause, if one lays down his life . . . just like so many people, they lay . . . lay down their life for the cause of the country. Do you mean to say they are sinful or they are going to hell? No, no, no. Those who are laying down for the good cause their life, their next life is very brilliant. But if you commit suicide without any reason and written or without any cause, then you will be sinful. You'll be sinful. These are . . . of course, we get knowledge from this . . . so:
- dehino 'smin yathā dehe
- kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā
- tathā dehāntara-prāptir
- dhīras tatra na muhyati
- (BG 2.13)
So dhīra, one who has got complete knowledge of the constitution of this body and the constitution of the spirit soul, they are not aggrieved when a soul transmigrates from one body to another. That is the sum and substance of the whole this verse.
Now, here some philosophical . . . philosophical question may be raised. There are two classes of philosopher, that after liberation, after getting out of this body, the soul amalgamates with the Supreme Soul. That question we have already discussed. Still, there is no harm discussing it again, because any, I mean to say, substantial knowledge, if it is discussed one after another, twice, thrice, it is better.
Now, Kṛṣṇa points out that every soul is individual soul. Every soul. And that is our experience, that every one of us, we have got some individual consciousness, not that my consciousness is just equal to your consciousness. I do not know what is going in your soul. We are all individual souls. But according to Māyāvādī philosophers, they say: "Just like the sky, the ether"—ether is everywhere, within your body and within mine, within everyone's—that "the ether has taken a form due to this particular body. But when the body is vanquished, the ether, I mean to say, amalgamates with the greater ether." This is called ghaṭākāśa-poṭākāśa. Ghaṭākāśa-poṭākāśa means this ākāśa is here.
Now, ākāśa means ether. Ether is here. Now, that ether . . . now, my this body . . . now, this body, there is also ether. "Now, as soon as this body's destroyed, it is burned or it is in another way destroyed, that this ether within my body becomes amalgamated with the greater ether."
So this sort of assertion is not accepted in the Bhagavad-gītā, because the first reason is that ether is a material thing. Ether is a material thing. And the soul is spirit.