I was able to identify principles of reincarnation that called my attention. Krishna told Arjuna that everybody is somehow eternal and that nothing ever ends or begins. It is a very complex ideology. “He who thinks this self a killer\ and he who thinks it killed, \ both fails to understand; it does not kill, nor is it killed.”(19) He justifies the killing of all the ones in the battle by saying that they will die someday anyway and that even if they died there inner body would remain. This all makes me wonder if this principle of reincarnation is really true, and relating it to all the other culture that believe there is a life after death and that the soul is eternal it makes a lot of sense. Do we really go somewhere else or is it just a consolation to all humans? Why do we assume that only humans have an after life? What about animals? We all make part of the natural cycle of death. But this teaching, I think, is more about honor and the glory of the ones who fulfill their duty as great warriors.
Krishna talks about the importance of duty and how discipline is so important in life and brings peace and joy. He also says that detachment in action is also important and makes the discipline. “When like a tortoise retracting\ its limbs, he withdraws his senses\ completely from sensuous objects, \ his insight is sure.”(58), here and in the previous phrases the god is saying that living without feeling any preference, without having feelings towards anything, and abandoning individuality you are a man who´s thought is sure. I, on the other hand, think that one should experience different things and be themselves; sometimes a moment of happiness and attachment is worth a life time of suffering.
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