As Arjuna's charioteer, Krishna symbolizes the supreme soul guiding the human body and mind through the battlefield of life.

Upon witnessing the 1945 Trinity test, Oppenheimer recalled Krishna's famous line: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

Arjuna suffers a profound moral crisis before the Kurukshetra War, fearing that killing his own kin would destroy society.

Krishna teaches that just as a person discards old garments for new ones, the eternal soul simply casts off its physical body.