“Are not the paṇḍitas those who know the secret of the body and the nature of the Ātma just as they are? Such paṇḍitas grieve neither for those still in their bodies nor for those whose bodies have fallen away. In no situation of the pairs of opposites do they lose the composure of their citta. It is the ajñānis, who know nothing at all, neither of the two (the secret of the body and the nature of the Ātma), who lament for the dead. Those who know and yet do not know grieve over the welfare of the living; the paṇḍitas, who know everything, grieve over nothing. Brother-in-law! Arjuna! Are you weeping because the bodies of Bhīṣma, Droṇa and the rest will die? Or because their Ātmas will die? If you say it is for the bodies alone, for how many will you weep? Well, if bodies were kept standing by weeping, people in the world would have hired labourers to weep and kept their dead alive. That will never be. Even if this body were hidden away in a vessel of amṛta, it would perish; that is the truth. What use is there in weeping for such as these? And suppose you say it is for the Ātma, that is greater folly still. Death cannot come near it. It is eternal, it is Satya, a stainless entity.