Like air entrapped in a bubble is same as the air outside it, as the water in a wave is same as the water in the entirety of the ocean, a soul in a body is same as the supersoul, 'paramatma', God, Lord Krishna. In this chapter, Krishna counters Arjuna's argument of having to kill his kinsmen, his friends, and family, for the sake of wealth by stating this phenomenon and concluding that by slaying their bodies, he, in fact is not hurting or affecting in any way, the ancient and eternal soul that inhabits those bodies.