Swami Kriyananda explains Krishna’s teaching in Bhagavad Gita 2:11, where the wise grieve neither for the living nor the dead, as the soul is eternal. The spiritual path requires slaying delusion and lower tendencies—not destroying the self, but redirecting energy toward God. Even in worldly battles, just action taken with the right attitude carries no bad karma; harm arises only from wrongful intent. Using examples like resisting communism, Kriyananda notes that fighting evil can be a spiritual duty. Death does not end life—the soul continues until all desires, even small ones, are transcended. In divine ecstasy, all selfish desires are dissolved and qualities are transformed into their higher expressions. Life and death are both expressions of God, to be accepted with joy. By living selflessly and uplifting others, one prepares for liberation into God or higher realms, ultimately realizing that the soul’s true home is not this world, but the divine.