The eternal soul's fearlessness comes through knowing the body is merely a machine and surrendering fully to Krishna.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 16.1-3 — January 29, 1975, Honolulu 750129BG-HONOLULU [34:25 Minutes] BG-16.01-03_750129BG-HONOLULU Hṛdayānanda: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [devotees repeat] abhayaṁ sattva-saṁśuddhir jñāna-yoga-vyavasthitiḥ dānaṁ damaś ca yajñaś ca svādhyāyas tapa ārjavam aḥiṁsā satyam akrodhas tyāgaḥ śāntir apaiśunam dayā bhūteṣv aloluptvaṁ mārdavaṁ hrīr acāpalam tejaḥ kṣamā dhṛtiḥ śaucam adroho nātimānitā bhavanti sampadaṁ daivīm abhijātasya bhārata [Bg. 16.1-3] Prabhupāda: Yes. One more. [another devotee chants verse] That's all. Nitāi: Śrī bhagavān uvāca...
Sattva-saṁśuddhiḥ. The human life is meant for sattva. Sattva. Sattva means existence.
We are existing. I am existing; you are existing. But we are sometimes appear to be not existing. That is called death.
We, every living entity, we are eternal. That is stated in the Second Chapter, that ajo nityaḥ..., ajo nitya śāśvataḥ, na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre [Bg. 2.20]. These things required to understand, that "I am a living being—not only I am, everyone. We are eternal, nityaḥ śāśvataḥ." There are so many universities all over the world and so-called scientists and philosophers, but they do not know that we are eternal.
Just see their knowledge, advancement of knowledge. Eternal, aja. There is no birth. Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre [Bg. 2.20].
After this destruction of this body, I am not finished. I still exist. What is the destruction of this body? Death means it is a machine. It is called machine.
Yantrārūḍhāni māyayā [Bg. 18.61]. It is a machine given to me. Just like you take a car. That is a machine.