The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the supreme individual person, and Arjuna, the Lord’s eternal associate, and all the kings assembled there are individual eternal persons. It is not that they did not exist as individuals in the past, and it is not that they will not remain eternal persons. Their individuality existed in the past, and their individuality will continue in the future without interruption. Therefore, there is no cause for lamentation for anyone.
This ought be taken to Heart for one learning the fact of the Lord not being distinct from his name, not to be dogmatic. That the truth of God is absolute is of supreme import: It acts on, involves, and includes or subsumes every-thing and is superior in the logical form of such a categorization.