terrified—begins “the wondrous dialogue” with Krishna. Krishna begins with a magnificent sermon (and here I paraphrase): “You see Life and Death as opposites,” he says to a befuddled Arjuna, “as if you had to choose one over the other. And of course you choose life. But don’t you get it? You have to choose both. Life and Death are not enemies. They are not opposites at all. They are inextricably bound to one another. You cannot really choose life without also choosing death.”
