Both the Gita and the Bible use the word “death” as a veil. The surface points to the body. The depth points to identity. The scriptures speak in symbols to guide the reader toward an inner passage that cannot be transmitted directly.
In the Gita, Krishna speaks about death as a shift of awareness. Arjuna believes the battlefield concerns the end of bodies. Krishna speaks from a deeper plane. He directs Arjuna to abandon the sense of authorship and to act from the timeless Self. The “death” is the dissolution of the personal doer. When this identity falls away, the Self stands clear, untouched by birth and time.
In the Bible, Paul reveals the same portal. “Die before you die” means releasing the old self, the accumulated story, the reactive mind, and the world built around it. This release opens a space where the Christ-conscious field becomes active inside the human being. The inner resurrection arrives when the previous identity loses control and the true center reveals itself.
Both scriptures converge on one insight: the real transformation occurs when the inner contraction that calls itself “me” dissolves. The traditions encode this process in the language of death and rebirth so the seeker can recognize the threshold. The biological body continues. Life continues. Yet the ground of identity shifts from a small center to the field itself.
In both texts, the hidden instruction remains the same.
Walk toward the point where the story collapses and awareness stands free.
This is the death that reveals the immortal.