Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2, Verse 19

य एनं वेत्ति हन्तारं यश्चैनं मन्यते हतम् | उभौ तौ न विजानीतो नायं हन्ति न हन्यते ||

ya enaṁ vetti hantāraṁ yaś cainaṁ manyate hatam ubhau tau na vijānīto nāyaṁ hanti na hanyate

He who thinks this kills, and he who thinks this is killed, both fail to understand. It neither kills nor is killed.

We treat consciousness like an object—something that can be damaged or destroyed. Krishna says both perspectives miss the point. You can't kill consciousness because you'd need consciousness to do it. It's not an object in the chain of cause and effect; it's the witnessing of the chain itself. Bodies die, brains fail, but the awareness experiencing those changes? That's in a different category. For Arjuna, this resolves his crisis: fighting transforms temporary forms, not eternal awareness. For you: the 'you' that fears destruction can't be destroyed—it's not a thing, it's the knowing of things.