Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2, Verse 24

अच्छेद्योऽयमदाह्योऽयमक्लेद्योऽशोष्य एव च | नित्यः सर्वगतः स्थाणुरचलोऽयं सनातनः ||

acchedyo 'yam adāhyo 'yam akledyo 'śoṣya eva ca nityaḥ sarva-gataḥ sthāṇur acalo 'yaṁ sanātanaḥ

This cannot be pierced, burned, moistened, or dried. It is eternal, all-pervading, immovable, unshakeable, and primordial.

After describing what the soul cannot be affected by, Krishna now reveals what it actually is: sarva-gata (all-pervading), sthāṇu (immovable), sanātana (primordial). The radical insight here is sarva-gata—consciousness isn't trapped in your body; it's the universal field. Like waves believing they're separate from the ocean, our sense of individual isolation might be the fundamental illusion. This points toward non-duality: perhaps there's only one consciousness, appearing as many. Your deepest fear—being alone, vulnerable, temporary—dissolves when you investigate directly. Where is awareness? Does it move or change? Was it born?