The Gita offers several keys to free yourself from the fear of suffering: 1. Understand that you are not the body (2.20) The soul does not arise or die. If what you really are is eternal, what can temporary suffering do to you? The Gita offers several keys to free yourself from the fear of suffering: 1. Understand that you are not the body (2.20) The soul does not arise or die. If what you really are is eternal, what can temporary suffering do to you? 2.47 The fear comes from identifying with the body. 2. Accept the duality as a passenger (2.14) "The appearances of pleasure and pain are transitory; they appear and disappear as winter and summer." 3. Krishna asks to tolerate them without being disturbed. 3. Act without promising the result. 2.47 Much of the fear comes from anticip