One of the concepts I find especially fascinating within the Bhagavad-Gita and Hinduism in general is the concept that reincarnation is a dreadful curse. I personally believe in reincarnation, and I consider it to be a great blessing. However, I also find this planet to be a lovely and fantastic place, and am very much attached to physically being here and experiencing everything this plane of existence has to offer. If I was correct in my interpretation, my attachment is exactly the kind of thing Hinduism does not endorse.

However, the dissolution of being upon escaping the cycle of reincarnation reminds me of something. I read a book several years ago detailing people's experiences in near-death situations. Some of them recovered with a fantastic amount of knowledge of concepts they were unaware of before their various incidents. My mother told me she believed they had not gone to heaven or hell, but to a "Greater Knowledge". The way it was talked about in the Bhagavad-Gita reminded me of that idea, and if there is an end to the reincarnation cycle (as there surely must be), then if it is a "Greater Knowledge" like my mother described, I can see why many of the Hindu faith would desire it.