On seeing all the kinsmen or relatives, thus standing in battle order, Arjuna, the son of Kunti was overcome by great compassion and said this in sadness: O krishna, seeing my friends and relatives standing before me ready for war and eager to fight, my limbs are quivering and they have lost their strength, my mouth has become dry. My whole body is trembling. My hair is standing on its end. The great bow (Gandiva) is slipping from my handand I am getting feverish. I have no strength to stand. My mind has become restless.
Krishna replied: Arjuna, In this hour of crisis, wherefrom has this dejection overtaken you? It is a disgrace to leave the battlefield and give up fighting. Do not yield to impotence and recall all the many battles you have fought and your spirit of adventure and success stories are quite well known. To bring back Arjuna to his senses and stiop him from committing an infamous act of quitting the battlefield, Krishna preached Arjuna to the Celestial Song of the Gita:
Jiva(life) is nitya(eternal) except that it is perishable in all forms. Krishna says that the material body of the indestructible eternal living entity does come to an end and urges Arjuna, who is the descendant of Bharata, to fight the war. It is said that jivas as reflections of the all pervading and imperishable God, the jivas are embodied and the gross bodies of the eternal jivas which we see are subject to destruction or come to an end. Therefore, Arjuna, fight.
Arjuna, whenever there is decline of righteousness and when there is rise of unrighteousness, I send forth myself, I descend myself-The mission being to lead People towards God and appreciate doctrines of religion.
For the protection of the good and for the destruction of the evil or the wicked and for the establishment of law of righteousness, I come into being aeons after aeons. This is referred to as the Incarnation of the Lord.
He who works giving up attachment to fruits offering them to God, with the belief these works get performed by him for his own welfare, is not touched by sin, like the lotus leaf which is not affected by mirth of water
He who is steady and unmoved by opposites like heat and cold, honour and dishonour, he who is satiated with the objects of senses and to whom the clod of earth, a stone and a piece of gold are equally insignificant, is the truly liberated one.
He who is equal minded about the indwelling God among friends, companions and enemies, the indifferent and the impartial , the hateful and the related, saints and sinners, is said to be the enlightened one.
God is indwelling in all these People and knowing that there is no difference between God as he is and his various forms and attributes. Having obtained this level of Yoga, he thinks that there is nothing greater to gain beyond it. And once established in it, not even by the heaviest of the sorrows. he is shaken.
Hence, Arjuna, FIGHT!
Krishna replied: Arjuna, In this hour of crisis, wherefrom has this dejection overtaken you? It is a disgrace to leave the battlefield and give up fighting. Do not yield to impotence and recall all the many battles you have fought and your spirit of adventure and success stories are quite well known. To bring back Arjuna to his senses and stiop him from committing an infamous act of quitting the battlefield, Krishna preached Arjuna to the Celestial Song of the Gita:
Jiva(life) is nitya(eternal) except that it is perishable in all forms. Krishna says that the material body of the indestructible eternal living entity does come to an end and urges Arjuna, who is the descendant of Bharata, to fight the war. It is said that jivas as reflections of the all pervading and imperishable God, the jivas are embodied and the gross bodies of the eternal jivas which we see are subject to destruction or come to an end. Therefore, Arjuna, fight.
Arjuna, whenever there is decline of righteousness and when there is rise of unrighteousness, I send forth myself, I descend myself-The mission being to lead People towards God and appreciate doctrines of religion.
For the protection of the good and for the destruction of the evil or the wicked and for the establishment of law of righteousness, I come into being aeons after aeons. This is referred to as the Incarnation of the Lord.
He who works giving up attachment to fruits offering them to God, with the belief these works get performed by him for his own welfare, is not touched by sin, like the lotus leaf which is not affected by mirth of water
He who is steady and unmoved by opposites like heat and cold, honour and dishonour, he who is satiated with the objects of senses and to whom the clod of earth, a stone and a piece of gold are equally insignificant, is the truly liberated one.
He who is equal minded about the indwelling God among friends, companions and enemies, the indifferent and the impartial , the hateful and the related, saints and sinners, is said to be the enlightened one.
God is indwelling in all these People and knowing that there is no difference between God as he is and his various forms and attributes. Having obtained this level of Yoga, he thinks that there is nothing greater to gain beyond it. And once established in it, not even by the heaviest of the sorrows. he is shaken.
Hence, Arjuna, FIGHT!
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