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Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya
Chapter-2 Sankhya Yogaḥ
Commentary"Your grief is misplaced, and your contrived justification is based on teachings about the nature of the body and the Self such as: — "The ancestors become degraded, deprived of the ritual offerings of food and water"[1]. — But for those who have truly realised the nature of the body and the Self, there is no reason for such grief. Those who know the real truth will not grieve for physical bodies from which the life force has departed, nor for the Selves from which the principle of life cannot depart. Hence, you are caught in this dilemma — profound sorrow at the thought of killing the Kauravas and at the same time you’re in a quandary about righteousness and unrighteousness, which arises from awareness that the Self is [somewhat] different from the body. Therefore you do not [really] know the true nature of the body nor of the Self. Nor do you know about duties (dharma) like warfare etc., nor of the fact that this war [which is an incumbent duty in the present context], if fought without any selfish motive for results, is a means for Self-realisation." |
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- ↑ (1:42)