Srimad Bhagavadgita Sadhaka Sanjivani -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter 5
Arjuna was, especially interested in attaining salvation. So, time and again, he asked Lord Krsna, the way to attain salvation (2/7; 312; 5/1). A keen desire, plays an important role, in attaining salvation. Even without dispassion, a striver having a keen desire for salvation, can follow the Discipline of Action, in order to attain his aim of salvation. Arjuna was not totally dispassionate, but he had a keen desire to attain salvation, and so he was a deserving candidate.
The thirty-second verse of the first chapter and the eighth verse of the second chapter, reveal that, not to speak of the kingdom on earth, Arjuna does not even desire to attain, an unrivalled sovereignty, over the gods. But it does not mean that Arjuna had no desire to gain a kingdom and pleasures, because he said pared to gain victory or kingdom, without slaying his kinsmen.
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