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Gita Madhurya -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter I
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Who are they, Arjuna? They are teachers, uncles, sons, grand-uncles, maternal-uncles, fathers-in-law, grandsons, brothers-in-law and many other relatives.(34) What will you do, if they are prepared to kill you? Though they may kill me. I don't want to kill them, 0 Madhusudana (the destroyer of the demon named Madhu) yen for the sovereignty of the three worlds, how then for the earth?(35) O brother! Don't you want to derive the joy after getting kingdom? O Janardana, (He who is adored by devotees for the fulfilment of their desires) what joy can we derive by slaying Dhrtarastra's relatives (who are also our relatives)? Sin only will accrue to us by slaying these desperadoes. Therefore O Madhava, we don't want to kill these kinsmen. Flow can we, by killing our kinsmen, be happy?(36-37) They are prepared to kill you. Why are you recoiling from the war? O Sir! These people, with minds blinded by greed, don't perceive the evil of destruction of one's own race and the sin accruing from enmity towards friends. But we, who see clearly the sin involved in the destruction of the family, should at least turn away from this crime.(38-39) |
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