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Gita Madhurya -Swami Ramsukhdas
Chapter II
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What happened after that, Sanjaya? Sanjaya said—O king, Arjuna—the conqueror of sleep, said to Lord Krsna, "I'll not light" and became silent.(9) What did the Lord say when Arjuna became silent? Lord Krsna, as if smiling, spoke these words to the desponding Arjuna, in the midst of the two armies—"You grieve for those who should not be grieved for, and yet speak words of wisdom but wisemen don't grieve over the dead or living."(10-11) Why don't they grieve, O Lord? In fact there was never a time when I or you or these kings were non-existent; nor is it that hereafter we shall cease to be. Therefore the wise don't grieve.(12) How should I know this fact? Just as boyhood, youth and old-age are attributed to the soul through this body, even so it attains another body. So the wise do not get deluded about this.(13) It is right that the body passes through boyhood, youth and old-age, but what to do when we face favourable and unfavourable circumstances such as pleasure and pain? O Son of Quint, the contacts between the senses and their objects, which give rise to pleasure and pain by creating favourable and unfavourable circumstances are transitory and fleeting. Therefore bear them patiently viz., remain equanimous in them.(14) |
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