Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya 24

Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya

Chapter-2 Sankhya Yogaḥ

śrī bhagavān uvāca aśocyān anvaśocas tvaṁ prajñāvādāṁśca bhāṣase | gatāsūn agatāsūṁśca nānuśocanti paṇḍitāḥ || 11 || The Blessed Lord said 11. You grieve for those who should not be grieved for; yet you speak words of apparent wisdom. The wise grieve neither for the dead nor for the living. 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". — 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."