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Chapter 2
bhayadranaduparatam mamsyante tvam maharathah
yesam ea tvam bahumato bhfitva yasyasi laghavam
The great chariot-warriors, who held you in high esteem, will consider you as lowly, thinking that you have desisted from war, out of fear. 35
Comment:-
Bhayadranaduparatam mamsyante tvum maharathuh:-If you think that you have desisted from war, in order to attain salvation by avoiding sin, it is not true. If you had thought of it as a sin to wage the war, you might have spent sometime in devotion and meditation in solitude, and would not have invited Me to wage this war. Therefore, if you desist from the war, all the living beings will think that you have done so out of fear, not out of a sense of duty and righteousness, as it is the first and foremost duty of a Ksatriya to fight.
Yesam an tram bahumato bhatvu yusyasi lughavam:-The great chariot-warriors such as Bhisma, Drona, Krpa and Salya etc., who hold you in high esteem for your mighty valour, (because you have defeated several demons, gods and demigods etc.,) you will fall in their esteem as one who has fled from the war-front out of fear, of death.
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