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Chapter 16
In the Gita, the Lord has used the expression 'Ma 3ucah' (Grieve not), two times, once here and once, in the sixty-sixth verse of the eighteenth chapter. The Lord, by using it two times, wants to assure him, that he should not worry, either about the means or the end. He possesses the means, as he is endowed with divine nature (16/5) and he need not worry about the end, because He will liberate him, from all sins (18/66). The Lord, through the medium of Arjuna, assures all strivers, that they need not lose heart by thinking that they do not possess virtue, and so they will not be liberated, from the cycle of birth and death.
Persons, who possess divine nature always think of attaining salvation, in favourable, as well as unfavourable circumstances. When Lord Krsna, placed the chariot between the two armies, Arjuna, seeing all his relations there, was filled with compassion and sadness, and he expressed his reluctance to fight. He thought, that sin would accrue to him, by killing his kinsmen, in the war. Thus, he was filled with attachment or delusion, for the family which is of demoniac nature and also, thought of the fear of sin, an obstacle to salvation, which is divine nature.
According to Arjuna, it was a sin to resolve to fight (1/45). Time and again he asked Lord Krsna, to tell him of his duty, so that he could attain, to the highest good or salvation, as he was confused (2/7, 3/2, 5/1). This shows his divine nature. On the contrary, Duryodhana etc., and the members of the rival army, saw no sin in the destruction of the family (1/38). So Arjuna, possessed divine nature, from the very beginning. Attachment or delusion, the demoniac nature seen in Arjuna was a temporary phase, of his life, which was destroyed through the Lord's grace (18/73). So here, Lord Krsna, advises Arjuna not to grieve.
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