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Chapter 1
This feeling of kinship may lead to attachment and make him inquisitive. Thus, by making Arjuna an instrument, Lord Krsna wants to preach the gospel of the Gita for the benediction of the creatures of Kali-age. Therefore, Lord Krsna, instead of using Dhartarastran, used the words 'Kurun'. If he had used 'Dhartarastran', Arjuna would have become enthusiastic and Lord Krsna, could not have got a chance to preach the gospel of the Gita and Arjunas delusion, born of kinship, could not have been destroyed. But, Lord Krsna, thought it His duty to destroy Arjuna 's delusion, As a surgeon, first gives medicine, to a patient suffering from a boil so that it may suppurate and then performs an operation, to remove the diseased part, in the same way, God first arouses the hidden delusion of Arjuna and then destroys it. Here, Lord Krsna by using the phrase 'kurbn pasya first arouses delusion in order to destroy it, by advice later.
Arjuna in the twenty-second and twenty-third verses of this chapter wanted to behold and observe them. So Lord Krsna says, "Behold these Kurt's." Lord Krsna could have placed the chariot without uttering any words but he intentionally used the phrase 'kurun pasya to arouse attachment in Arjuna.
There is a vast difference, between love for the family and love for God though there is also a little similarity. When we have love for members of our family, we overlook their faults, because we have a feeling of mineness with them. Similarly, God also does not heed the shortcomings of His devotee, because He has the feeling that he is His own. But, in domestic love, importance is attached to matters such as body etc., while in love for God, there is importance of feelings. In family love, there is importance of delusion, while in love for God, there is importance of alliance. In family-love, there is darkness, while in divine love, there is light. In family-love, a man is negligent of his duty, while in love for God, being engrossed in love, a man may forget his duty momentarily, but is never negligent of his duty. In family-love, there is pre-eminence of the family, while in love for God, there is pre-eminence of God.
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