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Chapter 1
Link:-Engrossed in surprise and sorrow. Arjuna in the verse that follows relates his decision, arrived at after these arguments.
yadi mamapratikaramasastram sastrapasayah
dhrtarastra rane hanyustanme ksematararir bhavet
It would, indeed, be better for me, if the sons of Dhrtarastra armed with weapons, killed me in battle, with me, while I will be
unarmed and unresisting. 46
Comment:-
Yadi mamapratkhramaiastram Sastrapanayah dhartarastra rane hanyustanme ksemataram bhavet:-Arjuna says, "If I turn away from the war, perhaps our opponents will also desist from it. Why will they fight, if we are determined not to fight? But even if, regarding us as their enemy, they zealously, armed with weapons kill me, that will indeed be in my own interest, as it will be a kind of repentance for the determination, which I had made, in the war to kill my preceptors, and I shall be purified of the sins. It means that if I do not wage war, I will escape sin and my race, will not be destroyed."
[When a man talks about a subject, it has its effect, on him also. When Arjuna, possessed by extreme passion, started to speak in sadness, in the twenty-eighth verse, he was not so much overwhelmed with grief as he was now. Then, Arjuna did not turn away from war, but went on speaking, overwhelmed with grief. But at last, he turns away from war, and sits down having laid down his bow and arrow. Lord Krsna did not speak, to enable Arjuna to give an outlet for his feelings of sadness completely, because he knew, that his teachings would be of some avail to him, only when there was an outlet for his sorrow.]
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