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Chapter 6
An Exceptional Fact
Initially, Arjuna was prepared to wage the war and he also got prepared at last. But, in between he thought that to wage war was a sin. Thus, it was a question, of performing an action or not to perform it. So, it arose in the context of the Discipline of Action. But how other disciplines, such as of Knowledge, Devotion and Meditation were explained, in Gita.
Arjuna retreats from the war, because he thinks that sin, would accrue to him, by killing his kinsmen. So he requests Lord Krsna, to tell him what was good for him (2/7; 3/2; 5/1). Therefore, Lord Krsna explains to him, the different means including gifts, rituals, penances, study of the Vedas and different kinds of disciplines leading to God-realisation. But, in all the means, Lord Krsna has emphasized the fact that the aim to attain perishable things, is the main obstacle, to God-realization. If a striver, has only the aim of God-realization, and performs actions with equanimity those actions, would lead him to salvation or God-realization.
Appendix—Karmayoga,[1] Jaanayoga and Bhaktiyoga are the Karananirapeksa disciplines (independent of sense and other organs) but Dhyanayoga (the Discipline of Meditation) is a Karanasapeksa discipline (dependent on sense and other organs). Now the Lord starts the description of Dhyanayoga.
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