The Gita according to Gandhi 205

The Gita according to Gandhi -Mahadev Desai

DISCOURCE 1 42. This confusion verily drags the family-slayer, as well as the family, to hell, and for want of obsequies offerings and rites their departed sires fall from blessedness. 43. By the sins of these family-slayers resulting in confusion of varnas, the eternal tribal and family virtues are brought to naught. 44. For we have had it handed down to us, O Janardana, that the men whose family virtues have been ruined are doomed to dwell in hell. 45. Alas! What a heinous sin we are about to commit, in that, from greed of the joy of sovereign power, we are prepared to slay our kith and kin! 46. Happier far would it be for me if Dhritarashtra's sons, weapons in hand, should strike me down on the battlefield, unresisting and unarmed.