The Gita according to Gandhi 208

The Gita according to Gandhi -Mahadev Desai

DISCOURCE 2 Arjuna Said: 4. How shall I, with arrows, engage Bhishma and Drona in battle, O Madhusudana, they who are worthy of reverence, O Arisudana? 5. It were better far to live on alms of this world than to slay these venerable elders. Having slain them I should but have blood-stained enjoyments. 6. Nor do we know which is better for us, that we conquer them or that they conquer us, for here stand before us Dhritarashtra's sons having killed whom we should have no desire to live. 7. My being is paralysed by faint-heartedness; my mind discerns not duty; hence I ask thee; tell me, I pray thee, in no uncertain language, wherein lies my good. I am thy disciple; guide me; I see refuge in thee.