Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand 99

Yatharth Geeta -Swami Adgadanand Ji

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CHAPTER 2
Curiosity About Action

[ “I hardly know which is better, their (the Kaurav’s) conquering us or our conquering them - even Dhritrashtr ’s sons -who are our enemies, and yet after killing whom we may not wish to live.” ]

Even possession of the hoped-for delights is not assured. Arjun is at his wit’s end as to what course of action can bring him glory, for whatever he has said till now has been proved to be only ignorance. He does not also know whether he will rout the Kaurav or they will rout him. Dhritrashtr’s sons, after slaying whom he should not desire to live, are arrayed against him. What shall he live for if his feelings of attachment represented here by his kinsmen, all of them progeny of Dhritrashtr’s ignorance, are destroyed? At the same time, however, it occurs to Arjun that what he has said now may be also false. So he turns to Krishn again:

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