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Chapter 1
adharmãbhibhavätkrsna pradusyanti kulastriyah
strisu dustasu varsneya jayate varnasankarah
When impiety prevails, 0, Krsna, the women of a family become perverse and with their degradation, 0, Varsneya (descendant of Vrsni), a hybrid mixture of castes, results. 41
Comment:-
Adharmabhibhavatkrsna pradusyanti kulastriyah:-By following righteousness, inner sense is purified. With the purification of inner sense; intellect becomes pure and pious and placid (sattviki). Intellect has discrimination between right and wrong. But, when there is growth of impiety, in family, the conduct of members in the family, becomes bad. Bad conduct fouls the inner sense whose inner sense, makes the intellect 'thmasi (the intellect which veils knowledge and binds one to carelessness is called 'tamasi). With this 'Tamasi' intellect, men lose discrimination, regard the undesirable as desirable, and the desirable as undesirable and act against ordinance of scriptures. With such an intellect women become depraved viz., unchaste.
Strisu dustasu varsneya jayate varnasankarah:-Depraved women give birth to hybrids.[1] If man and woman belong to different castes, the offspring born of the couple, is known as a hybrid, (mixture).
Here, Arjuna by addressing the Lord as 'Krsna', means to say that He attracts everyone. He further asks him, in which direction, He will pull his family.
Arjuna addresses him as Varsneya, because He belonged to the Vrsni clan. He means to say, to what clan will his descendants belong, when destruction of his clan, takes place? Therefore, it is not proper to destroy the clan.
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