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BHAGAVAD-GITA 2:5

 

gurun ahatva hi mahanubhavan

sreyo bhoktum bhaiksyam apiha loke

hatvartha-kamams tu gurun ihaiva

bhunjiya bhogan rudhira-pradigdhan

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

gurun--the superiors; ahatva--not killing; hi--certainly;

maha-anubhavan--great souls; sreyah--it is better; bhoktum--to enjoy

life; bhaiksyam--by begging; api--even; iha--in this life; loke--in

this world; hatva--killing; artha--gain; kaman--desiring; tu--but;

gurun--superiors; iha--in this world; eva--certainly; bhunjiya--one

has to enjoy; bhogan--enjoyable things; rudhira--blood;

pradigdhan--tainted with.

 

TRANSLATION

 

It would be better to live in this world by begging than to live at

the cost of the lives of great souls who are my teachers. Even though

desiring worldly gain, they are superiors. If they are killed,

everything we enjoy will be tainted with blood.

 

PURPORT

 

According to scriptural codes, a teacher who engages in an abominable

action and has lost his sense of discrimination is fit to be

abandoned. Bhisma and Drona were obliged to take the side of

Duryodhana because of his financial assistance, although they should

not have accepted such a position simply on financial considerations.

Under the circumstances, they have lost the respectability of

teachers. But Arjuna thinks that nevertheless they remain his

superiors, and therefore to enjoy material profits after killing them

would mean to enjoy spoils tainted with blood.

 

Copyright 1983 The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International. Used with

permission.

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