Contents of the Gita Summarized Ch2:1-20

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Seeing Arjuna full of compassion, his mind depressed, his eyes full of tears

(about the impending Battle), Krsna spoke the following words. The Supreme

Personality of Godhead said "My dear Arjuna, how have these impurities come

upon you." They are not at all befitting a man who knows the battle of Life.

They lead not to higher planets but to infamy. Arjuna, do not yield to this

degrading impotence. It does not become you. Give up such petty weakness

of heart & arise, O chastiser of the enemy. Arjuna said (to Krsna): "O

killer of enemies, how can I counterattack with arrows in battle men who are

worthy of my worship? It would be better to live in this world by begging

than to live at the cost of 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. Nor do I know which is

better- conquering them or being conquered. If we kill (them) we should not

care to live. Yet they are now standing before us on the battlefield. Now

I am confused about my duty & have lost all composure because of miserly

weakness. In this condition I am asking You (Krsna) to tell me for certain

what is best for me. Now I am Your disciple, and a soul surrendered unto

You. Please instruct me. I can find no means to drive away this grief

which is drying up my senses. I will not be able to dispel it even if I win

a prosperous, unrivaled kingdom on earth with sovereignty like the demigods

in heaven. Having spoken thus, Arjuna, chastiser of enemies told Krsna,

"Govinda, I shall not fight, " and fell silent.

 

At that time, Krsna, smiling, in the midst of both the armies, spoke the

following words to the grief-stricken Arjuna. The Supreme Personality of

Godhead said: :While speaking learned words, you are mourning for what is

not worthy of grief. Those who are wise lament neither for the living or

the dead. Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all

these kings, nor in the future shall any of us cease to be. As the embodied

soul continually passes, in this body, from boy-hood to youth to old age,

the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not

bewildered by such change. O Arjuna, the nonpermanent appearance of

happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the

appearance and disappearance of winter & summer seasons. They arise from

the sense perceptions and one must learn to tolerate them without being

disturbed. O, Arjuna, the best among men, the person who is not disturbed

by happiness and distress and is steady in both is certainly eligible for

liberation. Those who are seers of the truth have concluded that the

non-existent (the material body) there is no endurance and of the eternal

(the soul) there is no change. This they have concluded by studying the

nature of both. That which pervades the entire body you should know to be

indestructible. No one is able to destroy the imperishable soul. The

material body of the indestructible, immeasurable and eternal living entity

is sure to come to an end; therefore, fight, Arjuna. Neither he who thinks

the living entity the slayer nor he who thinks it slain is in knowledge, for

the self slays not nor is slane.

 

(THIS IS COPIED RIGHT OUT OF "BHAGAVAD GITA AS IT IS" TRANSLATED BY

PRABHUPAD.

 

I KEPT A FEW NAMES OUT TO KEEP THE CONTEXT SIMPLE FOR NOW. MORE TO COME IN

A LATER POST

 

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LOVE & BLESSINGS

TARA

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hare krishna tara

thanks for posting an excerpt from Srila Prabhupada's Gita ..

could you e mail me jyotish's in crisis

thanks

stavavali devi dasi