Category Archives: By Saints / Poets

avācyavādānś ca bahūn vadiṣyanti tavā’hitāḥ,nindantas tava sāmarthyam tato duḥkhataram nu kim (2.36) 2.36 –“There can be nothing more painful for you than the disparaging and improper words your adversaries will speak against your valour.” His enemies will malign Arjun and … Continue reading →

2.31 -“In view of your own dharm, too, it is unworthy of you to fear, for there is nothing more propitious for a Kshatriya than a righteous war.” It does not befit Arjun to be hesitant even if he just … Continue reading →

2.26 –“You ought not to grieve, O the mighty-armed, even if you think of him (the Self) as ever-born and ever-dying.” Arjun ought not to mourn even if he regards the Self as constantly born and constantly dying. * 2.27 … Continue reading →

2.21 – “How can he, O Parth, who is conscious of the Soul within as imperishable, permanent, birthless, and immutable, kill or move another to kill?”Arjun is addressed as Parth, for he has made a chariot of the earth-made body … Continue reading →

*****2.16 – “The unreal has no being and the real has no non-being; and the truth about both has also been seen by men who know the reality.”The unreal has no existence; it has no being and so bringing it … Continue reading →

2.11 – The Lord said, “Although sorrowing over those who ought not to be grieved for, you yet speak wise words; but the discriminating mourn over neither the living nor those who are dead.”Sri Krishn tells Arjun that while he … Continue reading →