Sunday, October 25, 2009

Unresisting On The Battlefield


Now Arjuna informs Krsna that it would be better that he is killed on the battlefield without arms or resistance.

TRANSLATION
Better for me if the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, weapons in hand, were to kill me unarmed and unresisting on the battlefield.

PURPORT
It is the custom — according to kṣatriya fighting principles — that an unarmed and unwilling foe should not be attacked. Arjuna, however, decided that even if attacked by the enemy in such an awkward position, he would not fight. He did not consider how much the other party was bent upon fighting. All these symptoms are due to soft-heartedness resulting from his being a great devotee of the Lord.

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