Krishna continues :
Stanza 35 onward :
" Look at all these mighty warriors. They will certainly conclude that you are running away out of fear. Those who hold you today in high regard are sure to suspect your prowess. You will look small in their eyes. Your enemies will be exhilarated. There will be no end to the slander and abuse they will heap on you. And when they will start casting aspersions on your valor, you cannot imagine a worse disgrace other than this.
If slain in the battle, you will reach heaven; if you win, the kingdom of earth will be yours. Therefore, O son of Kunti, stand up with a resolve to fight.
This is not the time to ponder over pleasure and pain; loss and gain; victory and defeat. Treat them all alike. Fight this battle without involvement, and there will be no sin attached to fighting this war.
O Arjun, I told you so far the art of keeping your balance, as instructed according to the discipline of the Intellect, "Buddhi Yoga". I told you the importance of keeping yourself stable in the times of crisis by relying solely on your own inner strength, your intellect. (Your analytical mind) Make your mind strong. That is the way which will help you overcome the bondage of Karma. Choose the path I have described to you. If you live your life in accordance with this principle of detachment, you will go a long way. Whatever you do (in a spirit of detachment) will be stable, and will remain with you as indestructible strength. Have no doubt about this. Life lived in this way will be untainted. Nothing will cause obstruction in your way. If you practise this way of life even by a fraction, it will save you from the greatest of fears. Whatever has a sound, good beginning, continues and lasts with you till the end. It is never destroyed.
O descendant of the Kuru dynasty, please note that the mind, the intellect, the logic, which helps you decide the right from the wrong, the true from the untrue, is singular and fixed. But those who change their mind about the right and the wrong, the true from the untrue, have recourse to a multiplicity of arguments. There is no end to the ways in which their arguments branch out.
You will find plenty such people with a sweet tongue. They will use flowery language to lure you (away from the right path). There are many who participate in the debates over the meaning of the Vedas. They will teach you the pragmatic way of working towards the tangible gains and coax you to work for material comfort They will tell you how to gain access to the pleasures of life even in a heaven beyond this life, after death too.They will teach you the importance of rituals. They are all misled by their deep attachment to worldly life of comfort and pleasure. These are the people who disguise their selfishness as the knowledge of the right from the wrong. These (hypocrites) will never be able to steady their mind and will never attain the concentration needed for stablising their mind in any thing higher than material gain. These are not the minds that will realize Samadhi, the highest state of being one with your true self.
Stanza 35 onward :
" Look at all these mighty warriors. They will certainly conclude that you are running away out of fear. Those who hold you today in high regard are sure to suspect your prowess. You will look small in their eyes. Your enemies will be exhilarated. There will be no end to the slander and abuse they will heap on you. And when they will start casting aspersions on your valor, you cannot imagine a worse disgrace other than this.
If slain in the battle, you will reach heaven; if you win, the kingdom of earth will be yours. Therefore, O son of Kunti, stand up with a resolve to fight.
This is not the time to ponder over pleasure and pain; loss and gain; victory and defeat. Treat them all alike. Fight this battle without involvement, and there will be no sin attached to fighting this war.
O Arjun, I told you so far the art of keeping your balance, as instructed according to the discipline of the Intellect, "Buddhi Yoga". I told you the importance of keeping yourself stable in the times of crisis by relying solely on your own inner strength, your intellect. (Your analytical mind) Make your mind strong. That is the way which will help you overcome the bondage of Karma. Choose the path I have described to you. If you live your life in accordance with this principle of detachment, you will go a long way. Whatever you do (in a spirit of detachment) will be stable, and will remain with you as indestructible strength. Have no doubt about this. Life lived in this way will be untainted. Nothing will cause obstruction in your way. If you practise this way of life even by a fraction, it will save you from the greatest of fears. Whatever has a sound, good beginning, continues and lasts with you till the end. It is never destroyed.
O descendant of the Kuru dynasty, please note that the mind, the intellect, the logic, which helps you decide the right from the wrong, the true from the untrue, is singular and fixed. But those who change their mind about the right and the wrong, the true from the untrue, have recourse to a multiplicity of arguments. There is no end to the ways in which their arguments branch out.
You will find plenty such people with a sweet tongue. They will use flowery language to lure you (away from the right path). There are many who participate in the debates over the meaning of the Vedas. They will teach you the pragmatic way of working towards the tangible gains and coax you to work for material comfort They will tell you how to gain access to the pleasures of life even in a heaven beyond this life, after death too.They will teach you the importance of rituals. They are all misled by their deep attachment to worldly life of comfort and pleasure. These are the people who disguise their selfishness as the knowledge of the right from the wrong. These (hypocrites) will never be able to steady their mind and will never attain the concentration needed for stablising their mind in any thing higher than material gain. These are not the minds that will realize Samadhi, the highest state of being one with your true self.
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