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Fight on the line of holy Gita

Warrior Arjuna suddenly fell into despair while surveying the enemy when he saw that the men he was about to fight against were his own relatives and friends. Overwhelmed with compassion when thinking how little he would benefit from killing them, he told his charioteer Krishna that he would not fight. The  incarnate God Krishna, seeing the warrior Arjuna so despondent, began to encourage him to rise up and fight, saying that if he relinquished his duty, evil would certainly triumph. He explained to Arjuna that if he did not fight, sin would be his reward, and if he gave up his duty, people would speak ill of him. Krishna further said to Arjuna that for someone like him, with such a noble reputation, to abandon his duty, shame was worse than death. While Arjuna stood dejected, Krishna, after telling him why it was so important to uphold righteousness, the war was fought between the Kauravas and the Pandavas it was only God who determined who would live and who would die, not the human soul. In emphasizing this, he pointed out that Lord Krishna, in trying to convince the warrior to fight, said that He had already killed the enemy and Arjuna is just His tool to destroy them. Doing one’s duty without any desire for reward or success should be the motive behind such an act. Performing acts of goodness with the sole motive of going to heaven would not liberate one from the cycle of birth, death and rebirth or bring one in unity with God. One must relinquish their desire and surrender all actions to God with sincere love and devotion.

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Fight on the line of holy Gita

2:45:00 PM Posted by Vishwajeet Singh
Warrior Arjuna suddenly fell into despair while surveying the enemy when he saw that the men he was about to fight against were his own relatives and friends. Overwhelmed with compassion when thinking how little he would benefit from killing them, he told his charioteer Krishna that he would not fight. The  incarnate God Krishna, seeing the warrior Arjuna so despondent, began to encourage him to rise up and fight, saying that if he relinquished his duty, evil would certainly triumph. He explained to Arjuna that if he did not fight, sin would be his reward, and if he gave up his duty, people would speak ill of him. Krishna further said to Arjuna that for someone like him, with such a noble reputation, to abandon his duty, shame was worse than death. While Arjuna stood dejected, Krishna, after telling him why it was so important to uphold righteousness, the war was fought between the Kauravas and the Pandavas it was only God who determined who would live and who would die, not the human soul. In emphasizing this, he pointed out that Lord Krishna, in trying to convince the warrior to fight, said that He had already killed the enemy and Arjuna is just His tool to destroy them. Doing one’s duty without any desire for reward or success should be the motive behind such an act. Performing acts of goodness with the sole motive of going to heaven would not liberate one from the cycle of birth, death and rebirth or bring one in unity with God. One must relinquish their desire and surrender all actions to God with sincere love and devotion.
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