It’s a perennial phenomenon which is happening every day. It is not just an event which happened a long time ago. The Bhagavad Gita is presented as a conversation between Arjuna and Krishna, a man and a god, a seeker and a knower.Įvery instant in the Gita is universal in nature. Krishna sees Arjuna quitting and begins to persuade Arjuna that he should stick to his duty as a warrior and engage the enemy. He prefers to withdraw from battle he prefers inaction instead of being responsible for the death of the people he loves. Emotionally overwhelmed, Arjuna drops down, casting aside his bow and arrows and decides to quit. This is a major battle and it takes place in Kurukshetra, “the field of the Kurus”, in the modern state of Haryana in India.Īrjuna, the great archer and leader of the Pandavas, looks out towards his opponents and recognizes friends, relatives, former teachers, and finally reasons that controlling the kingdom is not worth shedding the blood of all his loved ones. Diplomacy has failed, so the armies of the two clans meet on a battlefield in order to settle the conflict and decide which side will gain the throne. The plot of the Gita is based on two sets of cousins competing for the throne: the Pandavas and the Kauravas.
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