BHAGAVAD GEETA: 56 - Swami Advayanandaji.

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BHAGAVAD GEETA 

Chapter - 2

Discourse – 2 (72 Slogas)

“Yoga of the SUPREME SELF”

Sri Veda Vyasaji

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Saturday 10, Feb 2024 07:00.

2.7   ARJUNA’S SWADHARMA CLARIFIED 

( Slogas : 31-38,   8 No.) 

Post - 56.

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Slogam - 34: i) Dishonour From People

"Akeertim cha api bhootaani  kathayish-yanti te avyayaam;

sam-bhaavitasya cha akeertih  maranaat atirichyate."

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Translation:

1 . Akeertim cha api bhootaani  =  There will be dishonour from the people - 

2 . kathayish-yanti te avyayaam;  =   they will everlastingly speak of it; 

3 . sam-bhaavitasya cha akeertih  =   and to one who has been honoured, 

4 . maranaat atirichyate.  =   dishonour is worse than death. 

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Dishonour From the General Public:

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 Firstly, we have ‘Bhootaani’, the general public, dishonouring him. Those people 

who looked up to him as a valourous soldier would now lose that respect for him. That 

would be worse than death to him.  

Acharyaji also said that ‘Bhootaani’ need not be restricted to people alone. Even the 

animals should be included. And he humorously imagined a cat and a dog facing each other 

ready to tear the other. The cat then says to the dog, “Don’t you dare try to attack me. I am 

not like that Arjuna who ran away from his enemies like a coward in the battlefield!” 

Pujya Gurudev re-phrases Krishna’s words more diplomatically: “History will 

immortalize your cowardice, Arjuna. Death is just once, the pain comes for a brief moment 

and it is over. But defamation is like prolonged death. The agony will be hard to bear.”   

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Slogam - 35:  ii) Dishonour From One’s Equals

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