BHAGAVAD GEETA: 60 - Swami Advayananda.

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Translation:

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BHAGAVAD GEETA 

Chapter - 2

Discourse – 2 (72 Slogas)

“Yoga of the SUPREME SELF”

Sri Veda Vyasaji

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Friday 01, Mar 2024 06:40.

2.7   ARJUNA’S SWADHARMA CLARIFIED 

( Slogas : 31-38, 8 No.) 

Post - 60.

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Slogam - 38: Fight! – There’s No Sin Either Way

1.

Sukha-duhkhe same kritvaa  =  Keeping your balance of mind  in pleasure and pain, 

2.

laabhaa-laabhau jayaa-jayau;  =  in gain and loss, and in victory or defeat, 

3 

tat yuddhaaya yujyasva  =  engage yourself in battle for battle’s sake,

4 

na evam paapam avaapsyasi.  =  thus you shall incur no sin. 

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Closing the Loophole:

 This final verse on the subject of Arjuna’s delusion, closes the last possible loophole 

by which Arjuna may yet seek to wriggle out of the war. What is that loophole? 

The previous verse promises that Arjuna is certain to enjoy either lordship on earth 

or lordship in heaven. However, Arjuna had declared earlier that both these were 

undesirable to him. So he may still not feel Sri Krishna’s argument sufficiently convincing. 

Thus Sri Krishna advises Arjuna with what attitude he has to enter the battlefield so 

that the same delusion does not overtake him again.  

1-2.

 Sri Krishna asks Arjuna to beware of three pairs of opposites. These are: 

i) pleasure and pain;  

ii) gain and loss; and  

iii) victory and defeat. 

These pairs of opposites are inter-related. They have a cause and effect relationship. 

The 1st pair is caused by the 2nd, and the 2nd by the 3rd. Pleasure and pain are caused by gain 

and loss; gain and loss in turn are caused by victory and defeat. So the subtlest is the 

primary cause, namely, victory and defeat. Arjuna was advised in the previous verse itself 

not to have his mind concerned with victory or defeat. Equipped with this attitude, the 

other two pairs will take care of themselves and not trouble him.  

3.

 To make sure Arjuna has understood, the Teacher expresses the same advice 

differently: “Battle for battle’s sake,” i.e. fight for the sake of doing your duty, having no 

concern for the result. Then everything will come out as willed by the Lord. 

4.

 In performing action in this manner, with this attitude and with this spirit of 

surrender, no sin can be accrued. (see slogam 2.33 to trace the emphasis on ‘this’) 

This whole verse is a perfect condensed version of the next section. It prepares us for 

the message that is to unfold from the next verse onward about Karma Yoga, where such 

an attitude of balance is most essential. This verse contains in an informal way what we are 

going to learn from the Lord formally in the whole of the next section. 

Here, as far as Arjuna’s question is concerned, the Geeta could have ended. The 

answer has been given to Arjuna. Arjuna seems to be satisfied, since he has not raised any 

further questions or doubts. 

However, Sri Krishna goes on, and on . . . for another 16+ chapters! Only He would 

know why. In the birth of the Bhagavad Geeta, the head has just emerged; the rest of the 

body has still to come kicking out! 

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Next

2.8   THE SCIENCE OF KARMA YOGA 

(Slogas  39-41,   3 No.) 

Continued

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