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BHAGAVAD GEETA: Chapter 1-16. Swami Advayanandaji.

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  ========================================================================= Arjuna Vishadha yogam  (ā€œYoga of Arjunaā€™s Despondencyā€) Sri Veda Vyasaji Discourse ā€“ 1 (47 Slogas) ========================================================================= Thursday, 20 Jul 2023. 07:40. Post - 16. ========================================================================= 1.4 ONSET OF ARJUNAā€™S DESPONDENCY (Slogas - 26-31A, 6 No.) ========================================================================= SUDDENLY ARJUNA LOST the context of the war: Where he should be seeing a  righteous battle to look forward to, he saw reason only to retreat from it. Where he should  be seeing only the enemy armies, he saw only kinsmen, teachers and friends. Some switch  in his mind had clicked and his thoughts turned totally out of the war context. Something  happened to Arjuna at the eleventh hour which sapped from him all intellectual courage,  and plunged him into an emotional...