Chapter 1 · Arjuna's Despair

अर्जुनArjuna speaks

Text 1.35

आचार्या: पितर: पुत्रास्तथैव च पितामहा: मातुला: श्वशुरा: पौत्रा: श्याला: सम्बन्धिनस्तथा एतान्न हन्तुमिच्छामि घ्नतोऽपि मधुसूदन अपि त्रैलोक्यराज्यस्य हेतो: किं नु महीकृते

āchāryāḥ pitaraḥ putrās tathaiva cha pitāmahāḥ mātulāḥ śhvaśhurāḥ pautrāḥ śhyālāḥ sambandhinas tathāetān na hantum ichchhāmi ghnato ’pi madhusūdana api trailokya-rājyasya hetoḥ kiṁ nu mahī-kṛite

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He extends the same refusal even further: not even for dominion over all three worlds, let alone the earth, would he take these lives — when a value is genuinely held, it doesn't bend even for the largest imaginable reward.

✨ Devotional Takeaway:When a value is genuinely held, it doesn't bend even for the largest imaginable reward.