Chapter 1 · Arjuna's Despair

अर्जुनArjuna speaks

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निहत्य धार्तराष्ट्रान्न: का प्रीति: स्याज्जनार्दन पापमेवाश्रयेदस्मान्हत्वैतानाततायिन: तस्मान्नार्हा वयं हन्तुं धार्तराष्ट्रान्स्वबान्धवान् स्वजनं हि कथं हत्वा सुखिन: स्याम माधव

nihatya dhārtarāṣhṭrān naḥ kā prītiḥ syāj janārdana pāpam evāśhrayed asmān hatvaitān ātatāyinaḥ tasmān nārhā vayaṁ hantuṁ dhārtarāṣhṭrān sa-bāndhavān sva-janaṁ hi kathaṁ hatvā sukhinaḥ syāma mādhava

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Word-for-Word Śabda-Artha (28 words)

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He concludes we have no right to kill our own relatives — how, he asks Kṛiṣhṇa directly, could we ever be happy after that? Arjuna measures the decision not by what he could win, but by what kind of person he would become.

✨ Devotional Takeaway:Arjuna measures the decision not by what he could win, but by what kind of person he would become.