सञ्जय उवाच एवमुक्त्वार्जुन: सङ्ख्ये रथोपस्थ उपाविशत् विसृज्य सशरं चापं शोकसंविग्नमानस:
sañjaya uvācha evam uktvārjunaḥ saṅkhye rathopastha upāviśhat visṛijya sa-śharaṁ chāpaṁ śhoka-saṁvigna-mānasaḥ
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Word-for-Word Śabda-Artha (12 words)
Purport Overview & Key Insights
The chapter closes exactly where its title points — Arjuna's despair. He drops his weapons and sits, paralyzed by grief, setting up the very question the rest of the Gita exists to answer: not whether to fight, but how to act at all when duty and grief pull in opposite directions.
✨ Devotional Takeaway:Chapter One ends not with a battle, but with a single man's total collapse of resolve — the real subject of the entire Gita, from Chapter Two onward.