With much frustration Arjuna surrenders to Krishna, and seeks guidance from Krishna. Here’s one thing of worth noticing – Krishna was with Arjuna from a long time, but he never forced spiritual knowledge to Arjuna – Krishna is only telling to Arjuna this time because Arjuna is seeking.

Krishna says –

You are mourning and feeling sad to the people, but there is no one who deserves it. Wise people never feel sad for a dead or alive.

There was never a time, when I wasn’t and you weren’t or your relatives weren’t. And in future also no one would cease to exist.

As the soul comes into the body and passes the stages of life like childhood, youth and old age; then departs to new body – a wise person doesn’t attach to this ever changing process.

A person who is not affected by grief and happiness, but witness to both; he deserves enlightenment.

This physical body isn’t everlasting, it will decay after some time – but a soul is everlasting.

Which permeates thru the whole body is eternal and indestructible soul. No one is capable to destroy the soul.

This physical body is bound to destroy sooner or later; so, hey Arjun – fight!

A soul is never born and never dies. A soul is unborn, eternal, and everlasting. Even if body dies, a soul always remains. [Read Sarvasara Upanishad for knowing 5 bodies, a soul has.]

Hey Arjuna! The person, who knows: a soul is indestructible, unborn and eternal; how he can kill to anybody.

As a man leaves old clothes and wears new clothes, the same way a soul leaves a body and takes new.

A soul can’t be hit/shoot by any weapon. Fire can’t burn a soul, water can’t wet a soul, and air can’t dry a soul.

A soul is undivided, it can’t be cut; it can’t be burned, it can’t be soaked in water, it is eternal, omnipresent, stainless, unmoving and changeless.

A soul is unmanifest, unthinkable and changeless; so knowing this you shouldn’t be sad for the body.

If you think: soul also dies and takes birth, then also you have no reason to mourn for; because every being who is born, is bound to die. So, you shouldn’t be sad.

Arjuna, a soul is manifest (lives in body), between the birth and death of this physical body. Before birth and after death – the soul is unmanifest.

The soul, who lives in this body: can’t be killed, so you needn’t be in grief for anyone.

Being as a Warrior, you should understand this is your Karma to fight for justice; you needn’t to be hesitate anymore.

Hey Arjuna! Those Warriors are fortunate, who get the chance to fulfill their duties, and the gates of heaven are open to them.

The people who don’t fulfill his/her duties for righteous act, they suffer the loss of good reputation.

If you were killed, you’ll get the heaven; if you win, you’ll get the kingdom; so come up with strong will and fight.

Don’t think about Victory or defeat; gain or loss; happiness or sorrow, just put yourself beyond this aspects; do your duties and – fight.

Hey Arjuna! Rise above the Tamogun, Rajogun, and Satogun. Let go all the thoughts about duality, attachment and security; be fixed in soul-consciousness.

You have the right of doing karma; never think about the results beforehand; you are the cause of doing karma but you are not the result of your karma, and never attached with your karma.

Hey Arjuna! Forget about victory or defeat, be in even-mindedness and do your karma.

When the desires of the mind are left behind, and a person feels happy in oneself, then he gets pure consciousness with steadiness.

In this matter world, one who understands the instability of advantageous or disadvantageous concerns, and doesn’t go in extreme of being jubilant or hatred; s/he is a stable person.

Just as the tortoise withdraws its limbs inwards from all sides, similarly, when a person withdraws inwards his senses from all the sense objects, s/he becomes stable in pure consciousness.

A person, who fixes his/her consciousness in God consciousness and thus his/her sense organs are controlled, that person is called of stable mind.

Thinking about sense objects creates attachment, and attachment creates desire, and unfulfilled desire creates anger.

Anger creates madness of desire and this brings loss in memory. From loss of memory, discrimination ability of mind suffers and thus a person falls in low consciousness.

Hey Arjuna! When senses are no more attached to sense objects; thus, they are controlled, then the mind of that person is steady.

This life is the path of spirituality and divinity, after getting them, a person is not deluded. Even a person gets them in the last phase of life; s/he is entitled to moksha (Buddhahood).

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