Bhagavad Gita : Krishna listening to Arjuna Frustration, chap.1
Gita starts from Arjuna frustration, Arjuna was frustrated how to fight and kill to family members in the war of Mahabharat. Arjuna was a great warrior and he was capable to make much havoc and destruction to opposition.
Krishna, who was with Arjuna in this war, was a man of true knowledge and was only capable to understand Arjuna. In another sense Krishna was a great Guru with profound knowledge of spirituality, psychology, politics, strategy making, war, and love…moreover he was a great communicator. There was no man recorded in the history of that time, who could be at the level of Krishna.
Arjuna was not at ease, whole existence was raising thousands of questions to him; futility of war started gaining control to his mind and senses. To him, there was no point to kill relatives in war and won the kingdom.
There might be lot of people like Arjuna, who would have felt the same; but they might not have the same person with them as Arjuna had. Krishna reframed every sentence of Arjuna, and gave him spiritual knowledge to control his mind and senses, and made him to the war; in coming chapters, you will know how Krishna turned Arjuna.
There have been two world wars, and there might be hundreds of Arjuna – did anybody notice any Krishna? People like Arjuna are quite sensible who want to understand things behind and after – the war, that’s why Arjuna got the knowledge of – Gita. War is not bad at all as far as self-defense is concerned; but a single war gives rise to hundreds of questions of life, death and karma.
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Many times I feel as if ‘Bhagwad Gita’ is a discourse between MIND and SELF – Where MIND represents Arjuna sunk in doubts and duality of the world & Krishna is the true SELF guiding the MIND.
@Kamal] you’re right, mind is Arjuna, and Krishna is the self ( the Brahma), and when mind ends -everywhere is Krishna, in you and in me …Aham Brahmasmi !