karpanya-dosopahata-svabhavah
prcchami tvam dharma-sammudha-cetah:। yac-chreyah: syan niscitam bruhi tan me shishyas te ’ham sadhi mam tvam prapannam॥ 2.7 ॥ |
With my very being confused about my duty and have lost all composure because of faint-heartedness. In this condition I am asking You the Lord to tell me for certain what is best for me. I am Your disciple, Pray instruct me who has surrendered & taken refuge unto You.
na hi prapasyami mamapanudyad
yac chokam ucchosanam indriyanam। avapya bhumav asapatnam rddham rajyam suranam api chadhipatyam॥ 2.8 ॥ |
For even if I win an affluent & prosperous, unrivaled kingdom on earth with sovereignty & lordship of gods in heaven. I find no means to drive away this grief which is drying up my senses. I do not see any means & will not be able to dispel it.
Sanjaya Uvacha। |
evam uktva hrishikesham
gudakeshah parantapah:। na yotsya iti govindam uktva tusnim babhuva ha॥ 2.9 ॥ |
Sanjaya said: O King, having spoken thus to Sri Krishna, Arjuna, again said to Krishna, “Hey Govinda, I shall not fight,” and fell silent.
tam uvacha hrishikeshah
prahasann iva bharata। senayor ubhayor madhye visidantam idam vachah:॥ 2.10 ॥ |
Then O Dhritarashtra, at that time Sri Krishna, smiling, in the midst of both the armies, spoke these following words to the grief-stricken & sorrowing Arjuna.
Sri Bhagavan Uvacha। |
asocyan anvasochas tvam
prajna-vadams cha bhasase। gatasun agatasums cha nanusochanti panditah:॥ 2.11 ॥ |
Sri Bhagavan said: Arjuna, You speak the learned words but you are mourning for what is not worthy of grief & not be mourned . Those who are wise mourn neither for the living nor for the dead.
na tv-evaham jatu nasam
na tvam neme janadhipah:। na chaiva na bhavisyamah sarve vayam atah: param॥ 2.12 ॥ |
In fact, there was never a time when I was not or did not exist, or you, or all these kings were not; nor it is a fact that in the future shall any of us cease to exist.