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This 3 page paper discusses the advice Krishna gives to Prince Arjuna just before a battle, which is to fight because the immortal soul cannot be killed. The paper also argues that there are better options than Krishna's command to fight. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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File: D0_HVKriArj.rtf
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AD (The complete Bhagavad Gita online, 2004-hereafter BG online, 2004). The Bhagavad Gita is of a later date than most of the rest of the poem, and consists of "700
Sanskrit verses divided into 18 chapters" (BG online, 2004). The part of the Bhagavad that concerns us is the advice Lord Krishna gives to Prince Arjuna just before the battle
of Kurukesha. As the section ("Looking into the Battlefield") opens, several characters talk about the fact that there are large armies on the battlefield, ready to fight; it names some
of the great fighters that are present (Bhima, Arjuna, Chekitana, Purujit and others) (BG online, 2004). At the other side of the field, Krishna and Arjuna, who is the
son of King Pandu, blow their conches and accept the challenge to battle and soon the battlefield is shaking with the sound of horns being blown on all sides (BG
online, 2004). Before the battle can be joined, however, Arjuna asks Krishna to drive him into the middle of the battlefield: "Changeless One (Krishna), please stop my chariot between
the two armies so that I can see who stand there, intent to fight, and whom I have to battle with (1:21- 22)" (BG online, 2004). In the opposing army,
Arjuna sees "fathers and grandfathers, maternal uncles, brothers, sons and grandsons, comrades and friends, father-in-laws and teachers - all were there (1:26)" (BG online, 2004). Arjuna is greatly saddened by
this and says "when I see my friends and kinsmen ready to fight one another, all in such a fighting spirit, my limbs start shaking and my mouth is parched
(1:28)" (GB online, 2004). He says that he sees bad omens, that he is unsteady, and "I do not see any good in killing my relatives in battle. I do
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