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The Bhagavad Gita discusses 4 reasons for Arjuna not to fight: compassion, inability to enjoy rewards, destruction of family traditions, and sinfulness. Krishna refutes these reasons using concepts like eternal soul, duty without attachment to results, and performing actions to please Krishna without ego. Later chapters describe a "sthitaprajna" as someone who is free from desires and finds satisfaction within, remaining unbewildered even at death and attaining the spiritual realm.

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CH 2

The Bhagavad Gita discusses 4 reasons for Arjuna not to fight: compassion, inability to enjoy rewards, destruction of family traditions, and sinfulness. Krishna refutes these reasons using concepts like eternal soul, duty without attachment to results, and performing actions to please Krishna without ego. Later chapters describe a "sthitaprajna" as someone who is free from desires and finds satisfaction within, remaining unbewildered even at death and attaining the spiritual realm.

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Bhagavad Gita

Chapter 2
What do we want?
Vedic Civilization
4 Reasons
for not to
fight

1. Compassion ( BG 27)
2. Can’t enjoy (Bg 32 to 35)
3. Destruction of family
tradition (BG 39)
4. Sinful (Bg 44)
Contents of Gita
Summarized

1-10
Conversation
between Krishna
& Arjuna
54-72
Qualities of
“sthitaprajna”
11-30
jnana-yoga

39-53
31-38 buddhi-yoga
karma-Yoga
TEXT 2
śrī-bhagavān uvāca
kutas tvā kaśmalam idaṁ
viṣame samupasthitam
anārya-juṣṭam asvargyam
akīrti-karam arjuna

The Supreme Person [Bhagavān] said: My dear Arjuna,


how have these impurities come upon you? They are not
at all befitting a man who knows the progressive values of
life. They do not lead to higher planets, but to infamy.
O Madhusudana
Finally Arjuna says
TEXT 7

kārpaṇya-doṣopahata-svabhāvaḥ
pṛcchāmi tvāṁ dharma-sammūḍha-cetāḥ
yac chreyaḥ syān niścitaṁ brūhi tan me
śiṣyas te 'haṁ śādhi māṁ tvāṁ prapannam

Now I am confused about my duty and have


lost all composure because of weakness. In this
condition I am asking You to tell me clearly
what is best for me. Now I am Your disciple,
and a soul surrendered unto You. Please
instruct me.
Krishna defies the reasons by Yoga
Siddhantas
Yoga siddhanta is connecting our desire to Krishna’s desire
Consciousness is connected to Superconsiousness
Contents of Gita
Summarized

1-10
Conversation
between Krishna
& Arjuna

11-30
jnana-yoga
11-30 Jnana Yoga (Soul)
TEXT 12 (Principle of eternity)
na tv evāhaṁ jātu nāsaṁ
na tvaṁ neme janādhipāḥ
na caiva na bhaviṣyāmaḥ
sarve vayam ataḥ param

Never was there a time when I did


not exist, nor you, nor all these
kings; nor in the future shall any of
us cease to be.
11-30 Jnana Yoga (Soul)
TEXT 13
dehino 'smin yathā dehe
kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā
tathā dehāntara-prāptir
dhīras tatra na muhyati

As the embodied soul continually passes,


in this body, from boyhood to youth to old
age, the soul similarly passes into another
body at death. The self-realized soul is
not bewildered by such a change.
Arjuna feels it’s sinful and I can’t enjoy
Contents of Gita
Summarized

1-10
Conversation
between Krishna
& Arjuna

11-30
jnana-yoga

31-38
karma-Yoga
31-38 Karma Yoga

Avoiding duty = Sinful


World will
Enjoy this kingdom or
be put into
enjoy in heaven chaotic
situation
Higher purpose (39-53)
Not just to avoid sin but for pleasing Lord
Krishna
Contents of Gita
Summarized

1-10
Conversation
between Krishna
& Arjuna

11-30
jnana-yoga

39-53
31-38 buddhi-yoga
karma-Yoga
39-53 Buddhi Yoga

39 – Free from bondage of karma


40 – No loss, permanent credit
41 – No confusion, they are resolute
42nd to 44th – Who can’t take to this? Too self-centered
Why for the pleasure of Krishna?
39-53 Buddhi Yoga
TEXT 47
karmaṇy evādhikāras te
mā phaleṣu kadācana
mā karma-phala-hetur bhūr
mā te saṅgo 'stv akarmaṇi

You have a right to perform your prescribed


duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of
action. Never consider yourself to be the cause
of the results of your activities, and never be
attached to not doing your duty.
39-53 Buddhi Yoga

TEXT 51
karma-jaṁ buddhi-yuktā hi
phalaṁ tyaktvā manīṣiṇaḥ
janma-bandha-vinirmuktāḥ
padaṁ gacchanty anāmayam

By thus engaging in devotional service to the Lord,


great sages or devotees free themselves from the
results of work in the material world. In this way
they become free from the cycle of birth and death
and attain the state beyond all miseries [by going back
to Godhead].
What are the quality of person living in
such mood?
Sthita-prajña
TEXT 55
śrī-bhagavān uvāca
prajahāti yadā kāmān
sarvān pārtha mano-gatān
ātmany evātmanā tuṣṭaḥ
sthita-prajñas tadocyate

The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O Pārtha,


when a man gives up all varieties of desire for sense
gratification, which arise from mental concoction,
and when his mind, thus purified, finds satisfaction
in the self alone, then he is said to be in pure
transcendental consciousness.
Sthita-prajña
TEXT 72
eṣā brāhmī sthitiḥ pārtha
naināṁ prāpya vimuhyati
sthitvāsyām anta-kāle ’pi
brahma-nirvāṇam ṛcchati

That is the way of the spiritual and godly life, after


attaining which a man is not bewildered. If one is
thus situated even at the hour of death, one can enter
into the kingdom of God.
Contents of Gita
Summarized

1-10
Conversation
between Krishna
& Arjuna
54-72
Qualities of
“sthitaprajna”
11-30
jnana-yoga

39-53
31-38 buddhi-yoga
karma-Yoga

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