The inner war is unavoidable Gita 03.43

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Thank you. In a war. The most important thing.
Apart from the spirit of fighting. Is the weapons for fighting. Whereas.
We have intention. If a war is going on. If a war is unavoidable.
Once a war has broken out. There are certain issues. Which can be resolved.
And it should be resolved. Without resorting to warfare. Just for example.
Say. There is a conflict between. Within the family.
Amongst the family members. There is a conflict between. Relatives.
Or there is a conflict among. People. Over certain issues.
If it can be resolved by peaceful means. That is the best. But.
There are certain. Conflicts. Which just cannot be resolved by peaceful means.
Because say for example. One party. Is totally determined.
To destroy the other party. There is a. Very purpose of existence. Of say.
Of one party is. To destroy the other party. And.
If that is. Their very definition of success. Then at that time.
No matter what we do. Nothing will take things forward. Because.
We will be. Caught and consumed. By our effort.
To make things. Manageable. That.
We will be trying to. Achieve peace in a setting where. Peace.
Is simply. A means. For the enemy to strategize.
Regroup. And attack once again. So.
In some situations. Say for example in sports. If.
In some sports there can be draw. In some other sports. There cannot be any draw.
So for example say. In chess. Or in cricket.
In cricket. Especially in a 5 day match. There is going to be a draw.
If the 5 days pass. And neither team. Emerges victorious.
In that period. In chess also. If.
Both the sides are equally matched. After a substantial amount of time. Then the two sides may agree.
Mutually to a draw. But say. In a game like say 1 day cricket.
There is going to be a result. Unless of course. The match is abandoned by rain.
Or some other factors beyond. Control. There is going to be a result.
So the question is not. Whether there is going to be a result. The question is what is going to be the result.
And that result. Is going to come by. By the.
Playing of the war. The result is going to come by the. By the.
By the playing of the game. And sometimes say. Sports.
Cricket is called like a war without. The shooting. But.
In spiritual life. There may not be literal shooting. In terms of.
One party. Fighting bullets. Which wound or kill the other party physically.
But still. There is something equally if not more serious. And that is.
The. Fighting. Which is.
Happening in terms of. Who controls our consciousness. Whether it is.
Our higher spiritual desire. That control our consciousness. Or whether it is our.
Lower desires. That. Can dominate and destroy us.
Whether the lower desires. Control our consciousness. And whoever controls our consciousness.
They get incredible power over us. To decide. To determine.
How things are going to be shaped. How we are going to be influenced. By.
Certain forces. That. Move up and down.
That shake us. That. That.
Torment us. And we will thus end up. Unable to.
Unable to. Deal with our situations. In any way.
That is. Beneficial for us. If our consciousness.
Is taken over by our enemy. What can we do? We ourselves. Will be desiring.
Planning. Intending. And eventually doing things.
That are. Going to hurt us. And that are going to hurt those whom we love.
That are going to hurt those whom we wish to help. So to prevent this from happening. It is vital for us.
To. Be able to. Recognize.
That. Life in itself. Is a battle.
There is a battle going on in our consciousness. And. While we do not want to be.
Passionate. In terms of being agitated. We need to be passionate.
In terms of being focused. We want to be passionate in terms of being absorbed. The word passion.
Can be used negatively. To refer to. The disposition.
By which people. The disposition by which people. End up.
Exasperated. Devastated. Because they have so many desires.
Overwhelming them. That. Hundreds of thoughts going on in their consciousness.
And they don’t know which one to choose. They don’t know what to do. In contrast.
Passion can also refer to. Something that we. Do.
Because. We at our core. Desire to.
Be elevated. And. To a higher level of consciousness.
A higher level of reality. And for that purpose. We wish to become absorbed.
We wish to become completely focused. So. If a war is going on.
Then. There is no question of the mind wandering. And people being distracted.
As we understand it is a matter of. Life or death. And.
If you are passionate about something. Say if somebody is. Passionate about cricket.
Then there is no question of those people. Falling asleep while a cricket match is going on. Even if they were fast asleep.
They will wake up to see what the score is. What happened on the next ball or whatever. So like that.
If we understand this principle. That we are at war. And this war.
Is something which we can’t. Avoid. This war is something which.
Is going to. Be there. No matter what we do.
Then. We will gird ourselves up so that. We will fight determinately.
We will not let ourselves. Get diverted. Get distracted.
Get frustrated. By. The events that transpire around us.
And instead. We will stay focused. In doing our best.
For taking things towards Krishna. For raising our consciousness. For spiritualizing.
Our. Core self.