Gita 01.25 What catches ouar attention is determined by what is prominent in our external situation and in our internal disposition

Bhagavad Gita 1.25 here Krishna is speaking Bhagavad Gita is telling about what Krishna did as per Arjuna's request, Krishna took the chariot in between the two armies and then Arjuna beheld from that strategic position, both the armies so Bhishma, Drona, Pramukta he saw on the opposite chariot opposite side primarily Bhishma and Drona Pramukta, they were chief all of them were Mahikshitam they were lords of the earth kings Krishna spoke Parthapashya this poem is a alliterative word both begin and end with pa and a Parthapashya, etan oh Arjuna, see all these samavetan kuruniti here are all the Kurus who are assembled Arjuna had said that I want to see I want to see who all are assembled on this war field to fight against me and Krishna responds by taking Arjuna in the middle and pointing out here are they so here also when he says Bhishma, Drona, Pramukta it's clear that it was not that Arjuna was wanting to discover some new people on the war field whom he had not seen earlier no his purpose was simply to discover those whom he had seen to just review those who knew were there and to take in the amount of bellicosity or hostility that would be there our vision is often directed by our disposition it can be our affection or our aversion if in a crowd of people there is some person we are averse to, we are angry with if that person is present, we will notice them immediately we may act as if we have not noticed them, we will turn away from them but our consciousness will be dominated by thoughts of that person conversely in a crowd if there is someone whom we are affectionate to if we see them our eyes will go straight towards them say if we come out of an airport and we have a loud one waiting for us then among the there may be scores and scores of people dozens and dozens of people who might be waiting there but our vision will straight go towards the person whom we wanted to see because that is the person our eyes will naturally go towards similarly here Arjuna, his eyes naturally went towards Bhishma, Drona, Pramukta we saw that prominent among the opponents were Bhishma and Drona Arjuna had no great aversion towards Duryodhana there was no love lost between the two sets of cousins Duryodhana had treated them unfairly for so long the Pandavas also had very little affection left for him but the Pandavas, whatever negative feeling that they had for Duryodhana, that was not as strong as the positive feeling they had towards Bhishma and Drona especially Arjuna he had been trained in archery by both Bhishma and Drona Bhishma had trained him in warfare and so had initially and then so had Drona especially, he had been the favourite student of Drona and he also had developed a special affection for his teacher who had revealed all his secrets to him therefore Arjuna's vision went naturally towards Bhishma and Drona he saw them as prominently placed in the opponent's ranks also because they were the most prominent leader they were the commanders of the Kaurava army for we could say more than one fifth of the war for 10 days it was Bhishma and 5 days it was Drona so thus they were also in their own way doing in a prominent position so Bhishma and Drona were in a prominent position in the Kaurava army and they were in a prominent position in Arjuna's mind because he was affectionate towards them so Bhishma and Drona were prominent thus in a double way and Krishna also when he took the chariot between the two armies he took it not just anywhere else he took it in a way that it was placed because the two armies were arrayed over vast distance and Krishna arranged for the two armies to be positioned for chariot to be positioned where they could be seen where everyone could be seen and thus they all were able to especially see Bhishma and Drona that was the way Krishna arranged and thus Arjuna's bewilderment will begin in general the overall principle we can learn here is that what is prominent in our vision what is reflects not just what is prominent in the outer situation but also what is prominent in our inner disposition and sometimes both are together sometimes only one of them is there but still the cumulative result is there sometimes as I said if you are attached to somebody or averse to somebody they are prominent within our disposition and they appear prominent in our vision or sometimes somebody will be so prominently positioned externally that it's almost impossible to miss them and when both are there then it's almost like our vision will lock on that person and that is all we will be able to see that is what happened here to Arjuna.