Gita Verses
Gita Verses 1 The Context – Gita 1.1
Arjuna Asks About The Mystery Of Self Destruction Gita 3.36
Krishna Identifies The Source Of Self – Destructive Desire Gita 3.37
How Lust Covers Everyone Gita 3.38
The Eternal Enemy In The Form Of Lust Gita 3.39
3 Hideouts Of Lust Gita 3.40
Inner Hierarchy Gita 3.42
How Boundaries Protect Us Gita 3.41
Duryodhana Unaffected By Place Of Dharma – Gita Verses 2 1.2 To 1.4
How To Be Spiritually Situated Gita 3 43
Duryodhanas Vision Points To His Disposition – Gita Verses 3 C1 V5 To 9
The Mind Games End And War Begins – Gita Verses 4 C1 V10to13
Krishnas Disarming Introduction – Gita Verses 5 Chapter 1 Verse 14
The Pandavas Morale Goes Up Down- Gita Verses 6 Chapter 1 Verses 15 – 25
Arjunas Unbearable Agony- Gita Verses 7 Chapter 1 Verses 26 – 30
Arjunas Cost Benefit Analysis Gita Verses 8 Chapter 1 Verses 31 – 36
Arjuna Foresees Social Disaster – Gita Verses 9 Chapter 1 Verses 37 – 40
Arjuna Far Sighted But Not Far Sighted Enough – Gita Verses 10 Gita 1.41 – 43
Arjunas Qualification For Hearing Gita Wisdom- Gita Verses 11 Gita 1.44 – 46
Krishna Infers Arjunas Motivation- Gita Verses 12 Gita 2.1 – 2.3
Arjunas Counter Argument And Confusion- Gita Verses 13 Gita 2.4 – 2.6
Arjunas Universal Question – Gita Verses 14 Gita 2.07#gitaversebyverse
When Achievements Feel Pointless – Gita Verses 15 Gita 2.8 – 2.10 #gitaverses #gitaversebyverse
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This is the Bhagavad Gita's first chapter which has 46 texts and we are we have covered about the let's say one-fourth of it so one two we are the tenth verse we're going to be there so till now basically the events on the battlefield are being described but from the perspective of how the psychology of people has been affected or not affected by the place so what we saw was Duryodhana the evil prince was unaffected by dharma he continued his politicking and now he is going to give us concluding assessment and then we'll move forward so here he's giving a comparative assessment and he's saying that we are better that our strength is is there is finite there is measurable and ours is immeasurable and he's saying that we are led by Bhishma he is concluding his assessment of the two forces by saying that we are better who his whole point was that in the mind games he wants to win so he is saying that yeah we are better we are better here so while he's doing all this it's interesting that now these two names have rhymes Bhima and Bhishma the names are rhyming but it's interesting whom he's choosing also because Bhishma is his commander whereas Bhima is not exactly the commander on the opposite he's a formidable warrior but not the commander so what is he trying to do by this is that he is basically he has two senior people on his side one is Bhishma and like we discussed the other is Drona and he is their loyalties are suspect for him that the heart is not there in it so he has goaded Drona and now he wants to lord he wants to lord Bhishma oh you know you are important for me you're my commander because you are leading me we are going to be victorious so that's how he's doing and Bhima as we discussed is an arch rival so by using him in as the opposite comparison he's saying that actually I'm not afraid of him there's no need to no need for us to be afraid of him he is he is no match for us now there is uh he's also saying that so basically he's thinking of his superiority in two terms in terms of numbers and in terms of veterans since the people on my side are far more experienced and we have bigger numbers and he is in this way saying that yeah we are better off there's nothing for us to fear so now as Drona is speaking as Drona is speaking so he has spoken to Drona he has also lorded Bhishma but no he has all these allies and he knows that not all of them are as into the war they don't hate the Pandavas the way he hates them so he wants to make sure that none of these other people they feel minimized so he is reminding them of their importance so he is telling that indirectly he's telling that well Bhishma is a leader he alone can't do it so you all also have to help me and in that way he's encouraging them any issue reservation everyone else in your positions fight competently fight diligently and indirectly this could also be an indication that in Bhishma is old no or he might be vulnerable he's are their main person but he might be ambushed sometimes on the all of you in your positions we are going to work as a team so Duryodhana in his own way he might be evil but he is he is a politician and he is at least in some ways good at getting people to do what he wants so in one sense appreciating that this is a or asserting that this is a team is going to be team effort and and as a team effort he is telling all of you please you also play an important role you stay in your position and you fight so the mind games are still going on and but at this point suddenly Bhishma gets tired of all these mind games let's just fight so it's almost as if while Duryodhana is speaking he has more or less completed his speech but there is this uncertainty so there's a lull in Duryodhana's speech and at that time Bhishma says enough now so let's see what Bhishma does at that time he thinks it's enough and what does he do let's see in general in every every culture has certain symbols rituals practices whatever word we want to use for it which indicate certain things they for example if i think in football they blow a whistle and then they understand now the game has started or sometimes in a running race they might shoot in the air with a real trigger or whatever with a real gun or a false gun now whatever so there is some indication that it's going to start now and in war often people have rallying cries and they cry down with the evil empire whatever like that so here in this culture it's not so much rallying cries and slogans but here it's more of blowing conches so it's interesting that in the tradition conch is considered to be in this beginner of something holy like when we we start start something holy so for example when we are doing worship in temples or where so in the beginning of that a conch is blown so the idea is that conch at one level it invokes auspiciousness it conjures up many thing the conch when it is blown it invokes it's if you consider what it implies it just at a practical level it invokes the beginning symbolizes or indicates that we are beginning now but it's also a call invocation for auspiciousness because this is a war and people want want the omens to be good for them the stars or whatever are that we align for them but then how the conch is blown that can also indicate the morale the confidence generally people's speech itself indicates are they confident are they insecure are they fearful or are they arrogant so here the blowing of the conch is simanadam in a new chair described here it was like the roaring of a lion and that indicated that bhishma was fully into the fight so bhishma he was a dutiful warrior he had to fight on a side that he did not like but in one sense duty often requires us to do things that we don't like now i have to do it i'm going to do it diligently so let's begin and in one sense that duryodhan got joy giving him joy now that indicates if that there is no doubt that duryodhan has no second thoughts about the war that he wants to fight he's determined he thinks that he's going to win and he's going to win so overall the starting questions apprehension is this place going to affect my people negatively that is seen there's no negative effect or at least there's no losing of his morale to fight duryodhan's morale that is seen both through his words and now to his response to bhishma's action let's go to the next verse now when he blows his conch let's see how that affects others so there are there are the there are similarities in language so the sanskrit word is tumulo and the english word is tumultus so if you go into the history that the many of these languages latin greek and sanskrit they have many similarities and in many ways the sanskrit language is more refined than latin and greek it has greater vocabulary better more evolved grammatical structure could go into that so it's a logical hypothesis that sanskrit could be this origin of both of them but the mainstream idea is that all these three came from some other language about where that was and what that was and who spoke that there is no historical evidence of that but without going into the history the point is that the similarity of the english and the sanskrit over here the point is that it was tumultuous the whole sound and when the sound was tumultuous that indicates that again the others are also not demoralized the others are also enthusiastic the others are also responding to bhishma so whether it is earlier duryodhan's words or it is bhishma's words both of them bhishma's actions not words both of those have affected in such a way that they are all they are all enthused to fight so now so everyone means everyone in the kauravas kaurava army that is what they are blowing their conscience so here we will see that the overall the first chapter brings begins with a very gripping situation it's a it starts with very vivid specifics even if the names are something which is a bit of a tongue twister for us but overall we are brought right in the middle of the war and the narrative focus was on the side of the kauravas it was largely on bhishma it was first on duryodhan duryodhan and drona and then it shifted to bhishma and then it shifted to everyone else so it's like in a movie or something you know in the camera the scene cuts from one place to another place to another place another place so now that narrative lens which was still which was on this side is now going to shift over here so basically from 2 to 13 the narrative lens was on the kaurava side and this is building up from here onwards from 14 onwards the narrative lens will be on the pandava side and among these pandavas it starts with the two main characters then it goes to others it again comes back to those two characters and that's where it stays throughout after this entire chapter so it will shift to the two characters who are the central individuals in the description of the bhagavad-gita that krishna arjuna and earlier we were talking duryodhan had to go drona because duryodhan and drona were on separate chariots but krishna and arjuna are on the same chariot so that we discussed in the next text so we could say the 10th verse was his final assessment 11th word was his final mind game now we have to how we are strong our leaders are strong our forces are bigger and then he says you know all have to support also bhishma alone can't do it so it's like team building and then here there is the call from the commander that is bhishma and then there is the response by others so overall it's indicating readiness to fight on the side of the kauravas and we'll see what happens on the side of the pandavas thereafter.