What is the significance of the two metaphors of rivers and moths used in the Gita’s description of warriors entering into the Universal Form

From Sushant Kulkarni

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Question what is the difference between the two metaphors used in Bhagavad Gita 11.28 and 29 of a river going towards the ocean some warriors are dying like rivers going towards the ocean and other warriors are like a moth entering into a fire as they are also entering into the mouth of the Vishwaroopa. Answer these two metaphors refer to two different kinds of warriors who are present and two different kinds of deaths that they met. So the river going towards the ocean is a natural flow.
Similarly so the Bhishma, Drona, Kripa these warriors they over they had grown old and over the by the force of circumstances which was like the force of nature they were pushed into the war and they had to fight and they would die in the war. But when a moth goes towards the fire as mentioned in 11.29 there actually the moth doesn’t have to go to the fire the moth goes chooses intentionally to go towards the fire and it codes self-destruction by that. So this refers to warriors like Duryodhana, Dushyasana, Karna, Shakuni who deliberately provoke the war and deliberately sabotaged all efforts to avoid the war and thereby they courted death.
This is the explanation that Baldevidya Bhushan gives and further Vedanta Dashika in his Bhagavad Gita commentary illumines this further he says that two points further he says when a river goes towards the ocean the flow of the river towards the ocean actually benefits people who are on the bank they get water supply. Similarly he says death is inevitable for everyone but when those who have devoted themselves to God they go through the life journey towards death their life journey benefits people because by their example by their efforts by their love they inspire they benefit others and they inspire others also towards all around well-being. Now in contrast when a moth goes towards the fire the moth does not benefit anyone the moth simply gets destroyed and secondly when a river goes towards the ocean the river water does not lose its essential nature the river water continues to stay as the river water the water continues to stay as water whereas when a moth goes towards the fire the moth gets burned and destroyed so similarly those who are materialists when they die their whole concept of self-identity and self-worth is destroyed but when devotees die actually they continue the same activities which they were doing before death they continue them after that because they are serving Krishna in this life and they will serve Krishna after this life so in that sense these two metaphors are very significant about the different natures of death of those who have harmonized with God and those who have defied God.
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