Life with Morality
Author : Dr. Jitendra Kumar and Dr. Priya Soni Khare
Abstract :
The situation of Arjuna is well known, he was a General who is to give the signal for a battle to begin, a battle that he has been looking forward to fighting, though it is unsought. Arjuna has been looking forward to the battle but, when he has to give the signal for it to begin, he surveys the revered teachers and relations on both sides who will be killed almost surely, and suddenly finds he can't give the signal, and he doesn't want to do it. He then speaks to his charioteer, the Avatar Krishna, and he says: 'I have suddenly realized that this is wrong-that fighting and killing people is wrong-and I don't want to take any part in this. It is better for me to be killed unresisting on the battlefield than to take part in such a sin. It is true that there are people on the other side who don't recognize it as a sin, but although they do not, I do. I should not take part in the battle.' And Krishna hears these words and he gives a little smile. The little smile means: 'You use the words of the wise, but you are not wise. They are not an expression of wisdom in you; you are simply quoting these words in order to get out of doing something which you suddenly find you don't want to do. The wise are not overcome with grief and sorrow and delusion as you are now. You are using these apparently wise and spiritual words in order to get out of your responsibility.
Keywords :
Morality, Srimad Bhagavad Gita, life, living style
