What did Krishna say to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita?

Lord Krishna Reminds Arjuna Of His Duty As A Warrior If you will not fight this righteous war, then you will fail in your duty, lose your reputation, and incur sin. People will talk about your disgrace forever. To the honored, dishonor is worse than death.

What is he telling Arjuna to do in the Bhagavad Gita?

He told Arjun that this was a righteous war; a war of Dharma. Dharma is the way of righteousness or a set of rules and laws laid down. The Kauravas were on the side of Adharma and had broken rules and laws and hence Arjun would have to do his Karma to uphold Dharma.

What was Krishna’s advice to Arjuna?

Krishna advices Arjuna that he most follow his own dharma or path to attain fulfillment: “It is better to strive in one’s own dharma than to succeed in the dharma of another. Nothing is ever lost in following one’s own dharma, but competition in another’s dharma breeds fear and insecurity.”

What is the verse number of essence of Bhagavad Gita?

In his Tamil work Gitartha Sangraha, which is analogous to Alavandar’s Sanskrit work by the same name, Vedanta Desika briefly sums up the essence of the Bhagavad Gita. The work is in 21 verses.

What is the story of Bhagavad Gita?

The Gita is a dialogue between the warrior-prince Arjuna and the god Krishna who is serving as his charioteer at the Battle of Kurukshetra fought between Arjuna’s family and allies (the Pandavas) and those of the prince Duryodhana and his family (the Kauravas) and their allies.

Why does Arjuna ask for the four-armed form of Krishna?

Addressing Lord Krishna as sahasra-bāho, meaning “thousand-armed one,” Arjuna is now specifically requesting to see the chatur-bhuj rūp, or four- armed form of Lord Krishna. In the four-armed form, Shree Krishna appeared before Arjun on another occasion as well.

What is Arjuna’s argument in the Mahabharata?

Arjuna’s argument, literally translated, proceeds as follows: On destruction of the family, the perennial family dharmas perish. When dharma perishes, adharma [the opposite of dharma] overwhelms the entire family. From the predominance of adharma, O Krishna, the family women are polluted.

What does Bhagavad Gita say about Bheeshma and Dronacharya?

He states that Bheeshma and Dronacharya are worthy of his respect and adoration. Bheeshma was the embodiment of chastity, and remained a lifelong celibate to fulfill the vow he had made to his father. Arjun’s military preceptor, Dronacharya, was a genius in the science of warfare, and it was from him that Arjun mastered the art of archery.

What does the Bhagavad Gita say about ordinary Vedic dharma?

There is no corresponding assurance in the Bhagavad- gita that practice of ordinary Vedic dharma will make one a pure devotee of the Lord. Rather, the fruit of trayi- dharma, the religious duties of the three Vedas, is that one goes up to the mundane heaven and falls again to the mortal earth.