Chapter 2 verse 35
“The great battalion commanders will think that you have
withdrawn from the battle through fear; and you will be looked down upon by
those who had thought much of you and your heroism in the past”
Krishna goes further on the shaming route to wake Arjuna up
from his temporary stupor and encourage him to fight. Several of us in society
is worried about what others will think of us and our actions. We live in
anticipation of other’s beliefs and aspirations for us- starting from parents,
relatives when you are a child to later teachers, bosses or customers when you
are working for a living and then wife, kids when you get married and then at
some point if you are lucky, when you get old, you give a damn to what people
think about you. In fact you realize people are not thinking about you at all.
There don’t have time from thinking about themselves to think about you! But
this appears to be an age old problem Krishna is leveraging to encourage Arjuna
to fight.
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