Chapter 2 verse 38
“Having made pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and
defeat the same, engage in battle for the sake of battle; thus, you shall not
incur sin”
Lord Krishna talks about the concept of “pair of opposites”.
Sri Sri Ravishankar, present time Guru of Art of living encapsulates this
concept as “Pair of opposites needs to be endured with equanimity”. Life is
full of pair of opposites. Good health/Bad health, riches/poverty, gain/loss,
victory/defeat and more broadly pleasure and pain. If our mind exhibits
equanimity in these different circumstances and undertake the task at hand, no
impressions remain due to our actions. When no impressions are created due to
some action, there is neither punya nor paapa accrued and hence one cuts off
the feeder for the cycle of birth and death. I am clearly getting ahead of
myself here. Krishna actually is still appealing to the fear and societal shame
associated with sin by telling him he wouldn’t commit a sin if he fights the
battle with his equanimous mind.
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