Bg 2.3
klaibyaṁ mā sma gamaḥ pārtha naitat tvayy upapadyate
kṣudraṁ hṛdaya-daurbalyaṁ tyaktvottiṣṭha paran-tapa
Bg 2.4
arjuna uvāca
kathaṁ bhīṣmam ahaṁ saṅkhye droṇaṁ ca madhusūdana
iṣubhiḥ pratiyotsyāmi pūjārhāv ari-sūdana
3. Yield not to impotence, O Partha! It
does not befit thee, Cast off this mean weakness of heart! Stand up,
O Parantapa (O scorcher of foes) !
Arjuna said: 4. How, O Madhusudana, shall
I, in battle, fight with arrows against Bhishma and Drona, who
are fit to be worshipped, O destroyer of enemies!
Commentary Excerpts:
Krishna,who was so far silent, is now
bursting forth into an eloquence, in which every word is a chosen
missile, a pounding hammer-stroke that can flatten any
victim.
The word 'Klaibyam' means, the mental
attitude of one who is neither masculine enough to feel a
passionate courage and daring, nor womanly enough to
feel the soft emotions of hesitation and despair.
…The Lord, in His high seat, keeps mum and
is almost deaf so long as we are arguing and asserting our maturity as
intellectual beings. But when we come down to live and
act as emotional beings, when tears of desperation
trickle down the cheeks of true devotees, then, unasked,
the LORD OF
COMPASSION rushes forward to reach the lost
souls and guides them out of their inward darkness to
the resplendent LIGHT OF WISDOM. A soul,
identifying with the intellect, can seek and discover
itself; but, when it is identifying with the mind, it needs the
help and guidance of the Lord.
Arjuna recognised himself to be the disciple of
Drona and the grandson of Bhishma. The very same teacher
and grandsire were also seeing Arjuna in the
opposite camp, but they felt no compunction, because they
had no such egoistic misconceptions. They drowned their
individuality in the cause they were championing. In
short, Arjuna's egoism was the cause for his terrible moral
confusions and
misconceptions.
Sources: vedabase.com; The Holy Geeta
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