Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verses 32-38 from the second chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God".

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🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 32:

यदृच्छया चोपपन्नं स्वर्गद्वारमपावृतम् |

सुखिन: क्षत्रिया: पार्थ लभन्ते युद्धमीदृशम् || 32||

yadṛichchhayā chopapannaṁ swarga-dvāram apāvṛitam

sukhinaḥ kṣhatriyāḥ pārtha labhante yuddham īdṛiśham

🪔An open gateway to heaven has, by a happy chance, offered itself to you. O Arjuna! For, fortunate Ksatriyas alone gain an occasion to wage a war like this.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 33:

अथ चेतत्त्वमिमं धर्म्यं संग्रामं न करिष्यसि |

तत: स्वधर्मं कीर्तिं च हित्वा पापमवाप्स्यसि || 33||

atha chet tvam imaṁ dharmyaṁ saṅgrāmaṁ na kariṣhyasi

tataḥ sva-dharmaṁ kīrtiṁ cha hitvā pāpam avāpsyasi

🪔On the other hand, if you refuse to fight this righteous war, sacrificing both the law of your life and renown, you will incur sin.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 34:

अकीर्तिं चापि भूतानि

कथयिष्यन्ति तेऽव्ययाम् |

सम्भावितस्य चाकीर्ति

र्मरणादतिरिच्यते || 34||

akīrtiṁ chāpi bhūtāni

kathayiṣhyanti te ’vyayām

sambhāvitasya chākīrtir

maraṇād atirichyate

🪔All will recount your everlasting infamy! For one honored, infamy is worse than death.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 35:

भयाद्रणादुपरतं मंस्यन्ते त्वां महारथा: |

येषां च त्वं बहुमतो भूत्वा यास्यसि लाघवम् || 35||

bhayād raṇād uparataṁ mansyante tvāṁ mahā-rathāḥ

yeṣhāṁ cha tvaṁ bahu-mato bhūtvā yāsyasi lāghavam

🪔Great heroes will deem that out of fear you withdrew from battle. You will fall in the esteem of those very heroes who have honored you (so far).

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 36:

अवाच्यवादांश्च बहून्वदिष्यन्ति तवाहिता: |

निन्दन्तस्तव सामर्थ्यं ततो दु:खतरं नु किम् || 36||

avāchya-vādānśh cha bahūn vadiṣhyanti tavāhitāḥ

nindantastava sāmarthyaṁ tato duḥkhataraṁ nu kim

🪔Your foes will hurl many unmentionable insults at you - foes bent on downgrading your competence. What can be more painful than that?

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 37:

हतो वा प्राप्स्यसि स्वर्गं जित्वा वा भोक्ष्यसे महीम् |

तस्मादुत्तिष्ठ कौन्तेय युद्धाय कृतनिश्चय: || 37||

hato vā prāpsyasi swargaṁ jitvā vā bhokṣhyase mahīm

tasmād uttiṣhṭha kaunteya yuddhāya kṛita-niśhchayaḥ

🪔Getting slain, you will gain heaven; victorious, you will enjoy this world. Therefore, O son of Kunti! stand up, determined to fight.

🔆Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 38:

सुखदु:खे समे कृत्वा लाभालाभौ जयाजयौ |

ततो युद्धाय युज्यस्व नैवं पापमवाप्स्यसि || 38||

sukha-duḥkhe same kṛitvā lābhālābhau jayājayau

tato yuddhāya yujyasva naivaṁ pāpam avāpsyasi

🪔Looking with an equal eye on pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat, strive to fight; thus will you incur no sin.

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