What’s it worth to kill Kauravs?
32
Know not avails what empire
What sort pleasures it entails!
33
Whom all we wish well in life
Here they face us risking same.
34
Us they oppose
Dads, grand-dads
Sons, grandsons, so uncles
Brothers-in-law ’n teachers too!
35
Were the stakes be sky high like
Ruling earth ’n heaven as well
Let those Kauravs itch for fight
I won’t have this war on hand.
36
Go as they on sinful path
Why earn sin by slaying them.
37
See I no gain by their end
Why then kill our kith ’n kin?
38
Blinded by greed, bent on deceit
Fail they foresee, war ruins the race.
39
Wiser for the woes of wars
Why not Lord we rescind now.
40
Die aged en masse dharma’s votaries
Won't that let go youth ours haywire?
41
Sex ratio adverse that war ensues
Turns women soft on caste barriers.
42
Fallen women all go to hell
What is more their bastards rob
Posthumous rites of forebearers.
43
Liaisons low of women wanton
Set our race on ruinous course.
44
Is it not said, O My Lord
Fail who dharma are hell bound.
45
What urge killing kith and kin,
Why should we sin lusting crown?
46
Disarm I now on my own
Let them harm me if they deem.
47
Thus spoke Sanjaya:
Thus O Raja
Despaired Arjun
Arms he threw
And sat distressed.
Ends thus
Arjuna’s Dilemma,
The First Chapter
Of Bhagavad-Gita
Treatise of self-help.