1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 11 - Viswarupa Darsana Yoga - Sloka 34

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The Lord Embodied as Time  -  32-34

1 Gita Sloka  every day - Chapter 11 - Viswarupa Darsana Yoga - Sloka 34

Dronam cha bhishmam cha jayadratham cha karnam tatha anyan api yodha viran I

Maya hantan tvam jahi ma vyatishthah yudh yasva jetasi rane sapatnan II sloka 34

द्रोणां च भीष्मं च जयद्रथं च कर्णं तथा अन्यान् अपि योधा विरान्  I 

मया हन्तान् त्वं जहि मा व्यतिष्ठाः युध् यस्व जेतासि रणे सपत्नान्  I I  श्लोक 34

Slay Drona, Bhishma, Jayadratha, Karna and other brave warriors who are already doomed by Me. Be not distressed with fear. fight and you will conquer your enemies in battle.

It has already been made clear that the killing of Drona and Bhishma is not contrary to dharma. The next question is whether is whether they can be killed at all. For, Drona is endowed with weapons divine. And Bhishma is one whom death cannot approach without his own permission. Nobody has so far successfully combated with him. yet another problem is with regard to Jayadratha. By hard penance his father has acquired the power to make the head of that man burst who succeeds in slaughtering his son. Fourthly vanquishing karna is equally problematic. He is armed with "sakti" a deadly weapon bestowed upon him by Indra. There is no escape for the man against whom this weapon is used. Karna keeps it to take vengeance against Arjuna. To be hesitant with fear is but natural to one in Arjuna's plight.

"When God is with us who is against us? When God is not with us, who is for us?" - This maxim is worth pondering over and to be pursued in life. God is here with Arjuna. What can his powerful enemies do to him? The Lord has willed to have them destroyed. Their prowess is already withdrawn from them. They are now like pictures that can be easily be brushed aside. Arjuna has only to function just as an arrow in the hands of the archer. The Lord will have his work done through his agency.The glory of a great conquest will be his, as a reward for this agency. This point is driven home into the mind of Partha.