The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
Arjuna's Fallacy- slokas 31-46
Chapter 1 - Sloka 31
na cha shreyah anupashyami hatva svajanma ahave I
na kankshe vijayam krsna na cha rajyam sukhani cha II sloka 31
न च श्रेयः अनुपश्यामि हत्वा स्वजन्म आहवे ।
न काङ्क्षे विजयं कृष्ण न च राज्यं सुखानि च ।। श्लोक ३१
I don't foresee any good ensuing from the slaughter of kinsmen in battle. O Krishna, I hanker not for victory or empire or pleasures even.
Indifference to the acquisition of worldly prosperity is an unfailing mark of ethical and spiritual progress. But what has come upon Arjuna is anything but indifference. He has been all along diligently and systematically preparing himself for war. Subsequent delusion in him masquerades as mental attainment. His very perplexed state of mind betrays it.
Chapter 1 - Sloka 32
kim nah rajyena govinda kim bhogaih jivitena va II sloka 32
किं नः राज्येन गोविन्द किं भोगैः जीवितेन वा ।। श्लोक ३२
Of what avail to us is kingdom or enjoyment or even life, O Govinda?
The word Govinda is very appropriate here. Go in sanskrit means the living being; and vinda means the knower thereof. This name of Vishnu applies here to Sri Krishna. He being the knower of the minds of people, he alone can rightly solve their life problems.
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