The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
The Harbringer of Grace
Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 10
Tam uvacha hrishikesha prahasann iva bharata I
Senayor ubhayor madhye vishidantam idam vachah II sloka 10
तं उवाच हृषीकेशः प्रहसन्न इव भारत ।
सेनयोर उभयोः मध्ये विषिदन्तं वचः ।। श्लोक १०
O Bharata, then smiling, as it were, Hrishikesha spoke these words to the desponding one placed between the two armies.
Significant is the smile beaming on the lips of Hrishikesha. As the dawn is the harbringer of day break, the Lord's smile forecasts the yoga and the spiritual enlightenment that are to come on Arjuna. It was the preyas that he had been receiving till now. What he is going to receive forthwith is Sreyas, the sovereign remedy for all the evils of the mundane existence. It is the invisible means for the attainment of Beatitude. There is nothing greater than sreyas for man to seek. Existence finds fulfillment in It. Arjuna is going to be initiated into It. Hence this divine smile on the lips of the Lord.
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