The entire content of this mail is from Swami Chidbhavananda's translation of The Bhagavad Gita, published by Ramakrishna Mission.
Swerve not from your Duty - 31-37
1 Gita Sloka every day - Chapter 2 - Samkhya Yoga - Sloka 34
Akirtim cha api bhutani kathashyanta te avyayam I
sambhavitasya cha akirtih maranat atirichyate II sloka 34
अकीर्तिं च अपि भूतानि कथायष्यान्त ते अव्ययाम ।
संभावितस्य च अकीर्तिः मरणात अतिरिच्यते ।।श्लोक ३४
People will recount your infamy. To the honoured, infamy is surely worse than death.
The characteristic of the ordinary man is to preserve life somehow. But different is the way of the hero. He knows well to safeguard life as well as sacrifice it for a great cause. By his willingly surrendering life to an ideal, his glory increases and fame spreads. It is bad enough for a warrior to cringe before the enemy and beg to be spared when being trampled to death by him; it is much worse for a hero to cling to life after losing
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