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Verse 11·34

Arjuna is merely the instrument of destruction

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द्रोणं च भीष्मं च जयद्रथं च कर्णं तथान्यानपि योधवीरान् ।मया हतांस्त्वं जहि माव्यथिष्ठा युध्यस्व जेतासि रणे सपत्नान् ॥

droṇaṃ ca bhīṣmaṃ ca jayadrathaṃ cakarṇaṃ tathānyānapi yodhavīrānmayā hatāṃstvaṃ jahi māvyathiṣṭhāyudhyasva jetāsi raṇe sapatnān

Slay, by me who are slain, Drona, Bhishma, Jayadratha, Karna and other heroic fighters; be not pained and troubled. Fight, thou shalt conquer the adversary in the battle.

Gītā 11·34

The fruit of the great and terrible work is promised and prophesied, not as a fruit hungered for by the individual,—for to that there is to be no attachment,—but as the result of the divine will, the glory and success of the thing to be done accomplished, the glory given by the Divine to himself in his Vibhuti. Thus is the final and compelling command to action given to the protagonist of the world-battle.

CWSA 19 · Essays on the Gita · p. 384

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