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Verse 2·32

Victory through performing one’s own dharma

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यदृच्छया चोपपन्नं स्वर्गद्वारमपावृतम् ।सुखिनः क्षत्रियाः पार्थ लभन्ते युद्धमीदृशम् ॥

yadṛcchayā copapannaṃ svargadvāramapāvṛtamsukhinaḥ kṣatriyāḥ pārtha labhante yuddhamīdṛśam

When such a battle comes to them of itself like the open gate of heaven, happy are the Kshatriyas then.

Gītā 2·32

What is the true object of the Kshatriya’s life and his true happiness? Not self-pleasing and domestic happiness and a life of comfort and peaceful joy with friends and relatives, but to battle for the right is his true object of life and to find a cause for which he can lay down his life or by victory win the crown and glory of the hero’s existence is his greatest happiness.

CWSA 19 · Essays on the Gita · p. 65

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