Verse
अवाच्यवादांश्च बहून् वदिष्यन्ति तवाहिताः ।निन्दन्तस्तव सामर्थ्यं ततो दुःखतरं नु किम् ॥
avācyavādāṃśca bahūn vadiṣyanti tavāhitāḥnindantastava sāmarthyaṃ tato duḥkhataraṃ nu kim
Many unseemly words will be spoken by thy enemies, slandering thy strength; what is worse grief than that?
Gītā 2·36Battle, courage, power, rule, the honour of the brave, the heaven of those who fall nobly, this is the warrior’s ideal. To lower that ideal, to allow a smirch to fall on that honour, to give the example of a hero among heroes whose action lays itself open to the reproach of cowardice and weakness and thus to lower the moral standard of mankind, is to be false to himself and to the demand of the world on its leaders and kings.
