न चैतद्विद्मः कतरन्नो गरीयोयद्वा जयेम यदि वा नो जयेयुः ।यानेव हत्वा न जिजीविषाम-स्तेऽवस्थिताः प्रमुखे धार्तराष्ट्राः ॥
na caitadvidmaḥ kataranno garīyoyadvā jayema yadi vā no jayeyuḥyāneva hatvā na jijīviṣāma-ste’vasthitāḥ pramukhe dhārtarāṣṭrāḥ
Nor do I know which for us is better, that we conquer them or they conquer us, – before us stand the Dhritarashtrians whom having slain we should not care to live.
Gītā 2·6He attempts still to justify his refusal of the work and puts forward in its support the claim of his nervous and sensational being which shrinks from the slaughter with its sequel of blood-stained enjoyments, the claim of his heart which recoils from the sorrow and emptiness of life that will follow his act, the claim of his customary moral notions which are appalled by the necessity of slaying his gurus, Bhishma and Drona, the claim of his reason which sees no good but only evil results of the terrible and violent work assigned to him.
