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Verse 1·33

Ancestors fall without offerings and lineage breaks

TopicsYajña — Sacrifice & OfferingKṣetra — Battle & Warriors

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त इमेऽवस्थिता युद्धे प्राणांस्त्यक्त्वा धनानि च ।आचार्याः पितरः पुत्रास् तथैव च पितामहाः ॥

What is kingdom to us, O Govinda, what enjoyment, what even life? Those for whose sake we desire kingdom, enjoyments and pleasures, they stand here in battle, abandoning life and riches — teachers, fathers, sons, as well as grandsires, mother’s brothers, fathers-in-law, grandsons, brothers-in-law, and other kith and kin; these I would not consent to slay, though myself slain, O Madhusudana, even for the kingdom of the three worlds; how then for earth? What pleasures can be ours after killing the sons of Dhritarashtra. O Janardana?

Gītā 1·33

From The Experiential Architecture · After Sri Aurobindo’s Essays on the Gita · incarnateword.in