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Killing my own kinsmen is unthinkable

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यद्यप्येते न पश्यन्ति लोभोपहतचेतसः ।कुलक्षयकृतं दोषं मित्रद्रोहे च पातकम् ॥

Although these, with a consciousness clouded with greed, see no guilt in the destruction of the family, no crime in hostility to friends, why should not we have the wisdom to draw back from such a sin, O Janardana, we who see the evil in the destruction of the family? In the annihilation of the family the eternal traditions of the family are destroyed; in the collapse of traditions, lawlessness overcomes the whole family.

Gītā 1·37

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