Seeing the Kaurava forces ranged in battle array, Yudhishthira gave orders
to Arjuna:
"The enemy force is very large. Our army being smaller, our
tactics should be concentration rather than deploymentwhich will only weaken us. Array our
forces, there fore, in needle formation."
Now, when Arjuna saw men arrayed on both sides for mutual slaughter, he
was deeply agitated and Krishna spoke to him in order to quell his agitation and remove
his doubts.
Krishna's exhortation to Arjuna at this
juncture is the Bhagavad Gita, which is enshrined in millions of hearts as the Word of
God, and is acknowledged by all as one of the supreme treasures of human literature.
Its gospel of devotion to duty, with out
attachment or desire of reward, has shown the way of life for all men, rich or poor,
learned or ignorant, who have sought for light in the dark problems of life |
