Speaker: Sañjaya
सञ्जय उवाच ।
एवमुक्त्वा हृषीकेशं गुडाकेशः परन्तपः ।
न योत्स्य इति गोविन्दमुक्त्वा तूष्णीं बभूव ह ॥९॥
sañjaya uvāca
evam uktvā hṛṣīkeśaṁ
guḍākeśaḥ parantapaḥ
na yotsya iti govindam
uktvā tūṣṇīṁ babhūva ha
Word for word (synonyms)
- sañjayaḥ uvāca
- Sañjaya said
- evam
- thus
- uktvā
- speaking
- hṛṣīkeśam
- unto Kṛṣṇa, the master of the senses
- guḍākeśaḥ
- Arjuna, the master at curbing ignorance
- parantapaḥ
- the chastiser of the enemies
- na yotsye
- I shall not fight
- iti
- thus
- govindam
- unto Kṛṣṇa, the giver of pleasure
- uktvā
- saying
- tūṣṇīm
- silent
- babhūva
- became
- ha
- certainly
Translation
Sañjaya said: Having spoken thus, Arjuna, chastiser of enemies, told Kṛṣṇa, "Govinda, I shall not fight," and fell silent.
Purport
Dhṛtarāṣṭra must have been very glad to understand that Arjuna was not going to fight and was instead leaving the battlefield for the begging profession. But Sañjaya disappointed him again in relating that Arjuna was competent to kill his enemies (parantapaḥ). Although Arjuna was for the time being overwhelmed with false grief due to family affection, he surrendered unto Kṛṣṇa, the supreme spiritual master, as a disciple. This indicated that he would soon be free from the false lamentation resulting from family affection and would be enlightened with perfect knowledge of self-realization, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and would then surely fight. Thus Dhṛtarāṣṭra's joy would be frustrated, since Arjuna would be enlightened by Kṛṣṇa and would fight to the end.
What this verse teaches
Arjuna surrenders to Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa begins to speak
- Gita for Life
- Surrender
Śrīla Prabhupāda lectures 5
- Bhagavad-gītā 2.7–11 1966-03-02 · New York
- Bhagavad-gītā 2.1-10 and Talk 1968-11-25 · Los Angeles
- Bhagavad-gītā 2.8-12 1968-11-27 · Los Angeles
- Bhagavad-gītā 2.9 1973-08-15
- Bhagavad-gītā 2.1-11 1975-10-17
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