Page 588 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6

Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6
After granting Arjuna the supernatural eye to behold His divine form and power, which Arjuna did dazed and bewildered seeing great warriors on both sides of army in the battlefield of Mahabharat entering the fearful mouth set with terrible tusks of Bhagwan Krishna, caught between the teeth with crushed heads, the Lord makes Arjuna realise that the latter is only an instrument in the scheme of things being unfurled and advises him to kill all those warriors already killed by Him. It is time to recall what our Babuji Maharaj has given us in the article “GITA”.
Lord took a few minutes to bring Arjuna to the state of super-conscious prevailing in Brahmanda mandal before granting him His vision. Being incapable of beholding the Sight Arjuna prays for the usual human form of lord to gain his peace, which the Benevolent Lord does quickly.
Bhagawan Krishna, later, as a means of reminder to what has already been given to Arjuna as a message earlier, details the nature of ‘Svabhava’ and ‘Svadharma’ of a Ksatriya to which clan Arjuna belongs. To quote Dr S Radhakrishnan ( vide BG Chap XVIII, V-43) “ “Heroism, vigour, steadiness, resourcefulness not fleeing even in a battle, generosity and leadership are the duties of a Kshatriya born of his nature.” We may say that these qualities from his ‘Svabhava’ and expression of these qualities in action is his following ‘Svadharma’. While telling the merit of ‘Svadharmaacharana’ briefly as “Better is ones’ own law, though imperfectly carried out than the law of another carried out perfectly one does not incur sin when one does the duty ordained by one’s own nature” (BG Chap XVII, V-47), Lord clearly leads Arjuna to understand what is ‘Saranagati’, by further telling him, “flee unto Him with all thy being. O Bharata (Arjuna). By
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