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[[Category:Bhagavad-gita As It Is (1972) - Chapter 02|b01]]
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==== TEXT 1 ====

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:सञ्जय उवाच ।
:तं तथा कृपयाविष्टमश्रुपूर्णाकुलेक्षणम् ।
:विषीदन्तमिदं वाक्यमुवाच मधुसूदनः ॥१॥
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:sañjaya uvāca
:taṁ tathā kṛpayāviṣṭam
:aśru-pūrṇākulekṣaṇam
:viṣīdantam idaṁ vākyam
:uvāca madhusūdanaḥ
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==== SYNONYMS ====

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''sañjayaḥ uvāca''—Sañjaya said; ''tam''—unto Arjuna; ''tathā''—thus; ''kṛpayā''—by compassion; ''āviṣṭam''—overwhelmed; ''aśru-pūrṇa''—full of tears; ''ākula''—depressed; ''īkṣaṇam''—eyes; ''viṣīdantam''—lamenting; ''idam''—this; ''vākyam''—words; ''uvāca''—said; ''madhusūdanaḥ''—the killer of Madhu.
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==== TRANSLATION ====

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Sañjaya said: Seeing Arjuna full of compassion and very sorrowful, his eyes brimming with tears, Madhusūdana, Kṛṣṇa, spoke the following words.
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==== PURPORT ====

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Material compassion, lamentation and tears are all signs of ignorance of the real self. Compassion for the eternal soul is self-realization. The word "Madhusūdana" is significant in this verse. Lord Kṛṣṇa killed the demon Madhu, and now Arjuna wanted Kṛṣṇa to kill the demon of misunderstanding that had overtaken him in the discharge of his duty. No one knows where compassion should be applied. Compassion for the dress of a drowning man is senseless. A man fallen in the ocean of nescience cannot be saved simply by rescuing his outward dress—the gross material body. One who does not know this and laments for the outward dress is called a ''śūdra'', or one who laments unnecessarily. Arjuna was a ''kṣatriya'', and this conduct was not expected from him. Lord Kṛṣṇa, however, can dissipate the lamentation of the ignorant man, and for this purpose the ''Bhagavad-gītā'' was sung by Him. This chapter instructs us in self-realization by an analytical study of the material body and the spirit soul, as explained by the supreme authority, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. This realization is made possible by working with the fruitive being situated in the fixed conception of the real self.
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