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Gita based motivational talk Main Lecture - Background

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  Friends, my last post, about Arjun’s Disorientation had ended with the shlokas:   सञ्जय उवाच । एवमुक्त्वा हृषीकेशं गुडाकेशः परन्तप । न योत्स्य इति गोविन्दमुक्त्वा तूष्णीं बभूव ह ॥ २ - ९॥ तमुवाच हृषीकेशः प्रहसन्निव भारत । सेनयोरुभयोर्मध्ये विषीदन्तमिदं वचः ॥ २ - १०॥ Sanjay said:  Saying so to Hrishikesh (God Krishna), Pramtapa (World’s greatest performer of penance) Gudakesha (who’d conquered sleep) (Arjun) declared before Govind (Krishna the protector of cows) “I will NOT fight.” (Gita 2:9) Then for the pleasure of (Arjun) the glorious descendant of King Bharat, Hrishikesh (God Krishna) thus spoke  there  in the middle of the two warring armies all set and ready for the start of their battle. (Gita 2:10) And with the next shloka, viz.: श्रीभगवानुवाच । अशोच्यानन्वशोचस्त्वं प्रज्ञावादांश्च भाषसे । गतासूनगतासूंश्च नानुशोचन्ति पण्डिताः ॥ २ - ११॥ God Said. You worry about those not worth being worried about, and...