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As the battle of Arjuna and Prince Duroydhana unfold, Arjuna is caught off guard when he observes both armies and considers them both an equal presence of his family. While Arjuna sits contemplating the current dilemma in his heart, Krishna, Arjuna’s “avatar” if you will, comes to him and tells him to push forward and destroy the enemy. Krishna believes that all beings are always in existence; that “youth and age exist in the body of the embodied self, in this way, one takes on another body…these bodies have an end; but they are said to belong to the eternal embodied self—that which is never lost and cannot be measured.” (p. 19-21).
Krishna defines “discipline” as being able to distinguish between that which is woven in this world, and that which is imperishable. The limits of the superficial body should not prevent someone from doing what he must do; in this case, defeating evil and restoring the power of good. According to Krishna, a true master realizes that the eternal is the reality. The one aware of this are not affected by the momentary changes that come with the senses. Arjuna, as a warrior, must overcome what he senses, follow his dharma—his duty—where the war against evil is prioritized above all else. …show more content…
He will become naturally meditative, and will not respond to either good or bad fortune, and live not in the senses, but in the self; being free from ego—the “I, me, mine” which instigate