Explanation

Arjun’s motivation for not killing his greedy cousins and relations sprang from his love and sympathy for them. Despite the fact that he believed it was a sin to kill them because they were his family, he was unaware that his feelings were materialistic rather than transcendental.

He had forgotten his dharma as a fighter that he was beyond this corporeal body, blinded by compassion. His hallucination had progressed to the point that he was willing to lay down his arms and let Kauravas kill him unarmed.

Verse & What we can learn

A person who is totally under the influence of attachment cannot see or perceive the situation/truth as it is but thinks what he is doing is right and just.

Attachment always deviates a person from the path of Dharma.

In the next verses, we will see to what level Arjuna’s unbalanced Mind takes him.

Let’s learn to live with “The Gita” via Meditation Affinity…