Chapter 2: Sāṅkhya-yoga: – Yoga of Contemplation on SelfVerse 32
यदृच्छया चोपपन्नं स्वर्गद्वारमपावृतम् ।
सुखिन: क्षत्रिया: पार्थ लभन्ते युद्धमीदृशम् ॥
yadṛcchayā copapannaṃ
svarga-dvāram-apāvṛtam
sukhina: kṣatriyā: pārtha
labhante yuddham-īdṛśam – 2.32
Immensely fortunate are the kshatriyas (warring community), who get the opportunity to fight a war of this kind, which chance has brought, opening the gates to heaven.
Chapter 2: Sāṅkhya-yoga: – Yoga of Contemplation on Self - Verse 32
Ma Gurupriya
Krishna reminds Arjuna that Arjuna did not love or seek the war at all. Duryodhana’s enmity towards Pandavas began right from his childhood.
At the time the kingdom was partitioned, King Dhritarashtra had driven them off to the barren land of Indraprastha. There Pandavas strove hard and prospered. Seeing the fortune during Yudhishthira’s Rajasooya Yāga, Duryodhana became sleepless. Shakuni, his uncle, prompted him to invite Yudhishthira for dice play, cheated him by foul means, and sent Pandavas for a long forest exile followed by a risky incognito life.
On Pandavas’ return, Duryodhana did not part with their kingdom, saying “fight and get it”.
Thus the war has come unsought, by chance. Only fortunate kshatriyas will have such a grace. It is undoubtedly an open door to heaven, the place for the virtuous, points Krishna.
