Bhagavad Gita

The purpose of the dialogue was to free Arjuna from emotional stress and strife, imbue him with right insight to proceed with the war.

As Guru, Krishna asks Arjuna, the disciple, to offer all his actions, no matter how consequential they are, to him: “Be spiritual; drop all desires; cast aside possessiveness, as Nature’s three guṇas alone do everything.

“There is truly no ‘ownership’ in you at all. Like all other world-constituents, your body and allied factors are also propelled by Nature. Thinking thus, renounce all mento- intellectual rigidity, false notions. Then fight with full mind and fervour. Leave all fear and doubt.”

After hearing Krishna first, Arjuna shed his sympathetic notes, but wondered how to fight his grandfather and teacher. Krishna again gives the necessary spiritual insight, to redress all possible ills, evils and stresses.