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What’s it worth to kill Kauravs?

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Know not avails what empire

What sort pleasures it entails!

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Whom all we wish well in life

Here they face us risking same.

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Us they oppose

Dads, grand-dads

Sons, grandsons, so uncles

Brothers-in-law ’n teachers too!

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Were the stakes be sky high like

Ruling earth ’n heaven as well

Let those Kauravs itch for fight

I won’t have this war on hand.

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Go as they on sinful path

Why earn sin by slaying them.

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See I no gain by their end

Why then kill our kith ’n kin?

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Blinded by greed, bent on deceit

Fail they foresee, war ruins the race.

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Wiser for the woes of wars

Why not Lord we rescind now.

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Die aged en masse dharma’s votaries

Won't that let go youth ours haywire?

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Sex ratio adverse that war ensues

Turns women soft on caste barriers.

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Fallen women all go to hell

What is more their bastards rob

Posthumous rites of forebearers.

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Liaisons low of women wanton

Set our race on ruinous course.

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Is it not said, O My Lord

Fail who dharma are hell bound.

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What urge killing kith and kin,

Why should we sin lusting crown?

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Disarm I now on my own

Let them harm me if they deem.

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Thus spoke Sanjaya:

Thus O Raja

Despaired Arjun

Arms he threw

And sat distressed.

Ends thus

Arjuna’s Dilemma,

The First Chapter

Of Bhagavad-Gita

Treatise of self-help.