September 21,2012. Day 44 .BHAGAVAD GITA - As It Is Original by His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada.Chapter 1. (Continued) TEXT 46 .

BHAGAVAD GITA - As It Is. Chapter 1 (Continued)

Chapter 1. Observing the Armies on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra

TEXT 46

 sanjaya uvaca 
evam uktvarjunah sankhye 
rathopastha upavisat 
visrjya sa-saram capam 
soka-samvigna-manasah

SYNONYMS

               sanjayah--Sanjaya; uvaca--said; evam--thus; uktva--saying;arjunah--Arjuna; sankhye--in the battlefield; ratha--chariot; upasthe--situated on; upavisat--sat down again; visrjya--keeping aside; sa-saram--along with arrows; capam--the bow; soka--by lamentation; samvigna--distressed; manasah--within the mind.

  TRANSLATION

         Sanjaya said: Arjuna, having thus spoken on the battlefield, cast aside his bow and arrows and sat down on the chariot, his mind overwhelmed with grief.

PURPORT

        While observing the situation of his enemy, Arjuna stood up on the chariot, but he was so afflicted with lamentation that he sat down again, setting aside his bow and arrows. Such a kind and soft-hearted person, in the devotional service of the Lord, is fit to receive self-knowledge.

  Thus end the Bhaktivedanta Purports to the First Chapter of theSrimad Bhagavad-gita in the matter of Observing the Armies on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra.

prapya punya-krtam lokan usitva sasvatih samah

sucinam srimatam gehe yoga-bhrasto 'bhijayate

The unsuccessful yogi, after many, many years of enjoyment on the planets of the pious living entities, is born into a family of righteous people, or into a family of rich aristocracy.(Bhagavad Gita 6.41)