October 30,2012.Day 78. Chapter 2. BHAGAVAD GITA - As It Is Original by His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada. TEXT 34.

  Chapter 2. Contents of the Gita Summarized

 TEXT 34

  akirtim capi bhutani 
kathayisyanti te 'vyayam 
sambhavitasya cakirtir 
maranad atiricyate

SYNONYMS

         akirtim--infamy; ca--also; api--over and above; bhutani--all people;kathayisyanti--will speak; te--of you; avyayam--forever;sambhavitasya--for a respectable man; ca--also; akirtih--ill fame;maranat--than death; atiricyate--becomes more than.

  TRANSLATION

          People will always speak of your infamy, and for one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death.

  PURPORT

          Both as friend and philosopher to Arjuna, Lord Krsna now gives His final judgment regarding Arjuna's refusal to fight. The Lord says, "Arjuna, if you leave the battlefield, people will call you a coward even before your actual fight. And if you think that people may call you bad names but that you will save your life by fleeing the battlefield, then My advice is that you'd do better to die in the battle. For a respectable man like you, ill fame is worse than death. So, you should not flee for fear of your life; better to die in the battle. That will save you from the ill fame of misusing My friendship and from losing your prestige in society." So, the final judgment of the Lord was for Arjuna to die in the battle and not withdraw.

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