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“Even if we believe in non-violence, it would not be proper for us to refuse, through cowardice, to protect the weak. I might be ready to embrace a snake, but, if it comes to bite you, I would kill it to protect you. If Arjuna had forgotten the difference between kinsmen and others and had been so filled with the spirit of non-violence so as to bring about a change of heart in Duryodhana, he would have been another Shri Krishna. However, he believed Duryodhana to be wicked.”
― Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi
― Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi
“Every seeker has, at one time or another, to pass through a conflict of duties, a heart-churning.”
― The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi
― The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi
“Where there is possessiveness, there is violence.”
― Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi
― Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi
“A person who believes in fighting and does not regard it as violence, though it is violence, is here being asked to kill.”
― Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi
― Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi
“The first thing to bear in mind is that Arjuna falls into the error of making a distinction between kinsmen and outsiders. Outsiders may be killed even if they are not oppressors, and kinsmen may not be killed even if they are. The”
― Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi
― Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi
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