Had this chat with a few Indians a few nights ago at a Roti Prata joint at Changi Village, in Singapore. This amid the warm tropical breeze with smell of curry in the open air.
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We were saying that as long as everyone do their part in the bigger process, then everything will be alright. This even extends to the soldier in a war. As the war has been decided and started, the role of the soldier is to fight, much as the role of the teacher is to teach. In the midst of war, the soldier cannot lay despondent. He will have to fight until the next stage of the process comes about. If he wouldn't have to fight, that would have been decided before the war, not during the war.
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In the Bhagavad Gita, it says that Ajuna was so despondent to have gone into the battlefield against his relatives, that he said that it was better for the enemy to kill him unarmed and unresisting on the battlefield, and so he cast aside his bow and arrows and sat down the chariot, his mind overwhelmed with grief. In confusion he started a long conversation with Krisna - a profound and interesting one moving on what I think are symbolic to the dilemmas we face in our lives.
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I shan't speak so much about the Gita now as I am still reading it and trying to understand it. May be more later. :)
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