[ BHAGAVAD GITA · 1.28 · spoken by Arjun ]
He called them "evil." Five verses later he called them "my own people." What changed?
Five verses ago he called them evil. Now he calls them my own people. His limbs are sinking. His mouth is drying up. The warrior's body is betraying him.
SANSKRIT
कृपया परयाविष्टो विषीदन्निदमब्रवीत् । अर्जुन उवाच । दृष्ट्वेमं स्वजनं कृष्ण युयुत्सुं समुपस्थितम् ॥१-२८॥
KRISHNA’S LINE
“The body knows before the mind does. Listen when it speaks.”
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