[ BHAGAVAD GITA · 1.44 · spoken by Arjun ]
He called them greedy. Then he realized — he was no different. What now?
Alas. What have we become? Driven by greed for a kingdom and its pleasures — we came here to kill our own people. We are the sin we accused them of.
SANSKRIT
उत्सन्नकुलधर्माणां मनुष्याणां जनार्दन । नरके नियतं वासो भवतीत्यनुशुश्रुम (or नरकेऽनियतं) ॥१-४४॥
KRISHNA’S LINE
“The hardest enemy to see is the one in the mirror.”
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