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As garments are changed
Krishna offers Arjuna a comparison: someone puts aside worn clothing and takes new garments. Likewise, the embodied one leaves worn bodies and enters new ones.
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Hinduism
Hindu traditions encompass many texts and paths of inquiry. In the Bhagavad Gita, part of the Mahabharata, everything begins with doubt.
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Returning, again
In the Bhagavad Gītā, Krishna teaches Arjuna that the mind is restless and unsteady and may wander in many directions. Whenever it strays, it should be restrained and brought back to the Self. The verse is an instruction about disciplining the mind, not an episode from everyday life.
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Action and its fruits
In Bhagavad Gītā 2.47, Krishna addresses Arjuna and distinguishes action from its fruits: a person has a claim to action, but not to its results. One should not act solely for those fruits, nor become attached to inaction.
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Arjuna stands on a chariot, facing people he knows and is expected to fight. He stops. He no longer knows whether fighting is right.
Krishna, his charioteer, listens and speaks to him about duty, action and knowledge. Over the centuries, this dialogue has received many interpretations.
