So right now we are discussing 5th reason for Arjuna for not fighting the first four were 1> Compassion 2> Enjoyment 3> Sinful reactions 4> destruction of family traditions Krishna tries to give Arjuna pep talks saying come on don’t be like this be a man fight! But Arjuna counters that what kinds of man will raise weapon against his own teachers and grandfather better than that I will live as beggar (2.5 and 1.45 Arjuna said this) that it is better for us to live by begging but now he says that actually I am not sure what I should do.

Now Arjuna is speaking opposite

BG 2.6

na caitad vidmah kataran no gariyo

yad va jayema yadi va no jayeyuh

yan eva hatva na jijivishamas

te ‘vasthitah pramukhe dhartarashtrah

SYNONYMS

na — nor; ca — also; etat — this; vidmah — do we know; katarat — which; nah — for us; gariyah — better; yat va — whether; jayema — we may conquer; yadi — if; va — or; nah — us; jayeyuh — they conquer; yan — those who; eva — certainly; hatva — by killing; na — never; jijivishamah — we would want to live; te — all of them; avasthitah — are situated; pramukhe — in the front; dhartarashtrah — the sons of Dhritarashtra.

TRANSLATION

Nor do we know which is better — conquering them or being conquered by them. If we killed the sons of Dhritarashtra, we should not care to live. Yet they are now standing before us on the battlefield.

 

na ca itad, we certainly do not know, vidmah, I do not know, 

kataran no gariyo, kataran, which is, gariyo, better, 

yad va jayema, whether we should attain Jaya. yadi va no jayeyuh, or we should not attain victory that they attain victory, either we win or we lose. E.g. say in a game match the captain says I don’t know which is better my team wins to the other team wins, so someone will say issue is not simple here because yan eva hatva na jijivishamas, if they die I will have no desire to live 

te ‘vasthitah pramukhe dhartarashtrah, so those who I have no desire to kill they are here in front of us to fight with us and therefore the issue has become so very complex, 

Arjuna has three option related to Fight

  1. Fight and Wins -> kill his relatives which he doesn’t want and the victory will be tainted with blood of his relative.
  2. Fight and Loses -> he was not worried for losing this but definitely he will not like this.
  3. Doesn’t fight -> live a life of beggar -> disgrace to Kshetriya, that he will not perform his duty, Krishna has already told him like Anarya, asvargyam, akirti-karam. So it will be dishonor for your race, it will not lead you to haven, and it will lead you to infamy. 

So he is confused now-> lose – lose situation -> what should I do there is nothing to mitigate the situation,  how should I move forward -> so when he was thinking that I don’t know what to do, this is actually beginning of intelligent -> intelligence means to know what to do when we don’t know what to do is intelligence. So if I don’t know what to do then how I will know what to do? So when we don’t know what to do by looking around then we  look upon and prayed – seek guidance seek help from the Supreme Lord Krishna, and when we do that it is not that we always have opportunity to directly hear form Krishna but Krishna is in our heart and Kirshna is present in the words of Guru, Sadhu and shashtra so Krishna will guide us. So Arjuna has come to a mood where he has frozen by indecision and as he has frozen by indecision. He starts think what should I do and he starts realizing I don’t know. So what one should do when He doesn’t know what he should do, He should turn upward to turn towards God. And Arjuna was so fortunate that the same Lord is next to him so he turned towards and says Krishna I surrender to you.