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37.yadhyapyethe na paSyanthi lobhopahathachethasaH

     kulakshayakrtham dhosham mithradhrohe cha paathakam   

 

Even though these aathaathyins do not see the sin of destroying one's own clan and the betrayal of friendship

 because their intellect is clouded by avarice,

 

yadhyapi- eventhough

 

lobhopahathachethasaH- these kouravas whose mind is covered with greed

na paSyanthi- do not see

 

dhosham -the defect , here means sin

 

kulakshyakrtham- out of destroying one's own clan

 

mithradhrohe cha paathakam- and the sin in betrayal of friendship

 

 

38.kaTham na jneyam asmaabhiH paapaath asmaath

                                                                          nivarthirthithum

     kulakshayakrtham dhosham prapSyadbhih janaardhana

 

How can it be not known by us, who see the sin of destroying our clan, to turn away from such a deed, Janardana?

 

kaTham na jneyam asmaabhiH- do we not know

 

nivarthithum asmaath paapaath- to turn away from this sin

 

because

 

prapaSyadhbhiH kulakshayakrtham dhosham- we see the sin of committing kulakshaya

 

Janardana- Arjuna desses Krishna thus meaning hat He is resorted to by people in trouble and He alone should show the way out of this.

 

Dharma is of two kinds, saaDhaarana Dharma and visesha Dharma. It is adharma to  kill any being which is a saadhaarana dharma but that one can kill even a cow if it attacks is the visesha dharma. Here the dharma Arjuna quotes is the saadhaaranahdharma and one can kill the aathathaayins without hesitation is the visesha dharma which takes precedence over saadhaaranadharma.

 

Arjuna replies to an anticipated question `when they are intent on fighting with you and they are aathathaayins why are you talking about kulakshaya krtham dhosham etc.,' by saying that their intellect is clouded by greed which prevents them from seeing the sin but we who are of better knowledge should not do so.

 

Arjuna proceeds to explain to Krishna about dharma and the results of adharma. It is said that `achaaraprabhavo Dharmo Dharmasya prabhuH achyuthaH.' Dharma consists in right conduct and the Lord is the master of dharma. When He Himself is standing in front controlling the activities Arjuna needs no other authority than His words. But like carrying coal to Newcastle , Arjuna speaks about dharma to Him. Here we cannot help recalling the incidents when the Lord Himself as a human obeyed the words of his guru, Visvamithra and killed a woman without compunction and similarly in Parsauramavathara He killed His mother obeying the order of His father. To show to the world that visesha dharma is to be followed in special circumstances. Moreover dharma consists in denouncing even your close relatives if they go against it, as Vibheehsana left Ravana.

 

In the subsequent sk lokas Arjuna elaborates on the effects of kulakshaya.

 

 

 

 

 

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