Chapter 2 Overview
Verse 2.3
क्लैब्यं मा स्म गमः पार्थ नैतत्त्वय्युपपद्यते। क्षुद्रं हृदयदौर्बल्यं त्यक्त्वोत्तिष्ठ परन्तप।।2.3।।
klaibyaṁ mā sma gamaḥ pārtha naitat tvayyupapadyate kṣhudraṁ hṛidaya-daurbalyaṁ tyaktvottiṣhṭha parantapa
Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 2, Verse 3
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Sanskrit to English Translation
Translator:
Do not yield to impotence, O Arjuna, son of Pritha. It does not befit you. Cast off this mean weakness of the heart! Stand up, O conqueror of foes!
A Reading - Rantideb
Why: 'cast off this mean weakness of the heart' names the paralysis as smallness rather than validating it as wisdom.
In life: we often dress up avoidance as prudence, caution, or sensitivity, when it's really just fear wearing a nicer outfit.
Teaching: get honest about which of your hesitations are genuine discernment and which ones are just fear you haven't called by its real name yet.
klaibyamunmanliness
mā smado not
gamaḥyield to
pārthaArjun, the son of Pritha
nanot
etatthis
tvayito you
upapadyatebefitting
kṣhudrampetty
hṛidayaheart
daurbalyamweakness
tyaktvāgiving up
uttiṣhṭhaarise
param-tapaconqueror of enemies
Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)
Author:
2.3 क्लैब्यम् impotence? मा स्म गमः do not get? पार्थ O Partha? न not? एतत् this? त्वयि in thee? उपपद्यते is fitting? क्षुद्रम् mean? हृदयदौर्बल्यम् weakness of the heart? त्यक्त्वा having abandoned? उत्तिष्ठ stand up? परन्तप O scorcher of the foes.No commentary.