| 38. Then, treating
alike pleasure and pain, gain and loss, success and defeat, prepare for
the battle, and thus wilt thou not incur sin.Treating alike pleasure and
pain: i.e without liking the one and disliking the other. Thus fighting,
you will not incur sin. This injunction as to fighting is only incidental.
Yoga. Worldly considerations have been adduced (ii. 31 - 38) to dispel grief
and attachment ; but they do not form the main subject of teaching. On the
other hand, it is the realization of the Supreme Reality that forms the
main subject of this portion of the discourse ; and this, which has been
treated of already with a view to exhibit the division of the whole subject
of the sastra. For, by making such a division of the whole subject of the
sastra as has been shown here, that portion of the work which will treat
of the two paths later on (iii. 3) will proceed the more smoothly ; and
the hearers also will understand it the more easily for this division of
the whole subject. Hence says the Lord: |
