Right action for you depends on your conditioning

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

स्वधर्ममपि चावेक्ष्य न विकम्पितुमर्हसि ।।

धर्म्याद्धि युद्धाच्छ्रेयोऽन्यत्क्षत्रियस्य न विद्यते ।। 2.31 ।।

swa-dharmam api chāvekṣhya na vikampitum arhasi

dharmyāddhi yuddhāch chhreyo ’nyat kṣhatriyasya na vidyate

Even considering your own duty you should not waver (from the fight). Since there is nothing else better for a kshatriya than a righteous battle.

~Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2, Verse 31

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Question: Acharya Ji, Pranaam! After explaining to Arjuna that he shouldn’t grieve for the embodied beings in verse 31 of the 2nd Chapter of Bhagavad Gita, Shri Krishna says, “Even considering your own duty, you shouldn’t waver. Since there is nothing else better for a Kshatriya than a righteous battle.”

Being born into a Kshatriya clan, fighting represents Arjuna’s conditioning and training, and what he has…