Bhagavad-Gita: 3rd-5th Teachings

In these teachings, I saw Lord Krishna focusing on action and inaction, as a way to successfully convince Arjuna to fight in battle. I thought Lord Krishna's first ideas of actions and inactions in the 3rd teaching were very interesting and contradictory. Considering that buddhism has aspects of hinduism in it, and this book is hindi. In buddhism one would never be encouraged to fight, quite the opposite really.

(page 45)

What I interpreted from this reading, was that sacrifice, was the ability to detach yourself completely, and act from what the spirit of prayer showed you. And absolutely infinite.

(page 46)

Without action, society would be disorderly. This is only the start of Lord Krishna's persuading techniques, first it all seems completely innocent and with no harm, except the point he is trying to come across with is that Arjuna should fight in the war and that it is completely ok for him to kill people. But yes, it is a different culture and we are in different times. I picture inaction like a person that can let go completely and feel free to follow their heart or their feelings while an active person is absolutely detached and impersonal and shows no emotion towards situations. If an active person were to kill someone, he wouldn't care, it wouldn't be in him. While an inactive person would not consider murder as the right thing to do (what Arjuna is facing right now) and feels the person's death.

(page 62)

In this passage right here is what I previously explained, an active person will not love or hate, the only joy or feeling he will find is in himself. The inner self should not be exposed to the rest of the world, it is only his. And it is supposedly "inexhaustible."

Ignorance in this matter is unacceptable so once you have the knowledge, that as I saw it, was that you were supposed to be active rather than inactive, you are illuminated.