Verse 1.38-39

Verse 1.38: “Albeit, with their minds overpowered by avarice, they do not perceive the guilt resulting from extinction of families and treachery against friends.

Verse 1.39: “Why must WE not learn to desist from this sin, once we do realise, O World-destroyer, the guilt resulting from extinction of families? (236)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

“Although these have become intoxicated and come over for a war, still we must know our own interest. How should we commit the despicable deed of slaughtering our own people? Should we, knowing its after-effects, indulge in the use of subtle poison? If one notices a lion coming in front along the road he is walking on, it becomes desirable to avoid that road as much as it could be avoided. Lord! just tell me what advantage we would have, were we to leave the light that is oursh and go and sit in the dark? Seeing conflagrations in front of us were we not to avoid them they would surround us in a moment and bum us. In the same way all these sins, confronting us face to face, are trying to corrupt us and knowing this should we be prepared for a war?” Arjuna again spoke on that occasion and said “Hear me, O Shrihari! I shall just mention to you the magnitude of these sins.”