Arjuna Uvaacha:
senayOrubhayOrmadhyE rathaM
sthaapayamEchyuta || 21||
yaavadEtaan nireekShEhaM
yOddhukaamaanavasthitaan
kairmayaa saha yOddhavyamasmin raNasamudyamE
||22||
Arjuna says: "Oh Achyutha, place the
chariot between the two armies so that I can see as far as possible all those
who have assembled here with a desire to engage in the battle."
Arjuna asks Krishna to take his
chariot and place it in between the two armies so that he can get to see all
those assembled to participate in the war. The most interesting point is senayorubhyomadhye.
The author conveys us many things by
placing the chariot between the two armies:
1.
The best position to assess the strength and weaknesses
of two sides is to be equidistant from either.
2.
Arjuna is undecided about dharma and adharma. His
thoughts are swaying. He does not know what is right and what is wrong. He does
not know what to do. This position shows the status of Arjuna's mind.
3.
By placing Arjuna's chariot at the center the author
wants to bring the entire Bhagavad-Gita to the center stage.
4.
When one is preaching he has to be unbiased. So the
author brings the preacher Lord Krishna to the center which is an unbiased
position. What he tells is applicable to all whether it is a friend or foe.
Arjuna calls Krishna as Achyutha
which means who is flawless. He has his own doubts about himself and the author
wants to highlight the difference between the turbulent minds of Arjuna in
contrast with that of Krishna who is Achyutha.
Also Arjuna says that he wants to
see as far as possible so as to visualize all those who have assembled for the
war. The meaning may be:
1.
It gives us an indication of the enormity of the armies
so that it could not have been possible to see all those assembled.
2.
It may mean that it was not humanly possible to
visualize the entire army. This puts a limitation to the human capacity in
spite of being unbiased to realize good and bad thoughts within one's own mind
which are at constant war with each other.
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