Chapter 2 · Verse 6
सांख्ययोग
न चैतद्विद्मः कतरन्नो गरीयो यद्वा जयेम यदि वा नो जयेयुः | यानेव हत्वा न जिजीविषामस्- तेऽवस्थिताः प्रमुखे धार्तराष्ट्राः ||२-६||
na caitadvidmaḥ kataranno garīyo yadvā jayema yadi vā no jayeyuḥ . yāneva hatvā na jijīviṣāmaḥ te.avasthitāḥ pramukhe dhārtarāṣṭrāḥ ||2-6||
You are urged to acknowledge the limits of your own mind when facing life-altering decisions. Sometimes, you cannot foresee whether winning or losing will bring more grief. This uncertainty shows that you need jnana, the spiritual wisdom that looks beyond immediate outcomes, to guide your karma, which means your actions, when the path ahead is entirely unclear.
2.6 We do not know, which of the two is better for us - whether our vanishing them, or their vanishing us. The very sons of Dhrtarastra, whom, if we slay, we should not wish to live, even they are standing in array against us.
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न not च and एतत् this विद्मः (we) know कतरत् which नः for us गरीयः better यत् that वा or जयेम we should coner यदि if वा or नः us जयेयुः they should coner यान् whom एव even हत्वा having slain न not जिजीविषामः we wish to live ते those अवस्थिताः (are) standing प्रमुखे in face धार्तराष्ट्राः sons of Dhritarashtra. No