Scene I

(Krishna and Arjuna on the battlefield.)

ARJUNA: Krishna, the battle is about to start. Alas, I see death-forces all around me.

KRISHNA: Stop, Arjuna. Your heart has always been a perfect stranger to fear.

(Krishna sings.)

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Klaibyam ma sma gamah...

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(Yield not to feebleness.)

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ARJUNA: My Lord, please tell me something about death.

KRISHNA: Arjuna, this is a divine battle, so be not afraid of killing others, nor of being killed yourself. Here is my teaching with regard to death.

(Krishna sings.)

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Vasamsi jirnani yatha vihaya

navani grhnati naro ’parani

tatha sarirani vihaya jirnany

anyani samyati navani dehi

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> (As a man casts off his worn-out garments and puts on new ones, so also the embodied soul casts off the worn-out body and enters into a new form for manifestation.)

ARJUNA: Is there anything that is not killed?

KRISHNA: Yes, Arjuna, the soul is not killed. The soul cannot be killed.

(Krishna sings.)

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Nai ’nam chindanti sastrani

nai ’nam dahati pavakah

na cai ’nam kledayanty apo

na sosayati marutah

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(Weapons cannot cleave the soul.

Fire cannot burn the soul.

Water cannot drench the soul.

Wind cannot dry the soul.)

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Nimitta matram bhava savyasachin

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(O Arjuna, become a mere instrument.)

``` ARJUNA: O Krishna, fear of death is gone. I shall be afraid neither of killing others nor of being killed by others. Fight I must, and conquer the forces undivine.

From:Sri Chinmoy,The Singer of the Eternal Beyond, Sky Publishers, New York, 1973
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