Krishna, the "Lord of souls", talks to Arjuna or Gudâkesha, "lord of sleep" (he who has conquered sleep). The "field of virtue" (the battlefield) is this world; the five brothers (representing righteousness) fight the hundred other brothers (all that we love and have to contend against); the most heroic brother, Arjuna (the awakened soul), is the general. We have to fight all sense-delights, the things to which we are most attached, to kill them. We have to stand alone; we are Brahman, all other ideas must be merged in this one.
- Swami Vivekananda
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 7/Inspired Talks SATURDAY, June 29, 1895. (The Swami came this morning with a Gita in his hand.)
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