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Arjuna was thinking that it was impious to fight with his relatives, but Kṛṣṇa was insisting that he How could Arjuna act impiously?

We should read Bhagavad-gītā as it is and understand the philosophy as Arjuna understood it. Arjuna was a friend of Kṛṣṇa’s. In the eleventh chapter, after having seen the universal form, Arjuna tells Kṛṣṇa: “I have in the past

Arjuna, on the other hand, took Kṛṣṇa as his most intimate friend. Arjuna was not a Vedāntist but a fighter, a warrior. People may say, “Oh, Arjuna was not a Vedāntist, nor even a brāhmaṇa or a sannyāsī. Nonetheless, in Bhagavad-gītā (4.3), Kṛṣṇa says that Arjuna is His very dear friend and devotee: bhakto

Arjuna could understand that although Kṛṣṇa was playing the part of his friend, He was nonetheless the Arjuna was in perfect knowledge, yet Kṛṣṇa instructed him for our benefit. Arjuna requested Kṛṣṇa’s instructions, which are set forth for all human society. After hearing Bhagavad-gītā, Arjuna addressed Kṛṣṇa as paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma, “the Supreme Brahman

When Arjuna told Śrī Kṛṣṇa that the haṭha-yoga system was too difficult to execute, the Lord pacified (Bhagavad-gītā 6.47) Arjuna did not know anything but Kṛṣṇa, and Arjuna requested that Kṛṣṇa be present When Duryodhana approached Kṛṣṇa with Arjuna and requested Him to take sides, Kṛṣṇa said, “I have eighteen At first Arjuna thought it wise to take the eighteen divisions with their many thousands of elephants Thus in order to pacify Arjuna, Kṛṣṇa told him not to worry, although he could not execute the aṣṭāṅga-yoga

The activities of Kṛṣṇa are not ordinary but divine. We need only understand the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa with the gopīs. These pastimes are not ordinary. gopīs is different. Because people cannot understand Kṛṣṇa, when they hear about Kṛṣṇa’s dancing with the gopīs, they take We should not immediately try to understand Kṛṣṇa’s dealings with the gopīs, for they are very confidential

Kṛṣṇa never says that He, Arjuna, and all the soldiers shall eventually become one.

In Bhagavad-gītā Kṛṣṇa tells Arjuna that He has revealed this most confidential knowledge to him because Arjuna is His very dear friend.

Arjuna made friends with the Lord, and Hanumān carried out the orders of Lord Rāmacandra.

Arjuna accepted Kṛṣṇa as his friend, and Kṛṣṇa was his best friend. We can love Kṛṣṇa as Arjuna did, or as mother Yaśodā did.

Arjuna is personally teaching us by accepting Kṛṣṇa as his guru. The lessons given by Śrī Kṛṣṇa are not simply meant for Arjuna but for everyone.

There are many pastimes enacted by Kṛṣṇa. He fights and kills demons, and He performs His pastimes with the gopīs. There are many books about Kṛṣṇa, kṛṣṇa-kathā, and this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement has already published Apart from Bhagavad-gītā, which is spoken by Kṛṣṇa, we can read these other books. Simply by hearing about Kṛṣṇa and speaking about Him, we will be immediately relieved from the suffering

mother, Devahūti, just as Kṛṣṇa personally expounded the knowledge of Bhagavad-gītā to His friend Arjuna Like Arjuna, Devahūti was aware that she was before her spiritual master, as indicated in the following

Vyāsadeva accepted Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Arjuna also accepted Kṛṣṇa as Para-brahman One may say that because Arjuna was a friend of Kṛṣṇa’s, he accepted Him in this way, but this is not Arjuna gave evidence that Vyāsadeva also accepted Kṛṣṇa.

Kṛṣṇa tells Arjuna, “Because you are My friend, I am revealing to you the most confidential dharma.”

Arjuna did not fight without Kṛṣṇa’s order; therefore we must receive our orders also.

In this way Kṛṣṇa essentially told Arjuna that he was fool number one for lamenting for those things Arjuna was lamenting for the body, thinking that it was horrible that his relatives would be killed in

In the tenth chapter of Bhagavad-gītā, Kṛṣṇa gives Arjuna some indication of His infinite glory, and

Arjuna understood that although Kṛṣṇa was his friend, He was the Supreme Personality of Godhead and therefore

Kṛṣṇa is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha, being, knowledge and bliss, with form. Understanding Kṛṣṇa in full is understanding all of His features. The gopīs are the expansions of Rādhārāṇī, and the various forms of Kṛṣṇa are manifest just to taste It is in Vṛndāvana that Kṛṣṇa plays with His cowherd boyfriends and dances with the gopīs. It is also in Vṛndāvana that Kṛṣṇa steals mother Yaśodā’s butter.