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ICh 2
PURPORTE
According to scriptural codes, a teacher who engages in an abominable action and has lost his sense of discrimination is fit to be abandoned. Bhīsma and Droṇa were obliged to take the side of Duryodhana because of his financial assistance, although they should not have accepted such a position simply on financial considerations. Under the circumstances, they have lost the respectability of teachers. But Arjuna thinks that nevertheless they remain his superiors, and therefore to enjoy material profits after killing them would mean to enjoy spoils tainted with blood.
TEXT 6
न चैतद्विब्रः कतरन्नो गरीयो यद्वा जयेम यदि वा नो जयेयुः । यानेव हत्वा न जिजीविषाम- स्तेऽवस्थिताः प्रमुखे धार्तराष्ट्राः ॥ ६ ॥
na caitad vidmaḥ kataran no garīyo yad vā jayema yadi vā no jayeyuḥ yān eva hatvā na jijīviṣāmas te’vasthitāḥ pramukhe dhārtarāṣṭrāḥ
na —nor;  ca —also;  etat —this;  vidmaḥ —do know;  katarat —which;  naḥ —us;  garīyaḥ —better;  yat —what;  vā —either;  jayema —conquer us;  yadi —if;  vā —or;  naḥ —us;  jayeyuḥ —conquer;  yān —those;  eva —certainly;  hatvā —by killing;  na —never;  jijīviṣāmaḥ —want to live;  te —all of them;  avasthitāḥ —are situated;  pramukhe —in the front;  dhārtarāṣṭrāḥ —the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra.
TRANSLATION
Nor do we know which is better—conquering them or being conquered by them. The sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, whom if we killed we should not care to live, are now standing before us on this battlefield.
PURPORT
Arjuna did not know whether he should fight and risk unnecessary violence, although fighting is the duty of the  kṣatriyas , or whether he should refrain and live by begging. If he did not conquer the enemy, begging would be his only means of subsistence. Nor was there certainty of victory, because either side might emerge victorious. Even if victory awaited them (and their cause was justified), still, if the sons of