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Contents of the Gita Summarized
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he could not discharge the duties. He is therefore asking Lord Krṣṇa, the supreme spiritual master, to make a definite solution. He offers himself to Krṣṇa as a disciple. He wants to stop friendly talks. Talks between the master and the disciple are serious, and now Arjuna wants to talk very seriously before the recognized spiritual master. Krṣṇa is therefore the original spiritual master of the science of  Bhagavad-gītā , and Arjuna is the first disciple for understanding the  Gītā . How Arjuna understands the  Bhagavad-gītā  is stated in the  Gītā  itself. And yet foolish mundane scholars explain that one need not submit to Krṣṇa as a person, but to “the unborn within Krṣṇa.” There is no difference between Krṣṇa’s within and without. And one who has no sense of this understanding is the greatest fool in trying to understand  Bhagavad-gītā .
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न हि प्रपश्यामि ममापनुद्या- द्यच्छोकमुच्छोषणमिन्द्रियाणाम् । अवाप्य भूमावसपत्नमृद्धं राज्यं सुराणामपि चाधिपत्यम् ॥८॥
na hi prapaśyāmi mamāpanudyād yac chokam ucchoṣaṇam indriyāṇām avāpya bhūmāv asapatnam ṛddhaṁ rājyaṁ surāṇām api cādhipatyam
na —do not;  hi —certainly;  prapaśyāmi —I see;  mama —my;  apanudyāt —they can drive away;  yat —that;  śokam —lamentation;  ucchoṣaṇam —drying up;  indriyāṇām —of the senses;  avāpya —achieving;  bhūmau —on the earth;  asapatnam —without rival;  ṛddham —prosperous;  rājyam —kingdom;  surāṇām —of the demigods;  api —even;  ca —also;  ādhipatyam —supremacy.
TRANSLATION
I can find no means to drive away this grief which is drying up my senses. I will not be able to destroy it even if I win an unrivalled kingdom on the earth with sovereignty like the demigods in heaven.
PURPORT
Although Arjuna was putting forward so many arguments based on knowledge of the principles of religion and moral codes, it appears that