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C
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Sainya-Darçana
Observing the Armies
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LOKA
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dhåtaräñöra uväcadharma-kñetre kurukñetre / samavetä yuyutsavaùmämakäù päëòaväç caiva / kim akurvata saïjaya
A
NVAYA
dhåtaräñöra uväca—
King Dhåtaräñöra said;
saïjaya—
O Saïjaya;
kim—
what?;
eva—
indeed;
akurvata—
did they do;
mämakäù—
my sons (headed by Duryodhana);
ca—
and;
 päëòaväù—
the sonsof Päëòu (headed by Yudhiñöhira);
samavetä—
assembled;
dharma-kñetre kuru-kñetre—
in the land of 
dharma
namedKurukñetra;
yuyutsavaù—
desiring to fight.
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RANSLATION
Dhåtaräñöra said: O Saïjaya, what did my sons andthe sons of Päëòu do, having assembled at the sacredland of Kurukñetra, desiring to fight?
 
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The Innermost Intention ofThe Shower of Essential Meanings
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AKRAVARTÉ
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HÄKURA
gauräàçukaù sat-kumuda-pramodésväbhikhyayä gos tamaso nihantäçré-kåñëa-caitanya-sudhä-nidhir memano’dhitiñöhan sva-ratià karotu präcéna-väcaù suvicärya so’hamajïo’pi gétämåta-leça-lipsuùyateù prabhor eva mate tad atrasantaù kñamadhvaà çaraëägatasya
May Çré Kåñëa Caitanya Mahäprabhu, who dispelled the darknessof the earth by distributing His own name; who is increasing thebliss of the lotus-like
bhaktas
; who is the storehouse of the nectarof 
 prema
;
 
and who is the bestower of 
unnata-ujjvala-rasa
, which isthe most elevated relationship of divine conjugal love, performHis playful pastimes in my heart. Although I am ignorant, byfollowing the conclusions of Çré Gauräìga-Sundara, the crest-jewel of all
sannyäsés
, and by deliberating on the thoughtsexpressed by the previous Vaiñëava
äcäryas
, I have become greedyto taste a drop of nectar in the form of the
Gétä.
Therefore, saintlypersons should forgive this surrendered soul.
The Supreme Absolute Truth,
 parabrahma
Çré Kåñëa, whoselotus feet are the ultimate objective of all devotion and
çästra
,appeared in His original human-like form as Çré Vasudeva-nandana, the son of Çré Vasudeva, in Çré Gopäla-puré. Al-though He is
adhokñaja
, supremely inconceivable, beyond thecognition of material senses, He nevertheless became visible
 
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to the eyes of common men through the medium of His
yogamäyä
potency. He imparted the instructions of 
Bhagavad-gétä
, thus delivering the
 jévas
of this world who were drown-ing in the ocean of birth and death. He submerged them inthe great ocean of 
 prema
by bestowing upon them a taste of the sweetness of His beauty (
saundarya-mädhuryä
) and otherqualities. He appeared in this world, being bound by Hispromise to protect the saintly persons and annihilate the
asuras
. But on the pretext of removing the burden of theearth, He in fact awarded supreme protection in the form of 
mukti
(liberation) to miscreants, to those who were antago-nistic towards Him and to all those
 jévas
drowning in thisvast ocean of material existence which is compared toKumbhépäka-naraka, a hellish planet where sinful personsare cooked in boiling oil.Bhagavän Çré Kåñëa instructed
Bhagavad-gétä
so that evenafter His disappearance,
baddha-jévas
,
 
conditioned souls, whohave been influenced by ignorance since time immemorialand completely bound by lamentation, illusion and so forth,could be delivered. Another purpose was to uphold His glo-ries which are found in the
çästra
and sung by the
munis.
Hedirected these instructions of 
Bhagavad-gétä
to His very dearassociate,
 priya-parikara
Arjuna, who had voluntarily ac-cepted a veil of lamentation and illusion.This
Gétä
has three divisions:
karma-yoga
,
 jïäna-yoga
and
bhakti-yoga
. The eighteen chapters of 
Bhagavad-gétä
areblessed with the purport of the entire
Vedas
which manifestas eighteen types of knowledge. Thus Çré Kåñëa reveals the
 parama-puruñärtha
or supreme objective.
Niñkäma-karma-yoga
, working without attachment to the fruits of one’s pre-scribed duties, is described in the first six chapters, and
 jïäna-yoga
(acquiring union through knowledge) in the last sixchapters. The six chapters placed between them are moreconfidential, describing
bhakti-yoga
, which is more rarely
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