ततो युद्धाय युज्यस्व नैवं पापमवाप्स्यसि ॥ ३८ ॥
sukhaduḥkhe same kṛtvā lābhālābhau jayājayau .
tato yuddhāya yujyasva naivaṃ pāpamavāpsyasi .. 38 ..
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Treating alike pleasure and pain : i.e., without liking the one and disliking the other. Thus fighting, you will not incur sin. [This injunction as to fighting is only incidental.]
Yoga.
Worldly considerations have been adduced (ii. 31—38) to dispel grief and attachment; but they do not form the main subject of teaching. On the other hand, it is the realisation of the Supreme Reality that forms the main subject of this portion (ii. 12, &c.) of the discourse; and this, which has been treated of already (ii. 20 et seq, is concluded in (ii. 39) with a view to exhibit the division of the whole subject of the sàstra. For, by making such a division of the whole subject of the sàstra as has been shewn here, that portion of the work which will treat of the two paths later on (iii. 3) will proceed the more smoothly; and the hearers also will understand it the more easily for this division of the whole subject. Hence says the Lord :