Gandiva : the divine bow given to Arjūna by Lord Agni with two inexhaustible quivers.
... slay the Dhritarashtrians & the otiose Page 514 incident might well have been omitted by God in His drama; but if it had not been possible for Arjuna to hesitate, to fling down the bow Gandiva or to have retired from the fight but for the command of the incarnate God beside him, then his subsequent action in fighting & slaying would have had an entirely different value, the battle of Kurukshetra... Universal Will has seen and arranged from the beginning of this great world-act, this vastly planned cycle of natural happenings, the bodily destruction of Duryodhana and his mighty captains; the bow Gandiva in the hand of Arjuna is only the predestined nimitta. By the stream of successive events it has brought about an arrangement of forces in which the nimitta can become operative. There is the preexisting ...
... there will be victory, prosperity, etc.). Yes, but He is always everywhere. What about Partha-dhanurdhara ? Is the roaring noise of the Anglo-American aeroplanes the pratyancha of the great Gandiva bow? Again I do not know, so I must be silent and watch only the One whom I can see. If I could see Him more clearly I should be able to recognise others too; but at present I cannot and therefore ...
... dismay and dejection, his mind bewildered and his reason at war with itself. His being collapses towards the principle of ignorance and inertia. "I will not fight, " he declares. Casting down his Gandiva, the divine bow and inexhaustible quiver, he cries out, "It is for my welfare that the sons of Dhritarashtra armed should slay me unarmed and unresisting. " He argues that the path of renunciation ...
... consciousness one finds nothing to be done, all is realised—"the eternal play of the eternal child in the eternal garden". But when one lives in the Kurukshetra of forces, one cannot throw away one's Gandiva and say, "I will not fight". Page 96 ...
... he is especially charmed by the poet's consistently working out the law of Karma (cause and effect). The mighty Krishna dies like-an-ordinary-man; the great Arjuna is robbed by the Kabas – his Gandiva, the famous bow, notwithstanding; and even Dharmaraja is made to feel the unpleasant odour of hell for having lowered the ideal of Truth. Sri Aurobindo : What is there the cause and what ...
... crash and rumour stormed the car To that wide stone-paved hall; there loudly paused, While thunderous challenge of the stamping hooves Claimed all the place. Clanging thou leapedst down, Urjoon, Gandiva in thy threatening grasp. Then I beheld thy face, then rose, then stretched My arms out, pausing not to think what god Compelled me from my throne. But war came in Page 316 Between ...
... dejection. “O Krishna, I behold these kinsmen and friends arrayed in hostile armies, and my limbs sink beneath me and my face grows dry, and there are shudderings in my body, and my hair stands on end. Gandiva [his bow] falls from my hand and my very skin is on fire. Yea, I cannot stand and my brain whirls …” ( Gita I, 28-32) Arjuna “thus lapsed into unheroic weakness,” a weakness which might cause him ...
... strength. Arjuna is the divine man, the master-man in the making and as such he has been chosen by the gods. He has a work given to him, he has God beside him in his chariot, he has the heavenly bow Gandiva in his hand, he has the champions of unrighteousness, the opponents of the divine leading of the world in his front. Not his is the right to determine what he shall do or not do according to his emotions ...
... following question. "Why did Sri Krishna ask Arjuna to fight with his arms and even to slay his grandsires, teachers and brethren, and that, too, when Arjuna had already thrown down his own weapon Gandiva, and had declared that he would not fight?" With this question I met him the next day. But once again I had the same experience of massive peace. On that day, however, before leaving him, I told him ...
... consciousness one finds nothing to be done, all is realised –"the eternal play of the eternal child in the eternal garden".¹ But when one lives in the Kurukshetra of forces, one cannot throwaway one's Gandiva and say, "I will not fight”. ¹Sri Aurobindo: Thoughts and Glimpses Page 109 ...
... a crime. It is violence. It is moral compulsion. I do not understand why people threaten us with this weapon of fasting unto death. Lord Krishna did nothing of this sort when Arjuna threw away his Gandiva and refused to fight in the battle of Kurukshetra. Instead, Lord Krishna smiled and induced Arjuna to ask questions and enter into a dialogue. And Lord Krishna answered every question patiently and ...
... of Nature and of His works and act in a perfect spiritual liberty. 49 Quite obviously, the Gita in its immediate intention is a call to "action". Arjuna has to be made to take up his Gandiva again and fight the hosts ranged in front of him. But any action could be effective only if based on conviction and commitment. Nishkama karma ("desireless action"), certainly; but this is, at best ...
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