“Where there is neither the attachment to victory nor the fear of defeat — only the joy of living life, and nothing else." "Do not speak untruth.”
"In this way I defeat you again and again, Krishna." "One who plays only to win receives both victory and defeat. I merely play — I engage in divine play (lila). Do you know the meaning of lila?
Chapter 32 of 35 — 6 parts, 2 h 03 m in total.
Seven hundred verses spoken between two armies, in the pause before the first arrow. Arjuna asks the questions any honest person would ask; Krishna answers across eighteen chapters that move from grief, through duty and action, to devotion.
This chapter is the longest in the library by a wide margin, and it approaches the Gita through the people around it — Arjuna, who cannot lift his bow; Bhishma, bound by a vow made for someone else's happiness; Drona, a teacher on the wrong side; Karna, who knows the truth of his birth too late to act on it; and Shakuni, who spent a lifetime on a revenge nobody else remembered.
Each is a different answer to the same question: what do you do when your duty, your loyalty and your conscience point in three directions?