Slokas of Bhagawadgita
Part 1 – Arjuna Vishad Yoga (Sad Stage of Arjuna)

First part of Bhagawadgita is called “Arjuna Vishaad Yoga” which means, the sad state of Arjuna. Bhagawadgita starts with the inquiry from Dhritarashtra (the king and the father of Kaurvas who are on negative side of the story, Mahabharat). Being blind, he inquires his driver or chariteer, Sanjay about the happenings at the war zone, Kurukshetra.

Bhagawadgita 1.1:

dharma-kṣhetre kuru-kṣhetre samavetā yuyutsavaḥ
māmakāḥ pāṇḍavāśhchaiva kimakurvata sañjaya

Dhritarashtra Asked: O Sanjay, gathering at the holy field (dharma kshetra) of Kurukshetra, and desiring to fight, what happened with my sons (Kauravas) and Pandavas ?

Kurukshetra is the field of war.

Sanjay – he is the charioteer and advisor of the king Dhritarashtra.

As the king Dhritarashtra, being blind, cannot go to the war field, he tries to get to know the happenings at the war.

Kurukshetra is the physical land at which the war took place. Kurukshetra is actually a holy and celestial place of devatas (positive gods who work for the super natural power). It is also the land of dharma where, all people follow the dharma (laws of Nature).  At such great land, the war took place.

Dhritrashtra, the spiritually blinded man, as he is attached to the sons and as he desires his sons to win the war, “he gets concerned, if the spiritually and divinely powerful land might positively influence his sons, Kauravas, making them to seek for truce with pandavas”. On one hand he wants his sons to win the war and on the other hand, he is also afraid inside as his sons are following adharma path. So he is curious about the happenings at the war zone.

This sloka is also a direct message to all people of the world that, this whole world is supposed to be a holy and celestial god’s place (of devatas). The world is supposed to be like Kurukshetra (celestial land that follows the Dharma). The world is supposed to be Dharma Kshetera (The field of Dharma). But all people are making it a complex world of war zone with negative and positive traits (positive of very few people), very few following the dharma and the majority of the people following the adharma ways.

It means, when the balance between the land and the dharma goes out BADLY then Mahabharat will takes place in the world.

Now, apply this analogy to the human body. Land applies to the body of the human. Dharma applies to the soul in the body which is the internal field in the body and the external field is the world. When the internal field goes out of balance with the external field, then adhama will be done by such man. When adharma increases beyond certain level, then, war will take place against such man. The war will happen in the internal field and also in the external field. Prior to the the push and pull in the mind are experienced and it is some kind of churning that starts and out of such churning some people turnout to evolve positively and some stop at certain level in their evolution process and remain still negative or with weaknesses. But as the negativity and weaknesses go beyond certain equilibrium level, the war will happen in real lives. Large fights not only physically but also legally and emotionally and socially are also wars and they bring some destruction at the end to bring balance in the Nature (of human traits).