“When Your Own Stand Against You”
@Nihar Ranjan Acharya
अर्जुन: सामने अपने हैं।
श्रीकृष्ण: अपने हैं तो सामने क्यों हैं?
Arjuna: They are my own standing before me.
Sri Krishna: If they are your own, why are they standing against you?
The battlefield of Kurukshetra was not just a war of weapons — it was a war of emotions. Arjuna’s hands trembled, not because of fear, but because his opponents were his own.
He said, “They are my people, my own.”
And Krishna, the eternal teacher, smiled and asked,
“If they are truly your own, why are they standing against you?”
This one question pierces through time — revealing a universal truth.
Sometimes, those whom we call our own may stand opposite to our path, not because they are enemies, but because their truth is different from ours.
Blood may connect people by relation,
but “values” connect souls by purpose.
When the principles of Dharma, honesty, and righteousness are on one side,
and personal attachments on the other —
the wise must choose Dharma.
Krishna’s question was not to harden Arjuna’s heart,
but to awaken his clarity —
to remind him that relationships without righteousness are attachments without essence.
In life, we too face our own Kurukshetras —
where we must decide between emotion and evolution,
between silence and stand,
between relation and realization.
To stand for truth, even when your own stand against you —
that is the true spirit of Krishna’s wisdom.
For in the end, your “own” are not those who share your blood,
but those who share your cause.
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©Nihar Ranjan Acharya
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