Why do the wise never grieve?
Arjuna grieves over Bhishma, Drona, and his kinsmen. But Krishna turns the focus inward, urging him to examine the very nature of his sorrow. The dead have always outnumbered the living. Life and death go together. If none were to die, where would even ants find space to move on this earth? What is needed is right understanding.
“The enlightened grieve neither for the living nor the dead.”
This verse marks the true beginning of Krishna’s teaching - where grief becomes the doorway to Self-knowledge. Drawn from the exposition of a knower of Truth and spiritual exponent, Poojya Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha, from Essential Slokas for Memorisation, Bhagavad Gita
Read the full verse and meaning: https://www.bhoomananda.org/bhagavad-gita/chapter-2-sankhya-yoga/verse-11/
