The Bhagavad Gita · 3 of 3 · tr. Kashinath Trimbak Telang
Chapter I, Section 1c
In consequence of the predominance of impiety, O K ri sh n a!
the women of the family become corrupt ; and the women becoming corrupt, O descendant of V ri sh n i!
intermingling of castes results; that intermingling necessarily leads the family and the destroyers of the family to hell; for when the ceremonies of (offering) the balls of food and water (to them) fail , their ancestors fall down (to hell).
By these transgressions of the destroyers of families, which occasion interminglings of castes, the eternal rites of castes and rites, of families are subverted.
And O G anârdana!
we have heard that men whose family-rites are subverted, must necessarily live in hell.
Alas!
we are engaged in committing a heinous sin, seeing that we are making efforts for killing our own kinsmen out of greed of the pleasures of sovereignty.
If the sons of Dh ri tarâsh t ra, weapon in hand, should kill me in battle, me weaponless and not defending (myself), that would be better for me.
Sañ g aya said: Having spoken thus, Ar g una cast aside his bow together with the arrows, on the battle-field, and sat down in (his) chariot, with a mind agitated by grief.
§ Ask Guru about this passage →Themes
Ancestor Venerationpraxis
Ritual maintenance of relationship with the dead as ongoing presences whose favour is cultivated and whose offence is propitiated. Shinto uji-gami and obon, Norse disir and the alfablot, Celtic samhain and the feast for the deceased, Roman lares and parentalia, Chinese ancestor rites, Vedic śrāddha. Practice-coded rather than belief-coded: distinct from soul_migration (cosmological doctrine of soul-transmigration) and theosis_deification (deification trajectory); ancestor_veneration centres the living's ongoing ritual obligation to the dead.
The text explicitly details the failure of 'balls of food and water' offerings to ancestors as a direct cause for their fall into hell, making the ritual maintenance of relationship with the dead a central theme.
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Truth as the fundamental structure of reality.
The passage describes the catastrophic collapse of social and ritual order (Dharma) resulting from impiety, mirroring the Zoroastrian concept of Asha as the fundamental structure of reality that must be maintained.
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