SLOKA OF THE DAY:

Bhagavad Gita As It Is -
Chapter 1 Text 36
papam evasrayed asman
hatvaitan atatayinah
tasman narha vayam hantum
dhartarastran sa-bandhavan
sva-janam hi katham hatva
sukhinah syama madhava

papam--vices; eva--certainly; asrayet--must come upon; asman--us; hatva--by killing; etan--all these; atatayinah--aggressors; tasmat--therefore; na--never; arhah--deserving; vayam--we; hantum--to kill; dhartarastran--the sons of Dhrtarastra; sa-bandhavan--along with friends; sva-janam--kinsmen; hi--certainly; katham--how; hatva--by killing; sukhinah--happy; syama--will we become; madhava--O Krsna, husband of the goddess of fortune.

TRANSLATION

Sin will overcome us if we slay such aggressors. Therefore it is not proper for us to kill the sons of Dhrtarastra and our friends. What should we gain, O Krsna, husband of the goddess of fortune, and how could we be happy by killing our own kinsmen?

JOURNAL:

So, as the week comes to an end, we leave our hero, Arjuna, hitting his bottom and asking that question that we have all asked at one time or another in our lives; "Why Lord? Why has this happened?"

It seems to me that bad things happen to good people so that even better things can happen later. It can be very hard to see when I am in the midst of it but that is the way of faith. If Arjuna knew that his problem would bring the Bhagavad Gita into existence he might be reacting differently.

But he doesn't know, so he takes a moment and asks God "why"? Is it not these moments that all faith boils down to?