... exist which conflicts Arjuna's conscience and causes him to pause and reflect. He is bewildered as to what he should do when he is confronted with the two main concepts found within Hinduism: dharma and moksha. Arjuna raises the question of the meaning of dharma and how it should be reconciled with it's antithesis, moksha. Arjuna poses this question in the following quotation, "If you think understanding is more powerful than action, why, Krishna, do you urge me to this horrific act?" (Bhagavad-Gita, p. 41). Krishna's response to the question posed by Arjuna is that, "Earlier I taught the twofold basis of good in the world-for philosophers, disciplined knowledge; for men of discipline, action. A man cannot escape the force of action by abstaining from actions; he does not attain success just by renunciation" (Bhagavad-Gita, p. 41). The concept expressed within these lines directly contradicts with the more aesthetic aspects of renunciation of ...

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