Always begin from your inner condition. Your inner condition is of illusion and consequent suffering. Vedanta asks: For whom? To you, it is not phenomenal. Therefore, you have to learn that it is phenomenal, and that's what the Gita is about. What Arjun is doing is that he is embarking on a course of action that will keep proving to him that the phenomenon is not a phenomenon but a reality.
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Questioner: Hello Acharya Ji. So at times, while learning from the Gita, I get a slightly nihilistic taste of the nature of the world. And the prime example being this verse—like if everything in nature is a process or a phenomenon, we cannot label phenomena as a greater phenomenon or a lesser phenomenon, or a right phenomenon or a wrong phenomenon.
So, my question is: then why should Krishna or Arjuna care if they win the war? Like, Arjuna's duty is to kill the embodied on the other side and to win the war is a natural process. So would be the case if Duryodhan wins it? So, all this Gyan could have been given to Arjuna despite the outcome of the war or the war itself.
Similarly, in our day-to-day life, why should we care so much if a crime, let's say, is committed? Why not just label it as a natural process and smile instead of taking serious actions against the criminal, on which the institution of laws is based?
Acharya Prashant: Your entire question began with: If everything in nature is a phenomenon.
