Acharya Prashant explains the context of the battlefield, noting that Shri Krishna attempted to prevent war as a messenger, but once on the field, the right action is to fight. He addresses Chapter 5, Verse 18 of the Bhagavad Gita, which describes how the learned look with equanimity upon a Brahmin, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and an eater of dog's meat. He distinguishes this equanimity from numbness, describing the lowest state of consciousness as a lack of awareness, similar to a raindrop that makes no distinction between falling on the Ganga or on cow dung. The intermediate level of consciousness is the worldly view that sees only differences and diversity, which serves the ego's need to make choices, achieve, or reject based on appearances.