Bhagavad Gita 1.47
सञ्जय उवाच । एवमुक्त्वार्जुनः सङ्ख्ये रथोपस्थ उपाविशत् । विसृज्य सशरं चापं शोकसंविग्नमानसः ॥
sañjaya uvāca: evam uktvārjunaḥ saṅkhye rathopastha upāviśat | visṛjya sa-śaraṃ cāpaṃ śoka-saṃvigna-mānasaḥ ||
Translation
Sanjaya said: Having spoken thus on the field of battle, Arjuna sat down on the seat of the chariot, casting away his bow and arrow, his mind agitated with sorrow.
Reflection
What in your life is sitting down right now, the bow on the ground?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter One
Upāviśat. He sat down. Visṛjya sa-śaraṃ cāpam. Casting away the bow with the arrow on it. The chapter ends not in action but in stillness. The greatest archer of the age sits down inside his own chariot in the middle of two armies, the named bow released, the named arrow released, the mind śoka-saṃvigna, shaken by grief. This is the place from which the next eighteen chapters speak. The Gita does not begin with God or doctrine. It begins with a man sitting down on a battlefield because he cannot stand. Notice this before you turn the page. Everything that follows is a reply to a person who could not stand.