Bagahavadagadad-Gita?

What a mouthful of a title!!! I just started reading The Bhagavad-Gita and besides learning that the title wears the pants in this relationship, I've also learned three things.

1. Sanjaya is AWESOME! Mostly because whenever I think of him, Sanjaya Malakar of American Idol pops into my head; this mental image makes reading more fun :)

2. There is some kind of war going on

3. Blood is thicker than water



So, I believe that the war is between families, because Arjuna's big seems to be that he can't bear killing one of his family members. Not even the reward of being a king will change his mind.

"They are teachers, fathers, sons,
and grandfathers, uncles, grandsons,
fathers, and brothers of wives,
and other men of our family.

I do not want to kill them
even if I am killed, Krishna;
not for kingship of all three worlds,
much less for the earth!"

I wish I had that kind of loyalty, I would probably take my brother out in a second (not really!!!!) Still, I feel a little bad for Arjuna, because he seems pretty broken to have to kill a kinsmen.