In plain words
Kṛṣṇa gave His friend Arjuna help of many kinds, brought him out of difficulties and out of losses in many ways, fetched him back, and even set about the effort of winning him over. Within such a friendship, at certain times, when friends are in difficulty, in sorrow, in loss, they may say a few blunt words, because they are too weak to bear or to hold down their agitation. Those words: if they are true friends, they pay them no heed at all and go on. Both this friend Arjuna and Bhīma and the rest, however many difficulties came and whatever insults befell them, gave no room to any doubt about their friend Kṛṣṇa and never lost faith; they ever bowed their heads to His commands alone and walked in His footsteps. At the very outset, before the war, when He asked, ‘Do you want My army, or do you want Me?’, Duryodhana said he wanted the army. But Arjuna: ‘Swami! If You alone are there, it is enough; all power is contained in You alone. You alone are the one I want,’ Arjuna prayed. Such sacred friendship brought victory. There, because they paid no heed at all to friendship and longed for the strength of arms, the strength of numbers and the strength of wealth, nothing but defeat befell Duryodhana, Duśśāsana and the rest. When we recognise the special worth that lies in the word friendship, this sacredness becomes clear to us; but if we merely use words only, and take friendship to mean, in keeping with the times we live in, coming together for some while and drifting apart for some while, then a friendship that comes about through meeting and parting is not true friendship. Today's friendship is the kind that comes along with the objects of the senses. The friendship of those days was what formed with the divinity of the Lord of the universe as its ground. Here is a small story about it.
The friend called merit alone is the one who comes with us at the end
A man had three friends, it is said. Because those friends took many kinds of crooked paths, a case came up against him in a court. Then he went to the first friend: ‘O friend! You must give evidence for me.