Passage 5

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In plain words

O Arjuna! I will kill this Bhīṣma now. Let Me go: so saying, the Kṛṣṇa who is God comes to kill me; that very Kṛṣṇa must protect me, he said. Do you see? What Bhakti! He went on praying, The very God who is coming to kill me must protect me. He is coming to punish. O Rāma, protect me. O Īśvara, protect me: he prayed so to no one. Such was his steady Bhakti, his pure feeling. He was Śānta Bhakti itself.

Next, Sakhya Bhakti. Though Arjuna had been in friendship with Kṛṣṇa for so long, he believed that in this world he had no friend to equal Kṛṣṇa. He lived his life in the feeling of Kṛṣṇa, in the spirit of friendship. Thinking the world would see it another way, he kept calling Kṛṣṇa Brother-in-law, brother-in-law. Kṛṣṇa did not like to set up a relationship of that kind. You call Me brother-in-law, but there is no meaning there to fit the word. With the thought that every word must show its meaning, and to give this word brother-in-law its value, He gave His sister Subhadrā to him in marriage and so had Himself called brother-in-law. Now call Me brother-in-law, He said. We must never use a word that has no meaning. This is the true sacredness in the story of God. In hardship and in happiness, in defeat and in victory, in the life in the forest, always, Kṛṣṇa alone is our friend. Kṛṣṇa alone is my companion. This is friendship. To revile in hardship and praise in happiness: that is not true friendship. Whatever the hardships, whatever the sufferings, whatever kinds of torment, Arjuna took Kṛṣṇa as his support, in the faith that he had none but Him. Two bodies, one life. This is true friendship. In this way Arjuna looked upon Him as a friend.

Next, for Dāsya, Hanumān. Whenever you saw him: You are the Lord, I am the servant. You are the Lord, I am the servant, he would say. Once, before they crossed to Laṅkā, everyone lay down to sleep in bright full moonlight.