Nature of Pure Devotee
Arjuna refused to fight the war out of compassion for his friends and relatives In the first chapter of the Bhagavad Gita we saw how upon Arjun's request krsna placed the chariot in between two phalanxes of soldiers. Senayor ubhayor madhye ratham sthapaya me acyuta (BG 1.21) Krsna has agreed to take an inferior position as Arjuna's charioteer. So this is very nice position for devotional service. Non devotees aspire to merge into the existence of the supreme or to become one with krsna. But by devotionl service a devotee can become greater than krsna even up to the stage of ordering krsna, just as Arjuna, that is power of Pure devotional service. Pure devotional service is rendered without any material motivation, So here we see that Arjuna has identified himself with the body, considering himself to be belonging to the kuru family with all his relatives, brothers, nephews, his grandfather ad others. therefore he refused to fight. Identifying our Disease In the Shastra it is sa...