"O Lord, do thou take charge of this helm. My six boatmen (the passions) are very turbulent. Take my boat to the other shore. Do Thou become my ferry-man."

Sri Krishna has nothing to say to the thoughtless, to the idle, to the lukewarm and half-hearted, none of whom is willing to pay that full price for what he wants. Real spirituality is dynamic, not passive. Sri Krishna's message is full of true manliness, virility and strength. And without these coupled with strict ethical culture and steady spiritual practice, there cannot be anything that can be called religion.

There is nothing as precious as discrimination and dispassion and an intense yearning for God.

So Sri Ramakrishna says:

"You must ever and ever discriminate the Real form the unreal, ever reason that He alone is Real and everything else is transient. Always pray to Him with a yearning heart."

In the Bhagavad-Gita, the Lord does not take part in fight, but He is the friend and counselor of Arjuna, the fighter. Let not the Lord Himself fight, but let Him be the incentive and strength to fight, always. And let Him be our friend and charioteer as He was to Arjuna.

-- Swami Radhanandaji