Bhagavad Gita 1.45
अहो बत महत्पापं कर्तुं व्यवसिता वयम् । यद्राज्यसुखलोभेन हन्तुं स्वजनमुद्यताः ॥
aho bata mahat pāpaṃ kartuṃ vyavasitā vayam | yad rājya-sukha-lobhena hantuṃ sva-janam udyatāḥ ||
Translation
Alas! we have determined to commit a great sin, for we are ready to kill our own people through greed for the pleasures of kingdom.
Reflection
What word did you use against someone this month that now describes you?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter One
The pivot. Aho bata. Alas. For the first time, Arjuna names himself, and Yudhishthira, and the Pandava cause, as the perpetrator. Rājya-sukha-lobhena. Through greed for the pleasures of kingdom. The label he gave the Kauravas in 1.38, lobhopahata-cetasaḥ, mind destroyed by greed, comes back inverted, applied inward. The mirror has finally turned. He sees himself as the aggressor he had been refusing to recognize. The seeing does not give him peace.