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The Gita is rendered by the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, to Arjuna the son of Pandu, in the battlefield of Kurukshethra where the Pandavas and Kauravas fought for the Kingdom of Hasthinapur. Chapter one explains us as how the battlefield is observed by Dhuryodhana the elder son of Dhridharashtra and by Arjuna the son of Pandu and how both of them react to it.

Dhridharashtra, as he is blind and could not see what is happening in the battlefield is seeking the guidance of Sanjaya who has the ability to view the battlefield by sitting beside Dhridharashtra’s throne. King Dhridharashtra asks Sanjaya “After assembling in the battlefield for the fight, what did the Pandavas and the Kauravas do?”

Sanjaya responds, “After seeing the form of armies arranged by the Pandavas, King Dhuryodhana is approaching his battlehead Bishma and conveying that the armies have been arranged in a wonderful manner by the Pandavas in the battlefield of Kurukshethra, and also approaches his Guru Dronacharya to inform him about the arrangement of armies in the battlefield by the Pandavas. Dhuryodhana tells Dronacharya that Dronacharya has made a big mistake by teaching Drushtadhyuma the son of Drupada the art of war as he is the one who has arranged the armies for the Pandavas in a mighty form. Dhuryodhana also tells that he has his own army which has the great Bishma, Dronacharya, and other great warriors who have never lost any battle so far in their life. Saying so he requests all of them to help Bishma in the battlefield to fight against the Pandavas.

Now Bishma blew his conchshell to start the battle which sounded like roar of a lion. Then Krishna and Arjuna blew their mighty conchshell to indicate the beginning of the battle and also the brothers of Arjuna blew their respective conchshells. The sound of the conchshells blown by the Pandavas made a big impact in the hearts of Dhuryodhana which is mentioned in the Gita as the sign of the Kaurava’s defeat in the battle.

While describing about the sounds of the conchshells blown by the Pandavas, the Gita describes Krishna as “Hrishikesha” which means owner of all senses and that He controls the senses of only those Jivas who are His pure Devotees because those who are not a pure devotee of Krishna loses the control of senses and act as per his own sense which is out of the control of Hrishikesha and thus his so called Karma pushes him away from Him.

Once the conchshells were blown, Arjuna wants to see the armies arranged by the Kauravas more closely so that he gets an idea about the same and accordingly asks Krishna who accepted to be as Arjuna’s charioteer and also Arjuna’s friend to move the chariot forward in between the two armies so that he could view all his opponents awaiting to fight with him.

As Arjuna said, Krishna drives the chariot forward nearer to the opponent’s armies. Arjuna now sees in the armies arranged by the Kauravas his own relatives and friendsawaiting to fight against him. He sees his great Guru Bishma, Dronacharya, his cousin brothers Dhuryodhana and his other relatives and friends standing in front of him against whom he has to fight.

Since Arjuna is very kind hearted, his veins in his body started to tremble and he could not hold his own bow in his hand. He felt that it is not good to fight against his own family and friends to gain his kingdom which will be not at all a happy moment since he would have lost his own relatives and friends after he won the battle. He is ready to even go into the battlefield unarmed and get lost in the battlefield. Saying all this to Krishna the Supreme Personality of Godhead he dropped his bow and arrow and sat on the chariot and decided not to fight.”