More Bhagavad Gita

In chapter 2:
Krisna eventually convinces Arjuna to fight, but does not bait him with enlightenment, but rather Dharma. Krisna tells him that he must do his duty, but he is not entitled to the fruits of his actions. To seek a result is to be attached and to be attached is to incur karma. He goes on with "A man engaged in devotional service rids himself of both good and bad actions even in this life". Then one can find liberation from the cycle of birth and death.

In chapter 3:
Krisna also says that one's dharma must be enacted to truly defend the family dynasty. "Whatever action a great man performs, common men follow. " So by laying down and not performing his duty, Arjuna was actually doing more harm than killing his relatives.

Arjuna asks in 3.36 : "O descendant of Vrishni, by what is one impelled to sinful acts, even unwillingly, as if engaged by force?"

Krisna replies in 3.37 : "It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material mode of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring sinful enemy of this world."

I love how sin is entirely based on material pursuits, that is much more logical that Satan or whatever.

And Krisna in 3.42 : "The working senses are superior to dull matter; mind is higher than the senses; intelligence is still higher than the mind; and the soul is even higher than the intelligence."