The Yoga of Arjuna's Despair

Arjuna shifts from emotion to strategy. 'Nimittāni viparītāni paśyāmi'—I see adverse omens. 'Na śreyaḥ anupaśyāmi hatvā svajanam'—I don't foresee good in killing kinsmen. This is consequentialist reasoning: not 'it feels bad' but 'I cannot see the path to good outcomes.' When you can't trace action to śreyaḥ (welfare), that's information. If victory requires destroying your own and leads nowhere worth going, maybe the action itself is flawed, not your vision.