There is a proverb in Bengal, khābo ki khābo nā yadi khāo tu pauṣa: "When you are perplexed, 'Whether I shall eat or not eat,' better not eat." Sometimes we come to this point, "I am not very hungry. Whether I shall eat or not eat?" The best course is not eat, not that you eat. But if you eat, then you can eat in the month of December, Pauṣa. Why? It is . . .
In Bengal . . . Bengal is tropical climate, but when it is winter season, it is advised that, "If you eat it is not so harmful, because it will be digested." The night is very long, or the cold season, the digestive power is nice. So when we are confused, "To do or not to do," jābo ki jābo nā yadi jāo tu śauce: "When you think, 'Whether I shall go or not?' better don't go. But when it is a question of answering the call of nature, you must go." Jābo ki jābo nā yadi jāu tu śauce, khābo ki khābo nā yadi khāo tu pauṣe. These are very common sense.
Similarly, Arjuna is now perplexed, "Whether I shall fight or not fight?" That is also everywhere. When there is declaration of war between the modern politicians, they consider . . . just like in the last, Second World War, when Hitler was preparing for war . . . everyone knew that Hitler was going to retaliate, because in the first war they became defeated. So Hitler was again preparing. One, my Godbrother, German, he came in 1933 in India. So at that time he informed that "There must be war. Hitler is preparing heavy preparation. War must be there." So at that time, I think, in your country the Prime Minister was Mr. Chamberlain.
And he went to see Hitler to stop the war. But he would not.