“Sanjaya said, ’Thus addressed by Yudhishthira, Kunti’s son owning white steeds, filled with rage, drew his sword for slaying that bull of Bharata’s race.  Beholding his wrath, Keshava, conversant with the workings of the (human) heart said, “Why, O Partha, dost thou draw thy sword?  I do not, O Dhananjaya, behold anyone here with whom thou hast to fight!  The Dhartarashtras have now been assailed by the intelligent Bhimasena.  Thou comest from battle, O son of Kunti, for seeing the king.  The king has been seen by thee.  Indeed, Yudhishthira is well.  Having seen that tiger among kings who is endued with prowess equal to that of a tiger, why this folly at a time when thou shouldst rejoice?  I do not see here, O son of Kunti, the person whom thou mayst slay.  Why then dost thou desire to strike?  What is this delusion of thy mind?  Why dost thou, with such speed, take up that formidable sword?  I ask thee this, O son, of Kunti!  What is this that thou art about, inasmuch as, O thou of inconceivable prowess, thou graspest that sword in anger?” Thus addressed by Krishna, Arjuna, casting his eyes on Yudhishthira, and breathing like an angry snake, said unto Govinda, “I would cut off the head of that man who would tell me ’Give thy Gandiva to another person.”  Even this is my secret vow.  Those words have been spoken by this king, O thou of immeasurable prowess, in thy presence, O Govinda!  I dare not forgive them.  I will for that slay this king who himself fears the slightest falling from virtue.  Slaying this best of men, I will keep my vow.  It is for this that I have drawn the sword, O delighter of the Yadus.  Even I, slaying Yudhishthira, will pay off my debt to truth.  By that I will dispel my grief and fever, O Janardana.  I ask thee, what do you think suitable to the circumstances that have arisen?  Thou, O sire, knowest the entire past and future of this universe.  I will do what thou wilt tell me.’”

“Sanjaya continued, ’Govinda then said, “Fie, fie,” unto Partha and once more continued to say, “I now know, O Partha, that thou hast not waited upon the old, since, O tiger among men, thou hast yielded to wrath at a time when thou shouldst not have done so.  No one that is acquainted with the distinctions of morality would act in the way, O Dhananjaya, in which thou, O son of Pandu, that art unacquainted with them, art acting today!  He, O Partha, is the worst of men who committeth acts that should not be done and doeth acts that are apparently proper but condemned by the scriptures.  Thou knowest not the decisions of those learned men who, waited upon by pupils, declare their opinions, following the dictates of morality.  The man that is not acquainted with those rulings becomes confounded and stupefied, O Partha, even as thou hast been stupefied, in discriminating between what should be done and what should not.  What should be done and what should not cannot be ascertained easily.  Everything can be ascertained by the aid of the scriptures.