"The first portion of Arjuna's apology for hesitation on the battlefield introduces a point of great philosophical and psychological significance. Surveying his personal habits, upon which he has become seriously dependent -- those habits connected with Dhritarashtra, the body -- he says that he "cannot fight." Yet he has come the full distance across a kingdom to wage this battle, and has gathered around him the best available warriors as part of his fighting force. Within him are strong forces for, and strong forces against, fighting. Arjuna is at the symbolic balance-point reached also by every human being who arrives at a time of internal struggle. Arjuna knows that the fight has to be fought, but here, as always, the last minute is the time when renunciation of one's only-recently-outgrown past seems opposed by all the forces of nature. The moment for dissipation of all that cohered in past habits inevitably calls forth a spasm of the old energies. No preparation for this moment is ever entirely adequate, for it will never guarantee success. So Arjuna is confronting, in his own way, Bulwer Lytton's "dweller on the threshold." He is seeing, enhanced by the moment of renunciation, all of those energies which incarnated, too blindly, in personality-gratifying experiences." "