Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 2: The Path of Understanding

Bhagavad Gita 2.1

taṃ tathā kṛpayāviṣṭamaśrupūrṇākulekṣaṇam | viṣīdantamidaṃ vākyamuvāca madhusūdanaḥ ||

To Arjuna, who was overcome with compassion and despairing, his troubled eyes full of tears, Krishna spoke these words.

Modern context

The greatest warrior of his day is in tears, and the text says so without embarrassment. Strength and tears are not opposites. Krishna has let him finish; only now, when Arjuna has nothing left to say, does he begin.