Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

with determination; yuddhaya, for fighting, i.e.
with the determination, 'I shall either defeat the
enemies or shall die.'
2.38 Treating happiness and sorrow, gain and loss,
and conquest and defeat with equanimity, then
engage in battle. Thus you will not incur sin.
English Translation of Sri Sankaracharya's Sanskrit
Commentary - Swami Gambhirananda
2.38 As regards that, listen to this advice for you
then you are engaged in battle considering it to be
your duty: Krtva, treating; sukha-duhkhe,
happiness and sorrow; same, with equanimity, i.e.
without having likes and dislikes; so also treating
labha-alabhau, gain and loss; jaya-ajayau, conquest
and defeat, as the same; tatah, then; yuddhaya
yujyasva, engage in battle. Evam, thus by
undertaking the fight; na avapsyasi, you will not
incur; papam, sin. This advice is incidental. [The
context here is that of the philosophy of the
supreme Reality. If fighting is enjoined in that
context, it will amount to accepting combination of
Knowledge and actions. To avoid this contingency
the Commentator says, 'incidental'. That is to say,
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