Duty

While reading the Gita, Arjuna’s spirit and Krishna’s desire to do good showed me what the authors truly cared about. The authors cared about fulfilling your duties, yet fulfilling them with dignity and honesty. While in war Krishna became hesitant once on the battle field because his conscious came into effect and his dignity made him unable to hurt another’s kin. He sums up his emotions in these words, "My limbs sink, my mouth is parched, my body trembles, the hair bristles on my flesh"(27). However Arjuna makes him realize that he must fulfill his duty, and makes him feel more comfortable in doing so by reminding him that, “Death is certain for anyone born, and birth is certain for the dead;…the cycle is inevitable.” So in saying these things, Krishna can fulfill his duty, and fulfill it with dignity by doing it with no fear or regrets.
Another form of duty the authors seemed to greatly care about was duty to your family. While contemplating killing another in battle, Krishna is mostly upset because he knows how much it will upset their family. Yet not only does he know it will upset the family, he realizes it will mess up the families cycle and form of responsibilities they all must fulfill. You have a required duty of respect and admiration for your family, and a duty to uphold their honor, and the authors of the Gita greatly revere that duty and believe that it should be greatly upheld at all points in life, even on the battlefield.