Arjuna does not lack skill. He lacks the nerve to use it. His bow is the finest in the world and it sits in the dust because the man holding it saw too clearly who he was being asked to kill. The Gītā's teaching on courage begins here — not with a battle cry but with honest paralysis. Krishna does not deny what Arjuna sees. He reframes it: you grieve for people who do not need your grief, and your cowardice is a costume that does not fit you. Stand. The word comes back again and again. Stand not because the odds are good but because standing is what you were made for. Courage in the Gītā is not the absence of trembling. It is acting from your own deepest nature when everything in you screams to stop. Your nature, too, will force your hand.