Bhagavad Gita · Arjuna Vishada YogaChapter 1, Shloka 38 (1.38)

"Lobhopahata-cetasaḥ" — minds ruined by greed. Arjuna diagnoses the Kauravas' condition: their chitta (mind, discernment) has been "struck down" — upahata — by lobha (greed). Shridhara: rājya-lobhena upahataṃ bhraṣṭa-vivekaṃ ceto yeṣām — those whose discernment has been corrupted by greed for the kingdom. That is why they cannot see the wrong.

Two wrongs:

1. Kula-kṣaya-kṛta doṣa — the wrong that comes from the destruction of the family (expanded in 1.40–1.44).
2. Mitra-droha pātaka — the sin of betraying friends and one's own.

Madhusudana's deep argument — "Bhishma is fighting too, so?" Madhusudana answers another doubt: "even cultured people (virtuous and wise) like Bhishma are engaged in this war of killing kinsmen; the conduct of the cultured is held to be rooted in the Veda (authoritative) — so should it not be right for others too?" The answer: where a motive such as greed is clearly visible, conduct is not regarded as rooted in the Veda (hetu-darśanāc ca — a rule of Mimamsa). In other words, "great people are doing it" is not in itself proof, if some other motive (greed, pressure) can be seen behind it.

Arjuna's moral position. Arjuna says: "they are blind — but I am not." This is an important moral idea: others doing wrong is no excuse for us to do wrong.