Actually, these discussions of scripture is not to be acted unless there is relationship between the speaker and the audience. So audience means the disciples. Disciple means who accepts the discipline. Sisya. Sisya. The exact Sanskrit word is sisya. A sisya means... There is a verb, Sanskrit verb, which is called sas. Sas means controlling. From sas, the "sastra" comes. Sastra means controlling books. And from sas, sastra. Sastra means weapons. When argument fails, reason fails... Just like the state controls. First of all they give you the laws. If you break the laws, if you don't follow the regulation books, means sastra, then next step is sastra. Sastra means weapons. If you don't follow the regulation of the government, keep to the right, then there is police batons sastra. You have to be controlled. If you are gentleman, then you be controlled under the instruction of the sastras. And if you are defying, then there is trident of Durgadevi.
Lecture on Bhagavad-gita 7.2, San Francisco, September 11, 1968