Krishna still refuses to speak. Arjuna has come to a point where he can neither stop talking nor find any more arguments. Strangely compelling is the grace of the Lord’s dignified silence. Here, in the stanza, Arjuna almost concludes his arguments and mentions the tradition which he had heard, that “men whose family-religion has broken down will go to hell.”But, on the other hand, when we understand the statement in all its scientific implications, even the worst of us will feel the immediate urgency for revolutionising our point of view. We have already seen that the family Dharma means, in the context of our times, only the cultural purity in the family, which is the unit of the community. We also found that since their culture is essentially spiritual, to the Hindus “religion is culture.”

So, Arjuna implies that when the unity of home-life is shattered, and when purity of living and sanctity of thought are destroyed in the individual home-life, the generation that has caused such a shattering is ordering for itself and for others a melancholy era of hellish sorrows and sufferings.

Sri Sankaracharya did not comment on this sloka. The commentary starts from 2.10.