Are we, as humans, able to be at peace?  Or are we meant on purpose, to be passionate?  The Bhagavad Gita says:

Free from self-will, aggressiveness, arrogance, anger, and the lust to possess people or things, he is at peace with himself and others and enters into the unitive state.

Yeah.  Right. I have to be willing to pull myself out of bed.  Aggressive enough to say no to certain requests and angry so I can fight for what I believe is right.  Heck, that’s what Krishna says to Arjuna in this story, telling him not to vacillate, but to do his dharma as a warrior fighting against evil.

Because, and here is the heart of the story, Krishna says “there has never been a time when you and I and the kings gathered here have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist.”

When time is endless, and spirit’s life is forever, passion must be in that clear crystal moment of right-ness, when every fiber of your being is focused on the here and the now.  Like here.  And now.