Arjuna provides another analogy, this one highlighting the foolishness of the victims. He compares the warriors to moths that fly with full speed into a blazing fire, only to be destroyed. Similarly, all these people are sprinting toward the Lord’s mouths at top speed, as if eager for their own annihilation. The difference between the river and the moth is ‘intent’. The river flows naturally; the moth *chooses* to fly into the fire because it is attracted by the light. This represents how people are often the architects of their own downfall. Driven by ‘samṛddha-vegāḥ’ (intense passion and speed), they chase material goals that eventually consume them. Arjuna sees that the frantic energy on the battlefield is actually a suicidal race. People are so blinded by their pride and their roles that they cannot see the ‘fire’ right in front of them. This teaches us that without spiritual vision, our very speed and ambition only lead us faster to our own destruction. We must slow down and look at where we are actually heading.