Krishna never gives advice unless you ask for it. We ourselves don't listen to our own advice, so why should anybody else listen? Krishna is not like that. He says, come on, get up. Don't give in to this kind of depression. Common sense advice. A sort of motivational talk. Swami Vivekananda thought that this is a very, very important verse. I think it's one of the most important verses in the whole Bhagavad Gita. Unless you make up your mind to take action to make your life better, nobody in the world can help you. No Krishna, no Christ, no Ramakrishna, no Buddha, nobody
Swami Sarvapriyananda summarizes the first chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God".