Arjuna uses a powerful natural analogy to describe the inevitable flow of the warriors toward their death. He says: Just as (yathā) the many rushing, powerful waves and currents of rivers (nadīnāṃ bahavo 'mbu-vegāḥ) flow directly and inevitably toward the ocean (samudraṃ evābhimukhā dravanti), in that exact same way (tathā), all these great heroes and warriors of the human world (tavāmī nara-loka-vīrā) are entering and rushing into (viśanti) Your fiercely blazing mouths (vaktrāṇy abhivijvalanti).