>> One of the interpretations is that the Gita's topic is about the body, and that fighting against your family >> means fighting bad habits (like drinking coffee, playing video games, ..) that you consider as friends but in >> reality are barriers which prevent your liberation. In this interpretation Duryodhana (who is blind)
>> represents the mind succumbing to passions




I find this fascinating.  
I find the whole idea of a emergent cybernetic whole arising ,not as a sum of parts, but as a  transcendence of common parts. Thus the body, mind, state ,city ,cell - are all emergent wholes interlocked in mutually beneficial  division of labour. But to identify the self with the whole, is actually the whole identifying itself with the whole, and hence an illusion and a tautology. Then what's left  ? Who sits out in the space beyond and holds meaning ? who is left who can identify ... 
 
 each hand holding up the rest, an eternal cycle
all knowledge is simulation, but who knows ?

ps:in the story, Duryodhana was fooled into thinking the palace floor was solid, as it was cunningly artificed, when actually it wasn't, and he fell into the water , and Draupadi laughed, and this angered D greatly, and this kicked off  the war