यद्यप्येते न पश्यन्ति लोभोपहतचेतसः।कुलक्षयकृतं दोषं मित्रद्रोहे च पातकम्॥
yady apy ete na paśyanti lobhopahata-cetasaḥkula-kṣaya-kṛtaṃ doṣaṃ mitra-drohe ca pātakam
Word by word
The verse says
Even if these men, their minds overcome by greed, see no fault in destroying a family, no crime in betraying a friend —
In plain words
Here his tone changes. He starts explaining the other side's failings.
They are blinded by greed, he says. They cannot see the wrong in what they are doing.
He has moved from his own grief to their moral condition. It is a smaller place to be standing, and the argument gets worse from here.
Where you've felt this · in relationships
Halfway through a painful conversation about your own hurt, you begin explaining what is wrong with the other person's character. It feels like clarity arriving. It is usually the point where you stopped saying the true thing.
Going deeper
Arjuna is about to deliver a long speech about family duty, and this verse is where he changes footing to make room for it.
Up to now he has been speaking from inside his own distress: my limbs, my bow, my people, I cannot. Honest, if increasingly padded. Now he turns outward and starts assessing the enemy's blindness — which conveniently places him above them, as the one who can still see.
It is a familiar move and rarely a good sign. Grief that cannot be held sometimes converts itself into a position of superior understanding.
And there is a real irony in the phrasing. Lobhopahata-cetasaḥ — minds overcome by greed. Arjuna is naming exactly the condition Krishna will diagnose in him a few verses later, though the thing overcoming Arjuna is not greed but sorrow. Both are cases of a mind being run by something it did not choose. He can see it clearly in them, and not at all in himself.