This picture show Krishna's ideals about the universe and how you affect your life to better or worse. These ideals are basically the one Krishna tried to teach to Arjuna.
Krishna has a very personal thought about the universe, he think that it all depends on action and that anything we do, no matter how small can influence the normal balance of the world and society. By the end of the last teaching we are described the difference between men that go through life being lazy and who expect everyone to be at their service, and brave honest hard working men by the simple concept of taking action. Krishna also talks about outcomes and results for people who are lazy and such, which ends up being an unwanted or undesired result.
Krishna explains how everything we do has outcomes, and this remind me of a popular quote "no good deed goes unpunished" which ceratinly refers to your actions and the following consequences on what you did, and how consequences differ on how people react and handle different things.
Three new categories are presented to us in teaching 17; lucidity, passion and dark inertia. When sacrifices are made, Krishna puts darkness over dark inertia and passions because sacrifice is done without faith. On the other hand, when sacrifice is done with faith, it should “be offered with lucidity when the norms are kept and the mind is focused on the sacrificial act, without craving for its fruit.” (pg. 132). In dark inertia, sacrifices are done without meaning and without feeling
I believe at the end, you choose your own faith, you control your actions, you are aware of what is happening and you can manipulate the present to change the future, and ultimately this is what Krishna was trying to teach Arjuna. As Nelson Mandela said: "I am the master of my destiny, I am the captain of my soul".
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