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The Bhagavadgita

The document provides an overview of the Bhagavad Gita. It describes the Gita as a sacred Hindu scripture where Krishna counsels the reluctant warrior Arjuna on the battlefield. Arjuna hesitates to fight against his cousins but Krishna urges him to fulfill his duty and fight for justice. The document also discusses how Gandhi drew inspiration from the Gita during difficult times and how the Gita's message of bhakti, or devotion to God, has influenced Hindu spirituality.

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The Bhagavadgita

The document provides an overview of the Bhagavad Gita. It describes the Gita as a sacred Hindu scripture where Krishna counsels the reluctant warrior Arjuna on the battlefield. Arjuna hesitates to fight against his cousins but Krishna urges him to fulfill his duty and fight for justice. The document also discusses how Gandhi drew inspiration from the Gita during difficult times and how the Gita's message of bhakti, or devotion to God, has influenced Hindu spirituality.

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The Bhagavadgita

E. Royston Pike

Main Points Of The Text


* Bhagavad Gita means the song of the lord or god.
* It is an epic like Iliad and Odyssey written by Homer, an ancient Greek poet.
* Bhagavad Gita is narrated by Krishna to Arjuna.
* It is about the Great War between the two celebrated families of Indian princes.
* Krishna is the charioteer of the young Indian Prince named Arjuna, who is his
cousin.
* Dr.  Radhakrishna says that Gita appeared in the fifth century before
Christianity.
* Arjuna considers war as evil and demonic  act because it causes violence and
destruction.

Summary
The first great teaching of Bhagavadgita is this astonishing Divine Reality, this
God of God, this Brahma, is a God to be approached and worshipped with such
an intimately passionate love as that of man for a woman and a woman for a man.
The name 'Bhagavadgita' means the song of the Lord For about two thousand
years, the Bhagavadgita has been the most cherished of all the sacred scriptures.
The author of it is anonymous.
In the war of Mahabharata, Lord Krishna plays the role of the charioteer of Arjuna.
He refused to take up arms of either side, since he is closely related to all the
princes engaged but he has consented to serve as Arjuna's charioteer and to aid
him with his advice.
Dhritarastra and Pandu are brothers. Dhritrarashtra was blind and was therefore
deemed king of incapable of reigning. When they came of age, Pandu became
king of Hastinapura. But after a time he retired into solitude in the Himalaya
Mountains and there died. Dhritrarashtra there upon became king in his turn, not
withstanding his blindness. He was  a father of a hundred sons, commonly called
the kuru princes. They were all bad, and the worst of them was the eldest,
Duryodhana, who was bold, crafty and malicious. King Pandu had had five sons
by his two wives.
The Pandu princes were good and wise while their cousins the kurus were evil. In
their childhood, their uncle, king Dhirtarashtra showed them great kindness,
bringing them up with his own sons and intending to give them a share in the
kingdom when they were old enough. But the Pandu princess were driven away
without giving them their share. This made them humiliated and resorted to take
back their share from Dhristratarsatra.
In the war between the Pandavas and Kauravas, Arjuna hesitated to start the war
because when he was just about to give the world to change, his heart has been
smitten with compunction. He thinks to himself that in only a few minutes time,
so many of those brave men on his side and on the side facing him will be biting
the dust in their death agony and that he may perhaps crave a way through to the
throne! The very thought fills him with revulsion, and he turns suddenly to his
charioteer and implores him to tell him what to do.
Arjuna said that it is not good to make war one one's kinsfolk and slaughter them.
He hated triumph and domination, wealth and ease that could be won sadly.
Arjun's perception of cousins is that they are blinded by lust and anger, so that
they can't see hoe how wrong it is to make war on one's own kinsfolk and
slaughter them. Krishna tells reassures him to fulfill his duty, to fight for justice.

In Hindu religion, Krishna is an incarnation of avatar of Vishnu one of the great


gods of the Hindu Trinity. After death of the body the spirit goes on to inhabit
another body, which is similar to the replacing of old clothes by new ones.

Gandhi is highly affected or influence by Bhagavadgita. He said that he found a


solace in the Bhagavadgita which he didn't fine even in the Sermon on the Mount.
He says that when he is completely disappointed he turns to the Bhagavadgita.
He further says that in the verse of the religious scripture, he begins to smile in
the midst of overwhelming tragedies.

The influence of 'bhakti' love of God manifested in human form this is the great
doctrine of Bhagavadgita that has become incorporated in the spiritual
inheritance of the Hindu peoples.

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