Book review and opinion on The Bhagavad Gita?
Posted on November 5th, 2007 by admin
ERigby asked:
I 'm that does not request a change of job. I was assigned to write a book review on my opinion and what I gradetto about the Bhagavad Gita. I have read the book and plays align and has interesting ideas and unique but that is about all that side for me. & I have a written page, which is supposed to be HELP 3.! What was your opinion on the trip? What specific part or chapters you find interesting?
Question posted courtesy of: Greg Schmigel’s Book Reviews
I 'm that does not request a change of job. I was assigned to write a book review on my opinion and what I gradetto about the Bhagavad Gita. I have read the book and plays align and has interesting ideas and unique but that is about all that side for me. & I have a written page, which is supposed to be HELP 3.! What was your opinion on the trip? What specific part or chapters you find interesting?
Question posted courtesy of: Greg Schmigel’s Book Reviews
Here is a book review.
I read the Gita every once in a while. I’m intrigued by many of its teachings, especially that of acting without attachment to the act.
I have one problem with the Gita, and it’s a big one. In the first chapter, Krishna tells Arjuna that it’s okay to kill members of his family who are on the opposing side of the war. Krishna says it’s okay because the soul, which is the essence of a human being, can never be destroyed, even if the body can.
I can’t quite come to terms with condoning murder.
That war took place around 3,000 B.C. In those days, when a husband and father died, his family’s very survival was stake. If an unmarried man died, that might be the end of a family’s name. And Krishna says it’s okay to do this to your own family!
If nothing else, no one has a right to interfere with another person’s karma. Murder prevents one from becoming wiser and more devoted, and perhaps burning off some karma, which would bring him closer to leaving the cycle of Samsara.
Yet, at the same time, my favorite line is:
“Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings, nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.” (2.12)