It focuses less on what you should do exactly but instead, why you should do it. The Bhagavad Gita was not always considered a central text of Indian philosophy, but became very popular in the early twentieth century: Both Gandhi and Gandhi's assassin cited the text in support of their actions. Krishna assures him that first, killing someone doesn't kill what's really them, i.e., the atman (soul) that survives through multiple rebirths second, that Arjuna is of the warrior caste, and it's his duty to fight and third, because of determinism, it's like these people are already dead directly at the hands of Krishna. Arjuna is considering whether it might in fact be immoral to engage in this battle in which he'd end up killing many of his relatives. What is it to live wisely? What grounds duty? The text is a conversation on the eve of battle between the archer hero Arjuna and his charioteer, Krishna, who in the course of the text reveals himself to be the supreme God. On the classic Hindu text from possibly around the third century BCE., which is a part of the Indian Epic poem Mahabharata, attributed to Vyasa, though that probably wasn't a single person. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 53:46 - 49.3MB)
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