Gita

The Bhagavad Gita has a few themes that are rigorously repeated throughout the narration. Arjuna is pained with the task of deciding whether or not he should kill his family and friends. He consults in his close friend Krishna to decide what he should do and Krishna delivers many life lessons. Krishna specifically discusses dharma, karma, and how to obtain liberation from samsara. Krishna is a powerful god and confidant to Arjuna during a time of war and chaos. Arjuna, however, does not seem to

The Bhagavad Gita, an excerpt from a traditional Hindu reading, the Mahabharata, is the story between a split family fighting for the throne. Arjuna, a great warrior, has the duty, or dharma, of fighting fellow family members and friends to take possession of the crown. As he is going into war, Arjuna has a chariot driver, Krishna. He is unaware that Krishna is actually a god taking a disguise as a human in the world. Arjuna suddenly becomes unsure of fighting when he arrives to the battlefield and

The Bhagavad Gita looks at the purpose of life in their own unique way. Cycles of human life can be perceived on varying levels, dependent on your religion and beliefs. When considering the Hindu beliefs, their worldviews can be described as the actions you enforce here on earth, motivated by either desire or duty. When living in a world dominated by personal inclinations, it is easy to fall into the temptations of selfish desire. Krishna radiates his concerns of exactly this in the form of apprehension

The Bhagavad-gita is a religious Hindu text that tells the story, in dialog, of the god Krishna and Arjuna (the warrior) during wartime. Its literal meaning is The Song of the Bhagavan. The Bhagavad-gita teaches us about how we should live our day-to-day lives. It tells us that God should always be with us in all our doings and be at the center of our lives. The Gita has many teaching in it but a very important one would be that our bodies are our material self are not the same. No matter what happens

The Bhagavad Gita, which means the song of the lord, is a part of the Mahabharata. It is a story about the discourse between Arjuna, a prince, and Lord Krishna, who is “an incarnation of the highest of all divinity, creator of the entire universe.” In the book, Arjuna is confused about his duty, dharma, to the law of an elite warrior and kinship. It is Krishna who helps guide and encourage Arjuna to follow his true path, svadharma. The book discusses three broad ways to live: devotion to god (bhakti)

In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna is transforming Arjuna masculinity through persuading him to follow his dharmic duty, discovering the true meaning of his actions for the killing and displaying his divine supreme being. According to Arjuna, the war was pointless; due to his false dharmic belief, which is killing his family is not what a man does. Krishna confronts Arjuna by explaining his pure dharmic duty; a wise man is untouched by the misperception of ideas and is united merely to do the right thing

The Bhagavad Gita opens on a literal and intellectual battlefield. Arjuna, a warrior by caste, faces the prospect of riding into battle against his own family. Unable to bear the thought of slaying his own family, he offers his objections to the Hindu god Krishna. Krishna, in turn, introduces the concepts of detachment and selflessness to Arjuna, arguing that while man must sometimes take action, he should not relish the fruits of his action. According to Krishna, every man has his own dharma, or

The Bhagavad-Gita focuses primarily on a conversation held between a god called Krishna and his mortal cousin, Arjuna. This conversation happens right before a battle between Arjuna and his brothers, the Pandavas, and their cousins, the Kurus, over who should be in charge of the kingdom. Arjuna doesn’t want to kill his family and seeks guidance from Krishna on what is to be done. The two have a lengthy conversation regarding the many paths to understanding, the primary goal for this period’s religious

The Bhagavad Gita is an ancient Indian text that is very crucial to the historical background of the Hindu religion. Hinduism is the most prevalent religion in India and the Bhagavad Gita is an epic that those who follow the religion hold dear to their culture. The Bhagavad Gita is a section of a large Indian epic called “The Mahabharata,” which is essentially a long epic vital to the Indian culture. Much like most religious texts, the Bhagavad Gita is a story with multiple morals and symbolic situations

The Bhagavad Gita as translated by Juan Mascaro is a poem based on ancient Sanskrit literature contained in eighteen chapters. The period of time, around which it was written, although it is merely an educated guess, was approximately 500 BCE. “…there are a few archaic words and expressions, some of the greatest scholars have considered it pre-Buddhistic, i.e. about 500 BC,” (Bhagavad Gita, xxiv). This quote is found in the introduction to the book and further explains that the exact time it was