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Loading... The Truth About the Gita: A Closer Look at Hindu Scriptureby V. R. Narla
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This author does for the Gita what countless scholars have done for the Bible: subject it to a critical analysis in an attempt to lay bare its origins and its meaning, as well as discussing its role in the life of the modern Hindu. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Taking a rationalist, skeptical approach, a journalist and humanist advocate critiques the famous Bhagavad Gita on many levels. Among other things, he points out the improbability of the historical events recounted, the logical inconsistencies in the work, and, above all, the retrograde moral perspective represented by the characters. He emphasizes that the long dialogue between the warrior Arjuna and Lord Krishna (an incarnation of the god Vishnu) ends up by condoning violence, even wholesale slaughter. Furthermore, the work extols the Hindu caste system as noble and reinforces superstitions about reincarnation and karma. All of this was anathema to the author, who spent much of his career working for human rights and critical thinking. For students of Indian literature in both the East and West, this critical appraisal of a classic Hindu epic will prove enlightening. No library descriptions found. |
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