a book of violence (2)

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Why readers and commentators miss the point of the Bhagavad-gita when they accuse Lord Krishna of wrongdoing.
By Chaitanya Charana Dasa
Some critics of the Bhagavad-gita accuse Krishna of being a warmonger unjustly inciting the pacifist Arjuna.

At first glance, the Bhagavad-gita might seem like a philosophical justification for war – Krishna speaking to Arjuna to convince him to fight. Because our modern psyche has been deeply scarred by violence rationalized using sacred texts, we may recoil f

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A Book of Violence? by Rohininandana Dasa

9892215477?profile=RESIZE_584xPerplexed by Krsna’s urging Arjuna to fight,
some students of the Gita accuse Krsna of being immoral.

Bhagavad-gita is famous as a harbinger of peace and good fortune. Mohandas K. Gandhi wrote, “The Gita has always been my source of comfort. Whenever I was unable to perceive a silver lining on the horizon, I opened the Gita and found a verse that gave me new hope.”

Yet even Gandhi, a great advocate of ahimsa, or nonviolence, found some of the Gita’s verses puzzling and disagreeable. Lord Krsna e

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