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Perplexed 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

In the wake of a darkness regarding oppression of minorities in Bangladesh, I was compelled to write the following:

VIOLENCE IS NOT GOLDEN

Violence is not golden

But action with intelligence stolen

The insecurities that a person may feel

Arise from that which is not real

A mistaken notion that the body is me

When I am its engine, a soul identity

If someone has a belief of a different view

Does it mean then that they are askew?

No!  Me and my group are not the center of all

That is the beginning