I have been reading the Bhagavad-Gita for class, discussing it yesterday in our small group and then as a full class. The discussion was interesting yet strange , I thought. I myself have some different ideas about the Gita, now that I have read more and discussed it with Dave, also.
In looking at the ability to take action without paying for your actions, or my take on it, anyhow...certainly leaves you open for doing anything you truly believe in, which leaves it wide open for any psychopath to justify his or her actions. With no repercussions, killing your kin, your enemy, anyone, harming anything you want, and yet knowing the cyclic nature of reincarnation, being absolved of all.
How can this be, I have been thinking , when all of Hinduism, Jainism and the hundreds of offshoots of these religions are foremost about love, for oneself, one another, and all living things.
I looked through some pages today of similar teachings, ways of living and how you can do anything without fear at all. These pages were about Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler. The more I read both the Gita and about it's apparent abuse by these horrific monsters, the more afraid I became of the amount of people who, to this day, rely on this book.
There is a Wiki page about the Russian trial of the Bhagavad-Gita located here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita_trial_in_Russia
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