When I thought I am done with the study of interpolations in the Gita after my critique, Inane Interpolations in Bhagvad-Gita (An Invocation for their Revocation) I was tempted to turn my attention to the seldom read but much maligned Manu Smriti*. While I found that that testament is Incongruent and its motivated castigation is nothing but flogging a dead horse riding a blind donkey (an eponymous essay is due on this aspect), nevertheless, I could discern Manu’s shadow on the Gita’s path that is sought to be placed here for a public view.
DEFINITION OF HINDUS & HINDUISM
RELIGIOUS BOOKS OF HINDUISM
CONCEPT OF GOD IN HINDUISM
CASTE SYSTEM IN HINDUISM
CONCEPT OF PUNARJANAM
MUHAMMAD (PBUH) PROPHESIED IN THE HINDU SCRIPTURES
Brihadaaranyaka Upanishad, First Chapter First part in English--Ashvamedha an...debkumar_lahiri
This article presents the first part of the first chapter of Brihadaaranyaka Upanishad in English. Original texts, meanings and references have been provided. This presentation also explains the mysteries behind the ritual of animal sacrifices as mentioned by the Rishis (Seers) of the Vedas.
In this Upanishad, the seer has explained how Universal Consciousness is existing in the physical form similar to our body.
DEFINITION OF HINDUS & HINDUISM
RELIGIOUS BOOKS OF HINDUISM
CONCEPT OF GOD IN HINDUISM
CASTE SYSTEM IN HINDUISM
CONCEPT OF PUNARJANAM
MUHAMMAD (PBUH) PROPHESIED IN THE HINDU SCRIPTURES
Brihadaaranyaka Upanishad, First Chapter First part in English--Ashvamedha an...debkumar_lahiri
This article presents the first part of the first chapter of Brihadaaranyaka Upanishad in English. Original texts, meanings and references have been provided. This presentation also explains the mysteries behind the ritual of animal sacrifices as mentioned by the Rishis (Seers) of the Vedas.
In this Upanishad, the seer has explained how Universal Consciousness is existing in the physical form similar to our body.
Upani ads are the highest portion of Veda and upani ads are called as vedanta. It is the compound word of Sanskrit like upa ni sad, which denotes sitting at the feet or presence of a guru. The upani ads are called disclosure of god. There are one hundred and eight upani ads in Indian philosophical tradition. But their numbers exceed two hundred Among of them 11 number of upani ads are treated as major upani ads. The svetasvataropani ad is a major upani ad and there are 113 mantras in this upani ad and which belongs to k ayajurveda. The svetasvataropani ad describes the yoga, its usages and merits vividly. There are seen many more descriptions of the supreme soul and the descriptions about the individual soul in this upani ad very beautifully. Nilachal Mishra ""A Brief Study on ÅšvetÄÅ›vataropaniá¹£ad"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-3 , April 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd21743.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/sanskrit/21743/a-brief-study-on-Å›vetÄÅ›vataropaniá¹£ad/nilachal-mishra
It is for the Shudras to realize that in reality, the Bhagvad-Gita was the pristine work of their progenitors, Krishna and Vyasa, that in time got polluted by the others, and it is time for them to reclaim it by ridding it of 110 inane interpolations cited herein this ‘Badnām-Gita’s Spoiler Slokas’
Even though the world is looking like total it is in lesser totality than the soul itself. In mathematics if anything is taken away from one it will have reduced volume or size etc.,but in God this theory is not applicable. Everything is coming out from Him but He is total and permanent. For example if a teacher is teaching something he is not loosing anything. His knowledge is total and the student's knowledge is also total.
Basic Structure of the Indian Constitution - The Case of a Square Peg in the ...BS Murthy
While the right to practice religion enabled the dalit Hindus to gain entry into the thereto out of reach temples, the right to propagate their faith gave the legal protection to the Muslims and the Christians alike to poach into the tenuous Hindu religious arena of the tribal people and the scheduled castes. It’s thus, owing to the suicidal freedom of religious propagation, demographically speaking that is, the 9% or so of the post-partition India’s Muslim population has since swelled to 18% or more and if the harvest of around 10% crypto-Christian souls is accounted for, one can get the picture of the perilous state of the Indian demography, which, given the exclusivist and supremacist credo of the Semitic faiths, if left unaddressed, could lead to another partition down the wretched line of the Indian history.
Semitic Censure Of Sanatana Dharma,Or The Pot Calling The Kettle Black.pdfBS Murthy
Unmindful of the old adage, when you point a finger at someone else, there are three pointing back to you, Udhayanidhi, the Christian son of the atheist Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, MK Stalin and his devout Hindu wife, had raged an unseemly controversy through his clarion call for the eradication of sanatana dharma aka Hinduism that he likened to dengue, malaria and corona. It is another matter though that he has no issues with the ethics of the Christianity that required him to get baptized into its fold to wed his believing beloved. Be that as it may, his closet Christian party colleague A. Raja pitched in with AIDS and leprosy tags to picture Hinduism as a menace to the world at large for it is a synonym of casteism. But who were to ask the Indian Church as to why it won’t deem encouraging Crypto-Christianity, which is the secret practice of Christianity, in places and time periods where Christians were persecuted or Christianity was outlawed, as a fraud in the secular Bharat, whose constitution naively grants its citizens, read Christians and Muslims, the right to propagate their faith, which is but the license to convert the gullible Hindus. Likewise, who were to question the morality of the closet Christians, who allegedly follow the teaching of Jesus and yet have no compunction in hiding their changed faith to fool the public and deceive the State to derive undue benefits to gain illegally? That the Church is hands in glove with this duplicitous evangelical ways is of no credit either to their God or His Son is somehow lost on the born-again Christians as well as the eager converts. In so far as the caste in the Christianity is concerned, the segregated Churches stand tall to testify the same. That being the Indian Christian reality, there’s no gainsaying for the dalits to embrace the alien faith on the sly but yet the onus is on the Hindu samaaj to make them feel at home in the Sanatana tent.
Basic Structure of the Indian Constitution - The Case of a Square Peg in the ...BS Murthy
Indian Supreme Court’s Basic Structure surmise, the case of a square peg in the round hole, is nothing but a Doctrine of Division that is bound to undermine India’s post-partition
Lured by the pitch - All marriages are made in heaven but some are delayed on earth: We endeavor to hasten them all - Priya goes to Renuka Marriage Bureau.
Scanning the prospects, when she spotted Venu, whom she slighted long ago, she rushes to him to bring about a dramatic encounter.
What brought about Priya’s change of heart to seek her former suitor and how Venu responds to his old flame’s fresh overtures lend suspense to their romance in this novella.
Bhagwat De-squeeze of Hindu Caste-Squeeze.pdfBS Murthy
Addressing a gathering at Ravidas Jayanti in Mumbai recently, Dr. Mohan Bhagwat, the Sarsanghchalak of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), as cited in the Organiser, dateline Feb 6, 2023, has said - “To our Creator, we are equal. There is no caste or sect. If some pundits citing scriptures are talking about caste-based discrimination, then it is false. .. We are confused in the whirlpool of the concept of caste and caste hierarchy. This confusion has to be removed. “
Maybe, Dr. Bhagwat's assertion supra is primarily meant to douse the Shudra political fire but if only carried forward, it has an immense potential to set the Hindu polity on its reformist course like none else before.”
On Bashing Manu Smriti Or Flogging A Dead Horse Riding A Blind Ass.pdfBS Murthy
None knows when Manu Smriti had its last sway, if at all, over the Indian polity but still the Hindu castes that it slighted lazily hold it against the Brahmins that it once exalted, and ominously, the evangelists cynically bash Hinduism with it to lure the former into their Semitic fold. However, this essay is not an exercise to endorse the extinct Smriti per se but an attempt to expose the perceptive vacuity and the intellectual dishonesty, as the case may be, of its debunkers.
So, instead of bashing the Manu Smriti a la flogging the dead horse riding a blind ass, it pays the mankind to discard the redundant chaff to nourish itself on the pristine grain in Manu’s ancient granary.
The irony of the alleged lack of free speech in Modi India lies in the absolute freedom of its uninhibited propagation in its subsidiary media. In so far as the right-wing blowback in the social media, the left-libs fall short on the idiom that ‘people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones’. When it comes to the ‘agencies’ knocking at free speakers’ doors, the legal dictum paraphrased as ‘one must go to town with clean hands’ has to be borne in mind by one and all. Be that as it may, it’s not as if it was all hunky-dory in the Nehruvian order of yore that nurtured the Modi-aggrieved of the day, and this is not an essay of its dark shades but an attempt to reach the roots of the self-defeating Hindu mindset, passing through my life and times.
When I thought I am done with the study of interpolations in the Gita after my critique, Inane Interpolations in Bhagvad-Gita (An Invocation for their Revocation) I was tempted to turn my attention to the seldom read but much maligned Manu Smriti*. While I found that that testament is Incongruent and its motivated castigation is nothing but flogging a dead horse riding a blind donkey (an eponymous essay is due on this aspect), nevertheless, I could discern Manu’s shadow on the Gita’s path that is sought to be placed here for a public view.
The irony of the alleged lack of free speech in Modi India lies in the absolute freedom of its uninhibited propagation in its subsidiary media. In so far as the right-wing blowback in the social media, the left-libs fall short on the idiom that ‘people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones’. When it comes to the ‘agencies’ knocking at free speakers’ doors, the legal dictum paraphrased as ‘one must go to town with clean hands’ has to be borne in mind by one and all. Be that as it may, it’s not as if it was all hunky-dory in the Nehruvian order of yore that nurtured the Modi-aggrieved of the day, and this is not an essay of its dark shades but an attempt to reach the roots of the self-defeating Hindu mindset, passing through my life and times.
My 'novel' Account of Human Possibility.pdfBS Murthy
Who would have thought that life held such literary possibilities in the English language for a rustic Telugu lad reared in the rural Andhra, even in the post-colonial India? So, the possibilities of life are indeed novel and seemingly my life has crystallized itself in my body of work before death could dissipate it.
Told God man In Genesis One
Him He created in form of His
Not when asked as how He did
Thought He fit in Genesis Two
To tell He used the dust for that
But to change tack after that,
,,,
A Sense of Contribution - The Source of Fulfillment BS Murthy
However, the advancement of the world that enlarged the frontiers of livelihood began to afford material opportunities to the land-less lot, and that came to alter the grammar of living, written with the alphabets of ambition. In time, as success became the key word of life and contentment the anathema to ambition, man truly set himself on the rat race on the material course to his mental detriment. Be that as it may, man need not feel damned, so it seems, for he could redeem himself through the concept of contribution he himself had evolved that is by shifting the gear from the sense of success
Upani ads are the highest portion of Veda and upani ads are called as vedanta. It is the compound word of Sanskrit like upa ni sad, which denotes sitting at the feet or presence of a guru. The upani ads are called disclosure of god. There are one hundred and eight upani ads in Indian philosophical tradition. But their numbers exceed two hundred Among of them 11 number of upani ads are treated as major upani ads. The svetasvataropani ad is a major upani ad and there are 113 mantras in this upani ad and which belongs to k ayajurveda. The svetasvataropani ad describes the yoga, its usages and merits vividly. There are seen many more descriptions of the supreme soul and the descriptions about the individual soul in this upani ad very beautifully. Nilachal Mishra ""A Brief Study on ÅšvetÄÅ›vataropaniá¹£ad"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-3 , April 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd21743.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/sanskrit/21743/a-brief-study-on-Å›vetÄÅ›vataropaniá¹£ad/nilachal-mishra
It is for the Shudras to realize that in reality, the Bhagvad-Gita was the pristine work of their progenitors, Krishna and Vyasa, that in time got polluted by the others, and it is time for them to reclaim it by ridding it of 110 inane interpolations cited herein this ‘Badnām-Gita’s Spoiler Slokas’
Even though the world is looking like total it is in lesser totality than the soul itself. In mathematics if anything is taken away from one it will have reduced volume or size etc.,but in God this theory is not applicable. Everything is coming out from Him but He is total and permanent. For example if a teacher is teaching something he is not loosing anything. His knowledge is total and the student's knowledge is also total.
Basic Structure of the Indian Constitution - The Case of a Square Peg in the ...BS Murthy
While the right to practice religion enabled the dalit Hindus to gain entry into the thereto out of reach temples, the right to propagate their faith gave the legal protection to the Muslims and the Christians alike to poach into the tenuous Hindu religious arena of the tribal people and the scheduled castes. It’s thus, owing to the suicidal freedom of religious propagation, demographically speaking that is, the 9% or so of the post-partition India’s Muslim population has since swelled to 18% or more and if the harvest of around 10% crypto-Christian souls is accounted for, one can get the picture of the perilous state of the Indian demography, which, given the exclusivist and supremacist credo of the Semitic faiths, if left unaddressed, could lead to another partition down the wretched line of the Indian history.
Semitic Censure Of Sanatana Dharma,Or The Pot Calling The Kettle Black.pdfBS Murthy
Unmindful of the old adage, when you point a finger at someone else, there are three pointing back to you, Udhayanidhi, the Christian son of the atheist Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, MK Stalin and his devout Hindu wife, had raged an unseemly controversy through his clarion call for the eradication of sanatana dharma aka Hinduism that he likened to dengue, malaria and corona. It is another matter though that he has no issues with the ethics of the Christianity that required him to get baptized into its fold to wed his believing beloved. Be that as it may, his closet Christian party colleague A. Raja pitched in with AIDS and leprosy tags to picture Hinduism as a menace to the world at large for it is a synonym of casteism. But who were to ask the Indian Church as to why it won’t deem encouraging Crypto-Christianity, which is the secret practice of Christianity, in places and time periods where Christians were persecuted or Christianity was outlawed, as a fraud in the secular Bharat, whose constitution naively grants its citizens, read Christians and Muslims, the right to propagate their faith, which is but the license to convert the gullible Hindus. Likewise, who were to question the morality of the closet Christians, who allegedly follow the teaching of Jesus and yet have no compunction in hiding their changed faith to fool the public and deceive the State to derive undue benefits to gain illegally? That the Church is hands in glove with this duplicitous evangelical ways is of no credit either to their God or His Son is somehow lost on the born-again Christians as well as the eager converts. In so far as the caste in the Christianity is concerned, the segregated Churches stand tall to testify the same. That being the Indian Christian reality, there’s no gainsaying for the dalits to embrace the alien faith on the sly but yet the onus is on the Hindu samaaj to make them feel at home in the Sanatana tent.
Basic Structure of the Indian Constitution - The Case of a Square Peg in the ...BS Murthy
Indian Supreme Court’s Basic Structure surmise, the case of a square peg in the round hole, is nothing but a Doctrine of Division that is bound to undermine India’s post-partition
Lured by the pitch - All marriages are made in heaven but some are delayed on earth: We endeavor to hasten them all - Priya goes to Renuka Marriage Bureau.
Scanning the prospects, when she spotted Venu, whom she slighted long ago, she rushes to him to bring about a dramatic encounter.
What brought about Priya’s change of heart to seek her former suitor and how Venu responds to his old flame’s fresh overtures lend suspense to their romance in this novella.
Bhagwat De-squeeze of Hindu Caste-Squeeze.pdfBS Murthy
Addressing a gathering at Ravidas Jayanti in Mumbai recently, Dr. Mohan Bhagwat, the Sarsanghchalak of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), as cited in the Organiser, dateline Feb 6, 2023, has said - “To our Creator, we are equal. There is no caste or sect. If some pundits citing scriptures are talking about caste-based discrimination, then it is false. .. We are confused in the whirlpool of the concept of caste and caste hierarchy. This confusion has to be removed. “
Maybe, Dr. Bhagwat's assertion supra is primarily meant to douse the Shudra political fire but if only carried forward, it has an immense potential to set the Hindu polity on its reformist course like none else before.”
On Bashing Manu Smriti Or Flogging A Dead Horse Riding A Blind Ass.pdfBS Murthy
None knows when Manu Smriti had its last sway, if at all, over the Indian polity but still the Hindu castes that it slighted lazily hold it against the Brahmins that it once exalted, and ominously, the evangelists cynically bash Hinduism with it to lure the former into their Semitic fold. However, this essay is not an exercise to endorse the extinct Smriti per se but an attempt to expose the perceptive vacuity and the intellectual dishonesty, as the case may be, of its debunkers.
So, instead of bashing the Manu Smriti a la flogging the dead horse riding a blind ass, it pays the mankind to discard the redundant chaff to nourish itself on the pristine grain in Manu’s ancient granary.
The irony of the alleged lack of free speech in Modi India lies in the absolute freedom of its uninhibited propagation in its subsidiary media. In so far as the right-wing blowback in the social media, the left-libs fall short on the idiom that ‘people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones’. When it comes to the ‘agencies’ knocking at free speakers’ doors, the legal dictum paraphrased as ‘one must go to town with clean hands’ has to be borne in mind by one and all. Be that as it may, it’s not as if it was all hunky-dory in the Nehruvian order of yore that nurtured the Modi-aggrieved of the day, and this is not an essay of its dark shades but an attempt to reach the roots of the self-defeating Hindu mindset, passing through my life and times.
When I thought I am done with the study of interpolations in the Gita after my critique, Inane Interpolations in Bhagvad-Gita (An Invocation for their Revocation) I was tempted to turn my attention to the seldom read but much maligned Manu Smriti*. While I found that that testament is Incongruent and its motivated castigation is nothing but flogging a dead horse riding a blind donkey (an eponymous essay is due on this aspect), nevertheless, I could discern Manu’s shadow on the Gita’s path that is sought to be placed here for a public view.
The irony of the alleged lack of free speech in Modi India lies in the absolute freedom of its uninhibited propagation in its subsidiary media. In so far as the right-wing blowback in the social media, the left-libs fall short on the idiom that ‘people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones’. When it comes to the ‘agencies’ knocking at free speakers’ doors, the legal dictum paraphrased as ‘one must go to town with clean hands’ has to be borne in mind by one and all. Be that as it may, it’s not as if it was all hunky-dory in the Nehruvian order of yore that nurtured the Modi-aggrieved of the day, and this is not an essay of its dark shades but an attempt to reach the roots of the self-defeating Hindu mindset, passing through my life and times.
My 'novel' Account of Human Possibility.pdfBS Murthy
Who would have thought that life held such literary possibilities in the English language for a rustic Telugu lad reared in the rural Andhra, even in the post-colonial India? So, the possibilities of life are indeed novel and seemingly my life has crystallized itself in my body of work before death could dissipate it.
Told God man In Genesis One
Him He created in form of His
Not when asked as how He did
Thought He fit in Genesis Two
To tell He used the dust for that
But to change tack after that,
,,,
A Sense of Contribution - The Source of Fulfillment BS Murthy
However, the advancement of the world that enlarged the frontiers of livelihood began to afford material opportunities to the land-less lot, and that came to alter the grammar of living, written with the alphabets of ambition. In time, as success became the key word of life and contentment the anathema to ambition, man truly set himself on the rat race on the material course to his mental detriment. Be that as it may, man need not feel damned, so it seems, for he could redeem himself through the concept of contribution he himself had evolved that is by shifting the gear from the sense of success
It is high time for the Hindus to strive hard to regain the intellectual vigour of their ancestors though sans their vice of inimical secrecy, and that should enable them to shed the mediocrity of their lazy minds.
Obviously oblivious of the inimicality of the Islamic credo, the erudite Hindus, dubbed as left-liberals, invariably have come to downplay the exclusivist Islamic penchant just as an aberration of the obscurantist Musalmans lying on the fringes of the marginalized Indian umma. So, as if to forestall any Hindu resentment against the ever multiplying Musalmans as well as the fast growing crypto Christians, owing allegiance to alien faiths, these Hindus began to solicit sympathy for them through every medium that came under their ‘liberal’ sway by picturing them as a sort of noble souls while at the same time depicting their fellow Hindus as incorrigibly regressive beings.
So to say, the Macaulay Minute with Maulana’s add-ons thus shaped the fake Nehruvian ‘Idea of India’ based on the perverse narrative of tolerance of the intolerant and intolerance of the tolerant, which insensibly afflicted the Hindu mindset and the thought process in every sphere of India’s intellectual activity
Dichotomy Between Hindu Religiosity and Gita's spiritualityBS Murthy
The Gita’s exhortation to man to surrender to Him, the corner stone of the Semitic faiths, and alien to the Hindu ethos, invariably fails to scripturally draw the Hindus towards it, thereby rendering them skeptical to explore its sterling philosophy fashioned for their benefit.
The Gita ‘as it is’ - A Travesty of casteBS Murthy
This, possibly, over-two-millennia-old classic could be the only epic in the world that is admired without application of mind and debunked with understandable misunderstanding as it, as it is, sanctions the inimical caste divisions in the Hindu polity as opposed to the Torah, the Bible, and the Quran that seek to inculcate unity amongst the respective communities.
If Modi indeed were to be the ninth avatar, besides restoring the purity of the Bhagvad-Gita by ridding it of its ritualistic as well as the casteist interpolations to usher in the Hindu renaissance and social unity, he would rectify the detrimental religious fault lines in the India-inimical constitution. Equally importantly, besides blinding the demographic eye of the Abrahamic faiths on Maa Bharati, he would ensure that they won’t foul mouth the Hindus and their dharma. If not, he could be but a half avatar meant only to make India strong so that the external developments on the anvil – the electric vehicle short-circuit in the Muslim oil wells and the Islamic strife in the Christian world – would take care of its internal problems.
Have Hindus Become More Intolerant or less IndulgentBS Murthy
When the Semitic free run on the Hindu turf under Sonia’s proxy watch ended with the ascent of Narendra Modi onto the Delhi gaddi, the Indian agendas of the Christian west and the Muslim umma faced impediments resulting in the brouhaha over the growing religious intolerance of Hindus towards India’s minorities. Given the racial biases and the religious prejudices of both against the Hindus and that the world media, by and large is controlled by them, a critical appraisal of their propaganda with objective lenses is called for.
Inane Interpolations In Bhagvad-Gita (An Invocation for their Revocation)BS Murthy
The Manusmriti, the social doctrine of yore, and the Bhagvad-Gita, the spiritual tome in vogue that lay down the discriminatory dharma (duties) of the four social classes (castes) have been the bugbears of the Hindu backward classes. However, to their chagrin, of late, as the latter is being mindlessly promoted even though the former was constitutionally debunked, they began advocating that it too should be dumped in a dustbin.
Ironically, the improbability of their progenitor Krishna, the architect of the Gita, relegating his own ilk to the social margins failed to dawn upon these that Gita supposedly slights, even to this day! Thus, their intellectuals, instead of seeking to reclaim their priceless heritage, albeit after ridding its interpolative garbage, tend to rubbish it a la throwing the baby with the bathwater, and needless to say they must ponder.
Also, it is high time that the Gita-class stop laying store by the self-aggrandizing verses in this Vyāsa’s classic, evidently inserted by their progenitors that came to bedevil the Hindu spiritual integrity and social harmony. Likewise, the grumblers of the dalit desertions must see the need for setting the Hindu house in order to prevent the fractious poaching by the Church, if not to facilitate the ‘hoped for’ return of the prodigals. So also those who take pride that Hinduism is the only religion that reckons all faith as true, should be concerned about the ‘in vogue’ Gita that belittles some of their caste fellows. Besides, this work beckons the feminists to reckon the second of the two interpolations from it cited in the cover image that degrades them in unspeakable terms.
This ‘overdue’ work, may lead the ‘denied’ Hindu castes as well as the favored folks for an objective approach to the in vogue Bhagvad-Gita which could dispel the misgivings of the former and the delusions of the latter, thereby bridging the Hindu emotional gulf with its abridged book that restores its original form. Whether or not one concurs with its propositions, this original work could be of interest to the students of logic and reasoning as well.
Krishna being a Shudrā, would he have deprecated his own community in v32, ch9 in which it is stated that ‘women, Vaisyās and Shudrās could win the Lord’s favor through devotion’, sounding as if they are all in an inferior league. Doubtful, isn’t it?
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Manu’s Shadow on Gita’s Path
1. Manu’s Shadow on Gita’s Path
By BS Murthy
When I thought I am done with the study of interpolations in the Gita after my critique,
Inane Interpolations in Bhagvad-Gita (An Invocation for their Revocation) I was tempted to
turn my attention to the seldom read but much maligned Manu Smriti*. While I found that
that testament is Incongruent and its motivated castigation is nothing but flogging a dead
horse riding a blind donkey (an eponymous essay is due on this aspect), nevertheless, I
could discern Manu’s shadow on the Gita’s path that is sought to be placed here for a public
view.
It is worth noting that at the end of each of its eighteen chapters, it is asserted in the Gita
that it is the quintessence of the Upanishads and the Brahmasutrās, and as argued in my
critique supra, one-hundred and ten verses in it are latter-day interpolations bereft of the
Upanishadic and Brahmasutric connotations. What is more, while some of those smear its
inclusive philosophy with sectarian postulations, which echo Manusmritic caste
discriminations that are inimical towards some sections of Hindus to their chagrin, the
others are ceremonial exhortations that are irrelevant to the subject matter of Gita’s
philosophical discourse and thus are seemingly out of place.
Moreover, in the ‘in vogue’ Bhagvad-Gita’s philosophical discourse are found some
ritualistic postulations in chapter 3, titled karma yoga, which, are nothing but innovations of
Manu’s stipulations in that regard.
It may be noted that it is postulated in the Manu Smriti that -
3.74. Ahuta (not offered in the fire) is the muttering (of Vedic texts), Huta the burnt oblation
(offered to the gods), Prahuta (offered by scattering it on the ground) the Bali offering given
to the Bhutas, Brahmya-huta (offered in the digestive fire of Brahmanas), the respectful
2. reception of Brahmana (guests), and Prasita (eaten) the (daily oblation to the manes, called)
Tarpana.
3.75. Let (every man) in this (second order, at least) daily apply himself to the private
recitation of the Veda, and also to the performance of the offering to the gods; for he who is
diligent in the performance of sacrifices, supports both the movable and the immovable
creation.
3.76 An oblation duly thrown into the fire, reaches the sun; from the sun comes rain, from
rain food, therefrom the living creatures (derive their subsistence)
3.117. Having honoured the gods, the sages, men, the manes, and the guardian deities of
the house, the householder shall eat afterwards what remains.
3.118. He who prepares food for himself (alone), eats nothing but sin; for it is ordained that
the food which remains after (the performance of) the sacrifices shall be the meal of
virtuous men.
Now turning to the Bhagvad-Gita ‘As It Is’, it can be seen that the following verses are
reflective innovations of the above that can be taken as inane interpolations.
3.9. Man is not attached to his actions performed in ritualistic sacrifices but all other actions
bind him.
3.10. The Creator wanted mankind to prosper through sacrifices, which shall be the milch
cow of man’s desires.
3.11. Foster the gods through sacrifices
3.12. Fostered by sacrifices, gods would bestow desired enjoyments, but they are thieves
who do not return anything to them (gods).
3.13. Those that partake the remnants of sacrificial food are sinless.
3.14. Food that sustains mankind comes from rains, which are but the outcome of sacrificial
ceremonies.
3.15. Brahma is seated in sacrifice.
3.16. Who follow the above regimen would attain moksha.
Besides, as can be seen hereunder, Gita’s Cycle of Creation, in chapter 8, akshara
parabrahma yoga, follows Manu’s course.
Manu’s Creative process has it that –
1.52. When that divine one wakes, then this world stirs; when he slumbers tranquilly, then
the universe sinks to sleep.
1.57. Thus he, the imperishable one, by (alternately) waking and slumbering, incessantly
revivifies and destroys this whole movable and immovable (creation).
1.67. A year is a day and a night of the gods; their division is (as follows): the half year during
which the sun progresses to the north will be the day, that during which it goes southwards
the night.
1.68. But hear now the brief (description of) the duration of a night and a day of Brahman
and of the several ages (of the world, yuga) according to their order.
1.69. They declare that the Krita age (consists of) four thousand years (of the gods); the
twilight preceding it consists of as many hundreds, and the twilight following it of the same
number.
3. 1.70. In the other three ages (Treta Yuga, Dvapara Yuga, and Kali Yuga) with their twilights
preceding and following, the thousands and hundreds are diminished by one (in each).
1.71. These twelve thousand (years)* which thus have been just mentioned as the total of
four (human) ages, are called one age of the gods. (*ten-thousand normal and two-
thousand twilights)
1.72. But know that the sum of one thousand ages of the gods (makes) one day of Brahman,
and that his night has the same length.
1.73. Those (only, who) know that the holy day of Brahman, indeed, ends after (the
completion of) one thousand ages (of the gods) and that his night lasts as long, (are really)
men acquainted with (the length of) days and nights.
Here’s the Gita’s Cycle of Creation in Manu’s track supra-
8. 17
Wise all realize days Brahman
Ages thousands make with nights.
8.18
By day as He brings beings
Un-manifests He all by night.
8.19
It’s all rebirths through His day
But with nightfall cease they all
As He wakes up puts He back.
(Above verses are excerpts from the author’s Bhagvad-Gita: Treatise of Self-help)
*The Laws of Manu by G. Buhler, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1886, available at Internet
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