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.
Bhagavad-Gita is the most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue’ – so opined William von Humboldt, who wrote seven-hundred verses in its praise.
In this modern rendition, the beauty of the Sanskrit slokas is reflected in the rhythmic flow of the English verse of poetic proportions even as the attendant philosophy of the song that is the Gita is captured in contemporary idiom for easy comprehension.
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’
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.
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?
Bhagavad-Gita is the most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue’ – so opined William von Humboldt, who wrote seven-hundred verses in its praise.
In this modern rendition, the beauty of the Sanskrit slokas is reflected in the rhythmic flow of the English verse of poetic proportions even as the attendant philosophy of the song that is the Gita is captured in contemporary idiom for easy comprehension.
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’
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.
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?
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.”
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.
Tripod.com
Whenever there is a withering of the law
and an uprising of lawlessness on all sides,
then I manifest Myself.
For the salvation of the righteous
and the destruction of such as do evil,
for the firm establishing of the Law,
I come to birth, age after age.
~ Bhagavad Gita, Book IV, Sutra 5, 7, 8
The famous quotation from the Bhagavad Gita, which is the holy book of the Hindus, is the basis of their belief that God (Lord Vishnu) takes birth on the earth as an Avatar or incarnation and as a saviour of the humanity in order to cleanse the world of evil and re-establish Dharma or Law when the human society reaches the nadir of moral and cultural values, and lose all awareness of what is right and wrong. The Hindu texts called Puranas tell the story of various Avatars of Vishnu, including his last avatar Buddha. The texts also prophesize of a future Avatar of Vishnu called Kalki who will appear at the end of the present age called the Age of Koli (untruth) or Koli Yug. Hindus believe that time revolves in a cyclical manner beginning with Satya Yug or the Age of Truth. Then comes Treta Yug, Dwapar Yug and finally Koli Yug. After that comes annihilation and re-initiation of the Satya Yug or Kritya Yug - the age of purity.
The Bhagavad Gita presents a synthesis of Hindu ideas about dharma, theistic bhakti, and the yogic ideals of moksha. The text covers Jñāna, Bhakti, Karma, and Rāja yogas (spoken of in the 6th chapter), incorporating ideas from the Samkhya-Yoga philosophy.
Religion does not necessarily lead one to God.
It is service to humanity which counts.
Religious laws are to be subjected to critical review to elevate mankind to civilised status by rescuing the masses from the clutches of religious leaders.
Love to humanity transcends religion.
Hindu religion cannot be allowed to continue with its notorious chaturvarna system.
The core of the genetic discrimination lies in priesthood.
People of all castes should be allowed to become priests in all the temples in which Brahmins alone officiate as priests.
This is an independence struggle to free the masses from the apartheidistic stranglehold of Brahmins over the people.
Brahmins do not belong to the idolatrous religion of the natives of India.
Apartheid in South Africa was skin-deep; apartheid in India is soul-deep.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
,,,
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The famous quotation from the Bhagavad Gita, which is the holy book of the Hindus, is the basis of their belief that God (Lord Vishnu) takes birth on the earth as an Avatar or incarnation and as a saviour of the humanity in order to cleanse the world of evil and re-establish Dharma or Law when the human society reaches the nadir of moral and cultural values, and lose all awareness of what is right and wrong. The Hindu texts called Puranas tell the story of various Avatars of Vishnu, including his last avatar Buddha. The texts also prophesize of a future Avatar of Vishnu called Kalki who will appear at the end of the present age called the Age of Koli (untruth) or Koli Yug. Hindus believe that time revolves in a cyclical manner beginning with Satya Yug or the Age of Truth. Then comes Treta Yug, Dwapar Yug and finally Koli Yug. After that comes annihilation and re-initiation of the Satya Yug or Kritya Yug - the age of purity.
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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.
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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.
తొలినవలని మొదటి ముద్దుతో పోల్చడం అతిశయోక్తి కాదు.
ఈ 1956 నవల నేటి భీమేశ్వర చల్లా నాటి సి. బి. రావు గా రచించినది.
చిన్ననాటి నేస్తాలు, రామం, శశి, యుక్త వయసులో ప్రేమవలలో చిక్కుకుంటారు.
కాని విధి వారి వివాహ బంధానికి యమ పాశం అడ్డువేయాగా రామం శశిని కోల్పోతాడు.
చనిపోయిన ప్రియురాలిని తన ప్రేమలో సజీవింపించడం రామం జీవిత లక్ష్యం చేసుకుంటాడు.
ఆ మానసిక స్థితిలో ఉన్న అతని జీవితంలోకి యశోరాజ్యం తన ప్రేమానురాగాలతో అడుగిడుతుంది.
ఒకవైపు శశి ప్రేమానూ మరువలేక, యశో అనురాగాన్నీ వీడలేక 'రామం బాబు' సతమత మవుతుంటే
స్త్రీ వాది సరళ, కర్మసిధ్ధాంతి లఖియా అతని విచలిత జీవన సందిగ్ధతకు మరింత
హేతుదాయకులవుతారు.
మరొకవైపు యశో రామం సేవా సాంగత్యాలే తన ఆచలిత జీవన ధ్యేయం అని నిర్ధారించుకొని
శరత్ సాహితీ అనుభూతితో అతనిపై వెదజల్లిన ప్రేమానురాగాలు నిశ్చల ప్రేమకు నీరాజనాలు.
అనూహ్య స్త్రీపురుష ద్వందానుబంధాలు ఈ 'క్షంతవ్యులు' సారాంశం
ఈ - కమింగ్ అఫ్ ఏజ్ - పుస్తకం నవలా రచనకి అద్వితీయ నిదర్శనం.
అరవైయేళ్ల నాటి ఈ 'స్త్రీ' నవల ఈనాటి అతివకి ప్రతిబింబం.
రజని ఆత్మనిర్భరశక్తి అసాధారణమైతే ఆమె చంచలస్వభావం అనూహ్యగోచరం.
కమల పాతివ్రత్య సంకల్పం ఆదరణీయమయితే ఆమె లోనయిన పరపురుషాకర్షణ ప్రకృతిసహజం.
విశాల అఖండిత సేవాభావం మానవాతీతమైతే ఆమె చూపే అపార ప్రేమానురాగం స్త్రీతత్వనిదర్శనం.
ఈ ఐ-బాటిల్లో ని రామం రజనీల అనూహ్య అనుబంధం, ప్రసాద్ కమలల విచిత్ర సంబంధం, సనల్ విశాలల పవిత్రబంధం నేటి పాఠకులకు వింటేజ్ వైన్.
త్రీ ఛీర్స్!
Even as Detective Dhruva was enamored of Kavya, whom he rescues from her kidnapper, Radha, an alleged murderess on the run, gatecrashes into his life.
But when Kavya too joins him after her man was poisoned there ensues the tussle of a love triangle, which gets unraveled in a poignant end, but not before a series of murders.
So, then who could have poisoned Ranjit the realtor, Shakeel the Inspector, Pravar the criminal and Natya his accomplice?
Well the needle of suspicion tilted towards Pravar that was till he perished with his mate, but then who was the one?
Could it be Radha under the scanner for her role in the death of her husband Madhu and his mistress Mala, Pravar's sister?
Or was it Ranjit's spouse Kavya, who owing to Stockholm Syndrome, takes to Pravar her kidnapper.
As these deaths by poisoning puzzle Dhruva, Radha avers that Kavya had the motive and the means to kill her spouse, her paramour and his wife besides the cop.
However, reckoning that when the ill-motives of the natural suspects to commit a murder are an open secret, someone with a hidden agenda might be tempted to use that as a camouflage for his subterfuge, Dhruva begins to look around for the culprit.
Whereas Mahabharata's Bhagvad-Gita is taken as a philosophical guide, Ramayana's Sundara Kãnda is sought for spiritual solace; many believe that reading it or hearing it recited would remove all hurdles and usher in good tidings! Miracles apart, it's in the nature of this great epic to inculcate fortitude and generate hope in man for it’s a depiction of how Hanuman goes about his errand against all odds.
Besides, it portrays how Seetha, on the verge of self-immolation, overcomes despair to see life in a new light? With rhythm of its verse and the flow of the narrative this sloka to sloka transcreation of the canto beautiful of Valmiki's adi kavya - the foremost poetical composition in the world, Hanuman's Odyssey that paves the way for Rama to rescue his kidnapped wife is bound to charm the readers and listeners alike.
Interestingly, as the following verse illustrates, it was the forerunner of the magic realism of our times – “Gripped she then him by shadow / Cast which Hanuman coast to coast, Recalled he in dismay then / What Sugreev said at outset / That one fiend had aptitude / To grip its prey by mere shadow.”
On a personal note, my paternal grandfather, Bulusu Thimmaiah-garu, like many in his time, was a life-long practitioner of Sundara Kãnda parayana (the epic’s daily recital in part or full), whose spirituality could have providentially guided me in this, rather an effortless, trans-creative endeavour.
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Slide 2: Introduction to Mindfulness
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1. The Gita ‘As It Is’ - A Travesty of Caste
By BS Murthy
It is a safe bet to say that while most might have heard about Bhagavad-Gita, hardly any
would have read it (much less apprised it as can be seen here) though it contains no more
than seven-hundred verses that is not counting the unnumbered opening one in its
thirteenth chapter! Not only that, 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.
The sore point to those at the rough-end-of-the-caste-stick in the ‘in vogue’ Gita (short
description of the Bhagavad-Gita) is God Krishna’s alleged owning the creation of the very
discriminatory caste system thus:
chātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sruṣhṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśhaḥ
tasya kartāram api māṁ viddhyakartāram avyayam (Ch 4 v 13)
Well, the plain reading of this Sanskrit sloka indicates that based on the (human) qualities
and (mundane) activates he had created the four varnas (castes), and although he was the
creator of this system, he remains a non-doer and unchangeable.
However, Gita’s modern-day protagonists, mostly hailing from its pampered castes, seeking
to cover up this embarrassing reality aver that the envisaged caste system is based not on
one’s station of birth but on the state of his human evolution etc. Granted, but if indeed it is
their conviction that caste only symbolizes an evolutionary human state then they should
have been at the forefront in fighting against the birth oriented caste system. Besides, why
there is no advocacy whatsoever on their part that the much evolved Shudras that abound
in the intellectual arena of the day should be absorbed into the Brahmin social fold?
Moreover, have not many of the twice-born, who by their unbecoming conduct, having
become Shudras (as per their interpretation) are fit to be shunted out of the Brahmanical
arena, but is there any move in that direction? So their lip service to the Gita-hurt Hindus
while exposing their hypocritical whitewash of the birth-centric caste system confirms that
the said sloka means what it means that is in spite of their nonsectarian spin to it.
Moreover, towards the very end in Ch 18, Krishna is said to have detailed the human
qualities and mundane activates of the people of the four castes as –
Of Brahmins, at the apex of the caste pyramid - Tranquility, restraint, austerity, purity,
patience, integrity, knowledge, wisdom, and belief in a hereafter (v42)
Of Kshatriyas, the second in the pecking order - Valour, strength, fortitude, skill in
weaponry, resolve never to retreat from battle, large-heartedness in charity, and leadership
abilities (V43)
2. Of Vaishyas, the third in line - Agriculture, dairy farming, and commerce are the natural
works for those with the qualities of Vaishyas.
Of Shudras, at the caste base - Serving through work is the natural duty for those with the
qualities of Shudras. (V44)
Note: Unlike in the case of Brahmins and Kshatriyas, the (human) qualities of Vaishyas and
Shudras are not spelt out, maybe owing to the fact that all the best of them were already
bestowed upon the first two.
Thus, it can be said that the Gita as it is unmistakably propounds the caste system and
unambiguously details the caste characteristics that is besides the earmarked social
occupations / obligations of its members. Hence, one should ponder - would have Krishna
chosen to reduce Shudras, his own people, literarily that is as Krishna himself was a Shudra,
as menials even as Jehovah, having enabled the Jews to come out of slavery, made them his
Chosen People!
Well, one need not go beyond the Gita for the right answer.
To begin with, vague and intelligible as ‘he remains a non-doer and unchangeable’ in the
said contentious verse, elsewhere in the Gita he was unambiguous in affirming that –
Varied I made vicissitudes
As the case with attitudes.(Ch 10 v5)
Willed I birth of progenitors all
Seven seers great ’n elders four
Not to mention sovereign fourteen. (Ch 10, v6)
Was not the manner of proclamation of the creation of ‘four caste system’ uncharacteristic
of Krishna?
Besides, having proclaimed that –
Self-Imperishable is Brahman
But dwells it yet there in beings
Brings that forth is Act Supreme. (Ch 8 v3)
Skies in rooted wind as spreads
Dwell in Me though disperse all. (Ch 9 v6)
In beings all ’n objects too
Within He lies, without as well,
If one comes to grasp this well
It’s perception that’s Supreme. (Ch 13 v15) -
would have Krishna maintained in the same vein that he was also the creator of the
discriminatory four caste system?
Also, contrary to the above cited caste characteristics, elsewhere in the Gita, he affirms that:
Noble or naughty it’s thy make
Self thus thine but shapes thyself (Ch 6 v5).
That being the case, how could Krishna have branded every Brahmin as virtuous and tagged
all the Kshatriyas as valourous?
More damningly, as against Krishna’s alleged creation of the four castes based on individual
(human) qualities, the Gita characterizes only three human proclivities namely, virtue,
passion and delusion.
Virtue, passion so too delusion
Send I forth though all of them
3. Come to dwell in none of them (Ch 7 v12)
To tie the Spirit ’n body tight
Uses Nature as its threads
Virtue, passion as well delusion (Ch 14 v5)
Above all is this faux pas; having belittled women folk in Ch 9 v32 thus:
Even those who are born of sinful origin – women, Vaishyas, and also Shudras, they attain
the supreme state by taking refuge in me,
Would he have glorified them as well thus -
I’m the death that devours all
As well brings forth that beings
Besides what makes woman’s glory –
in v34 of the very next chapter i.e. Ch 10?
Whatever, if as implied, Brahmin and Kshatriya women (no exemption to them as they are
clubbed with Vaishyas and Shudras, men and women together) were to be born of sinful
womb (actually it is paapa-yoni, sinful vulva, in the sloka), it goes without saying that their
male siblings would not have been differently born, right, but the Gita declares Brahmin
men as worship-worthy! Yet this nonsensical verse 32 of chapter 9 is taken as Krishna’s
word by the foolish world, and what is worse, understandably the Shudras have come to
grudge the Gita on that score as well.
If only Gita’s proponents read it instead of roting it, as advised therein
Scores thought over mere roting
Betters meditation awareness too
What helps man to find moorings
Are acts his with no axe to grind. (ch 12 v12),
and its opponents realize the true nature of godhood is -
None I favor; slight I none
Devout Mine all gain Me true (Ch 9 v29),
then it would be crystal clear to both how the vested interests had miscarried Krishna’s
message to mankind conveyed to the world by Vyasa, also the progenitor of the latter.
So, it makes a case for them to own up the work albeit after ridding it of its inane
interpolations as was done in this writer’s Bhagvad- Gita: Treatise of Self-help that’s in the
public domain as free ebook from which the quotes in verses in this article are excerpted,
and those in prose are from others sources.
For further perspectives on the Gita, the readers may also read on-line the writer’s
Absurdity of Bhagvad-Gita’s Caste Biases, Badnām-Gita’s Spoiler Slokas, and Dichotomy
Between Hindu Religiosity and Gita's Spirituality, and Mundane distortions in the Divine
discourse.