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The Battlefield of Samsara
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The Bhagavad Gita is one of the most religiously important pieces of Indian literature, a segment of the longest poem ever written: the Mahabharata has 1.8 million words.
The origin of The Song of God is obscured a little by time, but it certainly predates the Christian scriptures, though its form was finalized after the Biblical Canon.
Vishnu is said to have incarnated partially into the personage known as Krishna Dvaipayana or Vyasa -- the same guy who split the Vedas into their four parts, and authored other variably important scriptures for the people of southern Asia.
Arjuna and Krishna have a deep conversation about everything that a man could hope for in this life and in the next -- kind of like The Legend of Bagger Vance, except on a battlefield instead of a golf course.
As we dive into the content of this short volume, we explore the principles of samsara, karma, reincarnation, cosmology, and the nature of the trimurti, and gods in general. We also begin to investigate the syncretic melting pot that gave birth to modern Hinduism.
All this and more...
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Manage episode 361503056 series 2922999
The Bhagavad Gita is one of the most religiously important pieces of Indian literature, a segment of the longest poem ever written: the Mahabharata has 1.8 million words.
The origin of The Song of God is obscured a little by time, but it certainly predates the Christian scriptures, though its form was finalized after the Biblical Canon.
Vishnu is said to have incarnated partially into the personage known as Krishna Dvaipayana or Vyasa -- the same guy who split the Vedas into their four parts, and authored other variably important scriptures for the people of southern Asia.
Arjuna and Krishna have a deep conversation about everything that a man could hope for in this life and in the next -- kind of like The Legend of Bagger Vance, except on a battlefield instead of a golf course.
As we dive into the content of this short volume, we explore the principles of samsara, karma, reincarnation, cosmology, and the nature of the trimurti, and gods in general. We also begin to investigate the syncretic melting pot that gave birth to modern Hinduism.
All this and more...
Support us on Patreon and Spreadshirt
Join the Community on Discord
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