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Iconoclasm in India: Rationalist KS Bhagwan's criticism of Bhagavad Gita and Lord Krishna
by Guest Fri Apr 15, 2016 2:39 pm
Why are you against the Gita?
I am reading old things and seeing them with new eyes. In the Bhagavad Gita, chapter 9, shloka 32, Krishna says everyone is a sinner, other than Brahmins and Kshatriyas. All women including Brahmin ones, non-Brahmins and all Vaishyas are sinners. How can we agree to this? The Shwetashvada Upanishad, which came earlier, says everyone is the child of nectar. Vivekananda interpreted this and said it is a sin to call anyone a sinner. So such thoughts in the Gita should be criticised, rejected and taken out. I stand by this. There are certainly some good things in the Gita. But there are very dangerous elements. Krishna says he created the chatur varna, the caste system. So that means he created upper castes and lower castes. How can we call the Bhagavad Gita a great book in this context?
Isn't criticising a Hindu god a deliberate bid to oppose religious beliefs?
Can we say a god kidnapped 16,000 women? Radha was married to someone else, can we say a god kidnapped her? Can we call this Krishna a god? We would call someone who does not die a god. But Krishna was lying beneath a tree and died when a hunter's arrow hits him. Does god die? He is not god. People have made him a god for their convenience. We cannot accept everything that Krishna says is correct. Where he is correct, we can accept it. Where he is wrong, we should say it's wrong.
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-09-14/news/66532439_1_bhagavad-gita-upper-castes-brahmins
I am reading old things and seeing them with new eyes. In the Bhagavad Gita, chapter 9, shloka 32, Krishna says everyone is a sinner, other than Brahmins and Kshatriyas. All women including Brahmin ones, non-Brahmins and all Vaishyas are sinners. How can we agree to this? The Shwetashvada Upanishad, which came earlier, says everyone is the child of nectar. Vivekananda interpreted this and said it is a sin to call anyone a sinner. So such thoughts in the Gita should be criticised, rejected and taken out. I stand by this. There are certainly some good things in the Gita. But there are very dangerous elements. Krishna says he created the chatur varna, the caste system. So that means he created upper castes and lower castes. How can we call the Bhagavad Gita a great book in this context?
Isn't criticising a Hindu god a deliberate bid to oppose religious beliefs?
Can we say a god kidnapped 16,000 women? Radha was married to someone else, can we say a god kidnapped her? Can we call this Krishna a god? We would call someone who does not die a god. But Krishna was lying beneath a tree and died when a hunter's arrow hits him. Does god die? He is not god. People have made him a god for their convenience. We cannot accept everything that Krishna says is correct. Where he is correct, we can accept it. Where he is wrong, we should say it's wrong.
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-09-14/news/66532439_1_bhagavad-gita-upper-castes-brahmins
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