Does Gita promote violence?
I have a friend who is guyanese american of Indian descent! and he is christian. He used to have many misgivings about Hinduism but, this one really made me laugh!
" look man Krishna asks you to kill everybody....kill uncle teachers ,brothers what God is that God man?"
That was his complaint!
I did not get anger or even feel irritated... i felt it was funny.
let us get into the allegation:
Life is beautiful
yes life is beautiful but everyone wants their life to be beautiful even at the cost of other people. Especially the bad people ( or the villains) like to have their life beuatiful by going to any extent against the principles of society or the morals! Whereas some people who are on the side of righteousness does not like yielding and they prefer to fight the evil than love it! Though love is very powerful, loving your enemy is divinely romantic but, in reality not stopping the evil doer is helping the spread of the evil! so even if we love all the human beings in the world which is what Jesus asked us for it is not wise for us to ignore/accept the ugliness/evil and allow it to spread!
The world has ill people who are bent on making things work their way at the cost of the principles/morals and order of the society while there are people who will fight on the side of righteousness and will not let the evil people take over the society/humanity!
The fight between the good and bad is eternal and it will never end by good people loving the bad people!
For them(evil people) such thing(love) amounts as submission!
If you still do not agree ask God to love Satan! Does it make any sense?
people influenced by god (they have no choice) fight people influenced by Satan!
Love your neighbor but not the evil deeds of your neighbor!
Even Jesus Christ in his second coming is not going to be a friendly, forgiving, and loving God but, a warrior /armed prince and punishing God!
The madness:
Some people who are influenced by love find it disgusting to see that God is asking the warrior prince Arjuna to kill his own uncles, teachers,cousins etc....
As we already discussed the fight between good and bad is eternal! we have to take the sides which is the most critical aspect. If you are taking the side of good you are on the side of god! If you are taking the side of bad you are on the side of evil! If you are a warrior ( contemporary soldier/general/marine etc...) it is your duty to fight the war! The only thing you have to worry is if you are on the side of righteousness or not! If you are on the side of righteousness and if your own uncles, teachers,cousins are on the side of evil you shall not step back from your duty " The war ".
do your duty! Never be a slave to the worldly feelings/ family bonding and do injustice to your responsibility!
If president of Russia's son does something ugly(imagination) shall the Russian society forgive him? Righteousness is above everything.
Dushta sikshan sishta rakshana
punishing the evil and protecting the righteousness, that is the theme of God's preaching the warrior prince to fight against his own uncles etc...!
So it is not madness of violence but, the protection of the order and righteousness and above all doing your duty without any bias!
Those who protest this theme of Bhagavadgita should first protest the army/navy/air force of their own country and even if imagining(wildly) they are successful they should then use their all energies to zero down the police force! No police no soldier for their country...then only they can protest that bhagavadgita is something only wild and violence!
The Karna ex:
Karna is a very righteous and noble warrior! He is the most powerful warrior, even than the Arjuna the hero (warrior ) prince! His charity is second to none! even if he knew that his enemy is asking his armor only to kill him, he will part with it cheerfully and give it to his enemy in disguise! As a matter of principle he will never say no to anyone who comes for his help! He is the most noble but, but, he is killed in the war! Even the God had his role in the death of this shining warrior!
The moral is how good and noble a person you could be, if you are on the side of evil you will not succeed in the end and you are not supposed to succeed how powerful and skillful you might be at the end of the war @ god's will!
So, Bhagavadgita asks you to do your duty ( if you are a soldier - fight) and to make sure that you are on the side of righteousness!
What is righteousness?
let me define other way around : If you violate someone's rights for your own gains it is bad/evil and if you violate your own rights for the happiness of someone that is love/divine or atleast if you resist evil you are good!
