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Please read the entire post - 'Indian' - Endorsed by the Country or majority of the religion ? No. It's someone ChatGPT inspired clickbait tool to make quick m
by testHNac 3y ago
Please read the entire post -
'Indian' - Endorsed by the Country or majority of the religion ?
No. It's someone ChatGPT inspired clickbait tool to make quick money.
Hinduism doesn't have a singular 'God' that people follow like most monotheist religions.
The article's title is malicious, low effort and click bait.
And from a certain school of thinking that Indians quite fairly consider Hindu Bashing.
Don't go by what Guardian, Independent, Vice etc tell you about the religion.
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Try to read the actual text of Bhagavad Gita and draw your own conclusions.
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This is what some pretty wise and accomplished people had to say about the Bhagavad Gita -
They wouldn't if Bhagavad Gita was entirely as the article alleged.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence_of_Bhagavad_Gita#:~:text=Alongside%20its%20importance%20in%20the,%2C%20Henry%20David%20Thoreau%2C%20J https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence_of_Bhagavad_Gita#:~:....
Aldous Huxley, the English writer found Gita "the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind.", He also felt, Gita is "one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity."
J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and director of the Manhattan Project, learned Sanskrit in 1933 and read the Bhagavad Gita in the original form, citing it later as one of the most influential books to shape his philosophy of life.
Henry David Thoreau wrote "In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial."[18]
Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse felt that "the marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion."
Gandhi
The Bhagavad Gita's emphasis on selfless service was a prime source of inspiration for Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Gandhi told-"When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-Gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day".
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Consider this an invitation to read the source - The Bhagavad Gita.
You might find it life changing, or it might at least inspire you to think beyond the simplistic Western concepts of Good and Evil.