Krsna and Arjuna

[Rev. Iconocclesiastes]

     To all of the assembled Dudes: be it known that I hereby nominate Krsna and Arjuna, the protagonists of the Bhagavad-Gita, to be listed as Great Dudes in history. 

     In  the Gita, Krsna explains to Arjuna that he (Arjuna, that is),needs not be afraid to do his duty as a ksatriya; bewildered by his mandate to fight, Arjuna hesitates to engage in the fratricidal war before him.  Krsna, however, elucidated the implications of Arjuna's reluctance.  He points out that, as a warrior, Arjuna's specific duty is indeed to fight on behalf of the righteous.  And his hesitation, Krsna adds, though superficially noble, is actually based on illusion, a misidentification of the body with the self.

     The opposing army is, after all, guilty of many atrocities and already doomed, even if many of them are Arjuna's relatives.  Krsna has sealed their fate or, rather, they have sealed their own fate, and Krsna is encouraging Arjuna to act as his instrument in meting out the appropriate reaction.   The Gita's seven hundred verses embody Krsna's elaborate arguments in this regard and Arjuna's ultimate acquiescence. 

     In closing, a verse from the Gita itself.  It's from Chapter 11, verse 32.  I call it "the Oppenheimer verse".

     Krsna says:

" Time I am, destroyer of the worlds, and I have come to engage all people. With the exception of you [the Pandavas], all the soldiers here on both sides will be slain."
     

[Hominid]

Vagina

[Rev. Iconocclesiastes]

Homonid: if you do not have anything intelligent or of some substance to contribute to a thread that I have started, or if you generally do not have anything nice to say to me, then please leave me alone.  OK?

[Hominid]

Vagina

[DigitalBuddha]

As I posted in another thread...

Actually, Rev. Iconocclesiastes, Hominid isn't trolling, he does that in a lot of threads. It's kind of like his trademark and his "Hominid was here" thingie. So, not to worry; it's kind of a small tradition in our beach community. No harm intended, Rev.

And, consider yourself fortunate, usually he leaves a...

VAGINA!

[Hominid]

Thanks for your backup DB - I didn't contribute over 1300 posts by being a troll.  These new guys...  Pffff.

[DigitalBuddha]

Thanks for your backup DB - I didn't contribute over 1300 posts by being a troll.  These new guys...  Pffff.

We must be patient with our new brethren until the Pffff has passed. Anyway, yur welcome, Sir.

[Hominid]

Some day I WILL be in your neck of the woods.  And we will indeed grab a lane, grab a burger, have a few White Russians, and suck on a huge fatty.  It's actually on my bucket list.

[Rev. Iconocclesiastes]

Some day I WILL be in your neck of the woods.  And we will indeed grab a lane, grab a burger, have a few White Russians, and suck on a huge fatty.  It's actually on my bucket list.

My neck of the woods, you mean?   My bad; I did not realize about you "Vagina" trademark.

[Hominid]

*Sigh*

[Rev. Iconocclesiastes]

*Sigh*

What?

[Shagbeard]

Beaver

[DigitalBuddha]

Beaver

You mean you know this guy?

[Shagbeard]

 

[forumdude]

I disagree. I think the Bhagavad Gita is one of the most undude books in the world. In the Hindu canon, the Upanishads are far more Dude.

The whole point of the Bhagavad Gita is that one must do his duty, even if that duty is to kill one's whole family. It's helped keep the caste system in place. In fact many scholars believe that this is the very reason it was "created." (Just as the gnostic elements were purged from Christianity by a church hell-bent on monopolizing the great payphone to God).

Lots of Westerners (like Christopher Isherwood) have tried to shoehorn the Gita into some sort of a plan for abnegating the ego, but I just don't buy it.

Nothing about anything Icon posted above resonates with Dudeism in my opinion. Am I wrong?