31: Uddhava Gita from Bhagavata Purana 11.1-7
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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The Uddhava Gita is a small section from the famous Bhagavata Purana in which Sri Krishna imparts powerful Vedantic teachings to his dear friend and devotee, Uddhava, much in the same way that Sri Krishna teaches Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita.
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Namaste Swamiji! Thank you for an excellent class. I am glad you've pointed that we shouldn't take our education for granted, certainly not, it made us who we are today and so hard to obtain by some people. It should be cherished. 🙏
Any war in my opinion goes against dharma and is adharmic. The belief is we are not the body, that that the body is a temporary vehicle that contains the true self should not be used to justify war. When people go to war, there is an attack defend situation going on, with many varying details being used as justification for the war. Dharmic behaviour in my mind never justifies war. ❤❤❤
Thank you for teaching us, Swami 😊🙏 Always an uplifting part of the week 🙏
Om Tat Sat
🙏 Thank you Swami ji.
Pranam Guruji 🙏
Thank you, Swami-ji. 🕉
I have a question, if anyone can answer. Was the atomic bomb then to save the kingdom, a.k.a. restore Dharma? The Japanese people that were bombed, weren’t necessarily suffering due to the kingdom in Japan. However, other people were suffering from Japans conquering and killing… Is it truly restoring Dharma if you’re killing innocent people we didn’t kill warriors or use the atom bomb on military bases it was used on a village… Couldn’t we have done something similar to Germany where we stormed the capital and eventually won? I know in Germany, innocent villages and towns were also bombed because they were just in a war. There was retaliation against what the Germans were doing.
I don't think that the Second World War could be termed as a Dharmajuddha !! By no means.....
War is horrible to those who are affected. It's even worse when one has no say in it and ends up being cannon fodder or collateral damage. All because of the decisions of people in power. What your question though is was Hiroshima and Nagasaki dharmic like the plot of the Mahabharata?
The Mahabharata is a story meant to deliver the point that our reality is very complex and not all black and white. There's never pure good nor pure evil. It's always a mixture of grey. So how can we navigate that greyness?
That being said the decision to drop the bombs in Japan was devastating to innocent people who had no say in the war but it indeed became the catalyst to end the Japanese regime. But upon further examination, we can question whether that was the ONLY reason for the decision? I'm no historian and I'm far removed from that time but if I were to speculate there's probably internal political pressure involved as well as the external benefit of positioning the USA as the "Alpha" of the countries by displaying power.
Decisions are very complex and to categorize them as purely dharmic or purely adharmic would be incomplete. But in our busy lives, labeling is normally what we rely on. Fortunately what Vedanta promotes is for us to think for ourselves. It gets us to develop our way of navigating the reality we live in so we can find peace in whatever situation we are in. One of those ways is to go inward and examine ourselves. Like with me, why did I respond to your post?
If I were to be honest with myself I'd say there are elements of
practicing critical thinking (fear of entropy)
wanting to help (compassion)
wanting to be right (affirmation of opinion)
and vanity (wanting to that "thumbs up")
When I understand this then it's just a matter of seeing what dictates my decision. If it's purely or mostly for vanity then I would probably restrain myself from doing so to not cultivate the action as it will become a habit.
So all in all there are more to decisions if we examine it thoroughly. It's just that it's very difficult to figure out what's going on in another person's mind so maybe it's more practical to examine what we can be sure of and that is what is going on in ours. Maybe by doing so, we can end up seeing the complexity in other people just us we see the same within ourselves. And hopefully, that helps with quieting the mind in preparation for assimilating the teachings.
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pranam swami ji /\
Pranam Swami ji
Shanti, shanti, shanti.🙏🏼
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