Monday, April 12, 2010

A Long Process and Arjuna's Final Decision


Throughout the different teachings Krishna convinces Arjuna to fight for different purposes and to stand for various principles. All of them funded on discipline and basically following his directions and his advice. “I will teach you the totality\ of knowledge and judgment;\ this known, Nothing else in the world need to be known.”(2, T7), he knows it all and the one who really understands him and his knowledge will triumph. “Vile, deluded sinners are the men\ who fail to take refuge in me;\ their knowledge ruined by magic,\ they fail prey to demonic power.”(15), Krishna throughout the book is basically telling him to follow him.

He also mentions that concentrating in him and mentioning the divine syllable OM results in infinite spirit, “At the time of death ,\ with the mind immovable,\ armed with devotion\ and strength of discipline,\ focusing vital breathe\ between the brows one attains the supreme\ divine spirit of men”(10, T8), men have always looked for a consolation to accept death, it is comforting to think that there is something beyond death, that it won´t all end forever, it is a pattern that is repeated in many believes around the world. “These bright and dark pathways\ are deemed constant for the universe; by one, a man escapes rebirth; by the other, he is born again”(26), I also recall this thing about choosing paths, in the catholic religion, there are also different paths, the one that follows the path of god is redeemed and lives in his refuge but the other does not, in this case is born once again and remains trapped in the continuous cycle.
As the book continues, Arjuna is taught about the mystery in faith and its magic as well as divine power. I specially liked the eleventh teaching as I was finally able to have an idea of what Krishna looked like. It is a very distortional image in my head as it is described as many things in one, with many bellies, and many eyes, and many arms, it is quite confusing; “Arjuna see my forms\ in hundreds and thousands;\ diverse, divine,\ of many colors and shapes”(5, T11).

The rest of the teachings basically described how to achieve your true spirit through faith in god and how there is good and demonic in man. Finally in teaching eighteen Arjuna fights.
I personally thought he was right since the beginning.

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