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What does Bhagavad Gita say about money?
Generating wealth through hard work is not a sin. To live better money is as essential as water. Bhagavad Gita helps us in striking a balance it shows us how to create wealth. To create wealth the brain has to be challenged every moment.
What Bhagavad Gita says about career?
To action alone hast thou a right and never at all to its fruits; let not the fruits of action be thy motive; neither let there be in thee any attachment to inaction. There is no substitute to hard work and eventually hard work pays.
What does the Bhagavad Gita say about killing?
The focus of the Gita is not ‘go ahead and kill’ but rather that ‘when dharma is at stake, do not lose your courage’. Similar to telling the army, ‘when dacoits attack innocent people, it is your duty to stop them!!’
What is the story of Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita?
The Bhagavad Gita & War The story of Arjuna, the fabled bowman of the Mahabharata, brings out Lord Krishna’s view of war in the Gita. The great battle of Kurukshetra is about to begin. Krishna drives Arjuna’s chariot drawn by white horses into the centre of the battlefield between the two armies.
Does the Bhagavad Gita condone pacifism?
For those victimized by massive injustice, the Gita doesn’t condone a passive spectator role that reduces noble pacifism to impotent and suicidal utopianism. Instead, the Gita advocates pragmatic assertive action for protecting basic human rights.
Where is the Bhagavad Gita found in the Mahabharata?
The Bhagavad Gita manuscript is found in the sixth book of the Mahabharata manuscripts – the Bhisma-parvan. Therein, in the third section, the Gita forms chapters 23–40, that is 6.3.23 to 6.3.40. The Bhagavad Gita is often preserved and studied on its own, as an independent text with its chapters renumbered from 1 to 18.