HINDU SCRIPTURE THE GITA IS EVIL IDEOLOGY
The Truth About The Gita – A Closer Look at Hindu Scripture: V.R.Narla (Intro
by)
Innaiah Narisetti (2010) [230P] ISBN: 161641832 www.prometheus.com
Book Review: Kavneet Singh
Ventakeswara Rao Narla an essayist, journalist and author who has written over
30 books in Telugu and English on religion, history and current events. He was
the editor of the Andhra Prabha daily and the editor of the Andhra Joyti. A
rationalist and an humanist who could be called Andhra Pradesh’s greatest
‘critical thinker’ of the 20th century.
[We are skipping his findings on the Mahabharata of which the Gita is a part. And his findings on the notorious god, Krishna. We are talking about the Bhagvad Gita - the virtual gospel of Hinduism in which Krishna is centrepiece.]
Chapter 12 – And When?
Furthermore, though there are no references to the Buddha and Buddhism in the
Gita, the Mahabharta as a whole is not free from them. The words “Buddha” and
Prati-Buddha” occur here and there in the text of the epic…..[Page 120]
All claims by the Hindu establishment make the time frame of the Gita between
800-200 B.C. But all evidence seems to lead to the 3rd century A.D., because the
writings of the Gita indicate that the authors of the Gita were all aware of
Buddha therefore the Gita is post Buddha and not pre-Buddha as is claimed.
Chapter 13 – Gita as Scripture
The Gita is no Veda or Vedanga. The scriptural authority which it now posses is
a late acquisition…..Even S.A.Belwalkar had to own it, though tacitly, when he
said that the gita attained its “dominant position” during “the last twelve
hundred years”, that is after Sankaracharya’s lifetime…….[Pages 124-125]
The same Hindu-Brahmin Sankaracharya who murdered millions of Buddhists through
the largest ethnic cleansing, a Holocaust of the 12th century, brought the Gita
out of total obscurity to promote his own sectarian and caste interests to blunt
the rapid rise of Buddhism. This decadent text with his alchemy was made to
shine like gold. All four Acharyas were from the four southern linguistic areas.
Their dark and deep influence lasted till the eighteenth century. No wonder a
mentally enslaved people were ruled easily by the Mughals for a millennia and
the British for over two centuries.
The very first of its translations into English aoppeared in 1785. Translated in
by Charles Wilkins under the title Bhagvat-Geeta, or Dialouges of Kreeshna and
Arjoon, its publication was actively promoted by the then Governor-General of
India, Warren Hastings…..Its French rendering by M.Parraud (Le Bhagaut-Geeta)
appeared in 1787…..[Pages 126-127]
The elasticity and the double speak of the text compounds the dichotomy, no
wonder Gandhi and his assassin Godse both revered the Gita. The Gita is so
ambiguous that a normal person will go nuts trying to figure out any ethical
spirituality within it.
Upadhyaya proceeded next to print in parallel columns all the passages lifted
verbatim from the Upnaishads and they total up to twenty-two……But the first
prize in plagiarism should go to the Gita. It is a shining honor?......[Page
130]
So much priestly fraud has been committed that no wonder everything is
contradictory and there is no continuous inspiration to the sublime.
Chapter 14 – Has the Gita a Philosophy?
As far as India is concerned, the synonym for philosophy is darshana……And so the
very term darshana has put Indian philosophy on the wrong track……[Page 131]
There can be no original philosophy through blind faith and without critical
thinking. Evasive, primitive philosophical opinions which are highly
retrograde, regressive, immoral and unbelievably unethical make up the unholy
religious classic.
The fact of the matter is, it is a poem, a collection of songs – not a work of
theological philosophy…..Page 133]
Some Hindu authors such as Sarma define the Gita as a collection of songs, some
as a drama (ishwarleela – god’s sport) and many others much more.
The “high god”, as Kosambi rightly pointed out, repeatedly emphasizes the great
virtue of non-killing (ahimsa), yet the entire discourse is an incentive to
war.”…….[Page 135]
The contradictions abound therefore the Gita is a riddle hidden in an enigma.
The problem is that the riddle has been solved – the Emperor has no clothes!
Electicism is not integration. Different ideas and concepts, borrowed from
different sources by an eclectic, dot generally merge into a integrated whole,
but abide side by side as separate entities and led a split personality, to a
double life, and ultimately to downright hypocrisy…..[Pages 136-137]
Some very astute men calling themselves Brahmins with the sole purpose to
psychologically control the masses for eternity by usurping all power and
silencing any dissent in perpetuity very ably created this unholy tale of other
worldly proportions.
“Why is a man to obey and why is it difficult to disobey?” questioned Eric
Fromm, the German born American psychoanalyst……My obedience makes me part of the
power I worship, hence I feel strong…….[Page 137]
Fromm has figured out the Gita riddle from a different angle and he is right!
The deluded despise Me clad in human body, not knowing my higher nature as Lord
of all existence (IX-11 Gita)…….[Page 139]
Krishna did not write the Gita but, the umpteen world-class plagiarists who
concocted the Gita made sure that the godly fabrication was drilled into
anything which walked on two legs so that its authority is unquestioned forever.
Chapter 15 – Ethics of the Gita
In ancient India ethics never developed, as it did in Greece, into a special
branch of study…...An ethical system with a social bearing can develop only in a
society that has some social coherence……..[Pages 140-141]
With the caste system rigidly in place no such ethical system could even begin
to germinate because the entire society was divided from top to bottom with the
sole focus of each sub-group more worried about their supposed position and all
the protocols surrounding it rather than develop a sound ethical system for
uplifting society.
How can a scripture which makes a reluctant Arjuna take up his arms again and
kill his kinsmen to gain a petty kingdom promote world peace?.......[Page 142]
A man-god glibly lectures a soldier by convincing him to kill all those, he
loves and cares for, simply cannot be a man of peace and freedom. That rather
makes Krishna a very unethical and violent man akin to a modern day terrorist
with a dangerous agenda.
Whatever these and other commentators on the Gita might say, the concern of
ethics should be, not with god and his angles, but with man and fellow-men. Its
aim should be “the greatest happiness of the greatest number”…..It should
promote amity, not strife; it should work for peace, not for war…….[Page 145]
The Gita is all about strife and war and then total annihilation of forces
amassed on both sides. Krishna to put it bluntly made Arjuna into a killing
machine through his “song celestial” instead of diplomatically using his wisdom
to peacefully resolve the entire conflict which could have been settled amicably
if he was a visionary chief with the will to do it. Therefore, unless most Gita
apologists are high on something special while reading it, there seems to be no
ahimsa (non-violence) being taught, but rather extreme violence is being
propagated, justified and sanctified by the dark lord Krishna himself.
From blackmailing, Krishna proceeded to browbeating. He told Arjuna; “being a
fool, you think you will be killing Bhishma, Drona, Karna and others. In fact,
they are already killed by me.” To Arjuna much bewildered and broken down by
then, Krishna gave a stunning glimpse of his cosmic form. It was something
ghoulish and bloodcurdling……
The core teaching of the Gita, as Prem Nath Bazaz has put it boldly, succinctly
and truly is this: “Murder with impunity”…..D.D.Kosambi wrote that the
ostensible moral of the Gita is: ‘Kill your brother if duty calls, without
passion; as long as you have faith in Me, all sins are forgiven…….[Page 148]
The ultimate kernel of the Gita lies in the above statements by Bazaz and
Kosambi! The Gita being the quintessence of the Santana Dharma, no wonder ethnic
cleansing and genocides are carried out against all minorities with complete
impunity with absolutely nothing bothering their conscience, since the dark-lord
Krishna will forgive everyone of their sins.
As Arun Shourie points out, the Gita is not consistent. It tells you act not to
make a world a better place to live in or to make your fellow-men better
citizens to live with, but to seek the merger of your individual soul with the
supreme soul…….[Page 149]
Instead of merging one’s love with fellow human beings, the entire focus is to
kill because it is your duty and then merge with the Supreme soul. But the
problem is, after killing you will have no soul to merge with the Supreme!
“Kill , kill one and kill all, kill without the least constraint, because it is
your caste duty, because it is in consonance with nature.” To sum up, the ethics
of the Gita is wholly Machivellian and Nietzschean…..Krishna met his end by an
aboriginal hunter who mistook him for a quarry……[Page 151]
What could be more incredible than such unethical, unconscionable belligerence
by a god whose leadership has a billion devotees, leading them off the dangerous
precipice into permanent oblivion of Om!
Chapter 16 - Sociology of the Gita
The four fold order was created by Me according to the divisions of quality and
work.
Though I am its creator, know Me to be incapable of action change (IV – 13)
{Gita}….[Page 152]
Nothing could be clearer than the above verse from the Gita where Krishna the
dark lord states that he created the despicable caste system. Further caste
literally means varnas which in turn means color. Therefore the entire edifice
of the so-called caste system is based on racial lines. The stratification of
the social mobility is so rigid that there is absolutely no scope for rise in
status no matter how incredible one’s personal accomplishments. This is the real
‘apartheid’ of the Brahmin kind!
He may or may not have been the Lord of the Jagat (Universe) but he was
certainly the Lord of Jugglery. Taking their cue from the Lord of Jugglery, the
commentators on the Gita maintain that caste system is not man-made but
god-made; it is “therefore” sacrosanct…….[Page 154]
How on earth does the all-knowing god devise such a unjust and wicked system so
as to subjugate more than 95% of the population to perpetual servitude. No
wonder, it is possible in Krishna’s alternate parallel universe where all the 33
million gods reside to do the impossible on this Hindu earth.
For finding, refuge in Me, they also who, O son of Pritha, may be of a sinful
birth –
women, vaisays as well as sudras, - even they can attain to the Supreme
Goal..[Page 154]
This verse of the Gita by Krishna should get an Oscar award for its sheer
insolence and the unspeakable gaul to be able to write such filth. It really
means that all except the Brahmins and the Kshytrias everyone else is “born out
of the womb of sin.” Nothing can be more repulsive than this statement but even
worse being, that it is from the holiest Hindu text. Dozens of well known
commentators on the Gita have given evasive and misleading translations because
it boggles the mind, as to how is it possible that a holy text can be downright
racist to the vast majority of the population.
Now the forth key – and vicious – verse in the Gita is No.35 in Chapter
III…….Better one’s own duty, though devoid of merit, than the duty of another
well discharged. Better is death in one’s own duty; the duty of another is
productive of danger…….[Page 159]
This line probably the most famous one, from the Gita, is such a senseless and
convoluted statement. According to Krishna the most intelligent sudra cannot
perform the Brahmin’s prayers otherwise he would go to hell. Instead he should
continue to be a shoemaker if his father was one and give it his best and be
content. Messing with the sacrosanct varna system can as Narla puts it, “a spell
in hell!” Arjuna cares more about upsetting the caste system due to the war, as
the war widows may intermarry with other caste-groups or become sex-slaves of
the lower castes, rather than the relatives he has killed. The entire Gita is
nothing more than barbed wire to keep the brutal caste system in its place.
Chapter 17 – The Gita and Science
A true scientist cannot think, he cannot work, he can hardly breathe in the
midst of the vacuity and vapidity of Vedanta……[Page 167]
Out of the three Indian-born scientists who have Nobel prizes for their work two
won it for their work done in the US and decided not to return to the holy land
of the Vedas.
Various charlatans posing as theologians propound many fantastic theories of
inventions of electricity and flying chariots all found in the Mahabharata eons
ago. Even “science fiction”
has been incorporated into the Gita!
Chapter 18 - Why the Gita
By the time of Patanjali, that is, the 2nd century B.C., Krishna was being
worshipped in some parts of the country by some sections of the people as a
personal god. Patanjali was too shrewd a man not to take full advantage of this
fact…..[Page 172]
The two greatest ruling dynasties prior to the birth of Christ in South Asia
were the Nandas and Mauryas both “Sudras.” Neo-Brahminism came about immediately
after Pushyamitra murdered Asoka and Brihadratha the descendent of Chandragupta
the Sudra emperor. Their two pronged attack to eradicate Buddhism completely;
one, to physically kill all monks and Buddhist followers and second, to rewrite
and co-opt all those puny gods including Buddha, so that the “sudras” never dare
raise their head again. The ever vigilant Brahmins never stopped reinventing
their texts to make sure that no other Faith ever subsumes them like Buddhism
and Jainism did in the past. The proper title for the Gita should be “The Caste
Stays Rigid”. The Gita is basically a grim warning to all followers that they
better toe the line of castism or else contend with hellfire.
