Timeline for How does the non-believer profit from the Bhagavat Gita?
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| Feb 8, 2019 at 15:53 | comment | added | PeterJ | @Partha - So glad you got it, and for free. Beautiful is a good word for it. It's so good I'm lost for words. . | |
| Feb 8, 2019 at 14:05 | comment | added | user17294 | @Peter J yes, Krishnaprem's comnentary was available for free download and I got it. It is really beautiful.Thanks for naming that great saint. | |
| Feb 8, 2019 at 11:49 | comment | added | PeterJ | It seems to me the main help that the Gita might offer to the non-believer is that by reading it they may become one, and even a non-believer might understand what is said up to the point that their understanding may be useful. I know best the commentary by Krishna Prem and would say it has much to offer the non-believer. It seems inevitable, however, that nobody could understand it fully without transcending the need to believe or not-believe. If we merely believe the Gita then we will not be quite sure what we believe. I wish more non-believing philosophers of mind would read it. | |
| Feb 8, 2019 at 7:41 | comment | added | user17294 | Late Sambhu Mitra, a renowned writer and actor was atheist but respected Gita highly. | |
| Feb 7, 2019 at 7:18 | answer | added | user17439 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 6, 2019 at 11:05 | answer | added | Bulusu S Murthy | timeline score: -2 | |
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| Nov 18, 2015 at 16:40 | comment | added | Keshav Srinivasan♦ | I recommend that you use bhagavad-gita.us rather than bhagavad-gita.org The second one has very bad translations of the different commentaries. bhagavad-gita.us, the one that has a picture of a tree, is much better. | |
| Nov 18, 2015 at 16:36 | comment | added | Varun Rao | @KeshavSrinivasan Thank. I will refer bhagavad-gita.org and the vedabase.com/en/bg/introduction. I'll find out to myself | |
| Nov 18, 2015 at 16:32 | comment | added | Keshav Srinivasan♦ | I agree with @AnilKumar, the ISKCON commentary is not the best. What I'd recommend is using this website which gives a bunch of different commentaries on the Bhagavas Gita, so you can compare them and judge for yourself which one is the best: bhagavad-gita.us (I prefer Ramanujachara's commentary, as I'm a Sri Vaishnava.). By the way, these commentaries also come from people who were part of some line of Gurus. | |
| Nov 18, 2015 at 16:16 | comment | added | Varun Rao | Yes. True. It is from ISKCON. My friend stressed the point that I should read the unadulterated GITA that has been passed down from an official line of Gurus. That is why I am reading the one from ISKCON | |
| Nov 18, 2015 at 16:16 | comment | added | Keshav Srinivasan♦ | @VarunRao I think it's certainly possible for a non-believer to read the Bhagavas Gita and then become a believer. | |
| Nov 18, 2015 at 16:13 | comment | added | Keshav Srinivasan♦ | @VarunRao That's not a quote from the Bhagava Gita, it's a quote from the ISKCON introduction to the Bhagavas Gita: vedabase.com/en/bg/introduction | |
| Nov 18, 2015 at 16:13 | comment | added | The Destroyer♦ | i think you have BG by ISKCON. They highlight Krishna more in that book. You can read other commentaries from this site. bhagavad-gita.org | |
| Nov 18, 2015 at 16:12 | comment | added | Varun Rao | @AnilKumar I agree. But shouldn't the teachings themselves make the non-beliver believe that the contents of BG are the truth? If you don't believe, you don't understand. If you don't understand, you wont believe? How to overcome this? | |
| Nov 18, 2015 at 16:10 | comment | added | The Destroyer♦ | One should believe in God and should see Krishna as God to understand it. Else who would listen to his philosophies if he wasn't God. How can non believers believe in teachings of some King (who had higher IQ) with earnest devotion? Bhagavad Gita wouldn't be such an important text if He wasn't God. It would be some random text. BG is short summary of Vedas and Dharma. | |
| Nov 18, 2015 at 16:09 | comment | added | Varun Rao |
Lord Sri Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, at least theoretically, according to the statements of Bhagavad-gita or the statements of Arjuna, the person who is trying to understand the Bhagavad-gita. We should therefore at least theoretically accept Sri Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and with that submissive spirit we can understand the Bhagavad-gita. Unless one reads the Bhagavad-gita in a submissive spirit, it is very difficult to understand Bhagavad-gita because it is a great mystery.
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| Nov 18, 2015 at 15:57 | comment | added | Keshav Srinivasan♦ | Where does the Bhagavad Gita say that you need to completely surrender to Vishnu in order to understand it? It does say that if you completely surrender to Vishnu, then you'll be delivered from all your sins; see here: hinduism.stackexchange.com/q/7971/36 But I don't know of any verse that says that surrender is a prerequisite for understanding the Gita. | |
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