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A 7 page overview of the Bhagavad-Gita and its meaning, which primarily draws on an article by Chaudhuri (1955). The last page and a half of the paper offers the writer's personal reaction to the Gita and Chaudhuri's viewpoint. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Bhagavad-Gita and Hinduism Research Compiled for The Paper
Store, Enterprises Inc. By - properly! Hinduism is an ancient religion, with roots
that extend into prehistory. It is a merging of the numerous, varied and ancient religious traditions of India, which preserves religious literature of the Aryan immigrants who came to India
between 1700 and 1200 BCE.1 These immigrants assimilated the beliefs and rituals associated with local gods. As this suggests, the conceptualization of Hinduism as a unified religion is an idea
imposed on India by outsiders.2 While a huge variety of beliefs exist under the umbrella term of Hinduism, there are common factors, and one of these is the reference that
Hindus hold for their body of religious literature. This examination focuses one of those sacred writings, the Bhagavad-Gita. The Bhagavad-Gita ("Song of
God") is a "philosophical discourse on the duties and the meaning of life and death."3 The narrative begins with Arjun, the leader of one branch of the Bharata family, facing
battle against another branch of the his family on the field of Kurukshetra. Arjun is in a moral dilemma because if he fights, he will have to kill his cousins;
however, if he does not fight, it means his own death. He asks Lord Krishna, who happens to be his chariot driver, for his counsel. The advice Krishna offers him
encompasses a great many of the basic principles of Hindu thought. First of all, Krishna talks about duty. As Arjun is of the kshatriya caste, it is part of
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