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Why did Krishna preach Gita only to Arjuna and not to any one else?
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Why is the hare Krishna such a popular religion today?
In short, Krishna is popular because he was a human incarnation (or avatar) of God (Lord Vishnu) -- his message is most clearly outlined in the works, the Bhagavad Gita and the Uddhava Gita. The first work is the most well-known work of Hindu smriti scripture; the second is lesser-known outside India, but continues the teachings that were first elaborated on in the Bhagavad Gita. In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna reveals to Arjuna (his human companion) his Divine Form - the true image of God, described in great detail and compared to the image of thousands of suns rising at once. Krishna is Popular Because He Is GOD " The supreme personality of god head "
How does the bhagavad gita fit with the system of varnas?
Do it yourself quit being lazy don't depend on someone else to do your work
What does Krishna do?
Krishna is the sanskrit word for God just like Christos is the Greek for Christ. Krishna is considered the Supreme Lord. Krishna is the most opulent, attractive, powerful, and is within everything. Krishna is the absolute truth. You can also look at The Bhagavad Gita by H.G. A.C. Bhaktivedantaswami Srila Prabhupada. It has the exact words of Lord Krishna and the path you should follow!
How come its possible that a danav made Krishna to vacate mathura and settle somewhere else?
Actually it is not possible for one to make Krsna do anything. According to all Vedic authorities Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead (See Bhagavad Gita - As it is by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada). Krsna is independent and acts independently. However, he may play a role that appears to be subservient to another. It is in this case, that he is submitting to his loving devotee where Krsna is only controlled by pure bhakti or devotional love. Therefore, Krsna desired to please his devotees by vacating Mathura.
What else did paul do besides wrigth letters to the glations?
he travelled around to preach about the Law of Moses and he was a martyr (someone who dies for his faith)
Was Radha married?
No, Krishna did not marry Radha. He married Rukmini.
Why Radha did not marry Lord Krishna?
The love between Krishna and Radha is eternal. Krishna did not marry Radha to show an example to all the lovers of this material world. Even though Krishna loves Radha eternally in his heart, soul, body and mind, he did not marry her. Krishna had a mission, lesson to deliver to the world -The essence of Bhagavad Gita. So, he left his love, Mathura for us. He taught us how to detach ourselves from attachment to pursuit the supreme goal of life (spiritual advancement).He taught us how to sacrifice love for the sake of others. We obviously see nowadays that lovers - teenagers, adults are separated due to various circumstances, marry someone else without forgetting the one who stays in their hearts. Likewise Krishna did not forget Radha even though he married Rukmani, Satyabhama.True lovers definetely get united one day in this life or the next life. Krishna and Radha statue erected in temples show us to believe in love and accept their unique love story.Another view:Krishna could not marry Radha because she was related to his father and was in a way his aunty. Very few people know this truth.One more view:Krishna is soul and Radha is mind. Soul (Krishna) controls the mind (Radha) and after enlightenment they become one. In marriage man and woman would have separate identity and therefore after enlightenment only soul control every action so no new Karma bondage.
Which section or adhyaya is the classic example of mischief or pollution or addition in the Bhagwat Geeta?
Eleventh adhyaya or the section in Geeta, that is the classic example of addition in the Geeta. There were Vaishnav and Shaiva sections in Hinduism for quite a long period. Fortunately they are not there now. The Vishnu Purana or for that purpose all the Purana are written long after the Geeta was told by Lord Krishna. Here the failed attempt is made by some worshiper of the Lord Vishnu to prove that Lord Krishna was incarnation of Lord Vishnu. The fallowing description is not intended to hurt the religious feeling of any body. It is an honest opinion. You can simply discard it as my personal opinion and go ahead as per your faith and belief. I will not explain the whole section eleven. Only relevant two liners will be considered to save time and energy. Arjuna says, " O Lord Krishna. I want to see you as you are." (11/3)." O Lord Krishna, If it is possible, show me how you look like." (11/4).Lord Krishna says, " Look Arjuna. You see my divine form" (11/5)." Look Arjuna, You see into me the 12 sons of Aditi. You see 8 Vasus. You see 11 Rudras in me. You see 2 Ashwinikumars in me. 49 Marudganas in me. Many other surprizing forms may be seen." (11/6).( This is the style of Purana. One wants to show the depth of knowledge. But after telling five types of gods in bizarre numbers the imagination got exhausted here, as usual in Purana.)"Look Arjuna, You see the whole world into me and see what ever you want or desire to see." (11/7).( Arjuna was also given the liberty to imagine. Now fallows the very important two liner.)"But, it is not possible for you to visualize me by your earthly eyes. So I give you divine eyes." (11/8).After this the Lord Krishna showed the Arjuna, his ultimate rich and divine form. (11/9).The divine form had many mouths (or faces ?), many eyes, Lord Krishna was wearing many divine ornaments, many divine weapons, many divine garlands. Lord Krishna has applied divine lotions all over his body. He was full of surprises. He was endless. He has faces in all the directions.Such form is seen by Arjuna. (11/10).The Arjuna saw the whole universe in the Lord Krishna. (11/13).Arjuna says, " O Lord, I can see all the gods, Brahma, who is sitting on the lotus, Lord Shiva, all the worshipers, all the divine snakes." (11/15).( Here Arjuna saw Lord Brahma and Lord Shiva there. but not Lord Vishnu.)" O Lord of the whole universe, I can see your body with many extremities, many abdomens, many heads, many eyes. I can not see the end, the middle part and the end of yours." (11/16).(So the God here is like any other ultimate rich person. He is mighty and powerful. He need many heads, many extremities and many weapons to kill some body. The almost equally powerful demon, as usual in Purana.)" I can see you with the weapons like club, wheel, with crown, full of light from all the sides. I am seeing you who is difficult to be seen." (11/17).( This is the description that befit the Lord Vishnu.)" You are there with out the start, middle part or the end. You have infinite powers. You have infinite extremities. You have the eyes in the form of sun and moon. Fire is coming from your mouth. All the universe is heated by you." (11/19).( Do not need repetition of the comment. Next two liner tells more about the immaturity of the person, who has added it.)" O Lord Krishna, This total space between the heaven and earth is occupied by you. All the three places (or loka), (heaven, earth and hell) are fearing you." (11/20).( Only Arjuna could see the divine form. The question is that how the three places saw the divine form of God? Secondly, why should they fear the God?)." All the gods are entering into you. Some are fearing you. The people who worship you are praying you trying to please you." ( 11/21).( The same question. How the others could 'see' the divine form of God, which was to be visible to Arjuna only?)." Those 11 Rudra, 12 sons of Aditi, 8 Wasu, Ashwinikumar, Marudgana, the groups of ancestors, as well as the groups of Gandhrva, Yaksha, Demons, and the people, who worship you, are 'looking' at you with surprise." (11/22).( Same question! How could all they could see the God with those divine eyes?)." O Lord, Every body is getting problems by 'seeing' your dangerous form and me too." (11/23)." O Lord Vishnu, I am fearing very much. I am not getting peace." ( 11/24).( Here the person, who added says that the God is Vishnu. Most surprising thing is that you are not comfortable with the actual form of God. There is fear psychosis.)" All the people are entering in your mouth. You are eating them. (11/25, 11/ 26).(Same type of description is there in 11/27 and 11/28.)' O Lord Vishnu, You are eating them all. the whole universe is getting heat (and problem) because of your dangerous form." (11/30)." Tell me please about you, who is so much dangerous. O God of gods, get pleased. I want to know you, as I do not know you." ( 11/31).Lord Krishna says, " I am great death to destruct the all the places (Loka).So all are going to die with out war by you also." (11/32).( What is so wonder about it? If people do not die in war, they die of old age also.)" So get up. Win the war. Enjoy the kingdom, full of grains and gold. These people are already dead. You become reason for their death." (11/33).( This is the language of Veda. Same words are used by Lord Krishna in the beginning also. But later on diverted Arjuna to art and science of liberation from these earthly things.) (Refer Geeta, 2/37)." You kill the great warriors from opposite sides. They are already killed by me. Do not fear. You are going to win. So fight the war." (11/34).( In 2/37 Lord Krishna says that if you win, you will be king of this land. If you die in the war, you will go to the heaven. This is totally logical. What is mentioned above is ridiculous.)Arjuna says, " This is right that the good people are happy with you. The demons are running away in all the directions. All the devotee are are praising you." (11/36).( I do not know about the reason as to how these demons came to know about the true form of God and where will they run, when God is every where?)" You are that ultimate God" (11/38, 11/39)." If I have hurt you inadvertently, please excuse me" (11/41, 11/42)." I am getting problems as well as I am getting happy also. So please show me your original form of Lord Vishnu with four upper extremities." (11/45).( I have been surprising for decades about how the Arjuna came to know that Lord Krishna is the Lord Vishnu only. At few two liners before only (11/ 41 and 42) Arjuna is asking for the apology.)" I want to see you with crown, club and wheel." (11/46).( This is usual description of Lord Vishnu. Now see what Lord Krishna says next.)" Look Arjuna, I have shown you the ultimate form of myself. This is not seen by any body before." (11/47).( It is unscientific to state that some particular event is taking place for the first time. Each and every thing in nature can be repeated again and again. Like, it is poverty of the imagination to state that this is the first and last big bang.)" Look Arjuna, i can not be seen by any body else by any means." (11/48).( This is height! In future also no body else will be able to 'see' this original form of God.)" Look Arjuna, Relax and see again my original form of crown, club and wheel.) (11/49).(That is the form of Lord Vishnu.)(In the beginning of forth section of Geeta, Lord Krishna says that this Yoga was told by me to Sun. (It may be the name of some king that was known to both Lord Krishna and Arjuna.) Then it disappeared slowly with time. You have to be very careful while analyzing the the Geeta. I again state that the God has to be logical. At times He may be above the logic. This is there at times, when He describe Himself and the soul. But God can not be stupid.)
What is the meaning of the shloka from 1 to 14 in section 8 or adhyaya 8 of Bhagwat Geeta?
Arjuna asks, "What is Brahma? What is Adhyatma? What does it mean by karma? What is Adhibhut? What is Adhidaiwa? (8/1)." Krishna, what is Adhiyadhya? How is he there in this body? And how can you be obtained by the right person? (8/2). Lord Krishna says, " The one, which can not be destroyed is called as Brahma. The soul is called as Adhyatma. The sacrifice (?), which is there with the material things(?)(That includes the living and non living things, probably) is called as Karma. (8/3). "What ever is and can be created and destroyed is called as Adhibhuta. The Purusha (Literally meaning is man as on today in Marathi language.) is Adhidaiwa. I am there in the body as the Adhiyadya." (8/3). (These are the few definitions. I did not find them relevant and always neglected. i may edit the same, may be after few years. It took years for me to make some comments on this holy book. Now that i got that there can be very important information here in this shloka. The information is probably, where from the soul come from. It looks that the soul is the part of the infinite God only. That is mentioned in the last sentence. How and why the soul got separated is the gold question. This is open for the guesswork and discussion.) "The person, who gives up his body and dies and remembers me at the end of his life, comes to Me. There is no doubt about the same." (8/4). ( Then, why to fallow the righteous path in the life? The answer lies here. It is highly likely that you will recall the thing, when you die, you have been after for your whole life. So it is better to have the good moral character through out your life.) (Character is what you actually are and the reputation is what others think about you.) "Look Arjuna, The person goes to the state, which he thinks about at the time of death. Because he is always thinking about the same thing." (8/6). "That is why, Arjuna, always think about Me only. Go for the war also. When you have your mind and intellect, that is concentrated to Me, you will come to Me, with out any doubt." (8/7). "Look Arjuna, This is the rule (of the nature?) that, who so ever concentrate on Me, does not think about any thing else, comes ultimately to Me only." (8/7). ( Arjuna has called Lord Krishna by many different names in Geeta. Lord Krishna has also called Arjuna by many different names. The names are very beautiful. For to avoid the confusion that i have used everywhere the names Arjuna and Krishna only.) "The person, who remembers the the one, who knows every thing (God), controller of all, smaller than the smallest, the one who feeds every living thing, unthinkable, the one, who shines like a sun, the one, who is far beyond the ignorance, the one, who is ultimate happiness and truth," (8/9). " that person, at the end of his life, concentrate in between his own eyebrows, goes to the God" (8/10). (The above two two lines form the single sentence. The meaning in short is that, if you remember the God, when you die, you go to God.) "The people, who know Vedas, call Him indestructible, the house of happiness that does not end, the one, who has done sacrifice of every thing and try to reach there, the people, who fallow the abstinence to reach there, will be described by Me, in short." (8/11). "The one, who has control over all the sensory organs, the one, who has his mind concentrated on ultimate God, then got stabled in the Yoga, then says "Om", which is the name for ultimate God and then die, goes to ultimate place." (8/12, 8/13). "Look Arjuna, the one, who concentrate on me and nothing else, the one, who remembers me round the clock, comes to Me, with ease." (8/14). ( i could never convince myself about the logic in the shloka above. But then i do not have the experience also about what do you feel like when you die. So i prefer not to comment on the same.)
What is the Hinduism book of worship?
Although, there are many holdy books like the Vedas, Upanishads etc, the Srimad Bhagwatam and Bhagwad Gita are worshipped by most people. The reason being that these two books can be easily understood by laymen and also, they contain the essence of the Vedas.
How can you be like saint john the Baptist?
Live in the desert, survive on bugs and honey, preach Jesus' coming and redemption through baptism. IE your not John the Baptist, nor will you or anyone else ever be.
What can be done if southern baptist pastor won't let anybody else preach from his pulpit his words?
If the Southern Baptist pastor refuses to let anyone else preach from the pulpit, it may be worth discussing the situation with the pastor directly to understand his reasoning. If the pastor is not open to allowing others to preach, members of the congregation could consider discussing their concerns with the church leadership or seeking guidance from the denomination on how to address the issue within the context of the church's organizational structure and beliefs. Ultimately, if attempts at dialogue and resolution are unsuccessful, members may need to consider finding a new spiritual community that aligns more closely with their values and beliefs.
