9-BOOK REVIEW: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE GITA: (part 5)

V.R.NARLA (1988) [229P] NARLA INSTITUTE OF NEW THOUGHT
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE GITA – A CLOSER LOOK AT HINDU SCRIPTURE: V.R.NARLA (INTRO BY)
INNAIAH NARISETTI (2010) [230P] ISBN:          ( in line) 161641832 WWW.PROMETHEUSBOOKS.COM [1]

Chapter 6 – Outer Citadel and Inner Fort
_“It is difficult to excel”, as P.D.Metha says, “the Hindu sense of dramatic in_ _religion….The poet author of the Gita could hardly have chosen a more arresting_ _opening scene for his philosophical song……..[Page 77]_
The essence of the Mahabharata is in the Gita and it is the Gita’s convoluted sense of righteousness which is the most troubling factor. Sutas or poet-ballad singers the real originators of the small Mahabharata going back in time, which got rewritten and rehashed to make it into a voluminous piece of second class literature. _Now for the Mahabharata being a work of moral grandeur, it is (to put it mildly) a_ _preposterous claim. To us who are ordinary mortals without any_ _esoteric powers, the_ _mortals of the Mahabharata are muddy, crude, revolting……..[Page 78]_
After thoroughly examining the Mahabharata anyone who does not get revolted by the sheer immorality and highly unethical traits of the characters in this fairytale which is being passed off as religion needs to stop, pause and critically rethink, why Brahmins need to justify their amorphous text and their anomalous position.
Chapter 7 – Who is Krishna
_Herman Oldenberg once asked, “Who is Krishna?”…….[Page 80]_
The number of different Krishnas going back in time will drive any sane person crazy.
_There were however, 900,000 of them, and in order to satisfy them Krishna became_ _900,000 different men. These exact figures are given in the text, and it adds that the park_ _resounded_ _with the coitus of 1,800,000 persons. Then it proceeds to describe the_ _collective sexual orgy…….[Page 85]_
Krishna in various purana texts including the Mahabharata Purana seems to have multiple personalities, which includes being a world class sex manic to an extremely devious politician pretending to be a warrior.
_The devotes of Krishna to justify the going on between their god and gopis,_ _but a special_ _feature of Hinduism. It has two sets of laws, one for_ _the weak and another for the strong;_ _two sets of norms, one for the high and another for the low; two codes of ethics, one for__the gods and another for the mortals. Small wonder, there is such a lot of double-think_ _and double-speak in Indian life………[Page 89]_
I have yet to read a more incisive critique by getting straight to the heart of the matter. Narla has hit the nail on the head; as the unethical and immoral conduct of Indians in general, emanates exactly from these holy Hindu texts such as the ‘Gita’.