Bhagavad Gita faces 'extremist' branding, ban in Russia

[Bharat Muslim]

US tactics to drive a wedge between India and Russia.

 

[sikh_pride]

Heloo sir ji
why it get banned?

 

[EndoClock]

Indian religion is getting fundamental.

 

[Kalyugi Mirza]

गीता पर मुस्लिम भी हिंदू के साथ - darul uloom deoband urges hindus, muslims to unite on gita - www.bhaskar.com

 

[Kalyugi Mirza]

गीता पर मुस्लिम भी हिंदू के साथ - darul uloom deoband urges hindus, muslims to unite on gita - www.bhaskar.com

 

[Swati Shukla]

For thousands of years, the Bhagavad Gita has inspired millions of readers. Here’s what some of the greats have to say in praise of this venerable scripture.


"When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous." ~ Albert Einstein

"The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions." ~ Dr. Albert Schweizer

"The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity." ~ Aldous Huxley

"The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization." ~ Rishi Aurobindo

"The idea that man is like unto an inverted tree seems to have been current in by gone ages. The link with Vedic conceptions is provided by Plato in his Timaeus in which it states..." behold we are not an earthly but a heavenly plant." ~ Carl Jung

"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of lifes wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion." ~ Herman Hesse

"The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses."

"When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-Gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

"The Bhagavad-Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the universe." ~ Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

"I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-Gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us."

"The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it." ~ Rudolph Steiner

"From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-Gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-Gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures." ~ Adi Sankara

"The Bhagavad-Gita is not seperate from the Vaisnava philosophy and the Srimad Bhagavatam fully reveals the true import of this doctrine which is transmigation of the soul. On perusal of the first chapter of Bhagavad-Gita one may think that they are advised to engage in warfare. When the second chapter has been read it can be clearly understood that knowledge and the soul is the ultimate goal to be attained. On studying the third chapter it is apparent that acts of righteousness are also of high priority. If we continue and patiently take the time to complete the Bhagavad-Gita and try to ascertain the truth of its closing chapter we can see that the ultimate conclusion is to relinquish all the conceptualized ideas of religion which we possess and fully surrender directly unto the Supreme Lord." ~ Swami Prabhupada

"The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita." ~ Vivekananda

In Praise of the Bhagavad Gita: Great Comments by Great People

 

[NeutralCitizen]

So did it get banned ?

 

[paritosh]

anybody who paid attention in their 9th standard CBSE biology classes would agree that we being uricotelic vertebrates...excrete urine...
now those arguing in favor of the pee-cola...are you guys suggesting that our bodies have some stupid flaw which instead of consuming and ingesting more and more urea(anti-bacterial as i read in some smart guys post...is actuall also anti-tissue and anti-us...) is actually excreting it?
our pee-pees should instead be dipped in the WC and absorb some pee for us to get rid of our bacterias right?the wbc and tyhe lymph nodes can take a few days off...

 

[paritosh]

Hinduism is spreading due to its open nature and its ability to promote free thinking.

Plz lets let it stay tht way.

let us break your sentence into two parts...
a)"Hinduism is spreading"
Where?and how?


b)"due to its open nature and its ability to promote free thinking"
no it doesnt...you are thinking freely because you are not following the complete list of dos and donts...how does it promote free thinking?and please dont start arguing if you do not practise all that you'd write cus then that would make you a hypocrite

 

[sreekimpact]

let us break your sentence into two parts...
a)"Hinduism is spreading"
Where?and how?


b)"due to its open nature and its ability to promote free thinking"
no it doesnt...you are thinking freely because you are not following the complete list of dos and donts...how does it promote free thinking?and please dont start arguing if you do not practise all that you'd write cus then that would make you a hypocrite

can u give me a link to this so called do's and dont's ...

 

[paritosh]

can u give me a link to this so called do's and dont's ...

dude really?
find it yourself...i am surprised by your lack of knowledge of our religious customs...a practising hindu can not cross the oceans...or he will lose his caste...
read manusmriti...


A long time back I came across this DHARMA SHASTRA and i did not like what i read....
specially
"Which means without asking reasons &questioning a brahmin must study the vedas with its six angas(parts) and follow the dharma sastras.
we should follow the sastras without asking reasons"
thats not scientific reasoning.

 

[Roybot]

So did it get banned ?

The verdict will come out tomorrow.

External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna meets Russian envoy over Gita row : North News - India Today

 

[zzzz]

really strange that Indian media keep spreading BS and incorrect information. No one is banning original "Bhagvad Gita" in Russia. What is banned is special edited version of it with added extremist comments.

 

[jbond197]

really strange that Indian media keep spreading BS and incorrect information. No one is banning original "Bhagvad Gita" in Russia. What is banned is special edited version of it with added extremist comments.

Just curious to know what those "extremist comments" in the special edited version are? As far as I know, ISKON uses same "Bhagwat Gita" at all places and I never heard any body making similar comments before..

 

[zzzz]

Just curious to know what those "extremist comments" in the special edited version are? As far as I know, ISKON uses same "Bhagwat Gita" at all places and I never heard any body making similar comments before..

dont really know deteails. here is comment from foreign ministry

The Hindu : News / International : Gita not on trial but its commentaries, says Russia

The Russian Foreign Ministry said it was not the Bhagavad Gita as such that was on trial but some comments contained in a 20th-century Russian translation of the scripture.