Bhagavad Gita

From the movie Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2016) where during the Iraq war, US Staff Sergeant Virgil ‘Shroom’ Breem (Vin Diesel) quotes Bhagavad-Gita to Private Billy Lynn (Joe Alwyn). He discusses karma and quotes Krishna (divinity) as he spoke to the great warrior Arjuna, while also serving as Arjuna’s chariot driver. Krishna was trying [...]

It’s good to see other Hindus starting to wake up from something we’ve also been saying for decades, that the mainstream Hinduism that’s preached through most Hindu sects to most Hindus is ‘Pseudo-Hinduism’ rooted in escapism and cowardice which is why you hardly see any temples having exhibits of the persectuction of Hindus or raising [...]

Kash Patel took oath as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Saturday, placing his hand on the Bhagavad Gita. He became the ninth person to lead the agency. The oath ceremony was administered by the US Attorney General Pam Bondi in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) [...]

Smelly communist philosopher Slavoj Žižek who looks like he’s never had a bath in his life reflects his unhygienic behavior by claiming the Bhagavad Gita is “one of the most obscene disgusting sacred books” and blames Bhagavad Gita for Nazi Heinrich Himmler allegedly using it to justify the genocide of Jews. Totally ‘white’ washing ‘ [...]

The most eagerly awaited Hollywood release of the year is Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. J. Robert Oppenheimer, a physicist who assisted in the creation of the first nuclear bombs, is the subject of the movie. Because of his involvement in the Manhattan Project, the physicist is frequently referred to as the “Father of the Atomic Bomb.” [...]

With the resignation of Boris Johnson the race has been on to find a new prime minister. This is July 2022 and it looks as if the front runner is Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor. Indeed the race for leading the Conservative Party, and indeed the country was noticeable by the presence of so many [...]

Recently WWE champion Veer Mahan ferociously knocked wrestler Dominik Mysterio unashamedly out of the wrestling ring upsetting some Hindus who are saying this act of violence would have Gandhi’s ashes rolling in his Raj Ghat tomb in tears but they further said tearfully, that instead, Veer Mahan should have at least done a non-violent Satyagraha [...]

In his interview with the media, Will Smith revealed a shocking fact that he is immensely influenced by Bhagavad Gita and read 90% of it. He also said that he has a high influence of Arjuna on him. [...]

In recent times such a criticism has often been made of the Bhagavad Gita, that it contains material that exhorts or exalts war, and worse, that it is a type of ‘war manual’ in the mode of the Chinese ‘Art of War’. But such a view can come only by a cursory reading, without reference to [...]

Reams have been written on this enigmatic work, one of Hinduism’s core sacred texts and perhaps the greatest contribution to world literature on human spirituality. Often though the Gita ( more properly, the Bhagavad Gita, to distinguish it from other similarly named works such as the Vyadha Gita, Rama Gita, Devi Gita, Ganesha Gita etc, [...]