Who Wrote the Bhagavadgita

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
Cover of the book Who Wrote the Bhagavadgita by Meghnad Desai, HarperCollins Publishers India
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Author: Meghnad Desai ISBN: 9789351361664
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India Publication: February 5, 2014
Imprint: Element Language: English
Author: Meghnad Desai
ISBN: 9789351361664
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
Publication: February 5, 2014
Imprint: Element
Language: English

A humanist critique of the Gita, 'the most influential work in Indian thought' The Gita is an evolving response which deals with the conflicts between Veda and Vedanta and then with the challenge posed to Vedanta by Buddhism. Its shift to Bhakti is the climax of the battle between Brahmanism and Buddhism. There are probably multiple authors of the Gita as shown by stylistic changes and the frequent shift of subject matter. For Meghnad Desai, Gita is a secular text, a result of human creation over several centuries. He also contends that some themes in the Gita reinforce social inequality and lack of concern for the other and to that extent he finds Gita to be toxic.

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A humanist critique of the Gita, 'the most influential work in Indian thought' The Gita is an evolving response which deals with the conflicts between Veda and Vedanta and then with the challenge posed to Vedanta by Buddhism. Its shift to Bhakti is the climax of the battle between Brahmanism and Buddhism. There are probably multiple authors of the Gita as shown by stylistic changes and the frequent shift of subject matter. For Meghnad Desai, Gita is a secular text, a result of human creation over several centuries. He also contends that some themes in the Gita reinforce social inequality and lack of concern for the other and to that extent he finds Gita to be toxic.

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