9-BOOK REVIEW: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE GITA: (part 11)
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:          161641832 WWW.PROMETHEUSBOOKS.COM [1]
 Chapter 15 – Ethics of the Gita
_In ancient India ethics never developed, as it did in Greece, into a special branch of_ _study…...An ethical system with a social bearing can develop only in a society that has_ _some social coherence……..[Pages 140-141]_
With the caste system rigidly in place no such ethical system could even begin to germinate because the entire society was divided from top to bottom with the sole focus of each sub-group more worried about their supposed position and all the protocols surrounding it rather than develop a sound ethical system for uplifting society. _How can a scripture which makes a reluctant Arjuna take up his arms again and kill his_ _kinsmen to gain a petty kingdom promote world peace?.......[Page 142]_
A man-god glibly lectures a soldier by convincing him to kill all those, he loves and cares for, simply cannot be a man of peace and freedom. That rather makes Krishna a very unethical and violent man akin to a modern day terrorist with a dangerous agenda.
_Whatever these and other commentators on the Gita might say, the concern of ethics_ _should be, not with god and his angles, but with man and fellow-men. Its aim should be_ _“the_ _greatest happiness of the greatest number”…..It should promote amity, not strife; it_ _should work for peace, not for war…….[Page 145]_
The Gita is all about strife and war and then total annihilation of forces amassed on both sides. Krishna to put it bluntly made Arjuna into a killing machine through his “song celestial” instead of diplomatically using his wisdom to peacefully resolve the entire conflict which could have been settled amicably if he was a visionary chief with the will to do it. Therefore, unless most Gita apologists are high on something special whilereading it, there seems to be no ahimsa (non-violence) being taught, but rather extreme violence is being propagated, justified and sanctified by the dark lord Krishna himself.
_From blackmailing,_ _Krishna proceeded to browbeating. He told Arjuna; “being a fool,_ _you think you will be killing Bhishma, Drona, Karna and others. In fact, they are already_ _killed by me.” To Arjuna much bewildered and broken down by then, Krishna gave a_ _stunning glimpse of_ _his cosmic form. It was something ghoulish and blood- curdling……The core teaching of the Gita, as Prem Nath Bazaz has put it boldly,_ _succinctly and truly is this: “Murder with impunity”…..D.D.Kosambi wrote that the_ _ostensible moral of the Gita is: ‘Kill your brother if duty calls, without passion; as long_ _as you have faith in Me, all sins are forgiven…….[Page 148_]
The ultimate kernel of the Gita lies in the above statements by Bazaz and Kosambi! The Gita being the quintessence of the Santana Dharma, no wonder ethnic cleansing and genocides are carried out against all minorities with complete impunity with absolutely nothing bothering their conscience, since the dark-lord Krishna will forgive everyone of their sins.
_As Arun Shourie points out, the Gita is not_ _consistent. It tells you act not to make a world_ _a better place to live in or to make your fellow-men better citizens to live with, but to seek_ _the merger of your individual soul with the supreme soul…….[Page 149]_
Instead of merging one’s love with fellow human beings, the entire focus is to kill because it is your duty and then merge with the Supreme soul. But the problem is, after killing you will have no soul to merge with the Supreme! _“Kill , kill one and kill all, kill without the least constraint, because it is your caste duty,_ _because it is in consonance with nature.”_ _To sum up, the ethics of the Gita is wholly_ _Machivellian and Nietzschean…..Krishna met his end by an aboriginal hunter who_ _mistook him for a quarry……[Page 151]_
What could be more incredible than such unethical, unconscionable belligerence by a god whose leadership has a billion devotees, leading them off the dangerous precipice into permanent oblivion of Om!