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Osho on krishna book6/19/2023 ![]() ![]() A great upsurge of non-violence has arisen in the mind of Arjuna, and he seems to be strongly protesting against war. The way Gandhi’s mind is, Arjuna will be much more in accord with him than Krishna. It is not that Krishna incites Arjuna to fight a real Mahabharata, Mahabharata only symbolizes the inner conflict and war of man, and so it is just a parable. The Kurushetra of the Gita, according to Gandhi, is not a real battlefield located somewhere on this earth, nor is the Mahabharata an actual war. This war, Gandhi says over and over again, represents the inner war between good and evil that goes on inside a man. So Gandhi finds ways to rationalize the violence of the Gita: he says the war of Mahabharata is only a metaphor, that it did not actually happen. ![]() Gandhi calls the Gita his mother, and yet he cannot absorb it, because his creed of non-violence conflicts with the grim inevitability of war as seen in the Gita. That is why everyone who loves him has chosen a particular aspect of Krishna’s life that appealed to him and quietly dropped the rest. ![]() Day and night, summer and winter, peace and war, love and violence, life and death – all walk hand in hand with him. There is perhaps no one like Krishna, no one who can accept and absorb in himself all the contradictions of life, all the seemingly great contradictions of life. ![]()
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