The Bhagavad-gita is not about violence, war or extremism. It is staged in the Battlefield just before the great battle begins.

It is done so because in any good story telling, just before the story gets over, in the climax scene there is usually a battle between the good forces and the evil forces. Such fights are the pinnacle of millions of good stories that have ever been told.

Story listeners from time immemorial have been attracted to hear stories where in the final scene good wins over evil. Thus such a technique is an accepted technique of story telling.

In such a technique the story and the tension builds up till it reaches the climax. That is exactly what has been done in the epic book Mahabharata. The whole book Mahabharata is a stage set for the final climax of the War of Mahabharata.

By the time the story is reaching it's climax scene - the great war every member of the audience of this story reaches a state of focused attention.

And that is when the entire purpose of the Mahabharata i.e., the Bhagavad-gita -- the perfect message of self-realization and higher elevation is delivered for the purpose of best reception by the audience.

So you see, the Bhagavad-gita is not about war. But war is just a setting meant for delivering the amazing enlightenment of the human mind.

Just like you send your children to school to study from a qualified teacher eventhough there are books already available, similarly pls study the Bhagavad-gita from a qualified teacher (who is a qualified teacher? The Bhagavad-gita chapter 4 verse 2 gives the qualification of the qualified teacher of the Bhagavad-gita). When you yourself study the Bhagavad-gita you will realize the message of Bhagavad-gita is violence or non-violence. (If you do not learn the Bhagavad-gita from a qualified teacher, then the message that may come across may not be the right one -- exactly the reason for which you send you children to qualified teachers to learn from.)

Thank you.
Please drop the idea of banning non-violence, harmony and human enlightenment.

Warm regards,
Avadhut Das, Kolkata, India
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