--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > What I had in mind when I wrote my earlier rant about > the myth-formers of our age was that the thing that > connected these three guys was that they THOUGHT > OUT OF THE BOX. > > Whereas most of the human beings of their respective > eras looked at the world around them and saw only a > few limited options -- for example, killing the person > whose actions you don't like or putting them in jail -- > these three guys saw other options. > > All three of them looked at the Same Problems and saw > Other Solutions. None of the solutions they saw had > to rely on violence and the perpetuation of it. *That* > is what makes them "related" in my mind, not what may > or may not have happened to them. Same thing for John > Lennon, who someone else brought up. > > What makes these guys interesting is NOT what Other > People might have done to them as a result of what they > stood for, but what they stood for. They stood for NOT > SETTLING for all the things we've been taught all our > lives to settle for, often by people we consider spir- > itual teachers. Think Krishna. As Vyasa tells the story > of the Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna is basically the counterpart > in his age of a lobbyist/cheerleader for Bush, Cheney Inc. > He's trying to convince Arjuna that the way to attain his > spiritual goals is to *not* question authority, to go to > war and kill as many other human beings as he can in it, > and to basically Do What He's Been Told To Do By The > Folks Who Run The Status Quo. > > Compare and contrast to the three guys I mentioned, who > stood for trying to find a NEW solution to the age-old > problems that confront the residents of planet Earth. > These guys all stood for looking at the world as "we," > not as "them vs us." They stood for not taking life so > seriously, not for Taking Life, Seriously. > Krishna gave Arjuna a technique to break the deadlock between Arjuna's heart and mind. Arjuna was a kshatriya and so was engaged in battle. Krishna is neutral to the outcome of the battle, but favors the good.
Since you see this as myth, why not see it personally, as each of us facing our own Arjuna and Krishna? Facing our Duryodhana, king of the demons, on our battlefield of Kurukshetra? As another possibility, that is the way I interpret the dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna.
