--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote:
In a message dated 7/31/06 1:11:33 P.M. Central Daylight
Time,
jflanegi@ writes:
I just got done reading a condensed version of the
Mahabharata
which
contains a short version of all the stories from the full
version.
What's striking about every story is how aggressive Krishna
is
in
demanding that that the five Pandava brothers including
Arjuna
kill
their relatives even though they all protested. Krishna
never
even
hinted at negotiations, reconciliations or truces. He
insisted
that
they be killed. Many of the stories describe Krishna
killing,
beheading bad guys, demons, rakshasas.
The last remark I recall that Maharishi made about the
killing
in
the
BG is that it is all internal, meant to be seen as an
internal
war
vs
a literal one. It was during the past year or so during a
press
conference.
Yet M used to say that the battle took place right where Noidia
is, a physical site.
That's the history, the external battle. The teaching
is the internal battle (that's how I understand it, at
any rate).
One thing that has been striking to me;
Which has been stirred up, by this conversation;
Is that, my father fought in WWII, mostly in the Czech Republic
area.
Anyway, he was over there for about 3-4 years, in the war;
He carried a bazooka, or a rocket launcher, and won some medals.
He is Jewish.
I think at the end of the war, although he's never talked about it
much;
All of the soldiers, as well as the German people, were taken to
view
the concentration camps, by General Eisenhower.
I think my father never really got over what he saw there.
And I think he wondered, having fought tooth and nail;
To defeat the Nazi's;
Why oh why, had these people not fought back??
Actually, those that had guns did fight back.
But gun control laws confiscated almost all of them before the war.
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