PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pandava, Action Action, Bhakti Yoga
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Week 3 title reality of the self and the. 1 and 2) (1) the bhagavad gita is an excerpt from an indian epic written originally in. It is about a fratricidal war between two sets of cousins, the pandavas and the kauravas. (2) the pandavas, five in number, are the good guys. According to the mahabharata, krishna is an incarnation of the deity vishnu (visnu). Vishnu is the god of preservation, who maintains the cosmic order. Unlike a destroyer god (shiva) or a creator (brahma), vishnu"s perspective is that of the eternal. The bhagavad gita is a dialogue that occurs before the main battle of the epic commences. (5) krishna is referred to by several names in the reading: janardana, keshava, . Govinda, madhus dana, to name a few. (6) the bhagavad gita is told to dhr tar s t ra, the father of the kauravas, who is blind, by sanjay.
