BHAGAVAD GITA help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!thank you!?

Question

i have read the gita and i love it, very spiritual.
i am writing an essay on it though and i have a few questions before i begin:
1) is the gita anti-war, and if so how?
2) why does krishna tell arjuna to fight despite what he teaches him!?
3) how does war stop of the principles of yoga/gita are taken to heart and practiced by all?
4) if the individual changes, is that all it tkaes for the world to be a better place?
5) is the gita telling us basically that if you control yourself and love everyhthing, the world will be at peace (inner peace=world peace)?
6) i find some princples to be confusing. what are the fruits and why not care about results of yuor actions?
THANK YOU x100!

Answer 1

1. Its about duty.
2. krishna teaches him to fight because if he doesnt he will not be living up to his duties as a warrior and for a warrior shame is the worst thing to gain.
3. a man has to do what a man has to do.
4. all you can do is change yourself and lead by example.
5. control yourself and you will be at peace. each must be concerned with his own lot.
6. the fruits are the results of the actions and you should not be attached to them. you should only be mindful of actions. if youre attached to the fruits of actions then you will lose focus on what most important.

Answer 2

Hi, I read the Gita twice and do not fully understand everything. here are my view of your questions as of now.
1. I think the War in gita (war within family) is internal struggle we each have inside of us. Krishna didn't want us to back off from our struggle.
2. Krishna want arjuna to fight because it is what he is to do. It is his duty to himself as a warrior and to his family.
3. don't know.
4. i think you are right on the individual change make a better place. But krishna never wanted arjuna to change other people. he only teach the yoga to arjuna and ask him to reflect on it
5. i agree inner peace=world peace. Just not sure if that is what the gita's main lesson.
6. Ah. fruits. there is actions and there is the result of actions. The result of actions is fruits. we need to enjoy the action itself not to look for the outcome. If we enjoy the work, the outcome do not matter. It is hard to live by, I am working working on that one
hope this all make sense. I am writing in a rush.
good luck, namaste
Mukta

Answer 3

1) the root of war is desire and dissatisfaction, a belief that the world and the self are separate, that the world needs to be fixed, changed, improved. let go of that belief, let go of the desires, war disappears.

2) fighting is the situation Arjuna is IN. Krishna tells him to go with the flow, clinging to nothing, letting go of fear and pity and desires for particular outcomes

3) see 1)

4) see 1) let go of belief in distinction between individual and world. ever see an individual who wasn't part of a world, a world without individuals? phantom of confused imagination.

5) see 1) yes, that's pretty much it. but the question still takes the self/world distinction seriously. try thinking in other categories. instead of past, present, future tense, Hopi distinguish things experienced first-hand, things dreamed, and things merely heard of, what in court would be hearsay evidence. try distinguishing between the world of your firsthand experience and the world of hearsay (education, TV, etc.). that makes it easier to see how inner peace = world peace.

6) who is the nobler soul, the one who does good for pay or the one who does good because that's the right thing to do? in James Carse's "Finite and Infinite Games" he says "the joy of infinite play, its laughter, lies in learning to start something you cannot finish." that's not clinging or grasping at the results (fruits) of action, but finding joy in the action of the present moment.

Answer 4

. The gita is not anti war. It says do your karam without expecting the fruit.
2. Because he shows him its necessary to. again look above
I'm a hindu and havent actually read the gita so i'm just telling you what my grandmother told me. I can't aswer the rest of your questions, sorry.

Answer 5

I guess it must be finals week, huh? : ) : ) : )

This may not be the way to learn the Gita.

Answer 6

4-yes 5-yes, especially so since we are one on that level

Answer 7

i am really sorry...but i dont think that you are going to get answers to this question. i would love to answer them...but i havent read the book.