tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1674709389503889160.post819971779671454866..comments2024-03-25T14:25:25.102+00:00Comments on Poetry as Socio-proctology: Newsflash!- Sankara wrote the Gita!windwheelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18099651877551933295noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1674709389503889160.post-55143094609454396062011-08-06T01:25:22.112+01:002011-08-06T01:25:22.112+01:00I think the guy is for real- this excerpt is very ...I think the guy is for real- this excerpt is very funny 'Kosambi also pointed out that those who find inspiration in the Gita invariably are from the leisurely classes. He might have added that they are from the upper castes. Those that come from non- Brahmin castes or articulate their voices tend to ignore the Gita. For example, Kabir, Nanak, Namdev, Chaitenya and Jayadeva did not evince any interest in the Gita. On the other hand, Tilak, Gandhi, Aurobindo and Radhakrishnan- all upper castes, if not brahmins- are the names that are associated with writings on the Gita. The correlation with the caste of those who drew inspiration from the Gita is hard to overlook.'<br />Jayadeva and Chaitanya are Brahmins. Nanak was a Bedi. Kabir and Namdev belonged to the productive class. All were great spiritual poets but none produced commentaries- it was not their metier. <br />As for the fact that Tilak, Aurobindo, Gandhi and Radhakrishnan wrote about the Gita- was their motive the fact that they came from the 'leisured' or high caste? Tilak only wrote about the Gita because he was trying to foment a Hindu rebellion against the Brits- the Gita inspired him to revolutionary zeal to overturn Society. He was not some 'leisured class' parasite on the status quo. Same goes for Aurobindo. Radhakrishnan was a professional philosopher. Gandhi took equal inspiration from the life of the Prophet Muhammad as from the Sermon on the Mount. <br />What about Ambedkar? He gained inspiration from Buddhism which holds that sins in his past life had caused him to be born in a low caste. Further, Buddhism would consider him to have wasted his time on earth because he did not become a Monk or give his entire property to the Sangha. Furthermore he was an adulterer. 'Acharya' Kosambi, was a Brahmin who became a Buddhist monk- not a very good one because he fathered a son after diksha- and he perished in sallekhana which is a Jain, not Buddhist practice.<br />What does all this prove?<br /><br />Probably nothing very much. The truth is people from every part of India are disgusted with the obscenely corrupt BJP in Karnataka. The Sikhs of Jammu want to prosecute the Minister from that State who said 'anyone who won't learn the Gita should leave the country'. No doubt he wanted them to carry his ill gotten wealth to Switzerland for him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com