Bhagavad Gita Study - C

The Second Vatican Counsil maintains there is divine wisdom in other religions.

"It's an ill wind that does no one good (British proverb)".

We bring a Bhagavad Gita on another page. On this page are many "but's" assembled around it. Study of them may benefit some. This is discussed below. - T. Kinnes

Contents

1. Lessons from the Bhagavad Gita's first chapter
2. A. Good Leaders Are Supported by Good Rules
3. B. A Voracious Eater Needs Many Victims
4. C. The Quarrels of Friends Are Among the Worst of Quarrels
5. D. Good Principles Linked to Fit Practices Can Improve Socioeconomic Status in Time
6. E. Compassion and Goodness Can be Much Misused
7. F. Proficient Uses of Summaries May Give Real Future Help
8. Apres

On top of the first chapter

A. Good Leaders Are Supported by Good Rules

Hard sayings initially can wake up somebody

The odd-looking teachings in all our essays are very Christian teachings

1 Freakish nightmares begin where bad customs were set up as the average "good rules". Guard against it.

Bad customs seldom breed other than nightmares, no matter how you look at it.*

When bad customs reign in a family, its females go wrong and some breed out of place. (See 1:40-1)¤

Increase of unwanted population can breed a nightmare. (See 1:41)

2 Good leaders are given lots of support -

Good leaders don't breed nightmares and hell, strangely enough.

Summary

The poem you've read is a particular one. It may be defined as a suggestive Wave expression where many things are in the budding - just like a hokku and haiku. And it's a summing-up of basic content in blank verse format. It seeks to capture a deep trend, such a "wave", as some may call it. Thus it may be called a Wave poem. It should be read much like any old haiku or hokku poem from the Far East, we suggest. That way of reading often assist deeper reflections, which can be good for many. [See Jap]
       Below that sort of poem you may find the enlargement we call a homily - a lecture on or of some moral theme or four under inspection - an inspirational talk or fairly informal-looking sermon that often deals in moral conduct, or seeks standards to live by fairly often, fairly well. Such a special lecture forms gist that could make many old and new meanings plain as day for most part, at least some of them. And such exploits rest in no small part on evaluations.
       A homily can also be a "conversation", "discourse", even "address". Things under consideration can be moral dilemmas. It depends on the context, which means setting. And the homily explains. It's a means of gentle enough, yet candid communication A so-called wave poem is a modern form of haiku-looking poetry. As such is seeks to sum up the winner route at hand - maybe or maybe not - for it may fit only so far as it fits you personally, and also your main fare and its over-riding conditions. So learn to think well over the Wave poem at hand, so as to avoid or abort big blunders and the worse outcomes.
       We suggest you take the time and trouble to learn a lot Wave poems at heart, because some of them could save your ass - they can be additionally defined as New Deal songs (like haikus) that can be bursting with information, and intended to ease somebody's way on and up, if you like.
       At any rate, our Wave haikus are strong meat, and lots of old haikus are known to be masterful poems. The content of this sort of teaching-poetry - old and new haiku poems - should hit the bull's eye to work well in your particular case.
       Interestingly, the whole story of the five brothers that won the help of Krishna so that they won a horrible war, illustrates our haiku's grand message almost completely. That's not bad.
       Technically, we call this a New Deal haiku - that is terse, very stark poetry. It seems insistent, and depending on how personally fit the main content with its largely understated themes is in our bud-like haiku form, it could bulwark against a neurosis or four for what we know.
       The way we use the term "haiku" is akin to the somewhat diluted, but terse blank verse poetry around now - ours is also a form of teaching poetics - against getting outsmarted. So our special type of haikus can also be called very didactic poems. We confess we use the term very loosely here.
       Traditionally, the Japanese haiku, which is very stenographic, is beset by cumbersome rules and half-rules. We have dispensed with them to bring forth the message without failings. [See Jap]
       Our haiku songs are special sum-ups that can help and assist you. Each of them is built on top of the tick tack toe format in gross outline. And this feature largely eases accommodations. Minor variations are not forbidden, though. Yet the general flow and line order of our New Deal haiku poems is per definition well in line with the serialised order inside the tick tack toe format - congruent with that.
       What is more, our haiku variants seek to inform you of a route into being well-to-do, into guarded well-being, even, and without being strangled.
       A linked homily may enlarge on it a little. Basically, you can think on top of tick-tack-toe formatted poetics till the day you die.

1. IT PAYS TO BE WELL VERSED AND SET UP RULES FROM THEM. Freakish nightmares begin where bad customs were set up as the average "good rules". Guard against it.
2. GREAT LEADERS ATTAINED LOTS OF SUPPORT FIRST. Great leaders are given what they need to have those positions and their attainments, - perhaps including lots of support form the army, one way or other.
3. THE OTHER GATEWAY TO SKILLS IS MUCH PROTECTION. Initial efforts may go well if much supported and protections are first-class, biologically speaking.

B. A Voracious Eater Needs Many Victims

Old and feeble means sinister to look at, later dead. But is that the worst there is ahead? Opinions differ.

Oh well -

1 If you want to live on, you may have to shoot somebody else, and yet, in so doing you may be victimised at the bottom of your heart to get retributions later -

If you want to put an end to yourself, have nothing of it. (Krishna's counsel)

If you want to shoot, aim well. (See 1:20-22etc.)

2 The voracious eater happens to need living entities more than others - as good food seldom is all dead.

You may have to prepare your dear ones for slaying aggressors even from they are tiny. (Both Vedic and British boarding-school training)

The voracious eater (a Bhima) may be in for Herculean tasks later. (See 1:15)

If you slay aggressors, what will happen if they're children of your friends? (See 1:36)

From neat degradation of womanhood, the unwanted child appears to make its way. (See 1:40)¤

Good should come from killing our kinsmen in fair battle, but gladness may be debarred since then. (See 1:31)

Summary

1. SOME OF THOSE THAT SCAPEGOAT AND VICTIMISE OTHERS, MERELY WANT TO LIVE ON THEMSELVES. Jewish religion stood for that. If you want to live on, you may have to shoot somebody else, and yet, in so doing you may be victimised at the bottom of your heart to get solid retributions later - it could happen, at least theoretically.
2. HARSH FOOD IS SELDOM FIT FOR GLUTTONY, LIKE MANY STRANGELY SPICED INDIAN DISHES. The voracious eater happens to need living entities more than others - as good food seldom is all dead.
3. SOME ANIMALS LIVE IN SYMBIOSIS WITH THOSE WHO CAN BUILD FOOD - THE COW DOES IT ABUNDANTLY. Respect for food and animals that sustain us helps. A cow is held holy among Hindus.

C. The Quarrels of Friends Are Among the Worst of Quarrels

Start thinking for yourself - here is help

Agree? Friends that are masked enemies could be a lot worse, but how? Maybe through torture! Read the rest of this survey to think of it.

1 The one who wants to shoot, likewise needs to learn protections that count from it - for such things can be paired or yoked

If you want to shoot or flog, prepare well in advance. (See 1:20)

You could try to speak perfectly instead of shooting all and sundry. (Krishna did)

Those subjected to a hidden persecutor, may notice they take to trembling without knowing why.*

To be well protected seldom means to be trembling all over. Every man should know that.*

When your body is trembling all over, you could try to speak fluently and well - it could be all that you can manage. (See 1:29)

2 The friends you quarrel openly with, may not be the worst of friends after all

3 The one that's fully qualified to destroy the family traditions, could need a better (more constructive) outlet - maybe a job in the Army

Summary

1. Who wants to shoot, needs to learn protections that count from it - for such things can be paired or yoked.
2. The friends you quarrel openly with, may not be the worst of friends after all.
3. The one that's fully qualified to destroy the family traditions, could need a better (more constructive) outlet - maybe a job in the US Army.

D. Good Principles Linked to Fit Practices Can Improve Socioeconomic Status in Time

Oh well -

1 To steer one's own family to better conditions is very often a practise that annoys and offends the worst of neighbours around or others left somewhat behind socioeconomically

The great army should be expertly arranged. It's done by skilled people. (Cf. 1:3)

Let only those who are fully qualified, lead a military force. (Cf. 1:7)

Let only those who are blinded with silly eagerness, strive and destroy their family.*

A lot silly eagerness is governed by bad customs.*

To destroy bold family traditions some use the army as well.*

Brave and loud-mouthed grandfathers can often give peculiar joy. (See 1:12)

In corrupt families they don't even think of giving food to really needy ones. (See 1:41)¤

All who destroy family traditions have to live in hell. (See 1:43)

Good people are very seldom marked by irreverent, peculiar joy over murders.*

Some fighters try to foster good family traditions instead of the battle-fields afar.*

Should we engage in sin or occupy a place (or throne) out of well masked greed? (See 1:37-38)

Where females go bad, bad customs ruled their families long before that, it's presumed. (See 1:40),

2 The bet is the nimble man learnt all the savoury principles at stake earlier

The family tradition broken; the family turns to irreligious practice. (See 1:39)

Regrettably, some fighters get trained to serve evil-minded bosses - if so, their loyalty flaws. (See 1:23)

Tumults and uproar can be had and steered by strong and sudden sounds in the offenders' ears. (1:13-9)

It helps to see who are present here if you're intent on murdering someone. (See 1:21-22)

3 He who can be very happy, should be allowed to stand up and reel from overjoy at times

There's no happy killing.*

The nimble man can kill.*

The nimble man can kill concerns most other people have.*

The one who can be happy by killing his own kinsmen in battle seems above them in advance. (See 1:36)¤

The good artist and shooter can be ready to fight even relatives for the principles he stands up with, as he's above low moral or human concerns already. (See 1:32-35)

It could be that the reeling mind speaks of impending hardships and sorrows. (See 1:30)

Summary

1. To steer one's own family to better conditions is very often a practise that annoys and offends the worst of neighbours around or others left somewhat behind socioeconomically.
2. The bet is the nimble man learnt all the savoury principles at stake earlier.
3. He who can be very happy surrounded by family, neighbours and friends, should be allowed to stand up and reel from overjoy as often as needed.

E. Compassion and Goodness Can be Much Misused

Look to Norse Odin - he had himself hanged but not flayed.

1 When easy or childlike nonsense to look at is strangled, stiffness easily ensues - it can be for good, for bad on somewhere in the middle

He whose wit is strangled, thanks for ill-gotten advice.*

2 Overmuch compassion with offenders and intruders can one day ruin your own dear family

Ready to do a crime that will save one's ass, some offenders even hope to enjoy kingly happiness. (See 1:44)¤

Ready to do a crime, your heart may brim with compassion.*

If you get strangled with compassion it could be a trap. (See 1:27 ff)

Summary

1. When easy or childlike nonsense to look at is strangled, stiffness easily ensues - it can be for good, for bad on somewhere in the middle.
2. Overmuch compassion with offenders and intruders can one day ruin your own dear clan, and after that your family.

F. Proficient Uses of Summaries May Give Real Future Help

1 In the middle smells like the worst position at times

2 You can make proficient use of the firm and good summaries that were gathered a long time before

3 To stand in the middle and inspect in times of crisis, may lead you nowhere. Seek better.

To strive to inspect well from many angles may amount to be middling - at times the worst position.*

You should resist evil minds better - God knows how. (Arjun's lesson is had - see 1:45-6)¤

Summary

1. In the middle smells like the worst position at times
2. You can make proficient use of the firm and good summaries that were gathered a long time before
3. To stand in the middle and inspect in times of crisis, may lead you nowhere. Seek better.

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