--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > The only way that Krishna's advice in the Gita can be > seen as valuable and sane is *if he knows what he is > talking about*. (And please remember, in any raps about > the Gita and the Mahabharata that I consider them not > scripture but religious fiction, created to strengthen > and preserve the ruling classes/castes of the time, > which were being challenged by more populist religions > and belief systems.) What if the Big Blue Guy had no > more idea what was what than the chariot driver he was > talking to? What does that do to the validity of his > advice?
Two points, for the record. First, the Big Blue Guy is the warrior Arjuna's charioteer, not the other way around. (That's why Krishna is telling Arjuna to fight, don'cha know.) Second, the Big Blue Guy knows what he is talking about when he tells Arjuna what God wants because the Big Blue Guy *is God*. That's the premise of the Gita. If the Gita were historical, it would make sense to suggest that Krishna had no idea what was what, but if you understand it to be fiction, that Krishna is God is what you're dealing with. Not that you can't dream up a *different* piece of fiction in which Krishna is a deluded human bean (or that Arjuna is the charioteer and Krishna the warrior, for that matter), but then you ain't talking about the Gita.
