사용자:배우는사람/문서:Bhagavad Gita
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The Bhagavad Gītā (산스크리트어: भगवद्गीता, ˈbʱəɡəʋəd̪ ɡiːˈt̪aː (도움말·정보), Song of God), also more simply known as Gita, is a 700-verse Hindu scripture that is part of the ancient Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata. Since the Gita is drawn from the Mahabharata, it is classified as a Smṛiti text. However, those branches of Hinduism that give it the status of an Upanishad also consider it a śruti or "revealed" text.[1][2] As it is taken to represent a summary of the Upanishadic teachings, it is also called "the Upanishad of the Upanishads".[3]
The context of the Gita is a conversation between Lord Krishna and the Pandava prince Arjuna taking place in the middle of the battlefield before the start of the Kurukshetra War with armies on both sides ready to battle. Responding to Arjuna's confusion and moral dilemma about fighting his own cousins who command a tyranny imposed on a disputed empire, Lord Krishna explains to Arjuna his duties as a warrior and prince, and elaborates on different yoga and Samkhya philosophies. This has led to the Gita often being described as a concise guide to Hindu theology and also as a practical, self-contained guide to life. During the discourse, Lord Krishna reveals his identity as the Supreme Being himself (Svayam Bhagavan), blessing Arjuna with an awe-inspiring vision of his divine universal form.
It has been highly praised not only by prominent Indians such as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi but also by Aldous Huxley, David Henry Thoreau, Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer,[4] Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung, and Herman Hesse.[3][5] Thoreau notes, " In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmological philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial."