A quote from Amartya Sen had my childhood belief's to ransom a few days back!
It was threatening as It shook the very foundations of the belief framework that an average hindu is born with in India. The infallibility and the unquestionable status of our gods and icons is almost hard wired into us it is this notion which was put to test by one single blaring glaring sentence
"IN GITA SHREE KRISHNA DID NOTHING BUT INSPIRED ARJUNA TO KILL THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AT THE END OF THE DAY "
moreover he went on to say
"WHY DID GANDHIJI HAVE AN UNWAVERING FAITH IN SHREE KRISHNA ?"
now these are questions really to be brooded over ...
can somebody give a possible explanation?
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For the greater good of humanity!!.
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If Arjuna had not killed thousands of people and if Kauravas had won the war, it would have resulted in a vicious king ruling over the whole nation.
What could be more catastrophic than a corrupt monarch?
But,unlike Shri Krishna, Mahatma Gandhi had a nation, in complete disarray, to deal with.
India at that time needed nothing but a unified struggle. Bapu's Satyagraha was the thread that sewed India in one garland.
It was our disunity only which made us so vulnerable to attack when the East India company came to India. Scattered violent protests would have had disintegrated the nation.
Moreover, one needs to understand that Shri Krishna had a multi faceted personality and Mahabharata is an epic. To draw conclusions about both of them on the basis of just one fact is nothing but inane.
The reverence of Shri Krishna by Mahatma Gandhi provided him with an optimistic perpective and helped him to unravel the divine mystery. He saw beyond the facts and could connect to the soul.
Amaratya Sen in his crtique failed to achieve it.Negativity crippled his ablility to see beyond the facts.
Nonetheless, Shri Krishna has got the history of turning his supreme critics into his most ardent followers and who knows, Amaratya Sen is next in the list.