Hinduism (part 1)

I own the "Bhagavad Gita", one of the most important Hindu texts. The version I have contains the text from the Gita, followed by a "purport" explaining the text. Looking through it and other books about the religion, I can see why the elite are trying to push it on us so much.

Hinduism is the perfect New World Order religion. I realize this is a bold statement, and I plan on explaining it.

Quotes from the Bhagavad Gita are in bold, and the purports are in italics. My words are in normal font.

In the beginning of the Gita Krsna (or Krishna), an avatar (which is God coming to Earth in human form to interact with humankind for specific purposes of his own), wants a man named Arjuna to take part in a battle. Arjuna realizes that he is about to go to battle against some of his family members and good friends, so he no longer wants to go to war. Krsna, the avatar, explains why fighting and killing is ok sometimes.

I do not see how any good can come from killing my own kinsman in this battle, nor can I, my dear Krsna, desire any subsequent victory, kingdom or happiness.

PURPORT: Without knowing that one's self interest is in Visnu (or Avatars), conditioned souls are attracted by bodily relationships, hoping to be happy in such situations. In such a blind conception of life, they forget even the causes of material happiness. Arjuna thinks that by killing his kinsman there would be no happiness in his life, and therefore he is not willing to fight.

So, if someone is considered an avatar, we should do exactly what they say, and ignore our family, because believing in family is a "blind conception of life".

O son of Prtha, do not yield to this degrading impotence. It does not become you. Give up such petty weakness of heart and arise, O chastiser of the enemy.

PURPORT: Arjuna was addressed as the son of Prtha, who happened to be sister of Krsna's father Vasudeva. Therefore Arjuna had a blood relationship with Krsna. If the son of a ksatriya declines to fight, he is a ksatriya in name only, and if the son of a brahmana acts impiously, he is a brahmana in name only. Such ksatriyas and brahmanas are unworthy sons of their fathers; therefore, Krsna did not want Arjuna to become an unworthy son of a ksatriya.

Arjuna said: O killer of enemies, O killer of Madhu, how can I counterattack with arrows in battle men like Bhisma and Drona, who are worthy of my worship?

PURPORT: Respectable superiors like Bhisma the grandfather and Drona the teacher are always worshipable. Even if they attack, they should not be counterattacked. It is genreal etiquette that superiors are not to be offered even a verbal fight. Even if they are sometimes harsh in behavior, they should not be harshly treated.

So don't just simply respect superiors, but WORSHIP them. In other words, always listen to George Bush, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, etc., and don't argue with them.

The material body of the indestructible, immeasurable, and eternal living entity is sure to come to an end; therefore fight, O descendant of Bharta.

PURPORT: The material body is perishable by nature. It may perish immediately, or it may do so after a hundred years. There is no chance of maintaining it indefinitely. But the spirit soul is so minute that it can not even be seen by an enemy, to say nothing of being killed. So from both viewpoints there is no cause of lamentation, because the living entity as he is cannot be killed nor can the material body be saved for any length of time or permanently protected. Arjuna was advised to fight and not sacrifice the cause of religion for material, bodily considerations.

I bet killing millions in Iraq feels a lot better if you're a Hindu. I bet staging 9/11 feels a lot better, too.

Neither he who thinks the living entity the slayer nor he who thinks it slain is in knowledge, for the self slays not nor is slain.

PURPORT: When an embodied living entity is hurt by fatal weapons, it is to be known that the living entity within the body is not killed. The living entity is not killable, because of his spiritual constitution. What is killed, or is supposed to be killed, is the body only. This, however, does not at all encourage killing of the body. Killing the body of anyone without authority is abominable and is punishable by the law of the state as well as by the law of the Lord. Arjuna, however, is being engaged in killing for the principle of religion, and not whimsically.

So thou shalt not kill, unless you have authority to do so by a man claiming to be an avatar or by any "superior".

So far, I would love Hinduism if I was in power. More later.