The End of Bhagavad-Gita

With the end of Bhagavad-Gita, I concluded that this text depicts humanity and some of them even concern society today. I think that the teachings reflect the many ways in which humans react in situations that they don't know how to handle so they seek for advice. The lessons Krishna gives to Arjuna are very important because with these it is that Arjuna decides who he wants to be. Although Krishna does influence Arjuna's final decision, I thought it was very valuable that he gave Arjuna the chance to decide for himself. The importance of the teachings is not Arjuna's final decision, instead, all that Arjuna learned that will help him take the right paths in the future.

I really liked the way that Krishna explained his teachings to Arjuna. This text which is also similar to the bible, in the sense that it's a set of instructions and it has to do with deities, was actually very compelling. I think that what makes it so, is the fact that the teachings are not condemning you or punishing you, they are just advising you to make the right decisions and take some time to think your actions.

I agree with most of the values that Krishna tells Arjuna about but there were others that I just thought were absurd. Well, I actually really liked all the concepts of devotion, sacrifice, knowledge, etc. but what I didn't like was the way that Krishna told Arjuna to perform these for example, I'm not very religious and I couldn't picture myself being as devoted to a god. I think that being so devoted wouldn't let me see or understand other opinions and I would a have a very biased perception on the world. Instead, I would devote myself to a cause or a belief. Again, the concepts were very accurate and I think that used in another context, they would actually apply in society today.

I suppose that these teachings were especially important to me because I relate to them in some ways. It surprised me when Krishna refers to ignorance as man's ruin because I share the same opinion. This was probably the part I found the most interesting since (I'm guessing) this text is very very old and they were already thinking about ignorance. Today, the modern world has found that a possible solution to ignorance is education, yet a big percentage of this planet's population does not receive proper education if any at all. Education is a big issue nowadays and I was amazed at the fact that years ago, people were already worried about ignorance.