An Atheist Explores the Bhagavad Gita Part 20: Closing Thoughts
Closing Thoughts Welcome to the epilogue of An Atheist Explores Sacred Texts (Bhagavad Gita). In this series I work my way chapter-by-chapter through the Bhagavad Gita, commenting on it from the point of view of the text as literature and mythology. For more detail, see the introductory post https://bit.ly/2XAch2A For the online Bhagavad Gita that I use, see here https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/ And now: Closing Thoughts That was an interesting document. Compared to the Bible and the Qur’an it was mercifully short, but of course what I’m essentially doing here is taking the edited highlights out of a much longer document, kind of like reading the Gospel of Mark and taking it to be the Bible as a whole. That said, it sums up its philosophy in a nicely succinct fashion. It’s interesting that in this particular representation of Hinduism that the morality of actions is determined by cosmic forces, or is inherent to the performer of those actions. Even Kris