{"id":4347,"date":"2014-11-24T13:52:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T18:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=4347"},"modified":"2014-11-24T13:52:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T18:52:37","slug":"war-and-peace-in-the-bhagavad-gita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2014\/11\/24\/war-and-peace-in-the-bhagavad-gita\/","title":{"rendered":"War and Peace in the Bhagavad Gita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/11\/doniger_2-120414_jpg_250x1368_q85.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/11\/doniger_2-120414_jpg_250x1368_q85.jpg\" alt=\"doniger_2-120414_jpg_250x1368_q85\" width=\"250\" height=\"363\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4349 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/11\/doniger_2-120414_jpg_250x1368_q85.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/11\/doniger_2-120414_jpg_250x1368_q85-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wendy Doniger&#8217;s\u00a0<em>War and Peace in the Bhagavad Gita<\/em> is possibly best described as a biography of the Bhagavad Gita. She explores the book&#8217;s history and the somewhat contradictory way an epic call to battle has come to be something of a pacifist icon.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The\u00a0<i>Gita<\/i>\u00a0incorporates into its seven hundred verses many different sorts of insights, which people use to argue many different, often contradictory, ideas. We might divide them into two broad groups: what I would call the warrior\u2019s\u00a0<i>Gita<\/i>, about engaging in the world, and the philosopher\u2019s\u00a0<i>Gita<\/i>, about disengaging. The\u00a0<i>Gita<\/i>\u2019s theology\u2014the god\u2019s transfiguration of the warrior\u2019s life\u2014binds the two points of view in an uneasy tension that has persisted through the centuries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Doniger traces the book&#8217;s \u00a0place within the wider landscape of Hindu literature, and chronicles how major political and philosophical thinkers from Gandhi to Modi to Walt Whitman have grappled with and reinterpreted the text over the ages. Interested? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2014\/dec\/04\/war-and-peace-bhagavad-gita\/\">Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendy Doniger&#8217;s\u00a0War and Peace in the Bhagavad Gita is possibly best described as a biography of the Bhagavad Gita. She explores the book&#8217;s history and the somewhat contradictory way an epic call to battle has come to be something of a pacifist icon. The\u00a0Gita\u00a0incorporates into its seven hundred verses many different sorts of insights, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4347"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4353,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions\/4353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}