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The Teaching of the Gita/Lesson from the Mahabharata

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Characters in the Mahabharata The Teaching of the Gita
Lesson from the Mahabharata
written by Mohandas K. Gandhi
The Meaning of the Gita



Arjuna's defeat at the hands of ordinary highwaymen, and the end of the victors in Himalayan snows are intended by the author of the Mahabharata to show the futility of war with weapons of steel. Bhagavan (The Lord) has given a description of Himself in the Gita; that is to say, the author of the Gita has put this description in His mouth. But, as a matter...