Oh Krishna Where Art Thou
To quickly explain how I will go about writing this essay I will dedicate the first couple lines in doing so. Since there is so much to write about I will pretend I’m a member of one of the religions in question and flip through the book and pick at random a passage or two. Then I will write about how I feel about that passage as if I was a member of that religion as I stated above. This is generally how I will be answering the two questions asked of us in a single bodied essay. Also whenever I am quoting passages of the Gita, they will all be from the Barbara Stoler Miller translation. Now I will begin. Quickly flipping through the Gita I come to the opening verses of the seventh teaching which is entitled knowledge and judgment. The verses I would like to focus on are 7.6-7.7, which go like this. Learn that this is the womb Nothing is higher than I am; of all creatures; Arjuna, all that exists I am the source of all the universe, is woven on me, just as I am its dissolution like a web of pearls on thread If I was a Vedic Brahmin priest from the 6th century BCE I would quickly recognize that the first set of lines are very similar to what the Rg Veda 10.90 is talking
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Approximate Word count = 1667
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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