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What is the difference between the Mahabharata and the Gita?
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Shyena · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:30 am Post subject:

Mahabharata is a historical epic that describes the great war between pandavas and kauravas at the end of dwapara yuga

Bhagavad Gita is a discourse upon god, paths to god, meaning of life, etc... by krishna to arjuna, when arjuna surrenders himself to the agony of loss of his son and his compulsion to fight against his cousins. Krishna says that what he reveals to arjuna are the lost upanishads, thus it is also called the "yogopanishad" - the upanishad of yogas

Gita occurs in mahabharata, but this part of mahabharata is highly revered for carrying valuable information condensed into a short discourse(compared to vedas...short).

Prabhat · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:55 pm Post subject:

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thanks.
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Prabhat · Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 9:48 am Post subject:

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dont know if i have ask it before.

Are Ram, Krishna really peoples, or is the books they are in just fiction.
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Shyena · Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 1:04 pm Post subject:

They're real historic people! The dates have been mentioned too. Astrological and what not else evidence shows that ramayana happened atleast around 3087 B.C.E. We have discovered two sunken cities, one dating to 2900 BCE and the other, 7500 BCE, near gulf of cambay. One of them definitely can be the legendary dwaraka which sunk after death of krishna. Ramayana is supposed to have occured 1.6mil+ years ago, and I read somewhere the adam's bridge also carbon dates to the same period.
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Prabhat · Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 1:08 pm Post subject:

Namaste PD,

1.6 mil. years ago. where there humans like us. and if they where so far in thinking, why is there no map of dwaraka.
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Shyena · Posted: Sat Nov 25, 2006 2:01 pm Post subject:

From all that I've read, dates given by evolutionists simply cannot be trusted. Best example being that an ancient sanskrit speaks of kashmir as a mahasagar, which puts the date to 40,000 years ago. But evolutionists say that man evolved 30,000 years ago which leads to a few difficult conclusions from their side.
Presides, all were aryans back then - so they cremated their body. Therefore the chances of finding remains would be less than expected.
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Prabhat · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:10 am Post subject:

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but there has to be some kind of things like old houses, potteries, and those kind of stuff
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Shyena · Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2006 5:45 pm Post subject:

Not even harappan civilisation's archeological remains are properly available - and that is only 5k years old. How can we expect remains of something millions of years old?
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Prabhat · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:10 pm Post subject:

5K?????

hmmm, thats a pity, because people know abouth them and they kind find stuff. normal they say that when things are barried deep in dirt it mostly stay good. but i am not an archeologist
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Shyena · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:25 pm Post subject:

Actually very little is known about harappan civilisation as well...
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Prabhat · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:57 pm Post subject:

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but where this people Hindu or what?/
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bhavesh · Junior Member Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 63

Gita is an integral part of Mahabharat. It was only after Shankaracharya's bhashya (interpretation) that Gita received special importance. It has been considered since then one of the chief books of Neo-Vedant. Almost all acharyas associated with Vedant philosophy have explained Gita in line with their individual philosophical thinking. Gita is a part of history in which philosophical talks are dominant. Dayananda gave no special importance to Gita. He has not recommended its study in his scheme of education. Gita contains many things contrary to original teachings of Vedas. Its philosophy is vague – not at all clear - and it supports Incarnation and idol worship etc. There were made from time to time many additions, deletions & changes in the original text of Mahabharat (including Gita) by many scholars & pandits. Therefore, to finalize the actual - original form of Gita is now just an impossible task even for the best scholars of Sanskrit.
= Bhavesh Merja

Prabhat · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 1:16 pm Post subject:

Prabhat · Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 6:48 am Post subject:

Namaste,

So mahabharat and gita. what more value dos it have for us, the people who only believe in the Veda's.
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