Gita - the Hindu Bible - is Hindu Terrorism, Says Indian Philosopher

The Bhagavad Gita, meaning "Song of God", and also simply known as "Gita", is a highly revered and famous Hindu scripture, and is regarded as one of the most important texts in the history of philosophy and literature. The Gita is comprised of about 700 verses, with 18 chapters in total. It is a part of the Mahabharata, which is a major Sanskrit epic of ancient India. The teacher of the Gita is Krishna, who is hailed by Hindus as a manifestation of God and is referred in the Gita as Bhagavan, the Divine One.

The Gita is essentially the conversation between Krishna and Arjuna, who is a famous and moral warrior, taking place on the battlefield before the start of a deadly historical Indian war, known as the Kurukshetra war. When Arjuna refuses fighting his own cousins on moral basis, Krishna advises him to engage in the warfare for higher spiritual and religious reasons. Arjuna, being advised by Krishna, becomes enlightened and continues with his role of warrior in the war. Gita has, thus, usually been described as a concise guide to Hindu theology and also as a practical guide to life.

The Gita, due to its enormous significance to Hinduism, is often popularly termed as the "Hindu bible". Kedar Joshi, a Pune based Indian philosopher and astrological scholar, has accused Gita of being inherently satanic and has labelled it as "Hindu terrorism", through his work "The Satanic Verses of Bhagavad Gita". There as many references to Joshi's article on the internet, including one in an article about Islam published in Washington Square News.

The nature of Kedar Joshi's criticism is such that Gita disregards women as inferior to (male) Brahmins and, further, the women of modern times, who do the works prescribed by Gita to (male) Brahmins, are, in fact, threatened by Gita to death, for being miscreants. This goes as well for people of other religions, or free thinkers, like atheists or agnostics, who do not believe in Krishna as God and do not follow his message and are thus potentially miscreants. The criticism, in its later stages, criticises Krishna for being fundamentally immoral and satanic, with his obsession about the functioning of the (intrinsically) painful material world, which he himself deems to be inferior to his highest eternal abode. The heart of Joshi's criticism is that the morality of the message of the Gita is more like an illusion and the core, fundamental nature of the message is largely satanic.

Kedar Joshi was born in Mumbai into a Hindu Brahmin family. He is the author of the philosophical works collectively known as "Superultramodern Science and Philosophy", which include the NSTP (Non - Spatial Thinking Process) theory and the UQV (Ultimate Questioner's Vanity) theory. Last year, he was interviewed by media about his idea that "universe is a non-spatial computer".