“My Gita” Devdutt Pattanaik, (2015) Review | Understanding The Gita

★★★★☆ You must first know The Gita, then read this to understand further. But you do get the basic ideas and philosophy behind it. Now I'll need to read the actual Gita.

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My Gita
Devdutt Pattanaik, 2015
256 pages
Read in 2020.10
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Technically it shouldn't be a difficult read, but I certainly didn't understand most of it, but that's partly because of the terminology, impossible to remember all the words if you don't know or grow up in the culture.
But I'd say mainly because the actual The Gita is not there in this particular book which is an error on my side.
So it's reading the description without actually knowing the thing.

But you do get the basic ideas and philosophy behind it. 
That there are several scriptures but The Gita talks about the social responsibility, it's about actually doing things because it's your duty.
Arjuna must fight, leave all the worries to Krishna and he must do the actions, because it's his duty.
The most interesting part was that a relationship with gods is a two way relationship. 
A god needs love and respect, and a god loves and respects, both ways.

Now I'll need to read the actual Gita.

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