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452: James Beshara

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

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The Gita Bag Bagita and Song of the Lord

The gita is 700 a verse, a text that you could read an hour and a half. It stands in this larger mahabrat barta, this epic that would take you two years to read through. Right in the geometric centre of the mabrata are the gita bag bagita and song of the lord. And it's a conversation between argina, the warrior prince, and his charioteer, chrishna. The personification of god can't fight the battle, but he can inform what argina can and should do. We look at these ideals and they inform us like information. But that's what gives us form, is the ideal.

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