A Moral Man Must Be a Free Man

In western christianity it has always been thought that there is only one unmotivated being, and this would be god. In the hindoo view of life, there isn't this rigid distinction between man on the one hand and animals and plants on the other. There are times in the hindu view when killing is an unavoidable condition of being alive. And this is one of the problems which the geeta sets itself to solve. I have read these selections from the translation of the bagovad geeta translated by doctor s rader crishnan. R a d h a k r i s h n a n. The translation is published by harper and brothers of new y