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Bhagavad Gita is Hindu

Concepts of Isvara, Jagat (Universe), Jiva (individual soul), Devatas, Rebirth, Karma, Moksha, Svarga, Naraka, etc. in the Bhagavad Gita are unique to Hinduism.

Abrahamic religions cannot accept these concepts.

Details in the tweets below. (1/n)

https://twitter.com/digi_karma/status/1339804835659587584

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Isvara is all-pervading and resides in the hearts of all beings.

मया ततमिदं सर्वं जगदव्यक्तमूर्तिना ।
मत्स्थानि सर्वभूतानि न चाहं तेष्ववस्थितः ॥ Bhagavad Gita 9.4

All this world is pervaded by Me in My unmanifested form: all beings exist in Me, but I do not dwell in them.

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Isvara is all-pervading (contd)

ईश्वरः सर्वभूतानां हृद्देशेऽर्जुन तिष्ठति ।
भ्रामयन्सर्वभूतानि यन्त्रारूढानि मायया ॥ Bhagavad Gita 18.61

The Lord, O Arjuna, dwells in the hearts of all beings, causing aJl beings, by His Maya, to revolve, (as if) mounted on a machine.

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Incarnation, God in human form

यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत ।
अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ॥
परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम् ।
धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे ॥ Bhagavad Gita 4.7-8
(contd).

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Incarnation (contd)

"Whenever, O Arjuna, there is decline of Dharma, and rise of Adharma, then I body Myself forth. For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the wicked, and for the establishment of Dharma, I come into being in every age." Bhagavad Gita 4.7-8

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Incarnation, God in Human form (contd)

अवजानन्ति मां मूढा मानुषीं तनुमाश्रितम् ।
परं भावमजानन्तो मम भूतमहेश्वरम् ॥ Bhagavad Gita 9.11

Unaware of My higher state, as the great Lord of beings, fools disregard Me, dwelling in the human form.

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Many gods

पश्यामि देवांस्तव देव देहे सर्वांस्तथा भूतविशेषसङ्घान् ।
ब्रह्माणमीशं कमलासनस्थमृषींश्च सर्वानुरगांश्च दिव्यान् ॥ Gita 11.15

I see all Devas, in Thy body, and hosts of all grades of beings; Brahma, seated on the lotus, and all the Rishis & celestial serpents.

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Worship of other gods

येऽप्यन्यदेवता भक्ता यजन्ते श्रद्धयान्विताः ।
तेऽपि मामेव कौन्तेय यजन्त्यविधिपूर्वकम् ॥ Bhagavad Gita 9.23

Even those devotees, who endued with Shraddha, worship other gods, they too worship Me alone, (but) by the wrong method.

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Other gods (contd)

इष्टान्भोगान्हि वो देवा दास्यन्ते यज्ञभाविताः । Gita 3.12
The Devas, cherished by Yajna, will give you desired objects.

Jiva is amsa of God

ममैवांशो जीवलोके जीवभूतः सनातनः । Gita 15.7
An eternal portion of Myself becomes a Jiva in the world of life.

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Ideal devotee / jnani sees God everywhere

यो मां पश्यति सर्वत्र सर्वं च मयि पश्यति ।
तस्याहं न प्रणश्यामि स च मे न प्रणश्यति ॥ Gita 6.30

He who sees Me in all things, and sees all things in Me, he never becomes separated from Me, nor do I become separated from him.

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jnani sees God everywhere (contd)

समं पश्यन्हि सर्वत्र समवस्थितमीश्वरम् ।
न हिनस्त्यात्मनात्मानं ततो याति परां गतिम् ॥ Gita 13.29

Since seeing the Lord equally existent everywhere, he injures not Self by self, and so goes to the highest Goal.

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Stithaprajna

प्रजहाति यदा कामान्सर्वान्पार्थ मनोगतान् ।
आत्मन्येवात्मना तुष्टः स्थितप्रज्ञस्तदोच्यते ॥ Gita 2.55
When a man completely casts away, all the desires of the mind, satisfied in the Self alone by the Self, then is he said to be one of steady wisdom.

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Jnani

उदाराः सर्व एवैते ज्ञानी त्वात्मैव मे मतम् ।
आस्थितः स हि युक्तात्मा मामेवानुत्तमां गतिम् ॥ Gita 7.18

Noble indeed are they all, but the wise man I regard as My very Self; for with the mind steadfast, he is established in Me alone, as the supreme goal.

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Faith without virtues will not do

अमानित्वमदम्भित्वमहिंसा क्षान्तिरार्जवम् ।
आचार्योपासनं शौचं स्थैर्यमात्मविनिग्रहः ॥ Gita 13.8

Humility, unpretentiousness, non-injury, forbearance, uprightness, Guruseva, purity, steadiness, self-control; (these virtues lead to Jnana)

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Characteristics of Ideal Bhakta

समः शत्रौ च मित्रे च तथा मानापमानयोः ।
शीतोष्णसुखदुःखेषु समः सङ्गविवर्जितः ॥
तुल्यनिन्दास्तुतिर्मौनी सन्तुष्टो येन केनचित् ।
अनिकेतः स्थिरमतिर्भक्तिमान्मे प्रियो नरः ॥ Gita 12.18-19

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He who is the same to friend & foe, and also in honour & dishonour; who is the same in heat & cold, and in pleasure & pain; who is free from attachment; to whom censure & praise are equal; who is silent, content, homeless, steady-minded, full of devotion; he is dear to Me.

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Rebirth

जातस्य हि ध्रुवो मृत्युर्ध्रुवं जन्म मृतस्य च । Bhagavad Gita 2.27

Of that which is born, death is certain; of that which is dead, birth is certain.

Rebirth (contd)

वासांसि जीर्णानि यथा विहाय नवानि गृह्णाति नरोऽपराणि ।
तथा शरीराणि विहाय जीर्णान्यन्यानि संयाति नवानि देही ॥ Gita 2.22
Even as a man casts off worn-out clothes, and puts on others which are new, so the embodied casts off worn-out bodies, and enters into new ones.

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Karma, Three Gunas

ऊर्ध्वं गच्छन्ति सत्त्वस्था मध्ये तिष्ठन्ति राजसाः ।
जघन्यगुणवृत्तिस्था अधो गच्छन्ति तामसाः ॥ Gita 14.18

The Sattva-abiding go upwards; the Rajasika dwell in the middle; and the Tamasika, abiding in the function of the lowest Guna, go downwards.

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Life in Heaven or Hell is not eternal,
Only Moksha is eternal.

आब्रह्मभुवनाल्लोकाः पुनरावर्तिनोऽर्जुन ।
मामुपेत्य तु कौन्तेय पुनर्जन्म न विद्यते ॥ Gita 8.16

All the worlds,including the realm of Brahma, are subject to return, but after attaining Me, there is no rebirth.

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Heaven (contd)

ते पुण्यमासाद्य सुरेन्द्रलोकमश्नन्ति दिव्यान्दिवि देवभोगान्॥
ते तं भुक्त्वा स्वर्गलोकं विशालं क्षीणे पुण्ये मर्त्यलोकं विशन्ति। 9.20-21

Reaching the Svarga, they enjoy the divine pleasures of the Devas and return to this world, on the exhaustion of punya.

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Creation is cyclic.

अव्यक्ताद्‍ व्यक्तय: सर्वा: प्रभवन्त्यहरागमे ।
रात्र्यागमे प्रलीयन्ते तत्रैवाव्यक्तसंज्ञके ॥ 8.18

At the approach of (Brahma's) day, all manifestations proceed from the unmanifested state; at the approach of night, they merge into the unmanifested.

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Post Script:

There are commentaries on parts of the Bible & the Quran based on Vedanta, like 'The Sermon on the Mount According to Vedanta' by Swami Prabhavananda.

Just think, why there are no Christian, Islamic or Judaic commentaries on the Gita.