Introduction to

World Religion and

Belief system
REPORTING OF GROUP 2
 Objectives
• discuss what is MAHABHARATA

• discuss what is BHAGAVAD GITA

GUESS THE JUMBLED
WORDS

Krisnaha
MABHARATAHA RABHATA
MAHABHARAT
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Another major Sanskrit literature of old India is
Mahabharata which is composed of around one
hundred thousand verses making it the word's
longest poem. Written around 500 B.C.E., this
magnificent work is attrib uted to the author Vyasa
who is also considered to be the scribe of the Vendas
The Mahabharata tells of a great struggle among the
descendants of a king called Bharata, a name used by
many Indians to mean "India" (Coogan 2005).
BHARAT
•Bharata is a legendary emperor featured in

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Hindu literature. He is a member of the
Chandravamsha dynasty, and becomes the
Chakravarti (universal monarch)
• Two families are at war, the Pandavas who
represent good and the Kauravas who
embody evil (Brown 1975). The hundred
Kaurava brothers try to cheat their five
cousins, the Pandavas, out of their share of
the kingdom. As intense battle ensued, every
kingdom had to take sides. With the help of
Krishna.
KRISHNA
• Krishna is a major deity in Hinduism. He is
worshipped as the eighth avatar of Vishnu and also
as the Supreme God in his own right.
another incarnation of Vishnu, the Pandavas emerged triumplant
bond albout 100,000 deest kin in battle (Coogan 2005).
With about 100,000 couplets and 1.8 million words in total, this
pornm is about four times longer than the Ramayana, eight times
longer than the med and the Odyssey put together, and fifteen
times longer than the Bible Along with the Bible and the Quran,
the Mahabharata ranks in importance among the sacred writings
of various world religions. It is an epic vision of the human
condition, such as intrigue, romance, duplicity, moral collapse,
dishonour, and Lamentations (kolanad 1994)
BHAGAVAD GITA
A celebrated episode within the Mahabharata is the
Bhagavad Gita (or simply Gita) which is transinted
as "the Lord's Song." It is believed to lave been
written between the second century B.C.E. and
third century C.E.

Considered as one of the holiest books by the

Hindus, the Gita is a 700-verse narrative of a
He then seeks the opinion of his charioteer
dialogue between the Pandava prince Arjuna and
his guide-cousin Krishna. Just as the war is about
Krishna who asserts the righteousness of the
to commence at Kurukshetra. Arjuna is troubled at act while expounding the moral and
the thought of having to fight his relatives and philosophical consequences of human
contem plates his fate and struggles set before him. actions. Their conversa tions in the
battlefield, found between chapters 25 and
42, comprise about eighteen chapter and
constitute the Bhagavad Gita
The Gita instructs any person that one
may reach god through devotion,
knowledge, or selfless action (Coogan
2005). Humans must do their duty or
dharma whatever it may be and whatever
results it could produce. The Gita
considered the layman's Upanishads
because the difficult teachings of the
Upanishads are presented here in a
manner that commoners can understand
(Brown 1975)
 MEMBERS
BENSURTO, JADE P.
COROS, AIFA NADEA
PELAYO, CHARLIE
FRANCISCO, JHON JHON
BARAGA, CHRISTOPHER
CASTILLO, JOEL
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By Group 2