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Re: Arjuna
In article <4e8v5n$o8e@babbage.ece.uc.edu>,
Dhruba Chakravarti <dchakrav@netserv.unmc.edu> wrote:
>This should be a hot topic. Last week, in our study group, this question
>came up. What kind of person was Arjuna spiritually ? Was he a yogi, a
>jnAni, a muni, a pandita or a mudha?
>He was a great warrior, capable of great concentration and heroic feats,
>but he seems to be simply a mudha in spiritual matters.
Realize that Arjuna moved from apparently deluded to sthita-prajna in
just _ONE_ hearing of the Bhagavad Gita -- just the Sanskrit text with
no commentary -- and he knew the right questions to ask at every stage.
The whole process took maybe 2 hours.
In contrast, any other person needs months and months and still won't
understand the Bhagavad Gita enough to be a sthita-prajna until he's
gone through it many many times. And people also won't know the
right questions to ask, but may ask about irrelevant matters instead.
So, I'd say the mudha theory is pretty much ruled out.
-- Vijay
