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Just kidding (but not really), there's just too much to say, but as usual, I will (or will try to) be brief. To start, among the many Italian translations of the “Bhagavad Gītā”, I read the one from Sanskrit by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
The Bhagavadgītā is a "sacred" text for Hindus written in Sanskrit by Vyāsa or Vyāsadeva (a secondary avatar of Viṣṇu, known as the Writer Avatar) the author of the Mahābhārata from which it is excerpted…
It consists of about 700 verses (octosyllabic quatrains) divided into 18 cantos and is believed to have been composed starting from the 3rd century B.C. under the dictation of the god Ganesh (the one with the elephant head with a broken tusk, to be clear), son of Shiva…
It tells of the battle of Kurukshetra (literally field of the Kuru, also known as Dharmakshetra meaning field of justice) as there was no alternative to this symbolic war where the warrior Arjuna must fight and kill (alas) members of his own family…
Ok, I had declared to be brief, and it's time to cut it short, but not before enlightening you about the (let's call it) moral of this "revealed" text: a warrior’s conduct must always respect certain duties, and these must always prevail over general norms that usually preach non-violence, because everyone, during their existence, must offer all their actions, even those violent but nevertheless the result of their karmic duty, to, um, the good of the world.
p.s. this reading (that took place in the early '80s) was the result of a brief friendship with a girl, um, "cute" (whose name I don't recall, but other things I won't forget…) who hung around with the Hare Krishna in Padua, an acquaintance that lasted less than the 18 days needed for the Battle of Kurukshetra... but that involved driving the sect leader from Padua to Switzerland to a small village where they had a spiritual center with a farm etc., the name of which I absolutely do not remember (nor the leader’s name, c’est la vie), not before having eaten and drunk well at their luxury restaurant in Milan… ah yes, I want to be brief, I'm done!
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