THE BHAGAVAD GITA – ITS CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE A CONFERENCE THE NEHRU CENTRE, LONDON 24-25 SEPTEMBER 2015
http://iccr.gov.in/ THE BHAGAVAD GITA – ITS CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE A CONFERENCE THE NEHRU CENTRE, LONDON 24-25 SEPTEMBER 2015 (9:00am – 5:00pm) Organised by Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi, The Nehru Centre and High Commission of India, London In Association with School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, SREI Foundation & Sanskrit @ St James The Bhagavad Gita is Lord Krishna's Celestial Song for the benefit of Arjuna, his devotee, friend and an invincible warrior. The crown jewel of the world's longest epic, the Mahabharata, its context is the battlefield of Kurukshetra, where the opposing armies of the Pandavas and Kauravas are arrayed. They are cousins but both claimants to the throne of Hastinapur. Arjuna sees his own teachers and elders in the opposing Kaurava legion. Is thethrone worth killing people who are dear to him? To Arjuna, it becomes a paralysing conflict. The actual battle to be fought by the two armies is just a...