Get an email account (probably GMail) that is anonymous, yet where I can recognize you. Use your first name and an initial last name, for instance, with an 09 for your class. You'll need this for our blogging.Read the Bhagavad Gita Intro (13-30) and then chapters 2-5, and find some lines in chapters 2-3 that interest you and some lines in chapters 4-5 that interest you. Write blog entries where you 1) copy the lines, and 2) write at least 100 words discussing them. If you pick lines from chapter 2, post in the Comments section Chapter 2 above, etc.... You are NOT allowed to pick lines that have already been posted for the chapter, so you need to at least skim all the entries posted before yours for that chapter.
So each of you will have 2 entries in 2 different areas above. There will also be a short quiz on Wednesday to encourage you to read well.
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"Death is certain for the born; for the dead, rebirth is certain. Since both cannot be avoided, you have no reason for your sorrow."
These lines are fascinating because they portray life as a never-ending cycle. Unlike Christianity, there is not one chance to receive redemption and be saved. There are many lifetimes to achieve a sense of discompassion in which there is no longer sorrow. While it may be viewed as cold, it is important because everything is loved equally. Without attachment with any particular object, we cannot miss it. We can have many births and deaths before realizing and understanding this, unlike many Western views where we are simply born and destroyed. I also appreciated how it said we should end our sorrow because the cycle of life is natural and mourning is not necessary or appropriate.
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