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Government’s Influence and the Bhagavad-Gita Barbara Stoler Miller’s translation of The Bhagavad-Gita reveals the teachings of Krishna to the Hindu people during a war in which individuals question the morality of their situation. One interesting aspect is how rulers play into the text and how the teachings of Krishna support and veer away from the leadership of the people. There are many characteristics of the Hindu people that make them agreeable to government …

…have the opportunity to be very controlling and take on a lot of power, at the same time it might be shunned if that power took away from the people’s religious devotions and duties. A less-active government might be valued by some who were strongly self-governed, but it might not prove very successful if it was weak and not supported by people more primarily concerned with themselves than with the good of the country.