Should Bhagvad Geeta Be India’s National Dharam Shastra?

First things first, in India we desperately need a dharam shastra (a treatise that teaches us the path of righteousness) and I think Geeta is a good start. With so much corruption and moral degradation something is needed to teach us the dharma. It’s high time.

That said, the recent controversial statement by an Allahabad judge that Bhagvad Geeta should be declared as our national dharam shastra has received much flack from politicians as well as legal experts. Bhagvad Geeta is a collection of wise suggestions imparted to Arjuna by Lord Krishna when the Pandavas and the Kauravas were on the verge of a great war on the plains of Kurukshetra and Arjuna developed doubts. He wondered for what he was going to shed his brothers’ blood (Kauravas and Pandavas were cousins).

Krishna told him good should always fight evil and we should carry out our duties without harboring doubts.

It’s a worthy book but India being a secular country (I mean real secularism, not pseudo-secularism) it won’t be possible to declare it a national dharam shastra. Every major religion has its own dharam shastra in India.

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