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The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma

de Gurcharan Das

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Gurcharan Das turns to the Mahabharata in order to answer the question, why be good?, and discovers that the epic's world of moral haziness and uncertainty is closer to our experience as ordinary human beings than the narrow and rigid positions that define most debate in this fundamentalist age of moral certainty.… (mais)
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This book was quite different. I started off the book thinking, yes it's difficult to be good but maybe he has figured out how to be good despite it being so difficult. This book is more of a question bank rather than an answer guide. It forces us to think and insists us to find our own answers. Svadharma or sadharana dharma, it's our job to figure it out for ourselves. If you are looking for answers, this is not your book. But if you want to ascertain things, revisit things you know, have heard etc, read this book. I read it because of my fondness of Mahabharatha and no matter how the characters are introduced I'll still lap it all up.
  rrkreads | Jun 15, 2020 |
Very insightful book. Was delighted after reading the book. The book portrays the concept of the difficulty of being a good person taking Mahabharat as an apt example and brought about a concise picture of often confused concept of DHARMA. For me the question still remains as to why be (completely) good ?? ( )
  _RSK | Jan 26, 2016 |
I am a bit disappointed in this book, not on the subject matter or how it is rendered but rather by the methods used by the Author to present his findings.

The first thing I noticed is the undertone of elitism a la Raja Ram Mohan Roy. A feeling that western evidence trumps what is available at home. While talking about the Gita, he prefers to quote western authors who I would say are mediocre at best. They would like you to believe their version of the Truth rather than the truth (which they probably will never be able to attain). While a surfeit of superior evidence and collateral are available at home penned by the authorities in their respective domains, his choice seems rather strange.

The other thing is to conduct this study in Chicago, where this work of translation is being conducted with a purely scientific bent (I am doing it because I am being paid for it and it is after all a job and I will look cool doing all this eastern philosophical stuff). So after a lifetime of peddling diapers and toothpaste for a western corporation, these choices do not seem that strange.

The Bibliographic references towards the end are really nice.
  danoomistmatiste | Jan 24, 2016 |
I am a bit disappointed in this book, not on the subject matter or how it is rendered but rather by the methods used by the Author to present his findings.

The first thing I noticed is the undertone of elitism a la Raja Ram Mohan Roy. A feeling that western evidence trumps what is available at home. While talking about the Gita, he prefers to quote western authors who I would say are mediocre at best. They would like you to believe their version of the Truth rather than the truth (which they probably will never be able to attain). While a surfeit of superior evidence and collateral are available at home penned by the authorities in their respective domains, his choice seems rather strange.

The other thing is to conduct this study in Chicago, where this work of translation is being conducted with a purely scientific bent (I am doing it because I am being paid for it and it is after all a job and I will look cool doing all this eastern philosophical stuff). So after a lifetime of peddling diapers and toothpaste for a western corporation, these choices do not seem that strange.

The Bibliographic references towards the end are really nice.
  kkhambadkone | Jan 17, 2016 |
This book looks at the main characters of the Mahabharata, and plumbs the moral depths of an old HIndu society where answers were no clear cut. The struggle as to what to do is at the heart of the Mahabharata, and this book, to which I did not give proper justice, takes on a journey with the main characters of the epic and their struggles. Their are major chapters devoted to Duryodhana, Draupadi, Yudhishthira, Arjuna, Bhishma, Karna, Krishna, and Ashwatthama. The closely-related families of the Pandavas and Kauravas create a war that may not settle anything, but has enthralled listeners and readers for centuries. At some point I would like to have this book as a reference in my library. ( )
  vpfluke | May 2, 2013 |
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