Extremism and tolerance in the different interpretations of the Bhagavad-Gita

The article is devoted to the analysis of different interpretations of the Bhagavad-Gita, the variety of which in the last decades forms some controversy in public and even scientific space. Under the interpretation the article refers to the description and explanation produced by different social groups. Assessment arising out of misunderstanding or narrowness of individual surveys, has the influence on the processes of society, affecting the underlying structure of the person. What is present in the mass consciousness? Who interprets, how and depending on what circumstances? What is contained in the Bhagavad-Gita and in the minds of this work followers (attitudes, values, etc.)? These questions are considered in the article and, in general, the proposed methodology explains how to deal with the phenomenon, process or situation if they formed a variety of conflicting interpretations. The article considers the values that are contained in the verses and in the comments to him. In general, they can be reduced to the ethical and moral values which present in any religious work, secular ethics. On the other hand there is a strong set for universalism. This means the recognition of the common absolute beginning for all, what the author of a commentary to the Bhagavad-Gita as it is» says in the introduction. Truth, norms and principles of behavior recounted in this work, are considered as universal for people of different nationalities and traditions. This setting allows us to talk about the «theoretical» tolerance inherent in the book. But in court of Tomsk this work was accused of the opposite. In connection with this, it was also necessary to consider religious movement, the representatives of which follow the dogmatic content of the work. As is known, the structure of motivation, consisting of several elements, determines the behavior of the individual. Aims present in the minds of the followers of the Bhagavad-Gita were analyzed. Also the article describes the specifics of modern religiosity, which to some extent allows or does not allow making explicit judgments about the motivation of the movements representatives: secular orientation, the fragmentation of the practices and dogmas, orientation on the life harmonization, multilevel churching, the substitution of the motives of the exercise of religious practices, etc. The cases of the extremism in any work followed by certain groups of Russians cause some tensions, the effects of which are negative both for the teachings followers, as well as for ordinary citizens of the Russian Federation. Without referring to scientific research and the long-proven facts, the public prosecutor's office brings an action, involving the tension in the society, in the environment of their citizens. Such situations may lead to religious conflicts, which, as is known, destroy the informal norms, since religion as their producer, loses its confidence, and another source of maintenance of public order weakens.

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