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The Bhagavad Gita is perhaps the most famous, and definitely the most widely-read, ethical text of ancient India. As an episode in India's great epic, the Mahabharata, The Bhagavad Gita now ranks as one of the three principal texts that define and capture the essence of Hinduism; the other two being the Upanishads and the Brahma Sutras. Though this work contains much theology, its kernel is ethical and its teaching is set in the context of an ethical problem. The teaching of The Bhagavad Gita is summed up in the maxim "your business is with the deed and not with the result." When Arjuna, the third son of king Pandu (dynasty name: Pandavas) is about to begin a war that became inevitable once his one hundred cousins belonging to the Kaurava dynasty refused to return even a few villages to the five Pandava brothers after their return from enforced exile, he looks at his cousins, uncles and friends standing on the other side of the battlefield and wonders whether he is morally prepared...

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Title: Baghavad Gita
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1. Baghavad Gita
   

   Baghavad Gita. The Bhagavad Gita is perhaps the most famous, and definitely
   the most widely-read, ethical text of ancient India. ...

2. Robert Oppenhimer
   

   ... As he stood watching the mushroom cloud, he recalled later, a phrase from the Baghavad
   Gita, the Hindu scripture, floated through his mind, "I am become death ...

3. Robert Oppenhimer
   

   ... As he stood watching the mushroom cloud, he recalled later, a phrase from the Baghavad
   Gita, the Hindu scripture, floated through his mind, "I am become death ...