{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 146/1913-05-29/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"There is another feeling that Arjuna has absorbed, on which for him the whole well-being of human evolution depends. He feels that the forefathers of the tribe, the ancestors, are worthy of honor. He feels that their souls watch over the succeeding generations. For him it is a sublime service to offer up fires of sacrifice to the Manes, to the holy souls of the ancestors. But now what must he see? Instead of altars with sacrificial fires burning on them for the ancestors, he sees those who should join in kindling such fires assailing one another in battle. If we would understand a human soul we must penetrate into its thoughts. Above all we must enter deeply into its feelings because it is in feeling that the soul is intimately bound up with its very life. Now think of the great contrast between all that Arjuna would naturally feel, and the bloody battle of brother against brother that is actually about to take place. Destiny is hammering at Arjuna's soul, shaking it to its very depths. It is as though he had to gaze down into a terrible abyss. Such an upheaval awakens the forces of the soul and brings it to a vision of occult realities that at other times are hidden as behind a veil. That is what gives such dramatic intensity to the *Bhagavad Gita*. The ensuing discourse is thus placed before us with wonderful power, as developing of necessity out of Arjuna's destiny, instead of being given us merely as an academic, pedantic course of instruction in occultism.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"Soul Upheaval and the Birth of Abstract Thought","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","date":"1913-05-29","location":null,"word_count":263,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/146/1913-05-29/p014","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length+anchor_constrained","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. 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Kämpfend fallen sie sich an.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":102,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-05-29/p009"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-05-29/p010","passage_number":10,"text":"Wenn man verstehen will eine Seele, dann muß man sich in die Gedanken dieser Seele vertiefen, dann muß man noch mehr in die Empfindung dieser Seele sich hineinversetzen. Denn mit den Empfindungen hängt die Seele innig zusammen, innig zusammen mit dem, was ihr Leben ist. Und nun denke man den Kontrast, den unendlichen Kontrast zwischen dem, was Arjunas Empfindung sein sollte, und dem, was rings herum als blutiger Bruderkampf sich ausbreiten sollte. Das heißt, das Schicksal rüttelt an die Seele des Arjuna. Ein Ereignis tiefster Erschütterung findet statt, das für diese Seele so ist, wie wenn sich ihr der Boden unter den Füßen entzöge und sie in den schauerlichsten Abgrund hinunterblicken müßte. Solche Erschütterung ist Kraft der Seele, ruft die ersten Kräfte der Seele wach, solche Erschütterung bringt die Seele zum Schauen desjenigen, was sonst wie durch einen Schleier verborgen ist: der okkulten Wirklichkeit. Das ist gleich das bedeutsame Spannungsmoment in der Bhagavad Gita, daß uns nicht nur in abstrakter Weise, schulmäßig, pedantisch gewissermaßen ein Unterricht im Okkultismus entgegengebracht wird, sondern daß in höchster Weise künstlerisch uns dargestellt wird, wie aus dem Schicksal des Arjuna heraus sich entwickeln muß, was nun entsteht.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":192,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-05-29/p010"}],"english":["GA 146/1913-05-29/p014"],"method":"length+anchor_constrained","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":294,"en_words":263,"ratio":0.89,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 146/1913-05-29/p009","GA 146/1913-05-29/p010"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.97,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5876,"original_word_count":6059,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George and Mary Adams with emendations by Doris M. 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