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Indeed one might go further, and ask, “When was that mightiest word spoken that may be regarded as giving the impulse to the human ego, so that it may take its place in the evolution of man?” That significant word was uttered at the moment Krishna spoke to Ar-juna; when he poured into Arjuna’s ears the most powerful, incisive, burning words to quicken the consciousness of self in man. In the whole range of the world’s life there is nothing to be found that kindled the self of man more mightily than the living force of Krishna’s words to Arjuna. Of course, we must not take those words in the way words are so often taken in Western countries where the noblest words are given merely an abstract, philosophic interpretation. In any such we would certainly miss the essence of the *Bhagavad Gita*. In this way Western scholars today have so outrageously misused and tortured the *Bhagavad Gita*. They have even gone so far as to dispute whether it is more representative of the Sankhya philosophy or of some other school of thought. In fact, a distinguished scholar, in his edition of this poem, has actually printed certain lines in small type because in his view they ought to be expunged altogether, having crept in by mistake. He thinks nothing is really a part of the *Gita* except what accords with the Sankhya, or at the most with the Yoga philosophy.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":349,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/146/1913-06-02/p004","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1913-06-02","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-02/p003","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-02/p003"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-02/p004","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-02/p004"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-02/p005","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-02/p005"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-02/p006","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-02/p006"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-02/p007","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-02/p007"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-02/p008","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-02/p008"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 146/1913-06-02/p005","GA 146/1913-06-02/p006","GA 146/1913-06-02/p007"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":1083,"en_words":722,"ratio":0.67,"partial":true},"correspondence":"partial","note":"PARTIAL CORRESPONDENCE. 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In this respect the spirit of our age, just beginning, is as yet imperfectly understood.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":126,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/146/1913-06-02/p005","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1913-06-02","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-02/p003","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-02/p003"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-02/p004","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-02/p004"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-02/p005","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-02/p005"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-02/p006","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-02/p006"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-02/p007","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-02/p007"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-02/p008","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-02/p008"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 146/1913-06-02/p007","GA 146/1913-06-02/p008"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":1083,"en_words":722,"ratio":0.67,"partial":true},"correspondence":"partial","note":"PARTIAL CORRESPONDENCE. 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Es herrscht innerhalb der abendländischen Kultur die Sehnsucht, alles dasjenige, was an die menschliche Seele herandringt wie die Bhagavad Gita, aufzufassen im Sinne einer Lehre, einer Art Philosophie. Man geht gern an solche Schöpfungen des Menschengeistes vor allen Dingen vom ideellen, vielleicht sogar vom begriffsmäßigen Standpunkte heran.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":95,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-02/p003"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-02/p004","passage_number":4,"text":"Es wird damit etwas berührt, was in unserer heutigen Zeit überhaupt schwierig macht, die großen historischen Impulse in der Entwickelungsgeschichte der Menschheit richtig zu beurteilen. Wie oft wird zum Beispiel heute darauf hingewiesen, daß man in den Evangelien als die Lehren des Christus etwa dies oder jenes finde, und dann wird gezeigt, daß diese Tiefen der Lehren des Christus Jesus sich auch schon früher finden da oder dort. Dann wird gesagt: Seht ihr, das ist doch dasselbe! — Es ist nicht einmal unrichtig, daß es dasselbe ist, denn man kann in unzähligen Fällen nachweisen, daß die Lehren der Evangelien sich in früheren menschlichen Geisteswerken finden; und man kann nicht sagen, daß, wenn jemand die Behauptung aufstellt, es finde sich diese oder jene Lehre da oder dort, er irgend etwas Unrichtiges behaupte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":131,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-02/p004"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-02/p005","passage_number":5,"text":"Und dennoch: Obwohl das, was so gesagt wird, nicht unrichtig ist, ist es gegenüber einer wirklich eindringenden Betrachtung der menschlichen Evolution ein Unsinn. Und es wird sich das menschliche Geistesleben erst daran gewöhnen müssen, zu erkennen, daß etwas ganz richtig und doch ein Unsinn sein kann. Erst wenn man diesen Satz nicht mehr als einen Widerspruch ansehen wird, wird man gewisse Dinge unbefangen beurteilen können. Man wird es unbefangen beurteilen können, wenn jemand sagt, er sehe in der Bhagavad Gita in einer gewissen Beziehung eine der allergrößten Schöpfungen des menschlichen Geistes innerhalb der Erdenevolution, er sehe in der Bhagavad Gita in einer gewissen Beziehung eine Schöpfung des Menschengeistes, die später überhaupt nicht mehr überholt worden ist. Und wenn dieses jemand sagt und daneben sagt, trotzdem stelle dasjenige, was mit der christlichen Verkündigung, mit der Verkündigung des Christus-Impulses in die Welt getreten ist, etwas durchaus anderes dar, etwas, was von der Bhagavad Gita, wenn man ihre Schönheit, ihre Größe noch ins hundertfältige erhöht denken könnte, nicht erreicht werden könnte, so ist das kein Widerspruch. Wenn jemand auf der einen Seite das eine sagt und auf der anderen Seite dieses letztere, so kann das vom heutigen abstrakten Denken als Widerspruch empfunden werden, und dennoch ist es keineswegs ein Widerspruch.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":207,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-02/p005"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-02/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Ja, man kann noch weiter gehen. Man kann einmal fragen: Wann ist das Größte ausgesprochen worden, was gelten kann als Impuls für das menschliche Selbst, für das menschliche Ich, um dieses menschliche Ich innerhalb der Menschheitsevolution in die Welt hineinzustellen? Was ist das Bedeutsamste an Kraft? Wann ist das Gewaltigste geschehen für dieses menschliche Ich? — Das ist damals geschehen, als Krishna zu Arjuna gesprochen hat, als die gewaltigsten, bedeutsamsten, einschneidendsten und feurigsten Worte an das Ohr Arjunas drangen, um das menschliche Ich, das Selbstbewußtsein zu beleben. Im ganzen Umfange der Welt kann nichts gefunden werden, was kraftvoller für das menschliche Ich an Anfeuerung war als dasjenige, was an lebendigster Kraft in den Worten des Krishna an Arjuna zu finden ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":121,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-02/p006"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-02/p007","passage_number":7,"text":"Allerdings müssen diese Worte nicht so genommen werden, wie man sie oftmals im Abendlande nimmt, wo man den größten und schönsten Worten eine Art bloßer abstrakter philosophischer Bedeutung gibt. Mit solcher Bedeutung trifft man das Wesentlichste der Bhagavad Gita überhaupt nicht. Daher haben abendländische Gelehrte diese Bhagavad Gita so furchtbar mißhandelt, malträtiert gerade in unserer Zeit. Hat man doch sogar einen Streit inszenieren können, ob in der Bhagavad Gita mehr die Sankhyaphilosophie oder irgendeine andere Ideenrichtung zur Geltung komme! Ja, es hat sich sogar ein sehr bedeutender Gelehrter gefunden, der in seiner Ausgabe der Bhagavad Gita gewisse Verse klein gedruckt hat, weil er der Ansicht ist, daß man diese geradezu herauskorrigieren müßte, da sie durch ein Versehen hineingekommen sein müßten. Er glaubt, daß nur das in die Bhagavad Gita gehöre, was entspricht der Sankhya- oder höchstens der Yogaphilosophie. Man darf aber sagen, daß von der Art, wie man heute von Philosophie spricht, überhaupt keine Philosophie in der Bhagavad Gita zu suchen ist. Man könnte höchstens sagen: Es haben sich im alten Indien aus gewissen Grundstimmungen der menschlichen Seele heraus philosophische Richtungen herausgebildet. Aber diese haben wahrlich mit der Bhagavad Gita jedenfalls nicht das zu tun, daß man sie als eine Interpretation, als einen Kommentar der Bhagavad Gita ansehen darf.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":209,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-02/p007"},{"locus":"GA 146/1913-06-02/p008","passage_number":8,"text":"Man tut dem morgenländischen Geistesleben überhaupt unrecht, wenn man es zusammenbringt mit demjenigen, was das Abendland als Philosophie kennt. Denn in diesem Sinne, wie das Abendland die Philosophie hat, gab es im Morgenlande eine Philosophie gar nicht. In dieser Beziehung wird der Geist der Zeit, der jetzt eigentlich erst im Anfang steht — wir haben gestern schon von einem Verhältnis gesprochen, das sozusagen die Menschenseelen noch zu lernen haben -, der Geist der Zeit wird noch mißverstanden. Vor allen Dingen müssen wir festhalten können an jener Anschauung, die wenigstens aus dem gestrigen Vortrage zu gewinnen möglich war, welche uns gezeigt hat, wie die menschliche Seele unter gewissen Voraussetzungen ganz real, der Tatsache nach, gegenübertreten kann jener Wesenheit, die wir gestern von einer Seite aus zu charakterisieren versuchten als den Krishna. Weit wichtiger ist es, daß man weiß: Unter gewissen Voraussetzungen tritt die Arjunaseele demjenigen Geiste gegenüber, der vorbereitet hat das Zeitalter des Selbstbewußtseins. Es steht die Arjunaseele diesem Geiste gegenüber, der mit dieser gewaltigen Schöpferkraft in der Welt wirkt. — Das ist viel wichtiger als aller Streit, ob Sankhya- oder Vedenphilosophie in der Bhagavad Gita zu finden ist. Daß lebendige Wesenheiten sich uns gegenüberstellen, die reale Schilderung der Weltenverhältnisse und des Zeitkolorits, das ist dasjenige, worauf es ankommt. Und diese zu charakterisieren, haben wir versucht, indem wir auf der einen Seite uns zu zeigen bemühten, welchem Zeitalter ein solches Denken und Fühlen, wie es Arjuna besitzt, angehören kann; auf der anderen Seite, indem wir zu verstehen versuchten das Zeitalter des Selbstbewußtseins selber; und fernerhin auch indem wir zeigen konnten, welcher schöpferische vorbereitende Geist der Arjunaseele hat erscheinen können. Nun handelt es sich vor allen Dingen darum, daß wenn wir also in lebendiger Weise Wesen dem Wesen gegenüberstellen, wir mehr brauchen als eine bloß einseitige Charakteristik. Wir brauchen zunächst eine gewisse Allseitigkeit, damit wir diese Wesenheit noch genauer kennenlernen können. Diese Allseitigkeit wird sich uns durch die folgenden Betrachtungen bieten können.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":320,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/146/1913-06-02/p008"}],"beads":[{"from":[3,4,5],"to":[3,4,5,6,7,8],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}