Una justificación de la no-­‐‑violencia a través de un texto bélico: Gandhi lee el Bhagavad Gita

Abstract

Gandhi’s   Bhagavad   Gita   interpretation   will   be   presented

against   the   background   of   traditional   explanations,   which

consider  the  Bhagavad  Gita   as  a  religious  justification  of  war.

Gandhi,  instead,  finds  in  its  reading  the  kernel  of  ahimsa,  as

a  basic  moral  principle  and  as  a  factor  for   freedom  (moksha).

Thus,  ahimsa   is  the  only  dharma.  In  order  to  argue  for  the  last

affirmation,  Gandhi  has  to  turn  upside  down  the  traditional

sense   of   the   Gita   and   the   meaning   of   dharma   related   to   the

performance   of   the   particular   duties   of   every   hindu   in

accordance  with  his  caste.