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.