11-24-2021, 09:16 PM
(11-23-2021, 12:20 PM)flofrog Wrote: It’s funny but, long before I found the LOO, I had found that there were in Conversations with God similar things with the Gita. One was the mention how a small soul was ready to play the ‘bad’ guy so the other little soul could perform being the ‘good’ guy. Of course it was shedding some light in a very rough basic way but still. Still speaking well towards interconnectedness.
I had the same thought but it was triggered after I read the entire trilogy of The Lord Of The Rings novel.
Back then the movies were not made yet.
Thanks to Sauron and his fear spreading menace, Frodo learned, recognized and discovered courage.
And since everything there was basically the work of one man, JRR Tolkien.
Through Sauron, Orcs, Saruman and other villain characters, Tolkien is exploring things which he is not.
I somehow 'sense' that Tolkien is identifying himself more as a mixture between Gandalf and Bilbo.
And since Gita is mentioned, Gita is also the work of one man, Vyasa
A small part of a bigger epic story titled Maha Bharata, The Big Bharata, where Bharata is the man that is the common ancestor of both the protagonist and the antagonist. Nobody knows for sure whether Krishna or Arjuna really exist historically, most probably both are characters invented by the author, Vyasa. Similar to Sauron and Frodo in The Lord Of The Rings.