Is The Premeditated Killing of any Human Being Ethical and/or Morally Justifiable??

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Originally Posted by dhundhun

I am not scholar of Bhagwat Geeta or Mahabharat. But I think, Lord Krishna is being misquoted - "He gave permission".

Krishna gave lectures to Arjuna. Some of his teachings are:

• The soul is neither born, nor does it die. The body is made of fire, water, air, earth and ether, and will disappear into these elements. But the soul is permanent - so who are you?
• Whatever you took, you took from God. Whatever you gave, you gave to him. You came empty handed, you will leave empty handed.
• What is yours today, belonged to someone else yesterday, and will belong to someone else the day after tomorrow. You are mistakenly enjoying the thought that this is yours. It is this false happiness that is the cause of your sorrows.

Krishna's teaching took Arjuna out of his mental/psychological problems. He did motivate "do your duty, irrespective of whosoever is against you". But he did not give permissions.

I have read his teaching (Bhagwat Geeta) 100s or 1000s times, can't count numbers. I have read Mahabharata 10s of times. It is hard to remember everything. Whatever in memories, Lord Krishna is being mis-quoted. My readings are original Sanskrit as well as its Hindi translations. If someone read that in English translation, translator might have done erroneous translation.

Thank you for your clarification dhundhun, particularly since you have read the Mahabharata 10s of times and the Bhagwat Geeta 100s or 1000s of time in the original Sanskrit as well as Hindi translations. Meaning is all too frequently considerably altered via translation