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My Pranams to you Sir (Sarma),

Thanks for reading my post.

I would like to reply to some of your lines.

You will thus find that the Supreme Godhead has some part of Him contaminated and that the contaminated parts are not under his control.: When we say that we are a part of Him, we mean that we are the created by the creator and hence form part of Him. I also believe that it doesn't mean that He doesn't have control over his creations when we say that "His creations are contaminated", it means that "Everything are His creations and as He gives each of us (His Creation) the liberty to think and act on our own which we(the "created") take for granted and move away from Him by forgetting ourselves in material things.

In addition, you say that we have to go on chanting His name in order that we act as per His orders; how this will happen has not been explained by you – looks strange, prima facie. : Yes. As we have already ourselves separated from Him by involving ourselves in worldly things, we have to first start chanting His Nama, which will be the first step to realize Him and then we will be able to obey His orders and THEN we (once again) reach unto Him (The FINAL Step).

But as a somewhat conservative-minded, advaitin tabra, I tend to believe that Gita was included (some scholarly opinion is that the Gita itself, as also very many verses in it, are later interpolations) mainly to project the Krishna character of Mahabharata, which had been that of just a king who was a relative of the Kurus (by which I refer to both Pandavas and Kauravas) and having a partiality for the Pandavas, and trying to help them in many ways and instances, including some which may not be entirely Dharmic, but, nevertheless, “polished” over and justified by stories of Poorva Janma Karmas, curses and so on and so forth.

Without the BG, Krishna of the rest of M. Bh. is a Machiavellian prince of the Yadava clan, and the Vrishni kula or sect. But, once BG got incorporated into the body of M. Bh., Krishna just soared into the heavens, literally!: I am sorry sir, This is your thought, I cant comment on this.

My Best Regards