Comparing Bhagavad Gita And St. Teresa

In many different religious texts, there are many similarities and difference; if you closely examine each of the texts. The same is true of both the Bhagavad Gita and The Raptures of St. Teresa. While examining these two texts, it is obvious that the experiences that were described were both religious and instructional. In the case of Teresa, she goes on and on about the vision that God grants her and how they have helped to shape her life. “These refer to all visions [of life].” The simple and direct language that she uses helps the reader to quickly identify themselves with her and ascertain that she only does the bidding that God so wills her to. In the Bhargava Gita, Krishna revels in more complicated poetry and relies on his own learnings …show more content…
Teresa. Most notable of these differences would be the fact that one was much more learning oriented and one was more towards the religious experience model. I think that the experiences in the Gita were a lot more oriented around discipline and the values that accompany that than it really was a religious text. Krishna describes what it means to have discipline and how to attain it as every person really can. In the Rapture of St. Teresa, the religious part of the ordeal is much more personal. “For two and a half things went on like this and it was quite usual for God to grant me this favor.” For her, this was life and the freedom of mind. These visions represented the true grandeur of God, not necessarily a life lesson that was to be ingrained into everyone. This favor is something that God would only grant to a select few and those people were truly, as represented by St. Teresa, saintly people that would dedicate their lives to God and His desires. The fact that one is based around learning and one is based around divine involvement sets these two selections far apart from each