Eric Garcetti cites Mahabharata, Rigveda to define US’ foreign policy: ‘Indra, the most powerful God’

ET Online| Upgraded: 21 Feb 2024, 11:28 AM IST

United States Ambassador to India, Eric Garcetti on February 20 resolved the audience at the 2nd CII-India Europe Business and Sustainability Conclave. Throughout his speech, he spoke about Hindu bibles like Rigveda and Mahabharata. He discussed Hindu God Indra, referred to as the God of Thunder. “Our objective is not to wage war. In Rigveda, there is Indra, the most effective God, the God of thunder and in lots of methods the God of war too. We understood the power and you can feel the power of that sort of primal development of the earth that came out of dispute. There are 2 customs in India. One that’s in the Mahabharata of war being something type of amazing, grim, however a sport, an even spiritual task. We understand that well. And when we were not as ideally civilized as we are today, every culture welcomed the need of war as locations were dominated, as individuals suffered, histories that were never ever composed,” he stated.

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