Bhagavad Gita How To Achieve Discipline Analysis

(An Analysis of How we are told to Achieve Discipline)
How we Discipline Discipline is something that all adults know how to do, and also any child with younger siblings as well. However, discipline in today’s society is much different than it was 50 years ago. Now, beating your wife or child with a belt or ruler or stick is not acceptable whereas it was encouraged 50 years ago. Some people think that the man of the house needs to have complete control and say over what goes on in his home and what is happening, and others disagree with that. Others say that the woman is supposed to be in charge of what goes on with her home, and some disagree with that. People say that it needs to be a balance of both men and woman and not too much of one …show more content…
If the man sits too high on his chair, he is not correct, and too low creates the same situation. Verse 11 of chapter 6 from Meditation and Knowledge by The Bhagavad Gita tells others, “In a clean place establishing A steady seat of himself, That is neither too high nor too low, Covered with a cloth, a skin, and kusa-grass.” That verse tells others how to be disciplined and about how to achieve the discipline. By sitting in the chair with those specifications, they will be able to achieve the discipline they desire. Michael P. Nichols said, “After a while most of us learn to do a pretty good imitation of being grownups and shrug off a lot of slights and misunderstandings.” This goes along with the discipline because if you are an adult, you cannot be immature with your children and the people you are …show more content…
If the man is in a chair too high, or too low, he will not achieve the discipline he wants. Also, if he does not completely restrain the motion of his mind, he will not achieve discipline. If his mind still has thoughts and actions it will continue to be non-disciplined. Also, if he does not stay absolutely motionless and look at only one thing alone, then he will not be completely disciplined. Because of all of the specifications on how to achieve the discipline, it would be unlikely to achieve the discipline that is described. As well as adults being disciplined, your children have to be disciplined as well. “To be sure, there is still an appreciable gap between the theory of discipline as taught in colleges of education and discipline as it is actually conceived and practiced in the schools.” (Ausubel). This is a good example of how children are not as disciplined in school as much as they were 50 years