INTRODUCTION:
Amish Tripathi is foremost among the popular fiction writers. He is known for writing the Shiva trilogy, which means that it is a set of three books: The Immortal of Meluha, The Secret of The Nagas and The Oath of The Vayuputras. In these books Amish has delineated lord Shiva’s life very beautifully and effectively. How he was a common man like everybody else, living a rural life, and how destiny had something else in store for him.Shiva trilogy is the story of a legendary man. Shiva is a Tibetan tribal chief who is fierce and hates the frequent fights and wars and has the quality to decide quickly between good and bad, virtuous and evil, right and wrong.
Amish portrays lord Shiva as a human form rather than a deity, who was …show more content…
Good and Evil are the ways of life for every living entity. Our creation and destruction is through Good and Evil through balance and imbalance. This is true rule for plants, stars, and every sentient and non-sentient thing. According to Bhagavad Gita the universe is always trying to maintain the balance of good and evil.We must aid this by ensuring this that good is not enjoyed excesively.Or else the universe will re-balance itself by creating evil to counteract good. That is the purpose of evil; it balances the Good. Always good leads to Evil. Many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy …show more content…
This is found in the different patterns and form. Sometime it is found in form naturally other time it created artificially or designed by tradition and our religious values. Social inequality is not a product of our time, it is deeply connected and rooted in our past. It is a cultural and social phenomenon that has been a part of tradition, dividing people into caste in a hierarchical order based on their descent/birth.
In the ancient times Manusmirti ((dated between 200 BC and 100 AD) contains some laws that codified the caste systems. Manusmirti and other shastras mention four varnas: The Brahmin (teacher scholar and priest) The Kshatriya (king and warriors) The Vaishyas (trade landowners and artisan group) and The Shudras (agriculturalist and service provider).
Caste systems is a designed system to control people. It is a tool which causes people to suffer oppression. The downtrodden/oppressed blame themselves for their misery, because they believe that they are paying for sin committed either in their previous lives or those committed by their ancestors or even community.The systems therefore propagates suffering as a form of atonement and at the same time does not allow one to question the wrong done unto
Amish Tripathi is foremost among the popular fiction writers. He is known for writing the Shiva trilogy, which means that it is a set of three books: The Immortal of Meluha, The Secret of The Nagas and The Oath of The Vayuputras. In these books Amish has delineated lord Shiva’s life very beautifully and effectively. How he was a common man like everybody else, living a rural life, and how destiny had something else in store for him.Shiva trilogy is the story of a legendary man. Shiva is a Tibetan tribal chief who is fierce and hates the frequent fights and wars and has the quality to decide quickly between good and bad, virtuous and evil, right and wrong.
Amish portrays lord Shiva as a human form rather than a deity, who was …show more content…
Good and Evil are the ways of life for every living entity. Our creation and destruction is through Good and Evil through balance and imbalance. This is true rule for plants, stars, and every sentient and non-sentient thing. According to Bhagavad Gita the universe is always trying to maintain the balance of good and evil.We must aid this by ensuring this that good is not enjoyed excesively.Or else the universe will re-balance itself by creating evil to counteract good. That is the purpose of evil; it balances the Good. Always good leads to Evil. Many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy …show more content…
This is found in the different patterns and form. Sometime it is found in form naturally other time it created artificially or designed by tradition and our religious values. Social inequality is not a product of our time, it is deeply connected and rooted in our past. It is a cultural and social phenomenon that has been a part of tradition, dividing people into caste in a hierarchical order based on their descent/birth.
In the ancient times Manusmirti ((dated between 200 BC and 100 AD) contains some laws that codified the caste systems. Manusmirti and other shastras mention four varnas: The Brahmin (teacher scholar and priest) The Kshatriya (king and warriors) The Vaishyas (trade landowners and artisan group) and The Shudras (agriculturalist and service provider).
Caste systems is a designed system to control people. It is a tool which causes people to suffer oppression. The downtrodden/oppressed blame themselves for their misery, because they believe that they are paying for sin committed either in their previous lives or those committed by their ancestors or even community.The systems therefore propagates suffering as a form of atonement and at the same time does not allow one to question the wrong done unto