Arjuna

Arjuna was in the middle of a battle when he came to the realization that the people he would potentially kill are members of his family. This thought made his heart heavy with grief and he no longer wanted to continue the battle. Krishna, the divine god, explains to Arjuna that it’s only the physical body that actually dies, the soul lives on. “Death is certain for the born; for the dead…

Religion is defined as the collection of beliefs revolving around a superhuman power, usually centered around a particular god or gods. Both the Greek and Hindu were polytheistic and had a plethora of gods. The Hindu have over 330 million gods while the Greek had 12 major gods and hundreds of lesser gods. Unlike the Greeks, the Hindu religion contains various religious texts dictating the rules and rituals that a person had to live by. Despite their many differences, early Greek religion is…

The Bhagavad Gita is the dialogues between prince Arjuna and lord Krishna (charioteer of Arjuna). In this dialogue, Arjuna is the warrior and he is in a battle with against his brothers. It involves the two branches of the royal family which would associate killing many of his relatives and friends. Due to that reason, he wants to withdraw from the battel but Krishna teaches Arjuna that, he must do his duty in consonance with his class and explains that death does…

In Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics, he searched for the answers to questions about life such as: “How should we live?” and “What would be a good human life?” He postulated the highest good in life to be happiness, otherwise known as Eudaimonia. Eudaimonia can be defined as a rational activity coalescing with arête (a virtue of character). Aristotle concluded that a good human life must be worked at, and would consist of someone achieving Eudaimonia coupled with the practice of temperance and…

Within this section of the Hindu verses, we discover that yogis are reassured a freedom of their bodies and they become united with the God they had worshiped while practicing the Vedas. “I shall now declare unto thee, O Best of the Bharatas (Arjuna), the path, traversing which at the time of death, yogis attain freedom; and also the path wherein there is rebirth. Fire, light, daytime, the bright half of the lunar month, the six months of the northern course of the sun—pursuing this path at…

The Bhagavad-Gita and The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno provide a broad perspective of human nature as a whole due to the origins of these works being from Eastern and Western civilizations which together encapsulates the ideals of the greater part of the human race. While they have some differing morals and beliefs of the spiritual world, both writings’ conception of suffering seems to have a similar ideological base. The texts understand suffering as a cyclical, repetitive and sometimes…

When Enkidu’s and Karna’s forthcoming death drew near, they felt and accepted it because they understood the implications of their lives. Karna understood his aspiration to be a strong warrior was the reason why he was cursed in the first place. If he had not sought to advance his archery skills, he would not have obtained the two curses that would eventually kill him. Additionally, his desire for greatness earned him kingship, which changed not only his social status, but also diminished his…

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jñana yoga (yoga through the path of knowledge) and bhakti yoga (yoga through the path of devotion) and practicing the right dharma are examples of ways to attain moksha. In the Bhagavad Gita, a discourse by the Lord Krishna to Arjuna during the Mahabharata, Krishna tells Arjuna that ‘whosoever takes refuge in me, whether they be born in sin or are women or traders or even labourers, they also reach the highest goal’ (Heehs 2002, 149). This is an example of attaining moksha through bhakti yoga.…

war appear to be unethical on the part of Pandavas, like a.) using Shikhandi as a shield by Arjuna to kill Bhishma, b.) killing of Guru Drona by falsehood deployed by Yudhisthira in telling Guru Drona that his son Ashwatthama has been slain, thereby filling his heart with sorrow and forcing him to drop his weapons, whereas actually an elephant sharing similar title was slain, c.) killing of Karna by Arjuna when he was unarmed and trying to free his chariot wheel from the mud in which it was…