Vishnu

Germany invaded Poland in 1941 in attempt to regain land lost in WWI. When Britain and France questioned this act, Germany claimed it was an act of defense. Japan took Germany’s side since they had a previous alliance in 1940 and believed they had a good chance of winning the war. In 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, a navy base on Hawaii. This led to the United States joining WWII and declaring war on Japan and Germany. After about 4 years later, Germany was forced to surrender while Japan…

In a 1992 symposium on sex work and women’s roles in society called Prostitution: From Academia to Activism, Andrea Dworkin delivered a powerful speech entitled Prostitution and Male Supremacy wherein she defined prostitution as being “the use of a woman’s body for sex by a man, he pays money, he does what he wants” (Dworkin 1992). In fact, although its formal definition refers to any person working in sex for money, the word prostitute is still directly linked to women and girls unless stated…

The Hindu religion have a caste system that they are placed into based on birth. The individual’s placement in the caste system is life long and permanent because they believe their ranking is based off of the sins and deeds of their previous lives. Their belief is that they are “Following the assumed natural law that an individual soul is born into its appropriate environment, Hindus assume an individual belongs to a caste by birth” (Gannon 402). Hindus feel good when abiding by the rules of…

India is the births place of two of the world’s major religions: Hinduism and Buddhism. Around the year 500, Brahmanism dominated India, which was the continuation of Vedism, the culture bought to India by Aryans around 1500BC, The Aryans’ ideas of Brahmanism merged with the ideas of the native people in the Indus Valley, developing Hinduism. Around 500BC, Buddhism was established by Siddarttha Gautama. Both Brahmanical Hinduism and Buddhism in India are inseparable from its society, culture and…

mentions how the king was created for discharging the vital function of peace maintenance of the state. Gods decided to create a king in the form of a man by taking specific qualities from different deities such as strength from Indra, victory from Vishnu, sacrifice from Vaisravana etc. Kautilya in his Arthaśāstra talks about how the king was supposed to save his people by following dandniti, which was inflicting punishment on wrong doers and to also furnish his opportunities to live a moral…

most people were silent.” This man, known as the stalwart powerhouse behind the Manhattan Project, now stumbles over his words. He wipes his eyes dry, trying to keep his voice level. “I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, ‘Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds [1].’” These words would be recorded in 1955, a decade after the United…

Indian culture has ancient roots that have developed and strengthened over time. Concepts surrounding gender have been established and accepted by Indian societies and continue to be practised today. This socio-autobiography will analyse how sociological concepts of gender and societal forces have shaped my life in a largely negative way. Being brought up in a heavily traditional family, I have witnessed and experienced various elements of gender discrimination throughout my life. Despite…

There are many ethical issues throughout the human race which are approached differently by each religion. With the ethical issue of abortion and euthanasia, Hinduism, Theravada Buddhism, and Christianity all have different and similar views about this huge debate in society today. Hinduism, being the root of many religions, is the world’s oldest major religion till this day. With most ancient religions, outsiders were the ones who appointed a name for a discovered group of beliefs. The name…

sufferings begins. However, there are many stories and beliefs about the creation in Hindu scriptures. They believe universe undergoes endless cycles of creation, maintenance and destruction. They believe Brahma is the creator and source for all creation, Vishnu is responsible for preserving all good things in the earth, and Shiva is destroyer- when things are harmful needed to be destroyed. In Hinduism people pay for his own actions. What is a human being? According to Christian view humans…

Islam and Hinduism Before we start with the description of Islam and Hinduism we need to understand what its religion, or at least try to comprehend the meaning of religion. The definition of religion is very difficult, many have try but they focus on only the few aspects of religion, some will exclude beliefs, practices and those religions that will not fit well. As Kile Jones once he wrote trying to define religion “It is apparent that religion can be seen as a theological, philosophical,…