Every man has a different perception of what their state of happiness is. Happiness for one man can be sorrow for another. The stories of Aristotle debate the idea of happiness and how to reach the state of happiness. The Bhagavad-Gita is also a story that tells man how to live and how to reach his state of happiness. The two stories have some of the same ideas on how to live life and how to truly reach a true state of happiness. Happiness is a state that is different for every man.
Aristotle believes that everyone carries out actions in attempt to get some kind of good out of each action. Getting good out of an action, he believes, is what makes one happy. The quote "The statement that the happy man lives well and acts well, too, is in harmony with the definition of happiness" (Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics page 5) demonstrates Aristotle's view. Every man wants to be happy no matter how he reaches his happiness. Happiness is the goal of every man, no matter how he reaches it, every man wants to be in their state of happiness. Therefore, every man should do what makes him happy, no matter what it is. If being a professional baseball player makes him happy, then that is what the man should do. If saving lives is what makes him happy, then that is what he should do. Aristotle's idea is that the man should do what he wants and make his own decisions, good and bad, for the reason that he is trying to make his life better by doing what will make him happy.
The Bhagavad-Gita states that people should carry out and fulfill certain actions because it is their duty and it is the nature of the soul to perform these actions. While performing actions the Gita believes that one should have no particular concern of the outcome, whether it is success or failure. In The Bhagavad-Gita Arjuna is reluctant to fight in battle because if he were to fight he would be going against his own kinsman.
In your very considered opinion what really is the Bhagavad Gita? ... The Gita is krishna's answer. ... The Gita is a classic summary of the core beliefs of Hinduism. ... Others might question whether the Gita justifies war, but in my opinion the dramatic setting of the great battlefield in the Gita is in every individual. ... Any individual who reads the Bhagavad Gita will see its importance. ...
The Bhagavad Gita is a very unique scripture. ... And that handbook, in Hinduism, is the Bhagavad Gita, the Bible or the Koran of the Hindus. ... The only way we can receive the true fruits of reading the Gita is by being ready for a total change of our own life. ... If we do follow Gita as it is meant to follow, we will succeed. ... If studied with detail and faith, Bhagavad Gita puts us back on track of proper and meaningful existence. ...
The Bhagavad Gita as translated by Juan Mascaro is a poem based on ancient Sanskrit literature contained in eighteen chapters. ... The Bhagavad Gita has two main characters, Arjuna and Krishna. ... It is Krishna's job to lead his disciple, Arjuna to the ultimate conclusion of Gita. ... Throw off this ignoble discouragement, and arise like a fire that burns all before it" (Bhagavad Gita, 2). ... As previously stated, The Bhagavad Gita was incredibly discerning and for the most part entertaining at the same time. ...
Why Bhagvad Gita? ... Why Gita and nothing else would do? ... It is not possible for me to sing Gita again however dear you are to me.' ... Gita is like a lamp.If you want to cross a dark forest at night what do you need? ... I could go on giving reasons why Gita and nothing else will do.Gita is not the exclusive preserve of hindus as at no point does Gita mention that it is exclusively meant for hindus.At some point in history hindus must have claimed that Gita is the their holy book.I very much doubt if there were any hindus at the time of Gita.How and when Gita became the holy ...
Book III.1-13: city and citizen: definitions, good man vs. good citizen, classification of constitutions, conceptions of political justice Books III.14- IV: types of constitutions: kingship, aristocracy, democracy, oligarchy, constitutional government, tyranny; the best constitution (a) for most human beings, (b) relative to specified conditions ". . . we will perhaps grasp better what sort of political system is best. . ." ... At any rate, Aristotle had a very large empirical database for his theorizing about politics. 2. ... Thus, to cities of human beings, Aristotle would compare sc...
Aristotle was Plato's student. ... (Palmer, p.59) in the allegory of the cave: Sensible Realm vs. ... To exist to Aristotle was to be which is to be a particular thing. ... All things to Aristotle have a purpose. ... So, for Aristotle, there are no Forms. ...
The Bhagavad Gita is a very unique scripture. ... And that handbook, in Hinduism, is the Bhagavad Gita, the Bible or the Koran of the Hindus. ... The only way we can receive the true fruits of reading the Gita is by being ready for a total change of our own life. ... If we do follow Gita as it is meant to follow, we will succeed. ... If studied with detail and faith, Bhagavad Gita puts us back on track of proper and meaningful existence. ...
The Bhagavad-Gita- Gita is considered by eastern and western scholars alike to be among the greatest spiritual books the world has ever known. ... In terms of pure, spiritual knowledge the Bhagavad-Gita- Gita is incomparable. ... This is because proficiency in the Bhagavad-Gita- Gita reveals the eternal principles which are fundamental and essential for spiritual life from all perspectives and allows one to perfectly understand the esoteric truths hidden within all religious scriptures... The primary purpose of the Bhagavad-Gita- Gita is to illuminate for all of humanity the realization of the...
