Wars are mostly unnecessary but necessary in exceptions. Wars can lead to destruction, change, provoke communities and control. I myself a believer of Hinduism. As my culture and religion has taught me that wars is only acceptable when, there is some person who retaliates the human rights and morality of the humans. It is rarely acceptable to just start a war for random minor issues between two different communities. First, always try to solve the problem by vocal means. I have read my religion’s holy book, which is like the bible and it known as Bhagavad Gita. It tells us the story about a very big war between two kings, in there the best archer does not pick up the weapons because he was fighting his own brothers. His brothers were ruling badly and killing innocent people. The god tell the best archer to pick up the weapon and tells him that this are the times when it's a necessity to pick the weapons and start the war. Well that
Bothe this belief system leads to tell us that war can sometimes leads to complete destruction but also, something good and beautiful. The Buddhism states the same thing but without the violence. All three worldviews tells me only one thing nonviolence is greater than the violence. Wars can lead to ruining the world and might not leave anyone behind. In the history I have learned that there was a time when two major powers of the world almost were head to head for killing each other. Imagine if that history was true I, we would not be able to look back at all and would not be even born. That tragic time was defeated by the power of nonviolence and peace. So, My thinking is that even in the future if we have to deal with the war we should answer the attacker with the power of the nonviolence that god has given
History is full of people fighting against one another and going to war for all types of different reasons. For the most part countries go to war to either protect their way of life, or for a better way of living. We want to preserve certain aspects of life like our rights, as well as helping others gain or maintain them, we also want to be able to prosper as a country. When one or some of these things are threatened a country will go to war. Some wars that fallow this trend include the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War. Besides protecting or bettering life, war can also make or break a countries economy.
Considered by most as the authority and seminal scripture relaying together all schools of Hindu philosophy, the Bhagavad Gita, is simply one big epic poem (by Western standards), where Sri Krishna reveals himself to Arjuna, a warrior on the eve of a great war with his own family to restore the throne to its rightful heir. This epic serves as metaphor for The Path the spiritual aspirant must take to attain illumination and become one with Krishna. (http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-bhagavad-gita/). Even though this epic was written in first century B. C. E., as a matter of fact, threads of the teachings of Krishna to Prince Arjuna in The Bhagavad-Gītā have been interwoven throughout 1960’s and 1970’s popular culture. These threads helped influence a generation of artists whose works we revere to this day. These threads were essentially:
P. 1: "I teach kings the history of their ancestors, so that the lives of the ancients might serve them as an example, for the world is old, but the future springs from the past."
Arjuna gives up now, he will be full of shame, and a man who has given up
"Driven by desire they strive after heaven and contrive to win powers and delights."Bhagavad-Gita, line . A quote from a famous piece of literary history is still present in our world today. The Bhagavad-Gita is a staple of culture that everyone can follow. I personally see that this line applies to parts of my childhood, I see it in our pop culture regularly used by our idols, in our news stream almost daily, a picture can be shown to represent the theme that my quote presents. I see the Bhagavad-Gita in just my world and the world that influences me.
War has always been, and will always be, a necessary action perpetrated by man. There are many reasons for war: rage, passion, greed, defense, and religion, to name a few. When differences cannot be resolved or compromised through mediation with an opposing party, war is the last remaining option. Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun wrote in fourteenth-century Spain, that “War is a universal and inevitable aspect of life, ordained by God to the same extent as the sky and the earth, the heat and the cold. The question of whether to fright is not a significant moral question because fighting is constant; the minor decision not to fight this war will be made only in the context of knowing that another war will present itself soon enough because it is simply always there.”
The Bhagavad-Gita teaches many things, and amongst these, morality and moral law are developed for the Hindu religion. What Krishna, the primary Hindu god, declares in this somewhat epic poem to be the "basis of good in this world" (stanza 3, pg. 620 of text) is for people to take action. Action, as he goes on to state, is within the very nature of our beings to do. Krishna even states that "without action you even fail to sustain your own body" (stanza 8, pg. 620 of text). Thus, Krishna feels that action is very important and key. To take this concept as a relation to ethics, Krishna tells Arjuna, the warrior he is talking to in this poem, that "Action imprisons the world unless it is done as sacrifice; freed from attachment, Arjuna, perform action as sacrifice!" (stanza 9, pg. 620 of text). Thus, Krishna is prescribing that, in order for an action to be considered good, the good that he already declared to be the basis of all good in the world, one must detach himself from the action being performed and perform the action sacrificially. The detachment aspect is incredibly important to Krishna, for he proclaims that in "performing action with detachment, one achieves supreme good" (stanza 19, pg 620 of text). By doing this, Krishna believes that the world is preserved, for other people will follow the warrior's actions and imitate them in their own lives. A leader, such as a warrior or king, "sets the standard for the world to follow" (stanza 21, pg. 621 of text), as Krishna says and thus must take whatever action is necessary for the world to not be destroyed, to set examples of goodness and right in his own actions. By separating himself from these actions, thus becoming detached, he can achieve this. Another main reason that Krishna feels detachment is necessary is this: "You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty." (Bhagavad-Gita 2.47). Thus, so long as one does not profit from his own actions, the action itself is good. And, this is Krishna's prescription for leading a life of morality and duty is the moral law to follow in order to achieve this.
The Bhagavad Gita is perhaps the most famous, and definitely the most widely-read, ethical text of ancient India. As an episode in India's great epic, the Mahabharata, The Bhagavad Gita now ranks as one of the three principal texts that define and capture the essence of Hinduism; the other two being the Upanishads and the Brahma Sutras. Though this work contains much theology, its kernel is ethical and its teaching is set in the context of an ethical problem. The teaching of The Bhagavad Gita is summed up in the maxim "your business is with the deed and not with the result." When Arjuna, the third son of king Pandu (dynasty name: Pandavas) is about to begin a war that became inevitable once his one hundred cousins belonging to the Kaurava dynasty refused to return even a few villages to the five Pandava brothers after their return from enforced exile, he looks at his cousins, uncles and friends standing on the other side of the battlefield and wonders whether he is morally prepared and justified in killing his blood relations even though it was he, along with his brother Bhima, who had courageously prepared for this war. Arjuna is certain that he would be victorious in this war since he has Lord Krishna (one of the ten incarnations of Vishnu) on his side. He is able to visualize the scene at the end of the battle; the dead bodies of his cousins lying on the battlefield, motionless and incapable of vengeance. It is then that he looses his nerve to fight.
There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of
There is a notion that wars are caused just by these three things: Money, Sex and Power, which I believe is true to the faith. As sex is more sensitive topic which requires another point of view, we’ll discuss more about money and power. Spiritually speaking, money and power is just a state of mind. A pacific and eloquent mind doesn’t even bother about having those. It possesses the feeling of being rich and powerful. This mind of high spiritual stability is just after one thing, knowledge. And there is a proverb supporting their persuasion, ‘knowledge is power’. Knowledge is the real power one should be after and money and power just follows.
What is war? Is it as simple as one entity against another, or is it something more? Can it be defined as simply killing, or can warfare exist without bloodshed? Reading stories and journals on previous warfare shows that there’s always more than one side. There are infinitely many viewpoints when it comes to this topic, including its overdrawn controversy among people. There are people that believe war is a necessity for this world to function, you have people that are strictly against war, and some are even indifferent about the subject. But who’s right and who’s wrong? Is it all a matter of opinion or is their proof of one side over the other? First, you need to go to the basics.
War has been around for centuries. From the time modern civilizations began, war has played an integral part in human history. It shaped the world into the modern world we live in. War has been said to be a great motivator, for example, the Great Wall of China was built to fend off the attackers from the north. However, the negative aspects of war far outweighs any positive effects it might have. The destruction of civilizations, cities and countries, mass killings of men, woman and children alike, the disastrous effect it has on economy and the after effects of war can last for centuries.
Although there are many types of conflict, religion definitely plays a large role in the amount of conflict that occurs, as well as the many disputes caused by people's differences in religious beliefs. Religious conflict is present in all parts of our world; it creates conflict in political, military and social areas of our lives and is present in things like the Olympics, battles, wars, terrorism and hunting, things far from the realm of inconceivable to us. Conflict is present in all of history, in all places and has many causes but all of these feed into how we change, grow, explore and learn more about our world for better or worse.
War it is such a vast word in our society today and seems to be everywhere. What is war? How do we define it in a technologically advanced society? Traditionally war involved armies fighting one another in a battle to overtake or annihilate the enemy. The concept is still the same although war is no longer contained to battlefields or between countries. These days we have civil wars within countries; economic war, race wars, religious wars, political wars and even class wars. Furthermore, the invention of nuclear weapons greatly increases tension and instability on a global level. Despite the current state of the world, most people would indicate the desire for world peace although, we have been unable to stop wars or obtain global peace. With the vast majority in favor of global peace, it should be easy to achieve although the turbulence in the world today demonstrates the opposite. Most scholars would agree that war regardless of the kind; is ultimately a struggle for power. This positions man in a perpetual state of war maybe that is what Mark Twain thought when he wrote, “Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.” This begs the question is peace possible in this chaotic world full of wars and rumors of wars that threaten the very existence of mankind? By examining the causes of war, the lack of a workable international system and the obstacles that prevent a viable international system to promote peace will show that despite the desire for global peace it is unattainable.
Furthermore, religion can be a tool for either unifying a nation or a group or it can lead to the destruction of nations as well as internal state conflicts. However, the relationship between religion and conflicts is very complex (Barnard 1). Therefore, one must take into consideration many other factors before considering religion as the main cause. Most religions actually teach people that war is wrong and violence must be considered as a last option. Religious writings and books give guidelines on how people should act and when to use violence and when not to. Most people interpret these guidelines in their own different way, and end up abusing these religious scripts which may lead to conflicts (Barnard 1). However in many parts of the world, people from different religions live in harmony and coexist in peace yet in other parts of the...