Freedom in the Hindu Culture
Over the past three years in America we have been bombarded with the word freedom as a call to action or a word to persuade us to follow a specific view. Although our society was born on freedom as an idea, its meaning has been used in many ways. Hinduism is also a religion and a culture that places a lot of meaning on freedom but they give a different meaning to it. From learning about Hindu culture in this class their focus on it follows suit as does our version. While our “freedom” is an idea that can be used in many different ways the Hindu “Freedom” is a more pure idea as it seems the rest of the culture is. In the Eastern culture freedom comes along with a level or state that you have reached in your life.
To understand the meaning of freedom you also have to understand its relation to words like Samsara, Avidya, Maya and Moksha. These are all part of the journey towards the Hindu concept of freedom. Samsara is important in defining freedom in Hindu terms because it is what you want freedom from. Samsara is the continuous cycle of life that takes place in the material world. It is thought of as a negative because it keeps us from moving on and up spiritually.
Maya is a concept in Hinduism that relates to man disillusioning himself. The idea is that there is no such thing as an individual existence. When a person is trying to better their standing or wealth they are disillusioning themselves. In the Eastern culture you do not work harder to better yourself you work harder to better the world as a whole through your actions in life. This brings you closer to unity with the “Divine.”
Avidya is similar to Maya. It is when the man is disillusioning himself that Avidya describes. When he denies his true “Self “ and moves farther away from knowledge he is not taking care of his soul. Avidya is a product of the soul as well as a part of the soul. A person can always move away from this and make his soul healthy again by seeking truth and trying to reach the higher levels of spirituality.
In the final stage of life we see Moksha come into play. After freeing yourself from material ties in the third stage of life you move on to the fourth and last.
God has given us as human beings free will. Although if we make choices based on our own free will we must be willing to take the responsibility for the effects that our decisions have on ourselves, on the people around us, and on society itself. Freedom, I believe, is the way in which people live or behave without others annoying or interfering in his or her affairs. People should benefit from freedom, equality and justice. Absolute freedom is sometimes very dangerous and may destroy the basic principles of the society. A lot of people believe that freedom means doing whatever you want, whenever you want.
By 1920 state regulation of medicine gave it enormous power with hospitals at the top of regional hierarchies. The profession was the first body to be consulted by government in matters of health. The model of health used by a society and individual cultures has important implications. The allocation of government money to fund healthcare is just one of them. Resources are allocated for the diagnosis and treatment of specific conditions and diseases. Social acceptance of a condition being referred to as an illness provides rewards including medical treatment, social acceptance of a sick role and financial benefits. Also the medical vi...
According to Dictionary.com freedom means “the state of being uncontrolled by another, or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint.” Freedom. What does freedom mean to you? Even though freedom means the state of being uncontrolled by another, or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint, I believe that freedom means being able to accomplish what you desire and when you desire it without anyone saying anything, by reason of the comparison and contrast of our society and the society in the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, the negation of the word freedom, and synonyms of the word freedom. I believe that you should accept the consequences of the actions you take when you have your “freedom” as well.
According to the Collins Dictionary, “freedom” is defined as “the state of being allowed to do what you want to do”(“freedom”). The definition of freedom is simple, but make yourself free is not easy. Concerning about some common cases which will take away your freedom, such as a time-cost high education attainment. In this essay, I shall persuade that everyone should try his or her best to insist on pursuing freedom. For the individual, it appears that only if you have your personal freedom, can you have a dream; for a country, it seems that only if the country is free, can the country develop; for mankind, it looks like that only if people has their own pursuit of freedom, can their thoughts evolve.
Chase, Diane Z. and Arlen F. Chase. Changes in Maya Religious Worldview. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2009. Print.
... and specifically doctors as agents of the state, promotes individual responsibility of illness (Navarro, 1979) that is evocative of the predominant ideology of the state and political system that is geared to a capitalist economy and individualistic world view. Secondly health as a produced commodity to counteract the unwanted social results of a capitalist society on it's workforce therefore disguising an inherently social problem as a medical one that a Marxist may describe as a social wage (Gough...) and the state's reliance on the healthcare system allied with it's need for the accumulation of capital and individual human beings, many of whom commodities owned and economically enslaved by the owners of the means of production, together with all private companies associated with the healthcare system and all departments of state governance which support it.
In the world that we live in today, many people would find it difficult to imagine living in a world where medicine and treatment are not readily available. The replacement of religious explanations to medical and scientific explanations has become a means of social control. If a person is in pain, they can easily set up an appointment with a doctor and receive some sort of medical diagnosis. However, there are certain instances where a problem has not been medicalized, or recognized as a medical problem, and their issue will be dismissed completely. The movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest delves into the idea of medicalization and how it can be used for the good, or for the bad, in terms of the “sick role.” Medicalization in the “deviant” world can help people define whether their behavior is an illness; however, it can also cause great amounts of trouble by keeping the person under “control” with treatments, or through labeling the person within a society as “deviant.”
Medicalization is something that has become overly common all over the world. It seems as if almost everything, from aging to deviant behaviors, is medicalized. Human beings have a tendency to want things their way, so they strive to get what they desire. Little do people know “each instance of medicalization represents an advance in medicine’s control over the human body” (Ferrante Ch. 6). This may not seem like a serious problem, but as medicalization increases so does the chances of danger towards people’s lives.
There are many ways to define Freedom. To many people, freedom means more than just ‘free to do whatever I want’. Taken literally, that approach to Freedom would produce anarchy and every man, woman, and child would be for him/herself. Now Freedom certainly means that one can have full power to act, speak, or think anyway they would desire to without hindrance or restraint, however this is only true until you abuse your freedoms or infringe upon others free-will or rights.
Tryouts are an athlete’s least desired activity, including my own. They make me fearful which ultimately developed through self-doubt. Doubt that I am not experienced enough, fast enough, or skilled enough. Yet, at the time of soccer tryouts, on Tuesday, July 28th, 2015, I felt none of these emotions. With my team’s prior success, we promoted to a higher level, overall boosting the morale of my team. As captain, players of my team unanimously voted that I would receive one of the 18 spots on the 2015-2016 team. Tryouts, the one critical factor, stood between that team and me. Transformation and triumph then came into my soccer career, but only after a period of failure.
For several people, it was a typical Thursday. People were thinking about how close it was to the weekend and what they were going to do. For about twenty-one girls, with high hopes of making the varsity cheer team, it was the day of tryouts. Fellow classmates could tell they were stressed out because they looked like a mess, especially the soon to be seniors. All six seniors that were trying out were stressed, hoping to make Varsity their senior year. For example, people were as stressed as can be as if they did not study for a psychology test. Our hair was a mess. We couldn’t
In 2001, the American Anorexia and Bulimia Association found that of those who develop eating disorders, about 150,000 die of anorexia. It has the highest death rate for any psychiatric disorder (White 219). Eating disorders are complex conditions that can arise from a variety of potential causes. People with anorexia nervosa have a real fear of weight gain and a distorted view of their body size and shape. As a result, teens with anorexia restrict their food intake by dieting, fasting, or excessive exercise. Others with anorexia may start binge eating and purging — eating a lot of food and then trying to get rid of the calories by forcing themselves to vomit, using laxatives, or exercising excessively, or some combination of these, which also leads to bulimia. People with anorexia nervosa have true fears in gaining weight and what body size or shape category they fit in. As a result, these individuals with anorexia nervosa limit how much food they eat in different way such as; dieting, fasting, or exuberant exercise. This disorder can also lead to binge eating and purging, which means eating copious amounts of food at one sitting and then self-inducing their bodies to regurgitate the food. This leads to problems with bulimia. Accordingly, anorexia nervosa develops from the multi-faceted problems in lack of education of; interpersonal, psychological, and social factors. The education of these factors will increase awareness, which in turn will decrease the development of anorexia nervosa.
I have chosen to compare the postmodern perspective on health and the biomedical model. The biomedical model view of the body is mechanistic. This point was argued by Engels, who said that the body was a machine and the breakdown of this machine was disease. he also beleived that the the doctor was the only one who could fix the machine. this point leads to many biomedical views. Firstly, it shows the way that doctors view the body as a set of individual parts, diagnose and treat them as such. This non-holistic view of the body is often criticised because it fails to cnsider the person as a whole and entire building. Secondly it shows the importance of the doctor in the biomedical model. Doctors have and maintain power in the biomedical model. They have all of the information and knowledge and therefore all the power. This can mean that the patient gives total control of their body to the doctor.This power ratio is explored by postmodernists who are interested in how one perspctive gains so much power and influence. Foucault (1963) said that the choice of words and phrases can effect the way people think. So doctors who have more influence and respect can gain power over their patients bodies'. This use of language to affect thinking is called discourse to postmodernists.
Self-starvation, vomiting, and extreme laxative use are common tools that individuals with anorexia nervosa use to lose weight (“Anorexia Nervosa”). Self-starvation tactics include disposing of food secretly to avoid eating, over using diet pills so cravings are numbed, and lying about being full in order to not indulge in meals (which I learned from my personal experience at New Dimensions Day Hospital). The most common symptom of anorexia nervosa is drastic weight loss, due to the malnutrition. Other symptoms also include dizziness, fainting, absence of menstruation in females, and osteoporosis which causes the bones to become brittle due to lack of calcium (“Physical and Emotional Symptoms of Anorexia”). There is no pin-pointed cause of the disorder, but chemical imbalances in the brain, low self-esteem, obsessive compulsive disorders, and abuse are all triggers for anorexia nervosa (“Causes of Anorexia Nervosa: Factors That Contribute to & Cause Anorexia”). People with this issue are in severe
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