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Both the Greeks and Indian civilizations had there own ways to deal with the topic; violence. While one saw violence as a part of life if it was in your caste, your destiny (India), the other saw it as a form of greatness (Greece). To the Greeks violence is a way to help others.

In the Indian Civilization from what we can see, what’s written in the Bhagavad Gita, violence is seen as a way of life. Violence is not for everyone, but only for the warrior caste. And if you were in the warrior caste violence was your life, your job, which you had to do with out any regrets. As said in the intro to the Bhagavad Gita, “While recognizing the ultimate goal of human life to be escape from endless rebirth through the achievements of Nirvana, it nevertheless maintains that one should participate actively in the affairs of this world, fulfilling the duties of one’s station in life…………. Without yearnin

g for the results to which such actions will lead.” Meaning you have a job in life and that’s to reach freedom and escape from “endless rebirth” and the only way to do that is to complete your duties and that all depend on what caste your in. If you happen to be in the warrior caste you job/duty is to kill and it doesn’t matter if you win or loose it’s the thought tha!

Later in the history of Greece Athens fell to a very powerful army of Sparta, another power of Greece. Due to political and economical disagreements Greece fell. Thucydides then was quoted saying “History to have a moral value, believing that events like wars, not being chance things but the results of causes, would recur in the future if similar conditions arose.” Meaning wars won’t end due to the inner problems of Greece and he was right as Sparta and Athens went to war that ended Greece.

In the Bhagavad Gita, one of the main characters of the tale is Prince Arjuna, who is in the warrior caste. The tale begins as Arjuna goes out and surveys the scene of a war hes supposed to be involved in and sees that he is about to engage in war against his friends. When he sees this he decides to call for help from Krishna who appears as one of the central character in the tale (a God). Arjuna asks him why he must fight against his own blood, his friends, and Krishna answers him telling him “Thou grieves no grievest where no grief should be! Thou speak’st words lacking wisdom! For the wise in heart mourn not for those that live, nor those that die. Nor I, nor thou, nor any one of these,

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