The story starts at the beginning of a great war between the kings of Southwest Asia. A moral dilemma becomes evident when Arjuna sees that friends and family are pitted against each other on opposite sides of battle. Upon this sight, Arjuna lo

Men must balance the choices and actions that they make in order for their souls to ascend to a higher plain. Without ascension, there is a belief that the soul must be reincarnated in order to achieve that balance that was not achieved in a previous life. ” He who knows my birth as God and who knows my sacrifice, when he leaves his mortal body, goes no more from death to death, for he in truth comes to me( The Bhagavad Gita, 62).” The philosophy of this statement shows how Hindu religion is similar to that of the belief of Jesus in Christianity. Krishna expresses that detraction from this path of balance results in bad Karma, which affect a person’s next existence (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). This explains why it is important for Arjuna to follow his path through battle. He would not only be affecting his path, but the path of all those around him.

ses the will to seek victory of a kingdom at the cost of the lives that will be sacrificed. Here Arjuna speaks on behalf of mankind that question the role that people must play in life. This is called dharma in the Vedic culture, the divine order and sacred law of the cosmos reflected in the notion of human duty to fulfill one’s obligations according to caste (Goucher’s In The Balance: Themes in Global History, 148 ). Arjuna is a soldier and a leader, yet he is a man with compassion. He feels that he has no place to decide the destiny of others, especially those that he cares about, by slaying them in battle. This problem is placed in the hands of the Supreme God Krishna, which happens to be accompanying Arjuna on the field of battle as a charioteer. Krishna, an incarnation of the solar deity Vishnu (Goucher’s In The Balance: Them

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