1. Liquidy of Morality as Displayed in the Mahabharata
... . The only instance where this seems to be challenged is Arjuna's refusal to fight his own kin. Even when he is on the brink of making a moral stand Krsna's teachings direct him to fight, not just in the spirit of revenge, or with an eye towards the gain. None the less, he must fight. Once Arjuna is given this reassurance that ... upon thousands, and the only improvement is that those thousands are not his kin. The attempts of the Pandavas for peace juxtaposed to the war mongering of the Kauruvas is a direct effort of the text to create a moral distinction between the two lineages. The n...
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