Sunday, February 28, 2010

Arjuna´s Teaching

This seems to be a very interesting story. Everything starts with two main characters that talk about things that we can relate to now a days, such as family and how we can affect society. It tells what is happening around them, and all the sins or bad things that are destroying society.
First they show how important family is for them, and in a way how things have been forgotten and how we have let those bonds between them fall slowly apart. It tells how things change, and how there start to be fights and violence, that leads to war and makes society change. Not only is this a story, but it’s something that is actually happening and we have to learn from this to stop the chaos from happening, because things will then be hard.
We can also learn about what some of the ones that had soft and caring hearts felt, they felt lost in a way, not really knowing or understanding what was going on and what they could possibly do to help. They care for everyone, they are all family: "there are teachers, fathers, son, and grandfathers, uncles, grandsons, fathers and brothers of wives, and other men of our family."(28)
"Krishna, I see my kinsmen, gathered here, wanting war. My limbs sink, my mouth is parched, my body trembles, the hair bristles on my flesh."(27) They start to lose hope and start to think there in nothing else they can do, "I see omens of chaos... I see no good." (27)
When there is no hope and nothing else to hold those last bonds between the family members, there is violence, wars and corruption, because "when the family is ruined, the timeless laws of family duty perish, and when duty is lost, chaos overwhelms the family" (28).

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