KARMA

Arjuna is overwhelmed by tears at a critical moment in the battlefield and looses sight of the path on which he already had come a long way.His dear friend Krishna teaches him to get over with the emotional ramblings that drive him to inaction.Krishna teaches him that as a Kshatriya it is his duty to stay on the path of righteous action.He tells Arjuna that the empathy that makes him weak is not deserved by the Kauravas and so he should not mourn them.He suggests him that Karma is like a win-win situation for him as if he wins he gets the kingdom and if he looses he still dies as a martyr for a cause.He later on explains to Arjuna that it is through an unrelenting march on the path of Karma that a soul becomes worthy of immortality.He then explains the importance of being unattached to once Karma in order to experience the true happiness that the path of Karma holds for its pursuer.He elaborates by saying that once a righteous course of action is chosen one should put all efforts to follow it without caring about the results.The true prize he says is not that which you expect to be in store waiting for you at the end but it is in the exhilaration that accompanies action itself.A person who actually pursues his Karma with noattachment whatsoever becomes capable of taking happiness and sorrow in the same stride,and only such a person is fit for immortality.Such a person only has the chance of being one with god.

The most striking interpretations that I draw from these dialogues reaffirm my very deep rooted beliefs in objectivity.When Krishna teaches to be unattached with the results of one's actions he just wants to imply that happiness is not in eating the fruits but in the path that makes him deserve the fruit.He also hints that there is no such thing as a higher spiritual goal but whatever heaven that exists is here to be found.His reference to immortality of the soul is more in the physical sense than the metaphysical dimension that has been popularly ascribed to it.Its about the immortality of ideals and the legacies that one leaves behind in this world.Objective theory has it that a man in the true sense is one without any guilt and only such a man can take happiness and sorrow in the same stride.The concept of man's oneness with god highlights one of the main ideals of the objective philosophy that sees man nothing short of
god.

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