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A CRTICAL APPRAISAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS FOLLOWED BY UNIVERSAL ETHICS IN UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND BHAGAVAD GITA Bharati Chand, Ph. D. Asst. Prof. RIE (NCERT), Bhubaneswar.
This paper explores Universal Ethics followed by Universal Declaration of Human rights and Bhagavad Gita. The Bhagavad-Gita and UN declaration of Human Rights (1948) are the two pillars on which the research is based on. The Bhagavad-Gita (a part of Indian epic, the Mahabharata) is a well-known Indian spiritual and philosophical text and its teachings are universal, non-sectarian. It inspires universal ethics to follow for the survival of humanity. In this article, the researcher employs hermeneutics, a qualitative methodology which is the interpretation of ancient or classical literature, the Bhagavad-Gita as well .This paper is a qualitative research which involves study, understanding and interpretation of ancient or classical text. The existing findings are interpreted as well as compared by analysing the verse of Bhagavad Gita and Universal Declaration of Human Rights. At the end, it is concluded that timeless teaching of Bhagavad Gita has followed Universal ethics. Keywords: Universal Ethics, United Nations universal Declaration of Human Rights, Bhagavad Gita. Scholarly Research Journal's is licensed Based on a work at www.srjis.com
Introduction The Bhagavad-Gita is a dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna in the battlefield, the battle of Mahabharata. The battle signifies both internal and external battles. The internal battle is going inside Arjuna‟s head if it is correct to fight with his own relatives for the kingdom he does not even want, and the other is the real battle of Mahabarata. In this process Krishna reveals that it is Arjuna‟s Dharma to fight, he needs to fight in order to restore his karma. Furthermore, Krishna also explains to Arjuna, there is no death of the soul, as the soul is part of the Supreme Being; we only shed body at the end of each round of cycle of birth and death. The importance of cycle is to get an opportunity to accumulate enough Dharma through one‟s conduct to obtain moksha at the end. After moksha there is no cycle of birth and death, one attains enlightenment and this is the end of the worldly cycle of life and death. The Bhagavad-Gita ends with Krishna asking Arjuna to choose either the path
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