Gita Mehta

I hate riding on the Fireball. At the fair there is this ride, the Fireball, which swings you round and round way up into the air and then back down with your legs flaying around like a person that can’t dance. My feelings of dread ensue as I imagine going, Splat! , into the pavement. This carnival ride feels like it holds the end of my life, but the fair holds and is the rest of my life. At the beginning of the day when I buy my tickets, I realized just how expensive the fair is and how low my

Ever wonder how two things from a distance seem to be similar but once you do more research you realize there are more differences than you thought? Hinduism and Sikhism are two religions with both similarities and differences. Sikhism is a religion worshiping the one God through practices and sacred texts that were given by God whereas Hinduism is a religion worshipping a multitude of God’s and Goddesses while pushing people to become reach their full enlightenment. Both fascinating religions

in the sense of the Ten Commandments. These commandments are rules and laws that Christianity uses to judge right from wrong. Hinduism has a social justice component and moral codes that rely on The Bhagavad Gita, The Caste System, The Stages of Life, and The Goals of Life. The Bhagavad Gita explains how one must not follow their own desires nor their fear or hope for rewards but rather to simply do what just and right. The Caste System refers to different types of people that differ on how they

In today’s times, the two most popular beliefs are either monotheism, believing in a single all-powerful divinity or God which entail Abrahamic religions like Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In much of the world however, in many parts of Asia, polytheism or a belief in multiple divinities or Gods, has been made popular for centuries. Atheists and the people of the western monotheists together talk badly about polytheism and their beliefs as either being ignorant or pagan in their responses. Narrow

Having single pointed focus and no multitasking- In today’s modern hustle and bustle, people are very much preoccupied by their work, are always in hurry, engrossed in busy schedules and easily get agitated so much so that people have ingrained and imbibed a word to describe their efforts to respond to the many pressing demands on our time: Multitasking. Used for decades to describe the parallel processing abilities of computers, multitasking is now shorthand for the human attempt to do simultaneously

Hinduism evaluated to its core, claims to be a peaceful religion and has pacifist teachings. “Hindu Spiritual practices aim to inculcate the idea of non-violence among its practitioners.”(V) Even though there are various beliefs and traditions that identify themselves to be under the guides of Hinduism, the religion itself advocates diversity, they all have have several beliefs and philosophies at their cores. In common with most religions Hinduism condemns the act of war despite have some teachings

INTRODUCTION The 1960s saw the rise of a disproportionately large number of new religious movements (NRMs) in America. Many of these movements were rooted in existing faiths, from Judaism to evangelical Christianity to Buddhism, and were often populated by members of the emergent American counterculture. Concurrently, the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 was being passed into law, which lifted many restrictions on immigration to the United States and prompted a new influx of skilled laborers

Arjuna is faced with an internal dilemma during the Second Discourse of the Bhagavad Gita, and although the God Krishna seeks to help guide him towards an understanding of the meaning of his life, Arjuna is still wary of making the wrong decision. This decision concerns itself with either fighting in a civil war against family relatives, having to kill those Arjuna cares most about, or abandoning his dharma as a warrior and jeopardizing fulfilling his duty the greater Self that plays such a pivotal

The Bhagavad Gita has a few themes that are rigorously repeated throughout the narration. Arjuna is pained with the task of deciding whether or not he should kill his family and friends. He consults in his close friend Krishna to decide what he should do and Krishna delivers many life lessons. Krishna specifically discusses dharma, karma, and how to obtain liberation from samsara. Krishna is a powerful god and confidant to Arjuna during a time of war and chaos. Arjuna, however, does not seem to

without Desire According to the Bhagavad-Gita and the Tao Te Ching, desire is something that prevents humans from obtaining serenity by giving false senses of fulfillment. To give up worldly desires such as lust or taste is something that seems almost impossible for human beings. I would imagine a person would need a very strong incentive to do so. To accomplish this, most people would need a higher power to devote their sacrifice to. In The Bhagavad-Gita, people have an incentive to give up worldly