Deepavali or Diwali‚ popularly known as the "festival of lights‚" is a five-day Hindu festival[3] which starts on Dhanteras‚ celebrated on the thirteenth lunar day of Krishna paksha (dark fortnight) of the Hindu calendar month Ashwin and ends on Bhaubeej‚ celebrated on second lunar day of Shukla paksha of the Hindu calendar month Kartik. Dhanteras usually falls eighteen days after Dussehra. In the Gregorian calendar‚ Diwali falls between mid-October and mid-November. Diwali is an official holiday
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also relatives. The two main characters of this text are Krishna‚ the incarnate God‚ and Arjuna‚ the greatest archer of his time. Arjuna is a highly ethical and moral man who upholds high values. His relatives‚ who are his opponents in the battlefield‚ are corrupt and pure evil. They have taken away his Kingdom through deceit and Arjuna has no option but to engage in war to regain his kingdom. This text covers the dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna in the battlefield before the start of the battle
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dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna‚ a seeker or a god‚ respectively. The Bhagavad Gita teaches inner limitation and detachment. It also challenges the belief that only monks and abstainers can live a flawless divine life through renunciation. While intertwining the three main paths of work‚ knowledge‚ and devotion‚ Krishna influences Arjuna through a series of persuasive points that allows readers of the Bhagavad Gita to reflect on in their own lives (Voorst 50). Krishna reasons to Arjuna by stating
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material existence. Each and every one of us has adversities in many ways. We try to exist in the material world but the atmosphere of this material world ceases to exist. Our existence is eternal and is not to be threatened by nonexistence. Lord Krishna says that for the soul there is neither birth nor death at any point. It has not come‚ does not come‚ and will not come into being. It is unborn‚ eternal‚ and primeval. The body and the soul are two different entities. The body is subjected to six
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have misunderstood them. However‚ the teacher that I chose as deserving of the “My Favorite Teacher” earned this title due to the care he showed to each of his students through his teaching‚ personality‚ and the all the fun had in his class is Mr. Gopal Sharma. Mr. Sharma is a middle aged person of 33 with a handsome personality. I always saw him in school in a well ironed shirt and pants with a red or a blue tie with white stripes‚ and he loved to be in field in the tracksuit which he had worn
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a scripture of the scriptures. It is a dialogue between Lord Krishna and Arjuna‚ narrated in the Bhishma-Parva of the Mahabharata. It comprises eighteen chapters of a total of 701 Sanskrit verses. On the battle-field of Kurukshetra‚ Lord Krishna talked with Arjuna‚ revealed the profound‚ sublime and soul-stirring spiritual truths and expounded to him the rare secrets of Yoga‚ Vedanta‚ Bhakti and Karma. All the teachings of Lord Krishna were subsequently recorded as the Bhagavad Gita by Sri Bhagavan
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as he learns from Krishna what it means to be‚ and what path he should take. In this society an individual has a duty‚ his dharma which he must follow to keep society and the existence in order. Arjuna is does not want to fight his own relatives‚ and then Krishna becomes his counsel. Krishna tells Arjuna that he has no reason to grieve for his opponents‚ he tells Arjuna: “Just as the embodied self enters childhood‚ youth‚ and old age‚ so does it enter another body” (33). Krishna is a God telling
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Well I would first like to start off by saying that after I let go of my personal beliefs for a moment‚ and actually let myself be open to the ideas of the Bhagavad-Gita I rather enjoyed it and I feel like I actually can see how the “ways of life” (for loss of a better term) that are expressed in this make a lot of sense. I can actually sit and think about what kind of people today would possibly be categorized as Tamasic‚ Rajasic and Sattvic. I also can see some very similar concepts in the book
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has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.” In the Bhagavad Gita‚ we learn the lesson of finding our inner selves (“twin”) first before answering questions of others. According to the God Krishna‚ our desires are what cause our evil deeds‚ and in order for us to be free‚ we must control our desires. This can only be done through practice. Is peace what we all really want for ourselves in the end? First we must think of what peace is.
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Poonam (Amrita Rao) lost her parents‚ when she was very young. She was brought up by her uncle Krishna Kant (Alok Nath) and her aunt Rama (Seema Biswas). However‚ Rama is jealous of her and barely talks to her‚ since Poonam is more beautiful than her own daughter Rajni (Amrita Prakash)‚ who is lively and friendly. Bhagat-ji (Manoj Joshi)‚ a jeweller‚ and a friend of Krishna Kant‚ likes Poonam very much and decides to matchmake her with Prem (Shahid Kapoor)‚ Mr. Harish Chandra’s (Anupam Kher) son
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