The concept of soul in the Mahabharata system
Subject Areas : Islamic theology
Hamidreza Barati Pour
1
,
Ghorban Elmi
2
,
Abdolhossein Latifi
3
,
Jamshid Jalal Sheikhjani
4
1 -
2 - University of Tehran
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4 -
Keywords: Mahabharata, soul, self-knowledge, nature of soul, proof of the existence of soul, immortality of soul. ,
Abstract :
In the historical study of the philosophical ideas of the land of India, we come across common themes that have caused much intellectual debate among the thinkers of that land. These debates have been in such a way that each of the sages and thinkers of that land have dealt with it according to their views and have expressed their opinions and reasons for that position. One of these challenging topics is the issue of soul or its fate. It is after separation from the body that has long been considered by them. All the historical traditions of India have accepted the basic hypothesis that there is a moving and vital aspect of man that distinguishes life from death and shows it in the form of a worm cycle in most schools, as in the schools of" Samkhaya" and" Vedanta", where, one is "the duality of denial of thought" (Porsche and Percret), and the other is "the unity of existence" (Atman and Brahman). This is also reflected in the Mahabharata system. In this article, we try to examine the concept of soul first in general in the religious literature of Hinduism and then specifically in the book of Mahabharata and answer the following questions: "What is the meaning and nature of the soul in Mahabharata?", and, "what is it's end?" For this purpose, we will analyze the concept of the soul in this book in an analytical way.
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