By Arvind Sharma
ISBN-10: 0313381615
ISBN-13: 9780313381614
ISBN-10: 0313381623
ISBN-13: 9780313381621
Written through a number one Hindu student, Hindu Narratives on Human Rights is geared up round particular rights, equivalent to the best to possess estate, the rights of youngsters, women's rights, and animal rights. inside those different types and in gentle of the questions they elevate, the publication offers a guided journey of Hindu narratives on ethics, starting from the recognized spiritual epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, to numerous varieties of secular literature drawn from nearly one thousand years of Indic civilization. the conclusion that Hindu moral discourse is narrative instead of propositional is a comparatively contemporary one. therefore, the existing tendency within the West has been to miss it within the context of the dialogue of human rights. This e-book was once written to right that oversight. It indicates that the presence of the common within the specific in Hindu tales is a key to realizing Hindu puzzling over human rights—and it exhibits ways that Hindu moral discourse can engage creatively with glossy human rights discourse.
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He is the very soul of everything and therefore exists everywhere: In the beings high and low, beginning with immovable objects and ending with Brahmą, in all material manifestations and in the radical elements, in the essential qualities both whether they are in equilibrium or not, there is this one supreme soul, imperishable God, who controls all. He is present in the form of one·s innermost self and himself present in visible forms. He can be described as both that which is pervaded and that which pervades; he is also indescribable because there is nothing else.
14–41 Chapter 5 Hinduism and the Right to Livelihood The right to property was discussed in the previous chapter. It needs to be carefully noted that the right to property means that the state shall not arbitrarily take away one’s property; it does not imply that one has a right to be given property by the state. Crucial to this context is the distinction between negative rights and positive rights. Some scholars have felt this negative definition of rights to be rather narrow. Bhikhu Parekh writes, for instance, Each came to be defined in narrow and restricted terms.
38 Hindu Narratives on Human Rights Then HiraډyakaŒipu attacked the man-lion and struck him swiftly with a club in anger. But Viډڥu seized him as he attacked with his club, as Garuُa might a huge serpent. The demon slipped out of his hand, playing just like a snake of Garuُa. The gods who had lost their homes, and the rulers of heavenly planets from the clouds, O Yudhiگڥhira, did not think well of this. The great demon thought that the man-lion had lost his confidence because he had eluded his grasp.
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