Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Jackie wrote a blog and this is how it went

Krishna's avocation of detached action is motivated by what should be the determining factors of what the action's origin through his views. He reinforces early on that "A man cannot escape the force of action by abstaining from actions" (43). He believes that the detachment of action will allow the performer to complete the duty that they have been designated, and that when people become too convoluted, they lose sight of their initial purpose. AS he expresses, people sometimes think too much of themselves as individuals, and when people believe, "I am the actor" (47) they lose the ability too see the nature of the system in action, therefore disrupting it. This sense of detachment enables the follower of this credo to be free of overhanging responsibility, and allow the individual to view themselves and their actions as a part of the larger collective whole. Without this world view, individuals may not fulfill what they are obligated to do, therefore distorting the grand picture from what it was intended to be.

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