MMW 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Sodium Hydride, Oh Hell, Four Noble Truths

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 11
• Professor: Matthew Herbst

Document Summary

Part of the caste system, you are born into it and only marry those in the same jati. Conflict within an extended family for power. Written during the time of the 16 mahajanapadas (great kingdoms) Arjuna the warrior is forced to fight his family with krishna (avatar of. Krishna sent to help arjuna in his time of need. Doing what you think is right without thinking about it. Doing what is right for the sake of doing what is right. Studying to the point where you understand what you need to do (existentially) to. Studying understanding the point of achieving the highest point of. You devote your entire life and all your actions to a divine being and by doing so this being will help you reach enlightenment. 3 most popular gods to devote your life to: brahma, vishnu, shiva. Early texts written in pali, not sanskrit. Pali was the dialect of northern india (a spoken language)