Tartarus/Question

Valeska wrote:View source

I just read the section about Tartarus and saw that blood sacrifice is listed as something that would warrant this punishment (rightfully so). What about situations such as being drafted into a war? Obviously murder is wrong too but are nuances taken into consideration?

Intention matters. It boils down to that, and there is a lot of nuance in being drafted to a war. For example, no guarantee of experiencing combat. And, some individuals need to undergo military experience to grow and evolve as human beings. More about intentions: It is easy to look from an earthly perspective at the situations of our lives and our reactions to these events by us. But Gods do not judge based on a superficial level. When they judge, they take everything into consideration, and that means everything you can think of and more. So when a man kills another, as the trajectory has already been set, it must happen. It comes down to the cosmic dance unfolding.

Valeska wrote:View source

For example, a man kills another man that murdered his child

That is justice. Unfortunately, in the modern world, justice has been perverted to great lengths.

"For example, a man kills another man that murdered his child" - juridically banned in most countries but not moraly wrong

"being drafted into a war" -killing soldiers in war. Legal and also not moraly wrong. It is only moraly wrong when it helps bad ideas and persons to hold powet. For example fighting for islamism, communism etc.

Murder as unlawful killing is wrong. In generel killing is not always wrong. Fighting in war, death penalty, self defense...

Valeska wrote:View source

I just read the section about Tartarus and saw that blood sacrifice is listed as something that would warrant this punishment (rightfully so). What about situations such as being drafted into a war? Obviously murder is wrong too but are nuances taken into consideration? For example, a man kills another man that murdered his child

HAIL ZEUS

For the questions about war, I would refer you to the Bhagavad Gita, where Sri Krishna(incarnation of Vishnu/Zeus) meets with Arjuna on the battlefield and counsels him on the nature of life and death. Arjuna struggles with the duty of killing his enemies in war, even though they're evil.

For the question about killing someone who murders an innocent child, this is simply justice, the fact of which is self evident. Capital crimes deserve capital punishments. I'm not sure why that is a question.

Thank you all for your responses/perspectives. I find it interesting to see how others interpret the meaning behind morals/etc and this further clarifies.
HAIL ZEUS

Epiphany wrote:View source

For the questions about war, I would refer you to the Bhagavad Gita, where Sri Krishna(incarnation of Vishnu/Zeus) meets with Arjuna on the battlefield and counsels him on the nature of life and death. Arjuna struggles with the duty of killing his enemies in war, even though they're evil.

For the question about killing someone who murders an innocent child, this is simply justice, the fact of which is self evident. Capital crimes deserve capital punishments. I'm not sure why that is a question.

Thank you for the recommendation! This seems like good further reading and I found pdfs online.

Valeska wrote:View source

Thank you for the recommendation! This seems like good further reading and I found pdfs online.

It's probably my favorite philosophical text, and it's the most accessible and digestible spiritual/philosophical work I've seen so far.

As always though, you have to use your own judgement, intuition and reason while reading, because translations are rarely 100% faithful to the original work and new age programming can influence your perception.

I have the edition by eknath easwaran as well as an audiobook. I skip all the author's commentary because it references abrahamic nonsense and it's redundant, I didn't buy the gita to hear someone else's opinion of it. But the gita itself is at least pleasant to read.

Epiphany wrote:View source

For the questions about war, I would refer you to the Bhagavad Gita, where Sri Krishna(incarnation of Vishnu/Zeus) meets with Arjuna on the battlefield and counsels him on the nature of life and death. Arjuna struggles with the duty of killing his enemies in war, even though they're evil.

For the question about killing someone who murders an innocent child, this is simply justice, the fact of which is self evident. Capital crimes deserve capital punishments. I'm not sure why that is a question.

I highly doubt Krishna being Zeus,
Or even a canonical vedic god,but the message still stands