Krishna played a key role in the lives of warriors in that he made certain decisions that could not be altered. When Arjuna questions about his instructions to slay the enemy, Krishna tells him not to worry about using their arrows to kill the mere body since it did not matter. According to him, only the eternal Atman mattered. Additionally, if one was slain in his life of duty, then that was okay since he died performing what he was supposed to.
Krishna acts of justifying killings were not at all justifiable. In saying that it was good for one to die in his line of duty, Krishna appears to be swapping to an entirely diverse organization of values (Menon 231). Being alive on earth and being dead and in heaven seem to be correspondingly striking, as presented by Krishna, which should not be the case. Krishna forced people to think that dying while fighting was a through pass to heaven. Every human has the right to enjoy his/ her life on earth, without being forced to early death simply because they have to perform their duties.
Krishna speaks all through of the Atman, the internal spirit, the emotion that journeys from one form to the other through infinity, and arrays this contrary to the figure which matures, ages and eventually passes away and it becomes the duty of Atman to transfer into the other body (Menon 513). It could be true that the souls of the dead are transformed into a greater form, but implying that the souls of those that died in war were not slain did more harm than good since it only promoted war and worthless killings.
The beliefs of any religion are deep rooted, and it may be difficult to change a portion of the value and disregard the rest since they form a cohesive belief system. It is crucial however for any religious structure to impose value that respects the value of human life. The life of an individual is a treasure that should be guarded. Krishna did not accord respect to the lives of people by implying that dying in line of duty was okay, and that the lives of those slain did not matter. I therefore disagree on rationale of justfying such irresponsible killings.
Work Cited
Meaning, Ramesh. The Mahabharata: A modern Rendering. New York. iUniverse Inc,
2005. Print
