Essays on Slain

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 of the introductory visions in the Book of Revelation is written in chapters 4 and 5 that the Lord Almighty is the one seated on the heavenly throne. The vital theme of chapters 4 and 5 is the own vivid and personal experience of the prophet. It implies that the statement has the element of truth and it has the substance of apocalyptic declaration that is totally associated with the life of the visionary individuals to the present generation of believers. However, at some point, the visionary process separates from the conscious or subconscious imagery of human thinking. ...

In the New York Times article “A Schizophrenic, a Slain Worker, Troubling Questions,” Deborah Sontag details the factors that led to the murder of a social worker by a schizophrenic patient who had been released from a community care home. As a result, questions have been raised about the quality of care given to the mental health community, and the budget shortfalls that may have led to the murder. The Department of Mental Health has reached the point where some patients were getting released much earlier than was potentially safe; they were not recovered or rehabilitated enough to get the help that they needed, ...