Arjuna's close friendship with Krishna is central to the Mahabharata's structure. Among Arjuna's wives is Subhadra, Krishna's sister, the son of Arjuna and Subhadra is Abhimanyu, who dies in the Kuruksetta war.
Arjuna:
O Highest Lord, I wish I could see you, your form as Lord, Just as you yourself say you are, Supreme Divine Being.
O Lord, if you think it is possible
that I might see you--
Then, Lord of mystic power, show me your changeless self.
Once Arjuna, in an impulse of boldness, said to him:
Let us see Mahadeva in his divine form. May we behold him?
Standing with Arjuna on the field of Kurukshetra, the enquirer learns that killing is right and necessary; that death is no evil; that action binds not, but the desire for the fruit of action.
Buddhism, most fully elaborated by Sankara and Nagarjuna respectively, as being "world-denying" or implacably antithetical to ideas about "Living Nature" as Faivre articulates them.
the sturdy Vikings steered their ships in frozen seas. "Arjuna," who
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fights the noble fight in the "Mahabharata," or "Great War," con- ...
The sixth book of the epic Mahabharata, the Bhagavad Gita, or 'Sacred Song', is a central text of the Hindu scriptures, in which Krishna instructs his disciple Arjuna in the paths of higher knowledge and self-realization.
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"the Lord's Song," a portion of the Mahabharata, the great epic poem of India. It contains a dialogue wherein Krishna -- the "Charioteer" and Arjuna his chela have a discussion upon the highest spiritual philosophy.
Frequently then he reaches the position in which Arjuna found himself, confronted by enemies who are those of his own house-hold, confused as to his duty and discouraged as he seeks to balance himself between the pairs of opposites.
 See also: World, Spirit, Self, Ritual, Spiritual
  
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