Life Skills: Lessons from Bhagavad Gita
Keywords:
Indian Knowledge Systems, Indian Traditional Knowledge, Higher Education, Life Skills, Lessons from Gita.Abstract
The Indian Knowledge System comes from the lineage of teachings of Lord Krishna to Arjuna in The Bhagavad Gita, The Guru- Shishya Parampara and other similar ways to impart education.The Higher education system today, is very updated and advanced; striving hard to bridge the gap between itself and the industry expectations. However, even if it is succeeding in this endeavor, it is leaving behind the legacy of imparting life skills along with formal education. There are invaluable lessons in The Bhagavad Gita about Life that need to be paid heed to, understood and imparted along with the formal education. This paper isan attempt to understand as well as highlight the lessons from the Bhagavad Gita and suggest ways they can be incorporated in the higher education system. This paper is written on the basis of secondary sources of data.
