What lessons can be learned from King Ashoka (Hinduism) (Bhagavad Gita)
What lessons can be learned from King Ashoka (Hinduism) (Bhagavad Gita)
Dear friends, today let us know something new, something different than what you and me have learnt from our school textbooks.
Today, let us know the real knowledge as per the great Bhagavad Gita, Sri Vishnu Sahasranama and other Shastras (Hindu divine books).
Let us acquire the lessons which was neither teached and / nor instructed in our schools from our teachers about King Ashoka.
Dear friends, first of all let us know the Sanskrit meaning of the name (word) Ashoka.
In Sanskrit, Ashoka = A + Shoka = Never + Unhappy = Never unhappy. Ashoka is such a personality, that he can never be unhappy.
Ashoka can't be in sadness, can't be in miserable situation, he can't be an unlucky person, etc.
In the great Sri Vishnu Sahasranama, Lord Vishnu is called as "Shoka Nashanah" as per the below shloka:
उदीर्णः सर्वतश्चक्षुरनीशः शाश्वतस्थिरः |भूशयो भूषणो भूतिर्विशोकः शोकनाशनः || 67 ||
udīrṇaḥ sarvataścakṣuranīśaḥ śāśvatasthiraḥ |bhūśayō bhūṣaṇō bhūtirviśōkaḥ śōkanāśanaḥ...