One should not behave towards others in a way that is disagreeable to oneself. This is the essence of morality. All other activities are due to selfish desire.
Mahabharata (Anusasana Parva)
The Essence of Morality
Topic: Virtue, Morality, & Ethics
“One should not behave towards others in a way that is disagreeable to oneself. This is the essence of morality. All other activities are due to selfish desire.”
Hinduism
Mahabharata (Anusasana Parva)
Wilson, Andrew, editor. World Scripture - a Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts. Paragon House, 1991, p. 114 [Mahabharata, Anusasana Parva 113.8].
Resources
Copyright © 2017 – 2024 LuminaryQuotes.com About Us
Mahabharata, Anusasana Parva 113.8
The Golden Rule Chronology
400 BCE Hinduism has positive and negative golden rules: “One who regards all creatures as his own self, and behaves towards them as towards his own self attains happiness. One should never do to another what one regards as hurtful to one’s own self. This, in brief, is the rule of righteousness. In happiness and misery, in the agreeable and the disagreeable, one should judge effects as if they came to one’s own self.” (Mahabharata bk. 13: Anusasana Parva, §113)
–Rev., Dr. Harry Gensler S.J. [The Golden Rule Chronology].