MYSTICISM AND POLITICS IN MAHABHARATA’S PHILOSOPHY

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What does Mysticism have to do with politics? Can we talk about mystic politician or political mystic? In this article to answer this question, Mahabharata’s philosophy as an important work in ancient India has been readout. For this purpose, at first, politics and its aspects have been defined and then we have studied Indian mystics view about politics and its aspects. Our study represented that the mystics view in the fields like social life, friendship and enmity, common good and force, as the fundamental data, assumption, aim and political instruments are different from that of politicians. So Mahabharata has opposed with the fusion of mysticism and politics in one person. But there is another process of thought in Mahabharata that is followed by the Indian warriors seeking to spiritualize politics.

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