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Bhagavad Gita, Analects, One Thousand And One Nights
Bhagavad Gita, Analects, One Thousand and One Nights all have a theme that encases the idea of Dharma. Dharma is the ethical duty and purpose of why someone does something. Bhagavad Gita shows this theme through the idea Krishna is called to be this warrior in the war that has put family against family. In the Analects, many are written with the theme of Dharma. For instance, in the Analects that states “He who by revising the old knows the new, is fit to be a teacher”. This person is called to a certain standard because of what they do. One Thousand and One Nights you could say that Shahrazad purpose was to teach the King to love again.
Another theme would be morality. In the story Bhagavad Gita, Krishna questions if it is morally correct

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