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Here's an interesting read: Parallels in Hindu and Stoic Ethical Thought http://www.studiesincomparativereligion.com/public/articles/parallels_in_hindu_and_st

Here's an interesting read: Parallels in Hindu and Stoic Ethical Thought http://www.studiesincomparativereligion.com/public/articles/parallels_in_hindu_and_stoic_ethical_thought.aspx http://www.studiesincomparativereligion.com/public/articles/... > Krishna reminded Arjuna that "Thinking about sense objects will attach you to sense objects. Grow attached and you become addicted. Thwart your addiction, it turns to anger. Be angry and you confuse your mind. Confuse your mind, you forget the lesson of experience. Forget experience, you lose discrimination. Lose discrimination, and you miss life's only purpose".

Jerry64545 9y ago
This is a comparison b/w oranges and pigs. Hinduism is founded by priests to favor Brahmin's and nothing more. Instead of the slavery like in US which is binary(slave or not-slave) in hinduism the caste system is a multiple levels of slavery. Any caste must be a slave to another and if they obey(no choice) they will get another caste as their slaves. Finally at the root node is this Dailt people who are slave to every one in the hierarchy. In contrast Stoic is religion agonistic, in fact Stoicism does not care of religion. Seneca talks about how it does not matter if there is a god exists or not in his reference to free will and determinism in his letters.