A CRTICAL APPRAISAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS FOLLOWED BY UNIVERSAL ETHICS IN UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND BHAGAVAD GITA

This paper explores Universal Ethics followed by Universal Declaration of Human rights and Bhagavad Gita. The Bhagavad-Gita and UN declaration of Human Rights (1948) are the two pillars on which the research is based on. The Bhagavad-Gita (a part of Indian epic, the Mahabharata) is a well-known Indian spiritual and philosophical text and its teachings are universal, non-sectarian. It inspires universal ethics to follow for the survival of humanity. In this article, the researcher employs hermeneutics, a qualitative methodology which is the interpretation of ancient or classical literature, the Bhagavad-Gita as well .This paper is a qualitative research which involves study, understanding and interpretation of ancient or classical text. The existing findings are interpreted as well as compared by analysing the verse of Bhagavad Gita and Universal Declaration of Human Rights. At the end, it is concluded that timeless teaching of Bhagavad Gita has followed Universal ethics.