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Life and Death: Journal of Eschatology
Published by Institute for Advanced Science, Social, and Sustainable Future
ISSN : -     EISSN : 3025275X     DOI : https://doi.org/10.61511/lad.v1i1.2023
Core Subject : Religion, Humanities, Social,
Religion Humanities Social Sciences
Life and Death: Journal of Eschatology focuses on multidisciplinary studies from religion, philosophy, social, psychology, literature, anthropology and other relevant fields. The research collaborates theories and facts that were attached with life and death. This journal facilitates various critical aspect of common issues in sciences for recognizing impacts and phenomena due to life and death using multi-perspective of ideas.
Arjuna Subject : Seni dan Humaniora - Filsafat
Articles 42 Documents
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Sleep as the threshold of mortality: Death anxiety, insomnia, and the ritual function of yoga Ni Wayan Jemiwi Jero; Masatoshi Torii; Jimmy Susanto; Mi'rajul Akbar; Ni Luh Putu Dian Yunita Sari
Life and Death: Journal of Eschatology Vol. 4 No. 1: (July) 2026
Publisher : Institute for Advanced Science Social, and Sustainable Future

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.61511/lad.v4i1.2026.3878

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Background: Insomnia is conventionally framed as a clinical and epidemiological burden, yet emerging psychological literature suggests sleep disruption is entangled with death anxiety and mortality salience, where nighttime wakefulness is when the mind's habitual defenses against death-awareness weaken, surfacing existential distress that manifests physiologically as hyperarousal. In Indonesia, where religious and cultural conceptions of death, fate, and the afterlife remain central to everyday meaning-making, insomnia among women, older adults, and the chronically ill may reflect not merely biological dysregulation but unresolved existential confrontation with mortality. This study examines health yoga, historically a contemplative practice oriented toward liberation and confrontation with impermanence, as an intervention addressing this existential dimension of sleep disturbance. Methods: An integrative literature review and conceptual analysis synthesized insomnia epidemiology, Terror Management Theory, and yoga-intervention research, including Indonesian data comparing Yin and Vinyasa yoga among female office workers with mild-to-moderate insomnia. Findings: Yoga improved sleep latency, efficiency, and subjective quality, with Yin yoga outperforming Vinyasa. Mechanistically, yoga reduced sympathetic hyperarousal and cortisol while enhancing parasympathetic activation, which are physiological correlates of reduced death-anxiety arousal. Framed eschatologically, yoga functions as a ritualized practice of mortality acceptance, addressing insomnia's existential root rather than only its somatic symptoms. Conclusion: Health yoga offers a culturally resonant, contemplative response to sleep disturbance understood as a site of unmanaged existential distress, warranting integration into Indonesian public health and meaning-making frameworks alike. Novelty/Originality of this article: This article bridges epidemiological, physiological, and eschatological perspectives on insomnia, positioning yoga as both clinical intervention and mortality-coping ritual.
From Arjuna’s crisis to self-resilience: Psychological capital in the Bhagavad Gita and Vedanta Relin Denayu Ekawati; Ni Kadek Surpi; Aditya Ansu
Life and Death: Journal of Eschatology Vol. 4 No. 1: (July) 2026
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.61511/lad.v4i1.2026.3879

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Background: Psychological capital, comprising hope, self-efficacy, optimism, and resilience, provides a useful framework for understanding how individuals remain purposeful during crises. However, its performance-oriented formulation insufficiently addresses the ethical, metaphysical, and spiritual foundations of human strength. This study examines Arjuna’s transformation from psychological and moral crisis to inner resilience in the Bhagavad Gita and reconstructs psychological capital through Vedanta. Methods: A qualitative textual-interpretive design combining directed content analysis and hermeneutic inquiry was employed. Selected passages from Chapters I, II, III, VI, XII, XIV, and XVIII were coded deductively according to the four dimensions of psychological capital and inductively through the Vedantic concepts of ātman, dharma, buddhi, karma-yoga, samatva, abhyāsa, and vairāgya. The interpretations were compared with contemporary literature on psychological capital, resilience, Hindu psychology, and psychotherapy.  Findings: Arjuna’s crisis reflects the simultaneous collapse of hope, self-efficacy, optimism, and resilience through moral disorientation, identity fragmentation, emotional dysregulation, and loss of meaningful agency. Kṛṣṇa’s teachings reconstruct hope as dharma-oriented purpose, self-efficacy as agency governed by buddhi, optimism as confidence in the intrinsic value of right action, and resilience as transformative equanimity grounded in non-attachment. Together, these dimensions form a circular process from value conflict and identity fragmentation to self-clarification, dharmic purpose, disciplined action, inner balance, and transformative resilience. Conclusion: The Bhagavad Gita extends psychological capital beyond adaptation and performance by grounding psychological strength in ethical responsibility, spiritual awareness, and transformation of consciousness. Arjuna’s recovery represents not merely a return to previous functioning but the formation of more integrated, reflective, and morally responsible agency. Novelty/Originality of this article: This study proposes ethical-spiritual psychological capital and transformative resilience by systematically reconstructing all four dimensions through Vedantic categories rather than merely identifying parallels with modern psychotherapy.

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