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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 D. E.; Ni Kadek Surpi; Aditya Ansu
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.v4i1.2026.3879

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Background: Rapid social change, professional pressure, moral conflict, and existential uncertainty have increased the importance of psychological resources that enable individuals to remain purposeful and resilient during crises. Psychological capital, commonly formulated through hope, self-efficacy, optimism, and resilience, provides a useful framework for examining these resources; however, its dominant orientation toward individual performance and adaptation does not fully address the ethical, metaphysical, and spiritual foundations of human strength. This study aims to analyze Arjuna’s transformation from psychological and moral crisis to inner resilience in the Bhagavad Gita and to reconstruct psychological capital through the perspective of Vedanta. Methods: This study employed a qualitative textual-interpretive design combining directed qualitative content analysis and hermeneutic inquiry. The primary data consisted of selected passages from Chapters I, II, III, VI, XII, XIV, and XVIII of the Bhagavad Gita, particularly those depicting Arjuna’s crisis, Kṛṣṇa’s teachings, and Arjuna’s eventual restoration of clarity and agency. The data were coded deductively according to the four dimensions of psychological capital and inductively through Vedantic concepts, including ātman, dharma, buddhi, karma-yoga, samatva, abhyāsa, and vairāgya. Interpretations were subsequently compared with contemporary literature on psychological capital, resilience, Hindu psychology, and psychotherapy. Findings: Arjuna’s crisis represents a simultaneous collapse of hope, self-efficacy, optimism, and resilience caused by moral disorientation, identity fragmentation, emotional dysregulation, and the loss of a meaningful basis for action. Kṛṣṇa’s teachings reconstruct hope as a dharma-based normative orientation, self-efficacy as ethically disciplined agency directed by buddhi, optimism as non-illusory confidence in the intrinsic value of right action, and resilience as a transformative capacity grounded in samatva and non-attachment to outcomes. These dimensions are integrated in a circular process moving from value conflict and identity fragmentation toward clarification of the self, restoration of dharmic purpose, regulation of the mind, detached action, inner balance, and transformative resilience. Conclusion: The Bhagavad Gita expands psychological capital beyond adaptive performance by grounding psychological strength in ethical responsibility, spiritual awareness, and transformation of consciousness. Arjuna’s recovery demonstrates that resilience is not merely a return to previous functioning but the formation of a more integrated, reflective, and morally responsible mode of action. Novelty/Originality of this article: This study introduces the concepts of ethical-spiritual psychological capital and transformative resilience by systematically reconstructing the four dimensions of psychological capital through Vedantic categories rather than merely identifying parallels between the Bhagavad Gita and modern psychotherapy.

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