Issue #65- Mahabharat, again? Seriously?
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Tell me honestly - have you ever felt this when Hastākshar arrived in your inbox?
When Gujarat Titans lift the IPL trophy, I would instantly connect it to Dwarka and start speaking about their leader Krishna.
(Hardik Pandya is also dark skinned, by the way)
Why does Deep keep talking about the Ramayan and Mahabharat again and again?
Isn’t there anything else to speak about?
Of course, there is.?
Yet I stay partial to these texts because of two reasons:
One: the love I have for the characters and the learnings from their life journey
Two: My love for a special style of learning that comes from relearning.
Read that again.
Let’s make this simpler through a story.
A massive flood wiped out many towns.
The tremendous loss of life and property.
A bride was killed in the same flood. Her floating body washed ashore a few miles ahead.
A few people gathered around the corpse.
And when they saw the dead bride, everyone reacted in a different way.
A young man was only admiring her body.
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“Such a beautiful woman! It’s a pity she’s dead. Had she been alive, I would have asked her to be mine forever.”
The washerwoman’s eyes were stuck on the bride’s clothes.
“Wow, she must be from a rich household. Such fine clothes. I wish my husband gets me a saree like this sometime.”
A passing trader had a different observation.
“The jewellery she’s wearing is so finely crafted. Must be decades old - it’s impossible to get such artisans today. Had no one else been here, I would have taken it and sold it for a good price.”
The monk meditating on the riverside had a different perspective.
“Poor girl. Seems to have been killed on the day of her marriage. Such is life. We are all powerless against destiny. Let me focus more on what I can control - my saadhna instead of what I can’t.”
How does this connect to Ramayan?
Every time we pick up an anecdote from the epics, we are not the same person. Sometimes we are the bhogi, sometimes the yogi.?
We are looking at the exact same thing, but seeing something different/ new.
While Krishna is the master strategist, he is also a charioteer, king, deserter and murder victim.
As the perspective changes, so do the learnings.?
And till you don’t run out of perspectives, you shouldn’t give up on the epics.
Have a good one!
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