By Devdutt Pattanaik
ISBN-10: 8184750218
ISBN-13: 9788184750218
Publish 12 months note: First released in 2006
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A interpreting of Hindu mythology Hindus have one God. additionally they have 330 million gods: male gods; girl gods; own gods; relations gods; loved ones gods; village gods; gods of area and time; gods for particular castes and specific professions; gods who stay in bushes; in animals; in minerals; in geometrical styles and in man-made gadgets. Then there are an entire host of demons. yet no satan.
In this groundbreaking booklet Dr Devdutt Pattanaik; one in all India's hottest mythologists; seeks a solution to those obvious paradoxes and unravels an inherited fact approximately existence and dying; nature and tradition; perfection and chance. He retells sacred Hindu tales and decodes Hindu symbols and rituals; utilizing a special variety of statement; illustrations and diagrams. we find why the villainous Kauravas went to heaven and the virtuous Pandavas (all other than Yudhishtira) have been despatched to hell; why Rama regardless of forsaking the blameless Sita continues to be the version king; why the blood-drinking Kali is one other type of the milk-giving Gauri; and why Shiva wrenched off the 5th head of Brahma.
Constructed over generations; Hindu myths function home windows to the soul; and supply an figuring out of the realm round us. the purpose isn't to outgrow delusion; yet to be enriched and empowered through its old; effective and nonetheless correct language.
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The world is not there, but the material of the world is there. From there I start feeling "I Am". With air the movement is there, with fire the Talks ofNisargadatta Maharaj / 47 heat, with water all seeds and everything else, and because of water the taste is there. But you are dispossessed of these elements because of the Satguru. Because of your association with this Satguru, it means illumination for you. I don't feel like talking at all, I want to go into a sort of silence. My present talks, if they are really understood, require no more discipline or sadhana.
Maharaj: You accept only good and discard the evil and continuously recite the name of God--that will help you gradually control the mind. What is acceptable to you and gives you peace is good. What your mind rejects is not good. When you do something and there is fear of failure, that means the mind is not pure. Q: How does one develop a liking for chanting the mantra? M: In the company of the sages you can develop it. M. M. what goes on? Consciousness comes to meet consciousness. There will be no other talk Talks ofNisargadatta Maharaj I 87 86 I Consciousness and the Absolute except some communication between consciousness itself.
Although such a one knows full well that he is not going to get anywhere, still one becomes busy with a number of concepts. That Taj Sesh Bhagavan has spontaneously come and will spontaneously go. What are you going to get for yourself as "I Am"? In what position or concept did you stabilize yourself as "I Am"? The firm conviction that I am this, the three states --waking state, deep sleep and the knowledge "I Am" -- are the aspects of that Tej Sesh Bhagavan. You are not that. Question: Then who am /?
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