Reading Notes: Pattanaik's Calendar Art: Part B (Narayan)
Here is the link for the video I watched on Narayan for extra reading this week.
First, this video talks about the god Narayan, obviously. It talks about reincarnation, and how this makes Hindus much different from Muslims and Christians. It tells of how Narayan is sometimes thought of as time itself.
The next part that really interested me was the part with Markandeya. There was a lot of talk about how things are destroyed in order for new things to be created, and how then entirety of the universe is one massive cycle of creation and destruction. This part kind of segways into the reincarnation again talking about how death is only a small pause rather than a complete halt to any entity. The video later gets back to this and talks about the kind of culture that stems from this kind of belief and how no one has a sense of urgency in their life, because they know that death isn't the end of it.
Bibliography:
Author: Devdutt Pattanaik
Title: Seven Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art
Link
First, this video talks about the god Narayan, obviously. It talks about reincarnation, and how this makes Hindus much different from Muslims and Christians. It tells of how Narayan is sometimes thought of as time itself.
The next part that really interested me was the part with Markandeya. There was a lot of talk about how things are destroyed in order for new things to be created, and how then entirety of the universe is one massive cycle of creation and destruction. This part kind of segways into the reincarnation again talking about how death is only a small pause rather than a complete halt to any entity. The video later gets back to this and talks about the kind of culture that stems from this kind of belief and how no one has a sense of urgency in their life, because they know that death isn't the end of it.
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| Markandeya |
Bibliography:
Author: Devdutt Pattanaik
Title: Seven Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art
Link
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