Week 2 Reading Diary: Part A Devdutt Pattanaik's Video

For the extra credit reading assignment I decided to watch the part A videos by Devdutt Pattanaik. The important or most intriguing sections of the videos to me were:

Cycles

• The Hinduism belief is a continuous process of dying and rebirth
• Urgency is not of importance
• There is certainty in almost nothing, as the creator of the world is the only one who knows anything as completer truth.

Markandeya

• This subject goes along with the Hinduism "cycle" principle as well
• Things are only apparent when beings choose them to be apparent
• For every creation there is a destruction
• There is no stop to the life and death reoccurences, just continuum

Narayan sleeping and waking

• Again repeated is the perception of things are only alive when we are awake
• The sense of god controls when the world is in action or pause.
• A person is not aware when in deep slumber, because the world is unconscious. Similar to the mind of the one unconscious.

Shesha, Vishnu, Brahma seated on sprout of Lotus, Lakshmi, Cycle of Life

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