Friday
Mythology of Hinduism #2
I was so confused at the beginning of the podcast. I could not understand why they were talking about hide and seek and black and white. I thought maybe I was listening to the wrong thing. When it started getting into how it related to hinduism, I understood a little better. They were trying to explain the clear defininition between good and evil. I thought it was interesting that they related it to the game of chess when he said that traditionally white goes first because black represents the devil. I thought the concept of how the Brahma is reborn every 4,320,000 years, called kalpa, was weird. I don't undestand how that works. I mean, how long have people been believing in this religion, and how would they know that he is reborn after such a long time. It is unimaginable to me. I thought it was interesting that there is a stage in his life where he knows exactly who he is because I think that not only in this religion, but all people are striving to find out who they are. I found it interesting that persona was related to the masks that actors used to wear on stage, but now the word has been completely inverted and refers to the person beneath the mask. Are they trying to say that people today wear "masks" instead of showing who they really are, or am I overanalyzing this? It seems like this religion relys mostly on magic and illusion, and they say that everything is an illusion. I liked the story about the man who got thrown down a hole by one of the faces of the gods, and came out on the other side as a princess, but woke up again as himself. I thought it was weird, but I liked it. I thought it was kind of cool, althought I don't believe in it, that they said death is just the phase where you forget everything to be reborn again. I also liked that they said how you live your current life determines what you will be in your next life. For example, if you are good in this life, you will be reborn as a king.
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I was also confused about the kalpa thing. I mean, where did this number come from? Did some philosopher or something just decide it sounded good? If you think about it, a lot of people today do wear a facade. They do not want people to see the real them, so they put on a mask so they see only what they want them to see. A lot of times we really do not know much about a person that we thought we did. It was interesting to find out that the word persona originally meant the opposite of how it is used today. I did not think it made sense that how you live your current life determines who you will be in your next life because I thought you forget when you go to sleep?? From what I understand, Hinduism seems to have a lot of holes in it.
I like the idea of being able to forget everything in life, just wake up and be someone else. I mean obviously that isn't true, and it cannot happen, but don't I wish. I mean to get a second chance at something as valuable as life is just to hard to process.
I thought this was weird and half the time I had no idea what he was talking about. I guess that everything is just so different that I don't get it.
yea I was really confused to when i first listened to the podcast and had a hard time understandin as well. I also see how they used black and white to define good and evil to make their lives simpler. kalpa was weird for me too because i like said the same thing in my blog to about how I dont see how they really even know that he comes back and stuff because people dont live that long to be able to know.
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