Monday, April 3, 2017

Week 12 Reading Notes: Pattanaik's Seven Secrets of Vishnu

Kurma- "Wealth eludes the insecure"


Source of Videos:  Pattanaik's Seven Secrets of Vishnu Link to Videos

Mining, hunting, fishing, harvesting- generate wealth but they are violent
It could be interesting to write something about using the world's resources for monetary gain and harming the earth.  It would be an easy moral or underlying message to add to any type of story. 

Spiritual morality- unaware of immortality
This could be interesting to incorporate in a story.  It could be about someone who does not believe in any sort of afterlife and their intense fear of dying as a result. 

The importance of food, especially milk and butter. 
It could be cool to do some research about why milk and butter are so important and write a story that revolves around food items.  It would add in a little bit of my own interests from the pre nutrition part of my degree. 

Vishnu and Lakshmi's relationship is interesting because she is powerful without him yet she chooses to rub his legs and sit at his feet.  He is important but so is she and they are always found together.  Alakshmi is the opposite and she goes with Lakshmi but she rises from the milk as a poison.  I really like these three characters for a story because they have interesting relationships. 

Desirable vs undesirable in nature. 





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