Epics of India MLLL 4993

Image on  Pinterest Vishnu’s eyelids are becoming heavy, and he realizes that he is growing tired again after billions of years without sleeping. The water levels on the innumerable worlds throughout the universes are steadily rising. Vishnu knows that in a few million years, those waters will grow into raging storms, and all life will be eliminated from the planets. He knows, too, that cosmic disasters like the explosions of stars and the widening of black holes will become more frequent until his droopy eyelids finally close. With Vishnu’s sleep always comes the end of the world. Rather, the end of all the universes. Vishnu is finally asleep, so he is now referred to as Narayan, and his body floats on an endless bed of unmoving milk. Imagine a soft white ocean with no edges and no land to contain it stretching on forever. All is calm, and Narayan does not dream. Perhaps there is no sense of consciousness within him at all, only perfect peace. He drifts al...

Image on  Wikimedia This is a continuation of my Epified “7 Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art” YouTube video notes. Secret 2, Part B is on the god Narayan, and his secret is “What dies is always reborn.” Whereas I had known a little bit about the god Ganesha before taking my Part A notes, I did not know anything about Narayan before watching this video. The video is almost half an hour long and worth watching. The very beginning was fascinating to me and made me interested to know more about Narayan. There is an image in the video of Narayan waking up from a sleep, and this is when the universe begins. However, assuming that Narayan wakes and sleeps in a cycle just like everyone else, it must be that the universe has existed before and is now beginning again now that the god is awake once more. So, the universe either or exists or does not exist whether or not Narayan is awake, and each time he wakes is a new beginning. Something else...

Image on  PxHere This week, I chose to watch the videos on YouTube entitled “7 Secrets from Hindu Calendar Art” by Epified. Secret number one and Part A is on Ganesha, and secret number two and Part B is on Narayan. I had heard of Ganesha, the elephant-headed god with four arms, before, but I am not sure if I have ever learned about Narayan. Ganesha’s secret is “Different people see God differently.” Something that I liked about this video and did not expect from it is that is talks about Hinduism and other religions as subjective depending on a certain person/people. Epified does not try to convince the viewers that Hinduism is the only “correct” form of religious, but declares that all religions are based on myths and a certain set of beliefs, which is what I personally believe. The narrator repeated in the video, “Who is right?” many times. The fact is that no one is “right” or “wrong” in terms of religion. Also, how one chooses to react to others’ ...