RLG100Y1 Lecture : Mar 14 - Hinduism - Paths to Heaven
Document Summary
In masculine term for god is isvara and feminine is devi. Controls natural world, god creates the world. God commands is guiding/leading the world. Therefore god maintains order in the universe through setting our rules and. In path of karma, emotion is negative, want to control and master emotions. Figures of god: brahma/ganesa early creative times associated with brahma but overtime character of brahma became less inspiring and creative aspects of god taken up with ganesa. Ganesa understood as the son of siva and parvati. Represented as a short figure, pop belly, and huge elephant head on human body. Ganesa"s story of how he got his elephant head siva has power of renunciation, destruction, www. notesolution. com. Parvati has nurturing, creative, domestic characteristics of culture and now have this child ganesa. Ganesa"s head represents extraordinary intelligent, creativity, functions of royalty. Ganesa represented has having pop belly representing ideas of prosperity.
