RLST 2610 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Parashurama, Dashavatara, Sheeva
9 Aug 2016
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Started audio late, 15 minutes into class (what missed, funny video about us naming native americans indians and calling them that for hundreds of years) cultural hegemony = The gods of hinduism can think of any god as expression of the one god, or see them as individual identities. 6 main attriutes (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) (cid:12254) clever, cunning and carismatic married to goddess of wealth lakshmi can take physical form of an avatar. 10 clasically recognized avatars, collection of the 10 called dashavatara (cid:12254) Jnana (omniscience) = power to know about all beings simultaniously. *shakti ( power and energy) = important power of creation, word shakti is gendered in feminine, that"s what makes power of creation. Bala (strength) = capacity to support everything by will and without fatigue. Virya = power to retain all of creation. Tejas = capacity to overpower anything by spiritual dominance and will.
