ENG150Y1 Lecture Notes - Centrality, Darth Vader, Ravana
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Asrama: sharabhanga (indra; vow to defeat rakshasas: asrama: sutheekshna. In the heart of the forest, 10 years: asrama: sutheekshna. Asrama: agastaya (weapons; vow to defeat rakshasas) Encounter with jakatu: lakshmana builds their asrama. Temptation from all of the rishis, hermits, is what drives the story. 164 three sins must be avoided avoid going into the forest": you must honor what you wear, In the forest, it is a spiritual training for something. Ultimate reality manifests itself as a natural order ( rta") of harmony, justice, and truth that suffuses the world. This truth order is things, as well as the behaviours and attitudes that maintain it (duty, vocation, religious observances), are known as dharma". One"s own dharma varies according to one"s place in a well-regulated society (male/female;warrior/priest/merchant/etc) and the time of one"s life. Behaviours that run contrary to this cosmic order are called adharma" the opposite of dharma: similar to destiny.