REL 1000 Chapter : 10-Feb
Document Summary
Mahabharata: great sons of bharata, ~100,000 verses, known for bhagavad gita (non-vedic text, written between 200 bc- 300bc. Krishna: 9th incarnation of vishnu, refuses to fight, tells arjuna he should fight, this discussion is the bhagavad gita, makes the duties of one"s caste religious, describes 3 ways of liberation. Liberation in this sense means ending the cycle of rebirth. Brahma: the creator, relatively little attention is given to brahma by hindus . Shiva: does not manifest himself (according to most, considered the destroyer, called a divine paradox because he is the creator and the destroyer. Hindus make sense of a deity being a creator and a destroyer because they look at life as it is destroyed and created. The goddess (devi: shiva"s companion, for others she is the supreme deity, has various names, maternal figure, even though she is sometimes depicted as a warrior.
