Nov 4, 2024
Some of my favorite pages from the manga Itihasa by Mizuki Wakako
"Water becomes water when it flows. Wind becomes wind when it blows. And Humans become human when they waver."
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Some of my favorite pages from the manga Itihasa by Mizuki Wakako
"Water becomes water when it flows. Wind becomes wind when it blows. And Humans become human when they waver."
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Forgiveness and Justice in the MahÄbhÄrata
The main antagonists of the MahÄbhÄrata, namely, Duryodhana, his uncle, Åakuni, and Karį¹a (yes, if antagonists are to be named, Karį¹a is one per the Critical Edition and per Kį¹į¹£į¹aās comments) commit a series of horrific actions throughout the epic, motivated by greed, jealousy, and spite. Offences include assassination attempts, deceit, sexual harassment and assault. Still, what I love is that Kį¹į¹£į¹a and the PÄį¹įøavas continue to offer them opportunities for redemption, which they refuse. The war comes to be, justice is delivered, and all the Kauravas perish. However, by finding their end, they find redemption in relative terms, and, as we learn in the last parva, all proceed to svarga, or to heaven.
First, I find it significant to underline that the characters are not passively forgiven and welcomed into svarga. As they refuse to redeem themselves, they are forgiven only AFTER justice is delivered and they are made to take responsibility for what they have done, and after direct action is taken against their misdeeds. Forgiveness or compassion are therefore not passive in this context. I would maintain that what is underlined here is that forgiveness and love do not imply blindness to anotherās harmful behaviour; on the contrary.
Second, I highlighted that their redemption occurs in relative terms, because, at the level of the Absolute / Consciousness, there is nothing to be redeemed as there is no fracture, only flow; however, as Ädyashanti teaches, the relative concomitantly and paradoxically very much exists in the container of its own laws.
Of course, the cosmology of the war is much more complex than this and is neither an act of punishment nor one of revenge; I would say it is more of a re-establishment of equilibrium in the relative playing field.
I think this is beautiful to ponder on. No matter how far they fell into cruelty and dejection, they found redemption. Indeed, DraupadÄ« herself as ÅrÄ« forgives AÅvatthÄmÄ after justice is delivered, who commits the most gruesome crime there is per Kį¹į¹£į¹a (that of killing a child).
And, so can we, can't we? Redeem ourselves and make amends for our cruelties and for our mistakes. Take action when action is needed. And rest in āredemptive loveā (another beautiful coinage by Ädya. I love him so much š )
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Itihasa by Wakako Mizuki
Ithasa As Propaganda By | Devdutt Pattanaik | Indian Author If one travels to ancient Egypt, one sees gigantic monuments of Rameses II. These celebrate his victory against the Hittites, in Syria, in 1300 BCE, in the first real use of horse-driven war chariots in the world. However, if one checks with historical records and does a bit more research, one realises that this is clear, political propaganda. The war was anything but decisive. In other words, the Rameses monuments we find in Egypt, reveal royal propaganda done 2300 years ago. Such a rewriting of history by story-tellers and artists is not uncommon. The western world has tried very hard to project ancient Greece as the centre of democracy, equality and justice. Whereas all things that are sensual and debauched are said to originate in the East. So, the Persian Emperor was seen as authoritarian, sensual and a despot. This theme of masculine upright egalitarian West and feminine authoritarian East recurs in the conflict between Romans and Egyp... https://human-engineers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/GA-Devdutt-7.jpg https://human-engineers.com/ithasa-as-propaganda/?feed_id=9350&_unique_id=60d5bb8e31c29 https://human-engineers.com/ithasa-as-propaganda/?feed_id=9350&_unique_id=60d5bb8e31c29
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Ithasa As Propaganda By | Devdutt Pattanaik | Indian Author If one travels to ancient Egypt, one sees gigantic monuments of Rameses II. These celebrate his victory against the Hittites, in Syria, in 1300 BCE, in the first real use of horse-driven war chariots in the world. However, if one checks with historical records and does a bit more research, one realises that this is clear, political propaganda. The war was anything but decisive. In other words, the Rameses monuments we find in Egypt, reveal royal propaganda done 2300 years ago. Such a rewriting of history by story-tellers and artists is not uncommon. The western world has tried very hard to project ancient Greece as the centre of democracy, equality and justice. Whereas all things that are sensual and debauched are said to originate in the East. So, the Persian Emperor was seen as authoritarian, sensual and a despot. This theme of masculine upright egalitarian West and feminine authoritarian East recurs in the conflict between Romans and Egyp... https://humanengineers.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/GA-Devdutt-7.jpg https://humanengineers.com/ithasa-as-propaganda/?feed_id=9439&_unique_id=60d5b9209b03d https://humanengineers.com/ithasa-as-propaganda/?feed_id=9439&_unique_id=60d5b9209b03d
What is History? ll Difference between History & Itihasa in English
i remember a long time ago you posted about Itihasa, a manga and since then i put it on my to read list cause one in a while i like to read painful things. Is it really good tho?
Oooh Itihasa...been a while since I saw that title that I have to google it. ^^ā The story is a bit slow & the manga is filled with all confusing Japan/Greek-ish?? myths with a bit of romance. (& maybe youāll end up shipping them hard) But nonetheless itās a good manga for me & I enjoy the art style. :)