Reading Notes: Seven Secrets of Vishnu Part B

Seven Secrets of Vishnu: Matsya

I've loved looking at these videos so far because the ideas that it portrays. I would say that my favorite part of part B would have to be the first video. It starts out by saying that animals live to survive and their are no rules in the wild. Humans are the only beings that can think of a life in which two animals, like a goat and a lion, can live in harmony. The video goes on to say that from the imagination comes heaven and the desire to create the paradise of perfection causes man to create culture. This all kind of reminds me of the epified videos where they talk about the Mahabharata and how they said that it is a perfect example of karma. Everything is a direct result of what happened before it. Humans are the only people with imagination, they use that imagination to create heaven, they create culture because of that notion of heaven.

Seven Secrets of Vishnu: Matsya's secrect

Reading Notes: The Seven Secrets of Vishnu Part A

The Seven Secrets of Vishnu

The reason why I chose this video playlist was because of the title, The Seven Secrets of Vishnu. Titles like that really get people's attention and sometimes my titles fall flat so I that's something I need to work on. Watching these videos was not only informative be super interesting. I had no idea that Vishnu had a female form. I liked how they said that in Hindu mythology, they have two realities, a spiritual one and a material one. I am pretty sure my next story would be about Mohini and another reality. She is described and an enchantress and temptress which would be more fun to write about. I feel like she has the kind of personality that is lax on the strict rules we have seen in the protagonists the previous epics (like the Ramayana and the Mahabharata). 


Mohini's Secret

Reading Notes: Krishna Part B

Krishna and Radha

My favorite part of Part B of the Krishna videos has to be the part of how Radha and Krishna grew up together and their love story. I am still not a big fan how she Radha to see how faithful she was to Krishna but the testing itself was interesting. Radha had to drink milk and Krishna tongue was blistered. The only way for his tongue to heal was by the help of Radha. I do like that Krishna played a part of the testing too instead like in the Ramayana where Sita had to be basically set on fire.   I think that in my retelling I would like to maybe switch places of and have Krishna being tested than Radha or write in her perspective.