Tag Archives: mahabharata

Question of the Week: Are Hindu Epics Literature, History, or Scripture?

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Ram Navami was this past Friday, and for that reason, Swami Tyagananda spoke of “The Story of Rama” this weekend during the Sunday service in the Vedanta Society. During his lecture, he brought up an interesting point — there are many ways to view the Ramayana (and Mahabharata). Ravi mentioned a few of these in [...]

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How to get motivation from Ekalavya

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

There are many stories in the Mahabharata that I find inspiring, which I have heard as a child and reconsidered in situation after situation. I have previously written about Arjuna’s eating in the dark. Here, I consider another story — the tale of Ekalavya.
The young Ekalavya, due to his birth in a lower-caste tribe, cannot [...]

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Learning from others

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Hindu tradition encourages learning from others through things such as stories, proverbs, and familial guidance.

Stories. Whether we read the original or digested version of a text, we easily remember things that seem most relevant to our lives. Considering the Mahabharata, it is stories about intensity (e.g. Arjuna) or integrity (e.g. Yudishthira) that I find most [...]

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