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[shehzadi]

ram mandir inauguration day. you know what that means! hindutva mobs, vandalising muslim property, yelling genocidal slogans (not only in india but in the US), putting up saffron flags on places of worship

#meanwhile hindu ‘friends’ irl put stories on instagram explaining how there was a temple before as if that justifies what’s being done today #india #m #!

[aconstantstateofbladerunner]

Did anyone actually make it all the way through all 4 Tiger’s Curse books as a kid?  Unironically?

#tiger’s curse #Respond to this post #i want to see the kind of person that did #because i just read a Mormon author shit on Hindu funerary practices #and make up a story about gods and goddesses in a love triangle #while the main character randomly quotes Shakespeare to explain why she’s afraid to dive with sharks #all in the same chapter #It’s so bad

[unboundpower]

Perhaps the biggest thing I take from Hinduism for Amita is the purushartha. While I don't explicitly apply the literal concepts as they're presented IRL to her or the Triclops' in-universe society, they serve more as metaphors for narrative than anything else. Just so people can look at her portrayal with a different lens.

(This all is specifically about her in a "static canon" sense, excluding her relationship with Vegito. Some descriptions below are different if he's added into the mix.)

Amita as a character doesn't actively follow the ideas of three of the goals (artha, kama, and dharma), meaning on paper that she'd never achieve the fourth goal (moksha), which is claimed to be the ultimate goal one strives to fulfill in their lifetime so their true/eternal selves (their atman) can be freed from samsara (the perpetual cycle of death and rebirth).

Artha - She isn't the wealthiest person around, but she has little desire to gain more wealth to vastly improve her living situation (ignoring how economic systems make that not easy to do in the first place). She knows she can do more and probably should at least try, but there's a big lack of motivation. She's settled for what allows her to get by somewhat comfortably, because it's just easier.

Kama - Amita is very indifferent when it comes to various pleasures in life. While she has hobbies she enjoys, she isn't all that passionate about...anything really. And lacking passion for life especially paired with purposelessness, even if there's understandable reasons for it, isn't widely perceived as a good trait to have. As a side note, she especially cares little for the expression of sexuality. Her own happening to not quite gel with the conventional idea of kama aside, she has a lot of baggage with the topic of sex, which further drags her mental health down.

Dharma - One could say, due to her talents, her dharma is tied to her loyalty to her clan; perhaps to becoming a warrior who would dedicate her life to helping her kin flourish. Because she's capable of bearing children (and misogynistic ideals are very present on Earth), becoming a mother could also be considered a part of her dharma. But through disowning her family and leaving her home, Amita has gone completely against her dharma. It doesn't help that her current lifestyle is very lacking in artha and kama to boot. The path of dharma can be followed without a balance of artha and kama, but chances are it won't lead to moksha.

Moksha - Because of how she is and how she lives, liberation from suffering is currently not in the cards.

A lot of the pain Amita feels is frankly...self-imposed. Not in how she's been harmed by others, but in how she actively pushes away the possibility of getting closure because going back to her birthplace - the roots of her hatred & the origin of all her suffering - risks the chance of she snapping in rage and doing things she'd regret. She doesn't trust herself. She struggles to rise above her trauma because she refuses to directly confront it out of fear.

Without closure, healing is difficult. So difficult that in her near-middle age, she still hasn't really healed, and has been harboring intense negative emotions for years. She lacks inner harmony. Attaining true happiness - an escape from the cycle of suffering - is an impossible task for her as she is now.

(Fun Fact: This is why I say she isn't pure of heart and wouldn't be able to ride Nimbus, despite being a benevolent person inside. Too bitter. Too angy. Too tired.)

#amita // ❦ meta ❦ #saved. #/ subject to tweaking as time goes on; was mainly jotting thoughts down \ #/ i didnt bother explaining what the four goals exactly entail because theres no real easy way to \ #/ esp by someone whos a foreigner and not hindu. so i recommend y'all research them if ur curious \ #/ i couldve also done a bad job explaining her relation to them; apologies if so \

[melancholicmonody]

Bhisma: Sometimes I look into the sky to feel how great the universe is .

Amba*who sneaked a dagger*: Aww Gangaputra ! Do you want to be a part of the cosmos ? I can do it....

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#hindu mythology #mahabharat #incorrect mahabharat quotes #just a joke #idk how many of us will get it so I"ll explain it here #children are brought up with the lore that when anyone dies they become a twinkling star #so by making him a part of the cosmos she actually means to kill him #this joke was kinda lame #it was more funny in my mind #sed lyf

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

Day 578

most frustrating arjuna alter plot thread no 48: this random thing from his materials that makes it sound like he wasn’t even intially from lostbelt four like other kings were and ??? Was sent there for some purpose perhaps?? But we never find out what the hell they meant by that

#ik it’s been heavily implied he’s also kind of like a pseudo for kalki in not so many words given his function+he has his horse but #WHAT DOES THAT MEAN??? #‘in order to be implemented junao was promptly sent however-‘ BY WHO??? YOU MEAN TO TELL ME IT WAS ON PURPOSE??? #did the foreign god fucking yoink the Hindu pantheon’s reset button and brainwash it into a lb king or??? explain?? what this means??? #please??? I’m dying squirtle #my post #hasarjunadoneanythingwrong

[gxlden-angels]

There's nothing like explaining "Be fruitful and multiply" to someone not raised Christian that will make you want to shed like a lizard

#me causally: yea my grandad was 13 of 14 children #everyone: 🧍🧍🏻🧍🏼‍♂️🧍🏾🧍🏾‍♀️ #like I didn't even get into the marital due or that type of fuck shit #basically a member of the group I'm in practices hindu #and asked about why christians care about abstinence so much #and i'm like 'okay bet I don't practice christianity anymore but I was raised in a cult' #and explained the Quiverfull families #gender roles/white sheet checks #and the idea of man not being made to be alone/eve made for adam #and like holy shit Im glad Im out #the amount of shit my cousin gets for having kids outside of marriage is wild #Im the 'good kid' for not showing interest #or at least I was #now Im in my 20s so it's starting to get to the 'why aren't you looking' stage #I have partners they just aren't cishet men so my family doesn't know #it's wild out here #ex christian #religious trauma

[semperardens-juli]

On Mahabhrata

from The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained, James Canton

The epic explores themes of family ties and conflict, duty and courage, fate and choice, and present them in a series of allegories to explain the elements of dharma, a complex concept of "correct conduct."

"There are two forces: fate and human effort --- all men depend on and are bound by these, there is nothing else."

What is right and wrong is seldom clear, and it is by reconciliating conflicting interests such as love and duty that we can achieve liberation from the cycle of life, death and rebirth.

While most of the poem show its characters dealing with moral dilemmas in their human affairs, in the final sections, and especially after the death of Krishna, we see them facing up to their spiritual fate.

The story ends, after much tragedy and conflict, with the protagonists achieving eternal bliss, but also with the warning that the human struggles continue here on Earth.

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personal commentary: I find these quotes as a helpful guideline to approach a classic literature and appreciate it, more than an aesthetic. I feel that I am able to understand the crux or essense of these literature pieces, more than simply an entertaining story or childish theorizing as you see on internet, but with good cultural appreciation of literature and the human questions alongside universal mysteries.

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[twisted-tales-told]

A customer just looked at my co worker with a straight face and said she’s buying rose quartz for her cousin because “the covid vaccine caused her mercury poisoning.”

I can’t make this shit up.

#she also tried to explain the chakras to said co worker #my coworker is in fact Hindu #we had a good laugh when they left

[yuriwarrior]

Thing I got confused during the time I saw atsv was how gayatri is sikh (presumably) but her name is hindu sounding. Regardless of that, her last name is singh, but it should be Kaur (cus shes sikh) and she's literally in india?? So it's not like it was a hassle to make her last name different from her dads

#the hindu name thing can just be explained by her mom or someone else being hindu or her being named after someone else #the last name on the other hand...

[finexbright]

Soni, are you hindu?

i'm not religious, but yeah i was born into a hindu family!

#idk how else to explain it tbh like my parents and family in general is hindu (lingayats to be specific) #but i'm not religious at all #non non

[monotheistreal]

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[abhilasha81089]

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[jessicalprice]

how can you be so controversial and yet so brave

(reposted from Twitter)

Hey so, have I ever told you about the time I was at an interfaith event (my rabbi, who was on the panel, didn't want to be the only Jew there), and there was a panel with representatives of 7 different traditions, from Baha'i to Zoroastrian?

The setup was each panelist got asked the same question by the moderator, had 3 minutes to respond, and then they moved on to the next panelist.

The Christian dude talked for 8 minutes and kept waving off the poor, flustered, terminally polite Unitarian moderator.

The next panelist was a Hindu lady, who just said drily, "I'll try to keep my answer to under a minute so everyone else still has a chance to answer." (I, incidentally, am at a table with I think the only other non-Christian audience members, a handful of Muslims and a Zorastrian.)

So then we get to the audience questions part. No one's asking any questions, so finally I decide to get things rolling, and raise my hand and the very polite moderator comes over and gives me the mic.

I briefly explain Stendahl's concept of "holy envy" and ask what each of theirs is.

(If you're not familiar, Stendahl had 3 tenets for learning about other traditions, and one was leave room for "holy envy," being able to say, I am happy in my tradition and don't desire to convert, but this is something about another tradition that I admire and wish we had.)

The answers were lovely. My rabbi said she admired the Buddhist comfort with silence and wished we could learn to have that spaciousness in our practice. The Hindu said she admired the Jewish and Muslim commitment to social justice & changing, rather than accepting, the status quo.

The Christian dude said he envied that everyone else on the panel had the opportunity to newly accept Jesus.

I shit you not.

Dead silence. The Buddhist and Baha'i panelists are resolutely holding poker faces. The Hindu lady has placed her hands on the table and folded them and seems to be holding them very tightly. Over on the middle eastern end of the table, the rabbi, the imam, and the Zoroastrian lady are all leaning away from the Christian at identical angles with identical expressions of disgust. The terminally polite Unitarian moderator is literally wringing his hands in distress.

A Christian lady at the table next to me, somehow unable to pick up on the emotional currents in the room, sighs happily and says to her fellow church lady, "What a beautiful answer."

anyway I love my rabbi to death and would do anything for her

except attend another interfaith event

#christians #interfaithing while jewish #no really #why are christians like this?

[timetravellingkitty]

everyday i see clueless westerners (especially white people) peddle thinly veiled hindutva propaganda which they wouldn't know cause they know absolutely nothing about what goes on in india. so here are some signs that that the person you're talking to is a hindu nationalist:

they either do not acknowledge casteism or claim that caste is a western construct. my personal favourite however is dismissing anyone bringing up caste discrimination by saying that the indian constitution outlaws untouchability. they may also bring up the fact that the prime minister belongs to an other backwards class (obc) so clearly india has moved on from caste and hindutva isn't only for the upper castes. they possess a shallow understanding of caste

harping on about "islamic colonisation" : no, the mughals did not colonise india. when you point this out, they will immediately assume that you think muslim invaders were innocent beings who did nothing wrong, which is very much not what anyone is claiming here

while we're on the topic of "islamic colonisation" they will also refer to the demolishing of muslim sites of heritage and worship and then building hindu temples over them as "decolonisation" (cough cough ram mandir) the hindu right also goes around pretending that they're indigenous to india. this is false

along a similar vein, they will dismiss islamophobia by bringing up instances of hindu oppression in countries like pakistan and bangladesh. it is true that hindus are persecuted in these two countries, however they are used to fuel their oppression complex, that their upper caste hindu self is under attack in india of all places (think a white christian in the united states). you should be in solidarity with minorities everywhere. it is neither transactional or conditional (note: they will never bring up sri lanka. persecution of hindus exists only when the oppressors are muslim)

claiming that hindu nationalism and hindutva are not the same because hindutva means "hindu-ness". that is only the literal translation of the term. like it or not, they're the same thing

they support the indian military occupation of kashmir. they will call it an integral part of kashmir, one reason which will be "hinduism is indigenous to kashmir." they will also bring up the last maharaja of kashmir signing the instrument of accession as further proof, as if the consent of the people was taken

they're zionists. do i even need to explain this. hindutva is just zionism for hindus

they refer to buddhism and jainism (sikhism too sometimes) as branches of hinduism rather than separate, distinct religions

they condemn any resistance to the indian govt as a burden or terrorism) (like calling the farmers who are currently protesting a hindrance or terrorists. funny how sikhs are the same as hindus when they support hindu causes but terrorists when they resist oppression...)

they call you a pseudo liberal or a fake leftist. i'm telling you, they don't know jackshit. they can't even tell the difference between a liberal and a leftist and call US unread lmao. bonus points if they call you a liberandu or a sickular 💀

they call india "bharat" when they talk in english. there are in fact multiple indian languages that call india bharat or bharatam, but if they say bharat while talking in english, that is absolutely a hindu nationalist no questions asked

please do your due diligence. read up on hindutva. hindu nationalists have already started making gains in the united states, thanks to rich upper caste nris. do not fall for propaganda

#hindutva #india