Why Lakshmi goes to wrong people?
Devdutt Pattanaik | Thursday,October 12,2017To understand Lakshmi, we have to understand where wealth comes from. Wealth in its most primal form comes from under the ground. Lakshmi is therefore called Patala-nivasini, she who resides in the subterranean realm. Patala is also the realm inhabited by the Asuras
Lakshmi and Saraswati are not opposite
Devdutt Pattanaik | Thursday,October 12,2017Saraswati is all kinds of knowledge and skills. The better knowledge you have, the better skills you have, the more likelihood of you generating wealth.
Wealth is good
Devdutt Pattanaik | Thursday,October 12,2017Isn’t it amazing that the worshippers of Laxmi, the Goddess of wealth, have become so apprehensive of wealth that they would immediately think of a rich man as bad and a poor man as a good guy
The secret of a naked girl
Devdutt Pattanaik | Wednesday,September 20,2017In Harappan civilization there is the image of what looks like proto-Shiva, and so, the dancing girl must be proto-Parvati
Yes, Yoga is Hindu!
Devdutt Pattanaik | Tuesday,June 6,2017To deny that yoga has no special relationship with India is like saying America has nothing to do with Native Americans
When Saraswati met Indus : of Indus Valley Civilization and Vedic cuture
Devdutt Pattanaik | Monday,April 3,2017Maybe the hymns were composed by Indians using local words and foreign words over a long period of time amplifying at a time when horses become widely prevalent, so probably in the late phase of the cities.
What made Arjuna Insecure
Devdutt Pattanaik | Monday,April 3,2017Even after hearing the Gita, Arjuna is unable to kill Bhisma, Jayadhrata, and Karna until Krishna intervenes with more wisdom or a strategy.
Is Shiva a drug consuming God?
Devdutt Pattanaik | Wednesday,March 1,2017“If Shiva takes drugs, so must I,” said a student to his teacher. “A good idea,” said the teacher, “but first you must make yourself Shiva, no?”
Why Shiva wears an elephant’s skin
Devdutt Pattanaik | Thursday,February 23,2017In creating the elephant-headed Ganesha, Shiva stops being the world-renouncing hermit and transforms into Shankara, the world-affirming householder
Who is afraid of the Prostitutes?
Devdutt Pattanaik | Friday,January 13,2017We yearn for loyalty and are afraid of the commercial: those who sell their skills and expertise to the highest bidder. We cannot bear the thought of pleasure being a commodity
