Devdutt Pattanaik
Author
1970-12-11
Books by Devdutt Pattanaik
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Olympus
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Quotes by Devdutt Pattanaik
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Only the ignorant think they alone are responsible for an outcome
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Animal fight to defend their bodies. Humans curse to defend their imagination of themselves.
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Then be human. Let go and move on. They who hurt you cannot expand their mind. But surely you can.
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Animal fight to defend their bodies. Humans curse to defend their imagination of themselves.
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Only the ignorant think they alone are responsible for an outcome
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Then be human. Let go and move on. They who hurt you cannot expand their mind. But surely you can.
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Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.
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Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.
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I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.
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Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?
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In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.
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