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Ep 315: Arshia Sattar and the Complex Search for Dharma
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
Walmiki's Ramayana
Walmiki's Ramayana has a depth and the ambiguities and big questions. But later on, all these other simplifications and so on are added on. As Rama is elevated to the cosmic level of God, his opponent must be. So Ravanab gets elevated to this cosmic evil as it was the oppositional force. And then whatever you might have said about Rakshasad, Arman all of that is cancelled. It's really what we do when Bhakti enters the ethics - they're not narratives anymore, they become theology. They become about God acting in the world,.They become about God, the nature of God, they become about the od
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