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Ep 315: Arshia Sattar and the Complex Search for Dharma

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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What Do the Stories Tell Us About Us?

I think the stories tell us who we are and I mean that in a multivalent statement, right? And that is why we tell the same stories but we tell them differently. So stories are both universal and very particular. Most classical stories myth which always written retrospectively,. Even myths talk about a time that was before, not a time that is. They are the deepest stories of them all because fundamentally they're about what happens when we die. Right? Stories are about how we deal with each other, how we dealt with the gods - so they become rakrasas, asuras or whatever it is. The stories that we have paid more attention to are the stories that tell us

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