
Ask Devdutt Pattanaik: What do our myths say about winners and losers?
The Times Of India Podcast
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Gambling - The Most Dangerous Game
Gambling is the most safest dangerous game. It's highly addictive. Human beings want to push the envelope and literally thumb their nose at death. And what gambling does is takes you to the edge of death and pulls you back. The victory is so powerful. It releases so many chemicals that you want that effect again andYou want it again and you want it again. You know, the Vedas are talking about this in the warning, how even a Yudhishthira or a Pandava in the absence of Krishna will collapse.
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