Quotes by Devdutt Pattanaik - Page 1

There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.
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Interpretation
Objectives
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Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.
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Body
Mythology
Vast
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Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery.
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Holy Prophet
Roots
World
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Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.
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Truth
Certain
Culture
Imagine
Mythology
Subjective
Way
Life Culture Way
Life Truth Way
Certain Way
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Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.
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Rooms
Waiting
Waiting Rooms
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Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I, only two
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Eye
Lying
Two
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If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.
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Imagination
Alzheimer's
Animal
Being Human
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The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could ‘most talent’ be determined? So Indian society settled on age.
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Age
Crowns
Determined
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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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Chinese
Focus
Sacred
Writing
Audiences
Cultures
Rituals
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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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Greek
Greek Mythology
Hero
Indian
Mythology
Vocabulary
Concept
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In India, the eldest has the most responsibility and the crown goes to him. The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could 'most talent' be determined? So Indian society settled on age.
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Determined
Eldest
Indian
Crown
Settled
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I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.
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Book
Colour
Communicate
Paint
Passion
Writing
Drawings
Illustrate
Images
Text
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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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Believe
Indian
Objectivity
Real
Subjectivity
Be Real
Believes
Same Story
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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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Art
Anatomy
Anatomy And Physiology
Mythology
Physiology
Relevance
Training
Breaking
Complex
Rituals
Maze
Systems
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