Epics

Wha-HA-Haaaa So, with ten thousand adventures and tasks on my to-do list, I thought I'd debrief on a bit of my day.  I have been without a working garbage disposal for a couple months now. It has been excruciating lately. It was a bit after midnight, after several other tasks complete, when I went to go do the dishes... Side note: I get asked often how I do this, "How do you do school and raise two kids..." etc. The answer is that I do these tasks while my children are sleeping. End of story.  Maybe when I graduate I will have more time to sleep.  I am nearly gagging. Something smells so  awful in my sink and I cannot do anything but wade through the dishes until the sinks are empty and the dishwasher full. The smell is still there and I am furious.  UGHHH It's that damned garbage disposal. With the broken machinery not working, it's basically become this pool for bacteria, mold, gunk. That is just so, so gross.  Garbage Disp...

Following the Round-About: Arjuna is central to the Indian Epic, Mahabharata. He is known as a Pandava brother and the victor of Draupadi, winning her in the contest of her Swayamvara.  The readings of me evenings landed me into the pool of Arjuna's charioteers and I found that to be epically interesting.  Arjuna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjuna One of his charioteers was Krishna, the god, who could not directly intervene in the war. Krishna, having favored the Pandavas and wished to have his way, knew that helping them the most meant that he could influence Dharma via steering the chariot of Arjuna.  The charioteers for these warriors of the epics were crucial to the success or failure of the battle. e saw in the Mahabharata that something as simple as a wheel getting stuck in the mud could mean victory or death for a rival.  Bibliography: Traveling through Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjuna

Indian Legends: Nala & Damayanti Krishna Dharma http://iereadingguides.blogspot.com/2017/11/overview-krishna -dharma-two-vedic-tales.html Nala is a king and hears of the beautiful Damayanti. She is of the most beautiful creation and no other has her equal in beauty. He loves her and feels that in his heart, the two are ordained to be wed.  He captures a swan and the swan asks what her desires: Only her, Damayanti.  The bird flies back with the flock and, collectively, they go to the maiden and the swan then tells her all of Nala. She falls in love with him without ever seeing him.  The gods of creation hear of her also. They decide that one of them must marry her. Seeing Nala on his way, they force him who loves Damayanti also, to tell the royal maiden that she must marry one of the eternal beings.  When she sees Nala, she grows even MORE in love with him; he has stolen her heart and will choose no one other than Nala.  She tells h...

Mahabharata: I was never able to get around to reading Part D of the Mahabharata of our readings in the weeks of 6 and 7. I am happy that these last few weeks of readings are free and that we are able to have time to read some of the things that we may have missed.  "   So died the gallant youth, pure as he was at birth. He died like to a forest lion surrounded by hunters; he sank like to the red sun at evening; he perished like to a tempest whose strength is spent; he was spent out even like a fire which has consumed a forest and is extinguished on the plain; Abhimanyu was lost as is the serene white moon when shrouded in black eclipse." Death of Abhimanyu (Arjuna's son) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhimanyu Side Note: I couldn't find where this Dushasana was and am hoping that he might be thee same Kichaka that humiliated Draupadi, the stories seem exactly the same: " Dussasana was very exhausted and he nearly fainted. The assembled men were ...