What Came First by Devdutt Pattanaik

Author:Devdutt Pattanaik [Pattanaik, Devdutt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789385990540
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2016-06-17T00:00:00+00:00

If you want to turn a sanyasi into a householder, what will you do—get him married! And if a householder wishes to renounce the material world, he will essentially have to renounce women. The Devi Purana talks about the life of the householder—about the difference between nature and culture. When to partake of the householder’s life or to take leave from it is the central conflict in Hinduism. So the relationship with Devi is important. For Vishnu, Devi is sometimes his mother (Renuka), or wife (Sita), or friend (Draupadi).

Shiva’s relationship with Devi is simpler. He is a sanyasi who becomes a householder. When he marries Devi, he becomes Shiva Shankara, and when he is apart from her, he becomes Gauri Shankara; as a loving husband, he becomes Uma Maheshwara—basically he turns domestic.

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