Week 12 Reading Diary: Vishnu's Secret Pt 2 and Brahma's Secret

• Kingship or leadership is the most difficult role in society. He decides who is right and who is wrong, who will live and who will die.
• Only humans are able to fight for a cause that is not theirs if they wish to.
• All humans can discover the divine within them and joy comes when perfect and absolute realization, free of all prejudices, is attained.
• God and man are separate and joy comes when one submits himself to God
• Fish is a metaphor for jungle law, wild sex, restless material reality, non-vegetarian food
• Cow is a metaphor for cultural law, domesticated sex, tamed material reality, vegetarian food
• The purpose of life is the realize the soul. The less a man does this, the more he begins to behave like an animal
• Conflict arises when man acts for power and not for love
• Brahma is not worshiped because he creates and than forgets the reason why he made that creation.
• Brahma created the world to understand who he was. The world is like his daughter.
• Brahma is still seeking the material world so we cannot worship him
• Shiva is everything that Brahma is not. 
• The purpose of life is to realize the ego and overpower it.
• Human life is special because one can self-reflect and uncover self-discovery
• Karma determines everything that happens that is out of our control

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Week 12 Reading Diary: Devi's Secret and Vishnu's Secret Pt. 1

• Kanyakumari wanted to marry Shiva. He had to make it to Kanyakumari in one day. On Shiva's way, he heard a cock crow, so he assumed that it was day and turned around.
• Desire can satisfy need or greed
• Lakshmi - the embodiment of earth's wealth and bounty
• Desire is important in Hinduism. The world was created because of desire of the creater
• Cows are the most sacred animal in the Hindu religion
• Cows are gentle creatures, but they give milk to mils
• Does the cow produce milk for its calf or for humans
• Each society starts in perfection and then slows changes its moral beliefs and is then resurrected in perfection.
• Vishnu decides hat is beautiful and what is not, what is acceptable and what is not.
• An act of compassion creates society and civilization
• Civilization collapses when there is too much kindness and no one knows when to stop
• If sexual and material desire are not controlled by marriage and property, then they can destroy civilization.

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