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Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “When you first give something in order to get something, you are a generous yajaman. If you demand something before you give something, you are a devata. As children you can be devatas, but to grow up means to be a yajaman. When you are able to give without expecting anything in return, you are the greatest yajaman.”

151. “When you first give something in order to get something, you are a generous yajaman. If you demand something before you give something, you are a devata. As children you can be devatas, but to grow up means to be a yajaman. When you are able to give without expecting anything in return, you are the greatest yajaman.”

— Devdutt Pattanaik

Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “All will be well if we repent of our sins, accept God’s love and demonstrate it by following His law. This.”

152. “All will be well if we repent of our sins, accept God’s love and demonstrate it by following His law. This.”

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Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “Only when humans realize that they have been blessed with the intellectual wherewithal to outgrow animal needs and fears, will they truly evolve and discover their potential.”

153. “Only when humans realize that they have been blessed with the intellectual wherewithal to outgrow animal needs and fears, will they truly evolve and discover their potential.”

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Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “Our desire to achieve does not happen in isolation. We seek an audience. When the audience refuses to cheer for us, we work hard until they admire us. We validate ourselves, like Satyavati, through the Other. The Other is the parent whose attention we crave.”

154. “Our desire to achieve does not happen in isolation. We seek an audience. When the audience refuses to cheer for us, we work hard until they admire us. We validate ourselves, like Satyavati, through the Other. The Other is the parent whose attention we crave.”

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Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “Somvat had seen a creature such as Sthunakarna only on the walls of Ileshwara’s temple. Images of such deformed beasts lined the northern wall just below images of the Apsaras. ‘Because the world belongs not just to beautiful creatures,’ said the Pujari. ‘Shiva loves them. He is the indifferent one, who looks beyond bodies, beautiful and ugly, male and female, young and old, at the suffering soul.”

155. “Somvat had seen a creature such as Sthunakarna only on the walls of Ileshwara’s temple. Images of such deformed beasts lined the northern wall just below images of the Apsaras. ‘Because the world belongs not just to beautiful creatures,’ said the Pujari. ‘Shiva loves them. He is the indifferent one, who looks beyond bodies, beautiful and ugly, male and female, young and old, at the suffering soul.”

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Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “One must accept that one’s life is the result of past karmas and that one has the power to choose one’s response to every situation.”

156. “One must accept that one’s life is the result of past karmas and that one has the power to choose one’s response to every situation.”

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Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “It is not about being a hermit in the forest. It is about overpowering lust and attachment wherever you are.”

157. “It is not about being a hermit in the forest. It is about overpowering lust and attachment wherever you are.”

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Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “When you live only once, the value of your life becomes the sum total of your achievements. Hence the need to align or achieve, which are the driving forces of Western thought.”

158. “When you live only once, the value of your life becomes the sum total of your achievements. Hence the need to align or achieve, which are the driving forces of Western thought.”

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Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “Every event in our life is determined by past actions. So every moment is as it is supposed to be. But it is possible to change one’s fate and fortunes. The dance of Prakriti can change if Purusha intervenes. For that one has to invoke Purusha through acts of determination that demonstrate desire and devotion.”

159. “Every event in our life is determined by past actions. So every moment is as it is supposed to be. But it is possible to change one’s fate and fortunes. The dance of Prakriti can change if Purusha intervenes. For that one has to invoke Purusha through acts of determination that demonstrate desire and devotion.”

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Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “The Gita does not speak of changing the world. It speaks of appreciating the world that is always changing. Belief in one life makes us want to change the world, control it or resign to the way things are. Belief in rebirth enables us to appreciate all three possibilities, without clinging to any.”

160. “The Gita does not speak of changing the world. It speaks of appreciating the world that is always changing. Belief in one life makes us want to change the world, control it or resign to the way things are. Belief in rebirth enables us to appreciate all three possibilities, without clinging to any.”

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Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “When we stop loving, we embrace adharma.”

161. “When we stop loving, we embrace adharma.”

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Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “When humanity ignores imagination, there is no growth, no quest to outgrow fear, no desire for spiritual reality. Evolution does not happen. Spiritual reality remains undiscovered. Only the self matters; others remain invisible. In other words, humans stay animals.”

162. “When humanity ignores imagination, there is no growth, no quest to outgrow fear, no desire for spiritual reality. Evolution does not happen. Spiritual reality remains undiscovered. Only the self matters; others remain invisible. In other words, humans stay animals.”

— Devdutt Pattanaik

Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “A line has been drawn around her hut. She has been told very clearly that only within the line do the laws of culture apply; here she is Ram’s wife. Outside is nature, where the rules of marriage make no sense; she is just a woman for the taking.”

163. “A line has been drawn around her hut. She has been told very clearly that only within the line do the laws of culture apply; here she is Ram’s wife. Outside is nature, where the rules of marriage make no sense; she is just a woman for the taking.”

— Devdutt Pattanaik

Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “Goddess is nature and God is how nature is perceived by the human imagination.”

164. “Goddess is nature and God is how nature is perceived by the human imagination.”

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Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “It is about realising that in every human being is a frightened beast, seeking survival and significance, and knowing very well that humans can outgrow this beast as they empathise with others.”

165. “It is about realising that in every human being is a frightened beast, seeking survival and significance, and knowing very well that humans can outgrow this beast as they empathise with others.”

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Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “Wisdom thus is always work in progress.”

166. “Wisdom thus is always work in progress.”

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Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “Don’t indulge your senses with bhoga, yoke your emotions with yoga.”

167. “Don’t indulge your senses with bhoga, yoke your emotions with yoga.”

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Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “Rebirth takes away the sense of urgency and the quest for perfection that are the hallmarks of Western thought. The Gita does not speak of changing the world. It speaks of appreciating the world that is always changing.”

168. “Rebirth takes away the sense of urgency and the quest for perfection that are the hallmarks of Western thought. The Gita does not speak of changing the world. It speaks of appreciating the world that is always changing.”

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Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “You renounced your right to think independently when you let someone else play your game for you. His word is your word. And you must be committed to keeping it. For to keep one’s word is dharma. To hate is not dharma.”

169. “You renounced your right to think independently when you let someone else play your game for you. His word is your word. And you must be committed to keeping it. For to keep one’s word is dharma. To hate is not dharma.”

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Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “The earth weeps for us. Because in our inability to love, in our pursuit for power, in our lack of wisdom, we lose a golden opportunity to enjoy life, make life enjoyable for others and find joy in giving joy.”

170. “The earth weeps for us. Because in our inability to love, in our pursuit for power, in our lack of wisdom, we lose a golden opportunity to enjoy life, make life enjoyable for others and find joy in giving joy.”

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Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “Then be human. Let go and move on. They who hurt you cannot expand their mind. But surely you can.”

171. “Then be human. Let go and move on. They who hurt you cannot expand their mind. But surely you can.”

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Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “The idea of a powerful woman aware of her own desires made people uncomfortable and so she was portrayed as barbaric, even demonic, not in control of her passions.”

172. “The idea of a powerful woman aware of her own desires made people uncomfortable and so she was portrayed as barbaric, even demonic, not in control of her passions.”

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Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “It’s the Indian headshake. It means you are probably right, or probably wrong. Who knows? Varuna has but a thousand eyes, Indra a hundred, you and I only two.”

173. “It’s the Indian headshake. It means you are probably right, or probably wrong. Who knows? Varuna has but a thousand eyes, Indra a hundred, you and I only two.”

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Devdutt Pattanaik Quote: “So it has been before. So it will be again.”

174. “So it has been before. So it will be again.”

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