Week 9: Reading Diary B

Points of interest

• Dhritarashtra is kind of like Kaikeyi in the Ramayana-- he is happy a first but advisers turn him away towards evil and hate
• Yudhistira's promise seems like it will come back to bite him.... Like so many broad promises often do in these epics
• Gambling leads to bitterness and conflict--- not much has changed there
• The game worsens the condition of the relationship between the two families-- and it's all fate!
• Draupadi is very smart and brave as she faces the whole assembly to argue her freedom!
• "Child, aggressiveness is not always good, nor is forgiveness" -- interesting, big departure from other religious texts that emphasize forgiveness always (p. 77)
• Super deep spiritual convo pgs 77-79