Durga's Secret: Everyone Lives on the Edge in Fear

by Devdutt Pattanaik

retain the wildness of nature, which offers the promise of freedom.

But the more one studies Indian rituals and texts, the more one realises that the wisdom of India comes from ‘simple rural folk’, simply articulated in Sanskrit. The brahmins are scribes, compilers and organisers, not sources, of Vedic wisdom.

Humans establish culture by domesticating nature.

In most cultures, the undesirable is wiped out. But in Hinduism, the undesirable is also considered valid and given due dignity.