Reading Notes: Ramayana Part B

Jatayu is a bird who watches over the exiles in the forest and he fight Ravana who is taking Sita the wife of Rama.  I like his character, he will come to save anyone who needs help and would not hesitate to fight them.

After Rama got married and came home, his father Dasharatha exile him for twenty years and he left without hesitation.  Rama and Sita was going and Lakshmana also said he is going to go and the three of them went to forest for twenty years.  When staying in the forest Ravana comes and sent one his man to take form of Deer and Sita saw that deer and said to Rama "I want that deer" and Rama goes to catch him and Sita got worried and told Lakshmana to go behind him.  Lakshmana puts a barrier where Sita cannot go outside until one of them is back and nobody can come inside the barrier.  Ravana takes form of a Sage and try to get food from Sita and Sage said "would please give to me I cannot come inside this line."  Sita came outside and Ravana transform back to his orginal form and picks her up and take away.  While they were going in the car of Ravana, Sita was asking for help and Jatayu the might bird saw that and came to help.

Jatayu was a brave and he said "as long as I am alive, you cannot take Sita away."  They both started fighting and unfortunately Jatayu was not strong as Ravana and he was defeated.  The character of the Jatayu was side role but the purpose of his character to fight for justice and help the people.  It was also considering as a side character who was there to fight Ravana and die after that fight.  He should also stay alive until Rama comes and let him know who took his wife Sita away from him.  If he didn't die and was just injured, he could have help Rama to get Sita much faster because Jatayu was a bird he can fly.  It took some time for Rama to meet with Hanuman who can also fly because he is son of wind god name Pavan.

The story starts with the introducing how mighty bird Jatayu is able to fight with mighty rakshasa Ravana.  He was putting his all energy to fight the Ravana and it was nice to know that there are warriors who can fight Ravana and not sacred of him.  Whereas at the ending of story Jatayu died as mighty warrior who didn't back down even he had to fight Ravana and stayed alive until Rama came there ask him what happen.  I never like the story with the ending of someone who dies, and he also help people and evil person is powerful enough to kill the good person.  I like it when the evil person dies at the end of the story.

Ravana kills Jatayu. Source

The author is Laura Gibbs, PDE Ramayana: Jatayu and Ravana, Source

Reading Notes: Ramayana Part A

I really love Ramayana and I have watched it so many times.  Sometime people in India make Ramayana movie as a cartoon so kids will watch and learn about it.  As a kid it was fun to watch Ramayana and I really like it.  They also made the show based on Ramayana and it was on Indian TV channel named StarPlus, which my dad bought so he can watch all of the TV channels from India.  I watched the whole Ramayana and it came five days a week for twenty minutes a day.

Rama is the main character who learn everything and he was respectful towards his people and other people as well.  He will help anyone that needed help and wouldn't hesitate to help, but the character that interest me most was Parashurama who is a son of sage and his parents were killed by arrogant King.  He said that he won't rest until he killed that King who killed his parents for not giving the cow.  Parashurama was God Vishnu's avatar so he was born to kill the Kings who were arrogant and did not help his people.

This was the reason I like his character most, who will kill anyone if they were doing the wrong thing.  In Ramayana, King Janaka announce the marriage for his gorgeous daughter Sita and said that anyone who can put the string on the bow of God Shiva will be the husband of Sita.  Many Kings came to pick the bow up but nobody could lift it, even Ravana came he was able to lift little bit and cannot hold for long time.  King Janaka has thought that there is there no one who can pick this bow and marry my daughter Sita.  Rama came at the end and with request from his teacher he pick the bow up and break it from the middle and everyone was surprised.

Parashurama come and said "who was arrogant enough and dare to break the bow of God Shiva".  He hated the arrogant people and Lakshmana brother of Rama said "It was old bow that my brother snapped in half and why are you angry." Parashurama got angry at Lakshmana for being disrespectful and almost hit him with his axe but Rama came in between and join his hand for respect.  And after that the sage Parashurama calm down and handed God Vishnu's bow to Rama and told him to shoot. Rama did and Parashurama got to know that his is the avatar of God Vishnu.

I really like how he makes his entry and everyone became scared of his presence.  He is the type of person who will not tolerate the injustice toward other people or being too much arrogant.

Rama shooting and Parashurama watching.  Source

The author is Laura Gibbs, Title PDE Ramayana: Parashurama, Source

Topic Brainstrom

Krishna the Hero

Krishna was really mischievous when he was kid and many people didn't like his mischievous behavior.  But his mother who always protect him from everyone and she somehow knew that Krishna is special.  I get to listen to so many of his stories when I was five or six years old and there was cartoon made on him which I watched everyday.  I was really interested in history and things that were related to gods, who came down to earth to defeat evil demons.  They are not demons but humans who are acting like demons and Krishna who is reincarnation of Vishnu.  I would like to know what he did and how he defeat those demons.

Krishna and Arjuna.  Source

Hanuman

In a way Hanuman is a Monkey God and he was a reincarnation of god Shiva who came down on earth to help Rama who is reincarnation of Vishnu.  Rama was a human and Hanuman was born so he can protect Rama and there are many stories about him.  I really like Hanuman and nobody has the power to stop him and he will only listen to what Rama tells him.  He devoted his entire life for Rama and he was strong as well as intelligent,  so he will find solution to whatever problem he is facing.  I really like that he never let anyone do injustice and always stay with justice and I want know more stories about Hanuman.

Hanuman

Karma

I really like the stuff about reincarnation and how the karma effect your life.  Based on Karma if will determined what you will be doing in your next life and how your life going to be.  You will never know what you will be in next life but it will based on karma,  I like karma because it is what you do like doing right things you will have good life and doing wrong things will have bad life.  I believe in karma that if I do the right thing than I will have good karma similar to that everyone has to face karma.  There was a story about Krishna death in Mahabharata is based on his karma from Ramayana.  I really like this type of story.

Rama and Sita

Goddess Kali

I really like Goddess Kali and it is Goddess Paravati who transform into Kali if someone doing evil things.  Goddess Paravati is wife of Shiva and mother of Ganesha and Karthika who has this power to transform into different forms.  She took many forms to defeat evil demons and the form I like the most was Kali.  I would like to know more stories about her because I have only heard few stories but I heard and read that she would never let injustice happen.  Once she turn into goddess Kali than it is hard for everyone to calm her down because her rage is out of control unless someone can calm her down than she will turn back to goddess Paravati.

Kali and Shiva beneath her feet. Source

Feedback Thoughts

I really like when someone tells me what I am doing wrong and how I can improve on those things.  I receive so many of papers with the feedback and even went to professor's office so I can learn what I am doing wrong.  After that I have understand and did my paper again, after that she told me that this is right.  It is not a bad thing to receive feedback just make you more understandable and from next time you will do what you need to do.  Getting feedback means you will learn more and your learning growth has not stop there.  Learning more is not a bad thing actually it is good thing that you will also be able to use that knowledge and give someone else feedback.  Don't be afraid of feedback and learn from what others have given feedback.

Feedback

Week 2 Story: Wild Dog and A Boy

Once upon a time there was a wild dog and a boy. The boy name was Jake.

When Jake was little he like puppies because they were cute and he can could play with them.  One day Jake asked his mom "Why can't we have puppies like the one I usually go play with in our backyard in afternoon" and his mom said "never go play again with the puppies."  Jake started wondering why his mom said not to go play with puppies, he didn't know what to do but he still went to play with them. 

One day Jake's mom caught him and took him inside the house.  His mom said "go take a shower those puppies never take shower and you can get sick with the bacteria they have on their body."  Since that time Jake haven't gone to played with puppies and started staying away from puppies and dog.  While coming from his friend’s house he saw there was a dog who was sleeping on side walk.  Jake had known that all the dogs are wild at the place where he is living so nobody would take them as a pet and they became wild dog that will bite anyone.  The dog was sleeping that's what Jake thought and he was trying to walk as quiet as possible but the dog woke up and started barking at the boy.  The boy became really scared and the dog started running at him and Jake ran back to his friend's house.  Jake was safe since he reached his friend’s house and from that day he started hating the wild dogs.

Since that incident Jake started throwing rocks at the wild dogs just like everyone.  Whenever there is a dog that pass by with no owner he gets scared because of the experience he had during his childhood. He only like the dog that are trained and don't bite people.  Jake want's a puppy or dog that are trained but he doesn't want to take care of them so he goes play with his friend’s dog.

Dog trained by the officer. Source

"The Turtle and The King" from Two Turtle Jatakas by Ellen C. Babbitt. Web Source