Thursday, January 19, 2017

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Bharata requests Rama's sandals.
Hinduism, Buddhism and the cultures that they are heavily involved with interest me hugely. They interest me so much that I decided to major in them. As I am a religious studies major and I have focused my major on Hinduism and other eastern philosophies. So this whole topic is very interesting to me. Learning more and more about the Hindu culture along with the Hindu religion is helpful for me to gain a better understanding of my major. This course will be helpful for me to learn a lot more about the things that I find most interesting. I have decided that I will be reading the Public domain edition of the Ramayana story. I chosen this edition based on the fact that I am a slow reader, so having an audio guide will help me immensely, also, I work nine hours at a desk and am allowed to listen to music, so I can pop in my headphones and listen to story at work if I so desired to. I think that doing it this way will help me out and I will learn much about the Ramayana story. I have learned this story before in my other Hinduism course, but there is so much more I can learn about it because of how vast these stories are and how in depth they can be. They can be confusing, so I am excited to relearn these stories and gain a better understanding of something that I have learned before. Hopefully through reading and writing about these stories I will be able to pull from my past knowledge and use it in order to help me understand where this course will be leading me in my continuing story of the Ramayana story along with Hinduism in general.

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