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Friday, May 7, 2010

Game of dice implication

Friends lets introduce a few mathematical terms while introducing the game of dice.The event can be dependent or independent fall.However the choice is random.The throw is however independent of the external forces.The dice rolls on its own.
The Dice Game is a cosmic symbol for Life and its metaphorical implications are not shallow (Handelman & Shulman). Each dice stands for one of the four Yugas and in Shiva stories it is understood that the Lord throws the dice and loses
himself into the manifestation of creation. Yudhisthira has much to learn, not
just to be a better dice player, but he must learn through experience to become
a wiser man who does indeed deserve to be the ruler of his kingdom. Yudhisthira
and the others in the epic must, as Krishna Chaitanya/KK Nair says, ‘evolve
into a finer grain of being.’
Yudhisthira is a man of Dharma, with supposedly impeccable morality and yet he foolishly gambles away his wealth, kingdom, and even his brothers and wife, Draupadi.Why does Yudhisthira always loose never to win a single game in hastinapura.
In his book In The Dice Game of Shiva: How Consciousness Creates the Universe, Richard Smoley presents a description of the mythical game.
Shiva is Consciousness (Purusha), Parvati is the contents of Consciousness (Prakriti), and the dice game itself is the beginning of manifestation in creation -- it represents how Consciousness creates the universe. The logic of why Shiva always loses is that Consciousness in its pure form has no attributes -- it simply sees (hence as an Upanishad says, Shiva is the "seer of seeing"). Any qualities that we can ascribe to Consciousness are immediately seen -- they are part of the world, and the world is Parvati. And, so Parvati always wins. As the world, Parvati is the sum total of all experience.
Now the contention comes into being why does Yudhisthira the apostle of dharma loose the dice game to Shakuni.One has to keep in mind that the game was played in the Courtroom of Hastinapura.Yudhishtira does not loose to Shakuni but to the Hastinapura court.
Dharma also in the purest self has no manifestations, no attributes in the material self.Hastinapura is reminiscent of the material world.Thus when we attach dharma to material world it has no immediate impact.Thus dharma in the conspicuous self looses.

1 comment:

  1. Your post added a lot to my knowledge........this(the dice game) is what I had been trying to understand since a long time!!!! You really helped with this wonderful post!!! Thanks!!!

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