Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Reading Notes: The Seven Secrets of Vishnu Part F

I have finally come to part F of this video series and I will admit, it was very hard to stay focused on this while constantly checking for election updates throughout it. I'm still nervously glancing out updates and listening to it in the background. But back to the material at hand. I'll repeat that this isn't the best series for several reasons. It's very technical and gives little background info, it moves very quickly with little reason for transitions, and it's visuals could be slightly better. All that said, this isn't the worst series either. You will gain some information from this series. It is an extremely informative series but so much of the information is quite dense and hard to digest, that so much of it will go over the viewers head if they're not pausing to watch. I do recommend keeping Wikipedia open to search anytime something new or someone new is mentioned because otherwise, you'll get confused very quickly. Pause often and look things up if you want to follow along.

These final two videos are pretty good. It's very interesting how they discuss the role of thoughts behind actions and the background information behind that idea is very well done. There is a heavy focus on the weight given to every action that goes beyond just the results of the action. Everything behind it has weight as well. I also enjoyed that this part was on Krishna as I have been doing several stories about Krishna over the past few weeks.

bibliography: Seven secrets of vishnu, link

File:Krishna shows Arjuna his universal form (bazaar art by C. Konddiah Raja, c.1950's.jpg
(Krishna shows Arjuna his universal form, wikimedia commons)

1 comment:

  1. I really like how you took notes here! It focuses less on the content but I think that's okay. It reads more like a blog, which is actually what this is. I agree with your sentiment on this video series. It's very robotic in it's information and it goes really fast. It throws a whole bunch of info at you and then expects you to have retained it all when it explains things at the end.

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