From Here To India- My Epics of India Course Blog

For this week, I decided to do a story lab, and for my story lab I decided to watch the Ted Talk videos about A New Theory of Human Intelligence, and Copyright is Brain Damage.      In A New Theory of Human Intelligence , the speaker begins with showing two different reports. One may think that they are two entirely different students, but it is revealed that they are in fact the same student, years apart. He explains the theory of the twice-exceptional student, who has lots of strengths but also unique challenges as well. In order to discover how many kids are falling through the cracks, he suggests looking at the Four C Model: Capacity, Competence, Commitment, Creativity. He talks about competence and the I.Q. test. Many people surprisingly over-perform and under-perfom based on that test score! I thought that it was very surprising, it clearly shows that the I.Q. test does not give you the complete picture of a person's ability.      Finally, I watch...

    Now I'll be taking notes as I watch through the second half of these episodes. In episode 11, Brahma decided to test Krishna's divinity by taking his friends and their cows. Krishna, discovering all this missing, decided to use his divinity to understand that it was Brahma behind this. So he decided to play a funny trick on Brahma to humble him. He created the cows and his friends out of himself, and no one was any the wiser. For a whole year this went on, and Brahma, discovering the trick, bowed before Krishna's power. He learned a valuable lesson that day.     In the next episode, which I enjoyed, Krishna declares that he will ride Hastin by the next full moon. No one believed him. But day after day Krishna would come to the cowshed where Hastin was and would play his flute for hours, and feed sweet food to him. He was slowly winning Hastin over, and was able to move closer and closer to Hastin Eventually, during the next full moon, Krishna lept onto Hastin a...

     I really enjoyed the Epified Mahabharata, so for this week I wanted to do the Epified about Krishna. I look forward to reading about this one because aside from previous readings I have no previous knowledge about Krishna. It will be interesting to hopefully get a deeper insight into his story.      The story begins that while Arjuna, one of the Pandavas's was being born, Krishna was being born too. There was a cruel king in a faraway land called Mathura by the name of Kansa. He married his cousin to Vasudev, Kansa was told that the 8th child of this couple would be the one to slay him. As such he decided to lock them away in prison, and every time a child was born to the couple he did a very cruel thing and threw the child against the walls of the cell. Eventually Krishna was born.That night, led by a voice, Vasudev was able to exit the cell and was led across a river to a camp. There he exchanged his son for a cowherd's daughter Maya, who had also ...