Humans will always fight which myth is better: Greek myth of resistance or Abrahamic myth of compliance; Taoist myth which values nature or Confucian myth which values culture; the Buddhist myth that life is suffering or the Hindu myth that life is ananda. This is timeless (sanatan). As long as there are humans there will be subjectivity and every human will insist his truth is the truth. But if we value mythology, then we will value subjectivity, pay attention to other truths and expand our own truth. This is the power of myth.
अनंत पुराणों में छिपा है सनातन सत्य,
इसे पूर्णतः किसने देखा है?
वरुण के हैं नयन हज़ार,
इंद्र के सौ,
आपके मेरे केवल दो !
Within infinite myths lies the eternal truth
Who sees it all?
Varuna has but a thousand eyes
Indra a hundred You and I, only two. Read the article...
