Problem
Celebrating the Complexity of the Divine
A. Ask you continue exploring the course content, please begin to reflect on our three core questions:
a. How have humans used myth and the divine to explain the natural world?
b. How have religious and spiritual practices contributed to communities and epistemologies?
c. How have these traditions informed historical and contemporary problems and/or solutions?
B. Engage with this content:
a. Read: Novak part of Ch. 1 (Upanashads & Bhagavad Gita)
b. Watch: Bhagavad Gita: Invitation to World Literature
c. Read: "Aryans or Harappans"
C. Discuss here:
a. What do you take away from the Hindu approach to the divine? Is it one faith or many? Is it polytheistic or monistic? Why?
b. What's the message of the Gita? How might you apply its wisdom in your own life?
c. Is the concept of dharma instructive, oppressive, or both? Why?