The Mahabharata: From Exile to Apocalypse
- All levels
- 21 and older
- $315
- Online, New York, NY
- 12 hours over 4 sessions
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The Mahabharata is one of the great literary works of South Asian history. It narrates an epic story: the introduction to our supposed age, the Kali Yuga—one of downfall and decline, but also eventual rebirth. Preeminently a dialogic work, the Mahabharata remembers a past that requires constant re-narration, simultaneously defining and critiquing dharma—or “proper conduct.” These dialogues culminate famously in the Bhagavad Gita, the battlefield conversation between the hero Arjuna and his charioteer, who is “revealed” to be the great god Krishna. On the edge of battle Arjuna and Krishna argue some of the most delicate points of moral philosophy, theology, and cosmology, all revolving around the questions of the justness of waging inter-familial war, how to resolve personal duty and culpability, and the nature of the universe itself. What does it mean to live well? Is there such a thing as a just war? How should we understand and respond to suffering? What hope is there for the world?
This course will focus upon gaining a sense of the narrative sweep of the whole, from exile to apocalypse, while also centering our reading and discussion upon a selection of key episodes, characters, and themes in the vast work: Yudhishthira’s dice game, Draupadi and the depiction of women and sexuality, the Bhagavad Gita and the relations between mortals and gods, Karna and the fate of the outsider, battle and purification, poetry as consolation, genealogy, and commemoration, and the possibilities for ethical life in calamitous times.
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