imagine you are to become a glorified deity/demigod in the future .. would you consciously change the way you go about things? would you even want to be remembered or would you rather that your existence fades into obscurity?
p.s: {reflections on the ramayana..}
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so how is this a reflection on the ramayana again?!
imagine you were the protagonist of that story that will over centuries get embellished, retold, and misinterpreted in a variety of ways to bestow upon you a status that you may not have actually intended.. would you optimize for the present or the future or would the future even be a concern?
Totally the present! i mean, what good does it do *you* when someone else misinterprets your story even 50 years after you die? besides, you have no clue on how they'll rewrite your story -- look at what shashi tharoor did to the mahabharata! (well, i've only read the first tenth of it so far... but i'll ramble about it elsewhere)
"what good does it do *you* "
SVR, for tam-brahms, i agree :) For those unfortunate ones with last/family names, the argument is not as obvious (this reminds me of the cop in "Hannibal").
p.s.
Just remembered that tam-brahms have gothrams too, so maybe it applies to them too. Kaushika gothram (or watever rama's gothram was) anybody?
yhac .. whats the connection with the last name/gothram .. im lost!
Was just trying to say that a negative portrait of you could affect your descendants(if they are identifiable as such) thereby affecting your genes' chances of flourishing and therefore be bad for *you*.
Last names/gothrams are such easily visible "tags"
Tangential and obscure...sorry :)
What if we remove the assumption of caring about descendants? Perhaps descendants don't matter if you're going for deification :P
OTOH, that's what Saddam Hussein thought too... hmm...
Kaundinyam ..for yhac's benefit.
[clarified for the the collective souls of my ancestors who must be reeling after the above onslaught]
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