Clara's Blog

The first story of my storybook is going to be Sita's writing journal entries about having strange dreams of her past life as  Vedavati  and her being found as an infant in the furrows from  Sita's Story . I would use this section to introduce all of Sita's relatives and set up her backstory.   The next section of my story would be about her first interaction with Rama in the garden. I would also include details from when Rama wins Sita in the competition, their wedding, and their exile all inspired by either Sita's Story or the  PDE Ramayana . The next section of my storybook would include their exile, her being taken by Ravana, her proving her purity to Rama, and their return to Ayodhya. Since this section would contain many different events, I'm going to try to keep the Sita's entries during this time a bit shorter. During this section I also want to refer back to Sita's dreams as Vedavati because as Vedavati dies she swears she will be born agai...

For my storybook project I want to write about Sita's life from her point of view, possibly as journal entries. I'm currently thinking of breaking it into the three sections of Sita's life into before she meets Rama, when she is  with Rama, and after she is sent into exile. Vedavati is said to be the previous incarnation of Sita. Vedavati is dedicated to winning Lord Vishnu as her husband and having a child with him. Eventually, Vedavati enters a fire and dies to avoid being with Ravana. Before her death she tells Ravana she will be born again for his destruction. I think all the similarities between Sita and Vedavita would be interesting to write about along with Sita's birth from the earth. I would most likely condense majority of Rama and Sita's story from the  PDE Ramayana into their life together in the jungle and her being captured by Ravana. I would also probably add their intitial feelings they had for each other at first sight.  My final story ide...

To start the topic brainstorm, I browsed through the project topics listening. The first topic that stuck out to me was The Gods/Devas topic. This topic grabbed my attention because I've had an interest in Greek mythology, and a video from this week described the parallels between Indian and Greek mythology. I'm more drawn to this topic because it will allow me to learn about many of Hindu deities, instead of focusing on one. After researching the Hindu deities on Wikipedia, I saw there was plenty of material and information that I will be able to use for my project.  The second topic I was drawn to was  Karma . I've always believed in the spiritual principle of karma that good intentions bring good fortune and bad intentions bring bad fortune. While I have a basic understanding of karma, there us a lot to the theory and principle that I didn't know. After some research, I learned that the definition of karma is very diverse in Hinduism. Karma is also a theme t...