McKim Marriott, on observing the village of Kishan Garhi through ordinary routines and also during the festival of Holi, sees a complete contrast in the behavior and interactions of the members However, it is unique in that it also gives the people license to temporarily discard the roles they play in an otherwise strictly ordered and stratified society and assume different ones - a process of reversal. ... This statement of Krishna's readiness to deny his divine status and project himself as an ordinary mortal, playing an inferior role to his true identity, can be seen as a lesson to ...

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After six months the gal stopped coming out of her house, and people started thinking she was mad. ... Later my friend's dad told me that she had stolen the book from his out of the ordinary chest. ... People will think you are mad, when really you are only just sad. ...

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When the sun is personified, as it is in this poem, it is usually so that the people on Earth can idolize it. ... "Thou, sun, art half as happy as we," (25) would initially appear to be an ordinary love-sick statement that belongs in a love poem. ... In fact, these seemingly important people are simply trying to mimic the lovers. ...

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Buddhism: The Four Noble Truths and The Eightfold Path Seven weeks after the Buddha reached enlightenment, at a place called Sarnath, in India, he gave his first teaching. This is referred to as setting the wheel of Dharma in motion. Here he first spoke of the Four Noble Truths. # To l...

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