Ideas of India 2.0: Dr. Devdutt Patnaik gave a new definition to devotion, devotion, mythology. Dr. Patnaik removed the doubts from the minds of the people and explained the meaning of Mythology in simple words, Dr. Devdutt Patnaik said that when you read Mythology, you understand the real meaning of Belief, Whatever is your fact, it is your truth.
Fact is truth of everyone, fiction is not truth of anyone, myth is truth of someone, Devdutt Patnaik told that some people believe in God, that is their truth, those who do not believe in God It is not true of them. Some people believe in devil, some believe in heaven, some people believe in reincarnation, some people say we believe in justice, justice is also mythology, all these are beliefs. You can believe in anything.
Why is Mythology important?
Mythology is necessary because when you believe in something, then it is the only truth for you, that is, it is your truth, from here the dispute starts, then the dialogue takes place. Your truth is the only truth. Mythology makes you communicate. You listen because your truth is not the whole truth. Every person has only some truth and you know this by communicating and listening to each other, and there you end the ego. Because here you eliminate I, that means you don’t just listen to yourself, you also listen to the other side. Keeping your truth aside, you also talk about others.
The truth of faith is Mythology, because the world is sustained on faith, science does not give satisfaction. Scientific truth is not Mythology. The one who obeys the Guru believes in science. The world is not sustained on science. The world rests on trust.