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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Myth & legend told as fiction
Lucas and his friends have the perfect college life. Lucas has a
personal friendship with the dean of the Roman City campus and is
also the captain of a very famous basketball team. Together, they
are the coolest kids on the block, and life couldn't get any better
when they find out they are heading on an all-expense-paid trip to
the city of Rome to embrace their campus's history. Things begin to
turn when Rachael, an aspiring mythologist, notices a historical
artifact that is older than three thousand years and in the wrong
place Her curiosity causes her to find a secret passage to a ritual
room-the Tomb of the Gods Lucas and the rest of his friends try to
persuade Rachael to leave, but she is enticed by the ritual and
feels it couldn't hurt to attempt it. The ritual goes downhill, and
Lucas, April, and the others all black out in a whirlwind of chaos.
Lucas awakes in his hotel room with no memory of what happened, but
what happened in the Tomb of the Gods would change his and his
friends' lives forever
"After years of wandering around the world of love, I found the
truth about it. I met face-to-face with that wonderful fairy Love,
and she shared with me that despite the pain that was tearing her
apart, she is very happy and didn't want to part with it. In my
fantasy, that fairy was standing smiling among the deserted sands
and was holding a heart in love. There was blood dripping from her
hands, but she looked hard and firm. She split the heart in two and
threw the two halves away from her. They fell with ominous strength
on the glowing sand, started burning, and burned away. The fairy
told me that that had been my heart, and that this evil destiny
awaited it. She opened her scarlet lips and said that love hurts
and it was like a cloud, which carried many tears to my eyes in
love. Nevertheless, I decided to follow my heart, and it was
saying: "When Love looks you in the eyes, you will know, I will
tell you, and then you take it right away, hold it tight, hide it
here with me, to be happy.'"
This book shows that many characters in the Sanskrit epics - men
and women of all varnas and mixed-varna - discuss and criticize
discrimination based on gender, varna, poverty, age, and
disability. On the basis of philosophy, logic and devotion, these
characters argue that such categories are ever-changing, mixed and
ultimately unreal therefore humans should be judged on the basis of
their actions, not birth. The book explores the dharmas of
singleness, friendship, marriage, parenting, and ruling. Bhakta
poets such as Kabir, Tulsidas, Rahim and Raidas drew on ideas and
characters from the epics to present a vision of oneness. Justice
is indivisible, all bodies are made of the same matter, all beings
suffer, and all consciousnesses are akin. This book makes the
radical argument that in the epics, kindness to animals, the dharma
available to all, is inseparable from all other forms of dharma.
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