Jayanti

One of the Hindu religious texts, the Vishnu Purana, was made into a serial that aired weekly on television in India. The people who owned/managed the hotel where I worked were Hindu, and they knew that my spirituality was somewhere along Hindu/Buddhist lines. So, they offered to loan me their 23-volume set of the Vishnu Puran on DVD. Each DVD contained three or four epidosdes, each about one-hour in length. I was thrilled! I watched one or two episodes many mornings when I arrived home from my night-shift at the hotel, and Don watched many of the episodes with me. It was cool! We always enjoyed watching movies and TV shows together, and it gave us pause to talk about spirituality. (...like he and I ever needed a "reason" to talk about anything... LOL) The costuming was nothing short of magnificent. I drooled over many of the saris and jewelry worn by the women in the production. Some of the "special effects" had to be taken with a grain of salt, but hey... It was still very entertaining AND educational. It also stayed very true to the story lines and principles of the original Vishnu Purana epic. It also helped to explain many subtleties that are otherwise hard to imagine. I had to giggle one morning when I was in the kitchen fixing something to eat and heard Don in the bedroom singing the theme song to the series. That told me that he enjoyed watching the shows with me. Many of the women in the Vishnu Puran were beautiful. As an example, this is a screen-shot with my LG225 flip-phone of Jayanti, daughter of Indra. I want to be her when I grow up. :3

©2012 Tiffany Reed