Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Who's devil???

Off late I have been watching a lot of television series. I wanted to get hooked on to something after HIMYM Season 4 went off air and Reaper somehow fit in.

Nothing special about it, except may be the charming devil, the vulnerable Sam....

and of course the petite Andy.

It's all about Sam who has to work for the devil and catch the escaped souls from hell and his bunch of friends.

Today morning we were just having a conversation and I realized that there is no concept of devil in hindu mythology. There is no dark prince, the king of hell.

The closest I could reach was Yamraaj. But then he is not the devil. He is at par with the Gods. He collects souls and mets out the final justice but he does not induce people to do bad, to do evil..

I just cant figure out where I am going wrong but it seems the hindu mythology democratized even devil's kingdom. There are small cheiftains.. lust, greed, envy but no single overbearing figure as devil.

There are ofcourse Asuras, a very close parallel to demons but no Devil..

Anything comes to you mind???

2 comments:

  1. on my feed reader only sam's pic was visible, not andy :D until i came to your page to comment :) i think the devil is more to do within ourselves. i guess all of us have a lil of both in all of us, just the ration differs :D

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  2. oooopsss.. i meant ratio*

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