185 Quotes by Devdutt Pattanaik

Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.

In India, the eldest has the most responsibility and the crown goes to him. The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could 'most talent' be determined? So Indian society settled on age.

Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.

Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery.

The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could ‘most talent’ be determined? So Indian society settled on age.

There is no such thing as an objective interpretation.

Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I, only two