{"id":116,"date":"2011-04-16T15:01:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T05:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glancesideways.com\/?p=5"},"modified":"2022-10-22T03:56:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T03:56:51","slug":"putana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/16\/putana\/","title":{"rendered":"Putana"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Cultural Warfare of the Divine Form, is a subset narrative deep in deconstruction of worldviews where few manage to gain the consciousness to unlock. Here the game plays out with the portrayal of the pastime of krishna sucking the breast milk of the witch Putana. It is an intense form of cultural appropriation and reverse colonialism, using the classic icon of the Madonna and Child by Leonardo Da Vinci, where the child is transformed into \u015ar\u012b Krishna and establishing the personality of Madonna as Putana<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tt\u0101\u1e3f t\u012bk\u1e63\u1e47a-citt\u0101m ativ\u0101ma-ce\u1e63\u1e6dit\u0101\u1e3fv\u012bk\u1e63y\u0101ntar\u0101 ko\u1e63a-paricchad\u0101sivatvara-striya\u1e3f tat-prabhay\u0101 ca dhar\u1e63itenir\u012bk\u1e63yam\u0101\u1e47e janan\u012b hy ati\u1e63\u1e6dhat\u0101m<\/strong>\n\nP\u016btan\u0101 R\u0101k\u1e63as\u012b\u2018s heart was fierce and cruel, but she looked like a very affectionate mother. Thus she resembled a sharp sword in a soft sheath. Although seeing her within the room, Ya\u015bod\u0101 and Rohi\u1e47\u012b, overwhelmed by her beauty, did not stop her, but remained silent because she treated the child like a mother.\n

~ \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam \u2013 Tenth Canto ,Chapter Six, Verse Nine<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The deeper conceptual ideas behind this image is from an article in the \u015ar\u012b Krishna Sa\u1e41hit\u0101 where \u015ar\u012bla, Bhaktivinoda \u1e6ch\u0101kur explains significance of the personality of Putana.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPutana is the slayer of all infants. The baby, when he or she comes out of the mother\u2019s womb, falls at once into the clutches of the pseudo-teachers of religion. These teacher are successful in \u00a0forestalling the attempts of the good preceptor whose help is never sought by the atheists of this \u00a0world at the baptisms of their children.\n\nThis is ensured by the arrangements of all the established \u00a0churches of the world. They have been successful only in supplying watchful Putanas for effecting the spiritual destruction of persons from the moment of their birth with the cooperation of \u00a0their worldly parents. No human contrivance can prevent these Putanas from obtaining possession of the pulpits.\n\nThis is due to the general prevalence of atheistic disposition in the people of \u00a0this world. The church that has the best chance of survival in this damned world is that of atheism under the convenient guise of theism. The churches have always proved the staunchest upholders of the grossest forms of worldliness from which even the worst of non-ecclesiastical \u00a0criminals are found to recoil.\n\nIt is not from any deliberate opposition to the ordained clergy that these observations are made. \u00a0The original purpose of the established churches of the world may not be always objectionable. \u00a0But no stable religious arrangement for instructing the masses has yet been successful.\n\nThe supreme Lord Shree Krishna Chaitanya in pursuance of the teaching of the scriptures enjoins all \u00a0absence of conventionalism for the teachers of the eternal religion. It does not follow that the \u00a0mechanical adoption of the unconventional life by any person will make him a \ufb01t teacher of religion.\n\nRegulation is necessary for controlling the inherent worldliness of conditioned souls. But \u00a0no mechanical regulation has any value even for such a purpose. The bona\ufb01de teacher of the religion is neither any product nor the favorer of any mechanical system. In his hands no system \u00a0has likewise the chance of degenerating into a lifeless arrangement. The mere pursuit of \ufb01xed \u00a0doctrines and \ufb01xed liturgies cannot hold a person to the true spirit of doctrine or liturgy.\n\nThose are, therefore, greatly mistaken who are disposed to look forward to the amelioration of \u00a0the worldly state in any worldly sense from the worldly success of any really spiritual movement. \u00a0It is these worldly expectants who become the patrons of the mischievous race of the pseudo- teachers of religion, the Putanas, whose congenial function is to sti\ufb02e the theistic disposition at \u00a0the very moment of its suspected appearance. But the real theistic disposition can never be sti\ufb02ed \u00a0even by the efforts of those Putanas.\n\nThe Putanas have power only over the atheists. It is a thankless but salutary task which they perform for the bene\ufb01t of their willing victims.\n\nThe idea of an organized church in an intelligible form, indeed, marks the close of the living \u00a0spiritual movement. The great ecclesiastical establishments are the dykes and the dams to retain \u00a0the current that cannot be held by any such contrivances. They, indeed, indicate a desire on the \u00a0part of the masses to exploit a spiritual movement for their own purpose.\n\nThey also unmistakably \u00a0indicate the end of the absolute and unconventional guidance of the bona\ufb01de spiritual teacher. The people of this world understand preventive systems, they can have no idea of the unprevented positive eternal life. Neither can there be any earthly contrivance for the permanent preservation of the life eternal on this mundane plane on the popular scale.\n\nBut as soon as the theistic disposition proper makes its appearance in the pure cognitive essence \u00a0of the awakened soul the Putanas are decisively silenced at the very earliest stage of their en counter with New-born Krishna. The would-be slayer is herself slain.\n\nThis is the reward of the \u00a0negative services that the Putanas unwittingly render to the cause of theism by strangling all \u00a0hypocritical demonstrations against their own hypocrisy.\n\nBut Putana does not at all like to receive her reward in the only form which involves the total destruction of her wrong personality. \u00a0King Kansa also does not like to lose the service of the most trusted of his agents. The effective \u00a0silencing of the whole race of the pseudo-teachers of religion is the very \ufb01rst clear indication of \u00a0the Appearance of the Absolute on the mundane plane.\n\nThe bona\ufb01de teacher of the Absolute heralds the Advent of Krishna by his uncompromising campaign against the pseudo-teachers of religion.\n

~\u015ar\u012bla, Bhaktivinoda \u1e6ch\u0101kur<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Reading this article had a significant affect upon me, and I am still grasping to understand it\u2019s full implications in the historical development of theistic and conceptual culture.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Cultural Warfare of the Divine Form, is a subset narrative deep in deconstruction of worldviews where few manage to gain the consciousness to unlock. Here the game plays out with the portrayal of the pastime of krishna sucking the breast milk of the witch Putana. It is an intense form of cultural appropriation and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2682,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/2682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}