New post (122) : The Blood Demon/S inside us !
1. A highly acclaimed Social Hindi play, “Rakht Beej” (meaning: Blood Seed)
Written by : Dr. Shankar Shesh
Directed by : Arun Mathur
"Rakht Beej" explores & exposes the blood demons inside all of us.
To be something or to get everything these blood demons (inside us) encourage us to : ………………“use each other”.
Strongly recommended. An absolutely must watch play. Theater at it’s insightful best.
2. The mythology of Rakhht Beej:
According to Hindu mythology there was a demon named Rakhtbeej ( Rakht means blood and Beej means seed) which means his blood would work as a seed. He had a boon that if his blood ever touched the ground, it would grow a new body of that demon. He started taking benefit of this boon by killing people, doing anti-religious activities and doing all sorts of evil work. Finally Goddess Durga had to descend to the earth in the form of Kali to kill this demon. But the problem was that as Durga would cut off his neck, a new fresh body of this demon would appear because his blood would fall on the ground and create a new body. So he would get a new body every time Goddess Durga tried to kill him. Finally Goddess Kali (an incarnation of Durga) cut off his neck and collected all his blood in a pot and drank it. She did not let a drop of blood reach the ground and this is how she was able to kill this demon. Since most of the Kali photos show Kali killing this demon and drinking his blood, and she has body parts wrapped around her body, a lot of people mistakenly think that she likes the blood, which is not true. These body parts are of the demons, not of some innocent people or some innocent animal. She had to drink the blood only because she wanted to kill this demon, not because she likes the blood.
Note/Clarification:
The play only uses the mythology as an inspiration. However the setting is a 100% contemporary. To perhaps make it easy to relate to. Hence it comes across as more real. More shocking !
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