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It is one of my favorite books, and the Mahabarata stands alongside the Eddas, Odyssey, Aeneid, and Kalevala on my shelf. Epic poetry is sort of the only poetry I can stand without raping a chair and killing someone.

The Hindus like the pagans saw the gods as amoral and unconcerned with human affairs. For them, religion was a list of what worked in real life, and then some stuff about transcendental goals like hierarchy, beauty, and sanity.

It is a far cry from the nagging moralism of the Abrahamic religions.