[Advaita-l] The 'Snake-and-ladder' game - The Spiritual path

[Dev Babu]

That is Amazing!
Many Thanks for sharing this.

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 12:17 AM V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Copied and pasted from FB page of Ajay Khemka
> <https://www.facebook.com/ajay.khemka.75?fref=mentions>
>
> Unbelievable!!!
> The 13th century poet saint Gyandev created a children's game called Moksha
> Patam. The British (intentionally to break our rich culture & education
> system) later named it Snakes and Ladders instead of the original Moksha
> Patam.
>
>
> In the original one hundred square game board, the 12th square was faith,
> the 51st square was reliability, the 57th square was generosity, the 76th
> square was knowledge, and the 78th square was asceticism. These were the
> squares where the ladders were found and one could move ahead faster. The
> 41st square was for disobedience, the 44th square for arrogance, the 49th
> square for vulgarity, the 52nd square for theft, the 58th square for lying,
> the 62nd square for drunkenness, the 69th square for debt, the 84th square
> for anger, the 92nd square for greed, the 95th square for pride, the 73rd
> square for murder and the 99th square for lust. These were the squares
> where the snake waited with its mouth open. The 100th square represented
> Nirvana or Moksha.The tops of each ladder depict a God, or one of the
> various heavens (kailasa, vaikuntha, brahmaloka) and so on. As the game
> progressed various actions were supposed to take you up and down the board
> as in life... Amazing, isn't it???!
>
>
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