Yann Martel's epic "Life of Pi" is quite possibly
One of the most
Intriguing pieces of literature written during our time. Not because of the Individual facets of it that broke through the main character
over Time [Or] the Resilience of the Main Character Exhibits in The Face of what [People] Traditionally assumed to be insurmountable
Obstacles Rather Because of its Adept Analysis of the Human mind as it relates to
Spirituality What Really is incredible About the novels Is how Many Facets of this Idea May be Understood and how Martel
Attempts That Deftly Succeeds at Explaining Each and Every One This Main
Character That Martel Uses to illustrate such Ideas is none other Than the hindu Born I [seem] Molitor Patel
[No] to all this [pine] Likewise what's unique About [Pi]
Is what is Unique about the mind of all Human Thought Which is Understood by modern Psychology is Existing in Two Forms?
Analytical and Tuned [in] Life of Pi Both Mindsets are Explored and Articulated Through Martellus principal agent of Change [in] Characterization
Religion Analytical Thought exists as a faculty unique to humans and May be Understood more Colloquially as
Logic Our first inkling that pi is analytical Comes to Us in The first Chapter of the Novel but
We learn that he Studied Religion in College it Comes again Pages Later when it Is revealed that Pi's Own?
Curiosity His Desire to know and Understand is the Means by which he is introduced to Christianity and When
No one is at the church he Makes his Way Towards to seek This Information he Comes Back again
When Pi Does not believe what he Is told it's not
Necessarily Because it Contradicts With his Hinduism but Because of his Logic if God on the Cross is God
Shamming A
Human Tragedy it Turns the Passion of Christ Into The farce of Christ the death of the son must be real but Once A dead
God Always [A] dead God Even Resurrected why, Would God wish that upon Himself why?
Make Dirty what is beautiful Spoil what Is Perfect in A single Instant Is revealed to the [Audience] that [pi] Is
Logical he Draws out the [imperfections] that he Sees using Reason Coming to effective Conclusions Based upon his Own Mental Faculties he doesn't Ultimately
Accept Christ Because he Likes Him but Because he Can
Rationalize it not only This but Pi is also curious he wants to know more [About] god the Same ideas are
Articulated [During] his Interactions With the man who Introduces him to his [lawn] Mr.
Kumar [As] he Participates in The ritual of the Religion Because he wants to and While Certain Studies draw
Heavy Correlations between The Analytically Minded and an Atheistic Mindset Martel Creates an Interesting Juxtaposition between Such Expectations and Reality of [pie's]
Personality in The Novel As an Overtly Religious Individual who Retains his Capacities for Rational and intelligent
Thought Thus The fact that pi is able to Accept Religion as Completely as, he Does relates that he
Also Contains the Second Piece of the cognitive Puzzle Mentioned Earlier intuitive Thought
Association of Events a Process of [Realization] and Understanding that deals with the Recognition of Patterns and the
Association of Events the System Have Thought me Otherwise
We described as Magical Phone as god is the greatest Magician of all and such Thought has Been Associated With
Religious Inclination and While Magical Thought has A lot of Cognitive
Implications According to science Journalist Matthew Hudson There are Three basic Components of it dualism
Anthropomorphism and
Teleological Reasoning
What's unique About [pie] in the Narrative of his life Is that all Connections to god a lie upon this Final facet of Magical thought
Its Ability to find Meaning and Purpose and Events or objects in This way all three religions are able to bring pie to god that
Is to Say he's able to find the truth of The Divine in all of them for Instance on Page
25 When Pie tells Us of his first Encounter With Religion in A hindu Temple he has no Conscious Memory
Of This First Go-Around in A temple but some Smell of Incense
some Play of Light and Shadow
Some Flame some Burst of Color Something of the Sultriness and Mystery of the place must have stayed with him [Pi] has Loved of Hinduism
Because of The Feeling A Connection
an Interplay [of] Human and Divine in the sense of Mystery in Awe at the final result [pi] Goes on to say in the Same
Page my heart skips a beat when I Catch sight of The mercy of god Residing in the inner Sanctum of the Temple
Truly I am in a sacred
Cosmic Womb a place Where everything is Born and it Is my sweet luck to behold its Living Core Pi Experience is what he Believes
To be Divinity so it's no surprise then at the wonderment that he Feels is a primary Component of teleological Thinking Which
According To a study Performed by [pierre] [Carlo] [val] de Solo of Claremont mckenna College
Jesse Graham of The University of Southern California
May Lead to pattern Finding the mus Greater Religious Belief so the audience Shouldn't be Surprised to find that [Pi] Accepts
Christianity in Part Because of the, Awe he Experienced in The Person Christ Which According to [Pi] Himself
He Couldn't get out of his Head Because the more he Learned About him the
Less he Wanted to leave
The Same Exact Emotion Is Found Just A few Pages later when pi is introduced to Islam Through the sufi Mystic Mr.
Kumar a Hafiz
One who Knows the Quran by heart who sang it in A slow simple Chant as Arabic was Never very Good but he Loved it
Sound The Guttural Eruptions and Long Flowing Bowels rolled Just Beneath his Comprehension like a beautiful Book he Gazed Into This Book for Long Spells
Of Time it was not wide
Just One man's Voice it was as Deep as the Universe so it Shouldn't Surprise us then that when Looking at the Size and Scope
of the actual Universe in Space Many Astronauts Report Coming to Belief in God as Pi Said first
Wonder Goes Deepest this [awed] this TWo-Pronged Feeling of Inundation of the Vastness of
Experience and The Resulting Desire To explain it away
Is what brings Pi to God and what brings God to [pi] the result
Love Love not Only of Religion but of all Facets of Religion Pi has A love of Theology as
Is made Clear Through the Numerous Passages describing his extensive Knowledge about all Three
Of his Religions Pi Has A love of ritual as
Is made Clear Through the Blessing of Himself his Desire For a prayer Rug so as to pray Salat the Daily [5] Prayer ritual of
Muslims and When I want his Sailboat he Takes Part in Samadhi [or] State of Religious Ecstasy Part of Hindu Yoga in Which the Individual?
Seeks Union With Divinity and Wherein Pi is Visited by the most extraordinary Dreams
Trances Visions Thoughts Sensations and Remembrances Via The Use of his personal dream, we're Not too
Dissimilar to The Ancient Indian Use of the psychedelic drink Soma Which According to the Rig Veda
Allowed The [ancients] to become Immortal
Attain The Divine Light and Discover God but Most importantly Religion beget son to Pile of of animals Which are Probably some of the most
Significant Characters in The Novel as they Are integral to the
Articulation of Pious Narrative Especially When he Finds Himself Stranded in A lifeboat if it weren't for this Hyena the Sailor
Wouldn't Have Thrown me Into the [Sailboat] and [I] would have stayed on the Ship and I surely Would Have drowned then again Pages Later
[It] [was] Richard Parker the Lion who Calmed me Down?
Is the irony of this story that the one Who Scared me Witless to start With, was the very Same who Brought me Peace her
I daresay even Homeless if I still had the will to live it was Thanks to Richard Parker animals for pie in the Story Facilitate
Companionship Especially in The Affirmation Richard Marker Such Companionship
According to [Pi] Himself Is the Reason that he Is able to go on Living and thus in A sense These animals become the very
Means by which pi is able to survive to become Integral to his life Just as
They Are integral to the Religions he
Practices Take Hinduism for example Where in the Cow Is revered as a symbol of Bounty Maternal Strength and The sustenance of life?
Wherein the Tiger the great Companion of pi Is
Also the great Companion of the Lord Shiva whom pi has a Statue of in his House and who
Also is an Avatar of Lord Vishnu whom [pi] Thanks for Saving his Life Wherein all animals are Regarded as Having souls [that's] explaining why?
Pi and most hindus are Vegetarians the Same is true of Catholicism and Islam Pope John Paul
Ii Himself Having Said that animals Possess A soul that man must love and Feel Solidarity With our Small and Brethren and The Quran in
Surah 6 Verse 38 Telling all Muslims the animals like men live as Communities and Peoples that they too
Shall See
Paradise [Mart] Eldon Takes This Allegory A level Deeper as he Accords pie With an
Adoration of Animals [I] spent more Hours than I can
Count A quiet Witness to the highly Mannered Manifold Expressions of Life that Grace our Planet it is something so bright
Loud weird and Delicate as to stupefy the senses one that Is made Manifest in Page upon Page
Highly Organized an Intellectual Analysis of Animal
Biology in Pi's Weakness in The Face [of] Killing of Fish going so far as to regard Himself as Cain
Afterwards and his Exclusion of This Fish and The Maimed Zebra That Originally Accompanied pie Enrich Parker Earlier on
Anomaly in His Prayers The Meaning Behind all this is rather obvious [pie] Takes his Religion to Heart
He isn't a cafeteria
Catholic Or A Fly-By-Night
Hindu in Terms of his Action I lives out much of the dock [Space]
For pie Life and Religion Are One of the Same Two pieces of an inseparable Home hi Unable to know Where his life Ends Where
His Faith Begins A, cognitive Idea that is Highly Documented
What is by far my most Favorite Part of The Novel and Creating this Video Essay how [Martel]
Elucidated Such an Idea and How I came to this Conclusion
Allegory Allegory Is everywhere Throughout the Novel and Provides for the Affirmation Realization [pie] Lives his Religion Is very Named pie Scene Molitor Patel
Calls Back to Water The Piscine Molitor Swimming Pool in France Water of Course Being A
Symbol for Purity and Cleanliness at all Three
of his Relations When you look a little bit Deeper [you] find that no Swimming Pool in
Mamaji Zai Is the man who gave pie his Name Match the Glory of the Piscine Molitor it was the Crowning Aquatic Glory of Paris?
Indeed of the Entire Civilized World ergo [high] Is the purest of that Which is Already Pure Passed Forward A few Years when pie [Scene]
rechristened Himself as pie irrational Humble in Finite then Usually longer to Three-Digit
S3 Boy 1
The 3.14 Being Especially
Significant as Pie Doesn't end but is Infinite Rather interesting fact Considering that God Too is Infinitely Powerful
Knowing and benevolent then Consider The fact that his Name is a greek Letter in The Midst of the Alpha and They'll Make but all
The While Closer to the Divine end so not only is pi pure but he
Also has Elements of Divinity Incorporated Directly
Into his Identity but What's more pi is Walking Testament to Religion Hiya Simon called Peter Matthew
Called Levi Nathanael Called Bartholomew, Judas Called Thaddeus Simon Called Niger and Saul Called Paul
Why Because each of them Disciples of the Divine Had multiple Names so too does Pi but then pi is [mohammed] because of his
Persecution and Pi Is even Christ because of the Three Wise men That came to See his Family each Wanting to Claim this Uniquely Pious
Boy has Their [Own] Even The Terminology of Wise men Is significant as the Magi of the bible were not Magicians
With priests [The] Religion of Zoroastrianism
Which laid The Spiritual Foundations for Hinduism Christianity and Islam
But Perhaps Most Importantly pi is the biblical adam Think About it happen for a second where did he Live [A]
Garden Surrounded by animals Created by his eternal Father
Nothing About pie He lived amidst A man-Made garden Containing animals Created by his Own Father [my] father
Was A clever Businessman came up with
One he Ran [a] Hotel and he Got the idea to open a Zoo and the local botanical Gardens Instead
If you know Genesis you know
Adam Named All the animals that [exist] Just as pi is able to name fact upon fact
The Animal
[Biology] When [Pi] is Forced Onto his life boat after the sinking of the Ship Thus in Some he Becomes A desolate adam Just as
Adam was a Lonely man Surrounded by animals amidst of Pristine and Untouched
Earth With A direct Connection to the Divine so to his Pi a lonely man Surrounded [by] animals amidst a pristine and Untouched
Earth The Pure Connection to the Divine The [Timson] Itself
May Be Understood to be an Allusion to the ark of Noah in Genesis noah being A
Man Escaping The Evils of the antediluvian World so as to find Respite in the New Creation of
Post-Flood Life and [Pi's] Father being A
Man Escaping the Dark Age and Evils of Indian Democracy in The 1970s in Which Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
Instituted Martial Law Usurped The Indian Constitution
And Had Dissidents arrested so as to find Respite in A new life in Canada the mirrors between noah's Ark and the tim 'some as
A boat are
Also Obvious Both Having Carried The Fruit of God's Creation man and Animal the Name Itself Is even More significant Referring to the
Concept in The Esoteric School Judaic Thought Known as the Kabbalah Whereupon the Infinite Divine Light of God in The Form of the [Aisne] soul
Limited Itself an Act of creative Love so as to Make Possible
Creation and While The Fullness of this idea Is far too Complex to go
Into Now A meaning Behind Naming the boat as such Is a representation of Both the act of Creation and the Culmination of it
Finally Pi's Journey in The Ocean Ceases with A final allegory in A final Allusion to pi is adam when Pi finds the Mysterious Island
Of Floating Al J he Finds what he believes to be Perfection amidst his personal, hell of?
Isolation in Hunger is all he Could
Ever want to eat and Drink [in] the Companionship of the animals of the Island
[Nothing] he Thought Could Ever Push him to return to the lifeboat in The Suffering and Deprivation he Had endured on it
Nothing at First [One] May Regard This Island is a simple allegorical eat but When pie Digs Deeper he Finds that there is A gross
Unnatural T to the Island As described on Page
123 There was no ecology to the Island no insects no Shrubbery other Than the Algae Trees no rocks no Rodents
We meerkats the Many Ponds of The Island Originally Containing Fresh Water that pice Swam in and drank were Found to be Killing Saltwater Fish
Surrounding the Island but What ties all this to the true allegory is Knowledge and The Fruit that brings it on
Page 127 When Pi finds a single tree Containing Fruit which like the Island Appears to be Delicious
According to [Pi] [but] [Pion] rivals This quote-Unquote Fruit He Finds Inside A rotten Tooth and Thus A rotten Core
Sounds Familiar Doesn't it what [Pi] realizes Is that the Island Is not Fostering his Own Life Rather
Slowly
Working to Kill him as the Island Is Found out to Have acidic Properties during the Night and as A result the Island represents A
False eden and A False
Perfection Satan Tempting Pi to Indulge in The Lethargy of Having all Provided for him, While Slowly Eating
Away at his Physical Body Just as Satan Tempted Adam and Eve With a tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
Such Allegories Relate But There is no Separation for [Pi] and for Many Religious Individuals between Life and Religion for Pi's
Curiosity and Logic to his Love of all Facets of Religiosity [Pi] is Consumed by his Religion and is able to reveal
Who [he] is Through it in This way life of Pi serves as an
Exposition of Pi Self Through the Medium of Religion and in Reality it serves As an Exposition of the
Psychology [of] Religious Thought to the Person of Pi by yann