"Different perspective about this picture of an eagle and a snake"Initiator: Mrs. Ruchi Jain

Our discussion today on the topic 

"Different perspective about this picture of an eagle and a snake"

Initiator: Mrs. Ruchi Jain

View 1: Mrs. Sangeetha Thyagarajan

The picture seems confusing and makes us wonder who's hunting whom.

Looks like the eagle was carrying the snake and the snake wound itself around the eagle, forcing it to land and get its bearings.

The eagle needs to reinstate its supremacy even though it flattered due to carelessness.

View 2: Mrs. NAMAGIRI

Eagle represents honesty,truth,all that is good.But a snake represents evil and sin. The eagle does not have battle with the snake in the ground.It takes up ,flies high and wins as it has no strength in the air.

View 3: Mr. Priyank Jain

In my view where the eagle is eager for his fooding and hunting the snake but the snake is just not saving himself but he is attacking on the eagle. This picture is not declaring the winner. It may eagle or snake. Because the snake may crack eagle backbone any time where the eagle is in over confidence.

View 4: Azeez

Garuda how are you? asked for the snake from Paramashiva's neck

Garuda said that everything is better if it is taken from where anyone is.

It also has meaning.

The public in high places will respect you. Even your shadow will not respect you if you are down

Don't step on disrespecting people's threshold, Awwayyar said to the honorable man. It has meaning in what it said

A cart needs only two wheels to run. If one of the two is smaller then which car will run. Just like you, you should treat yourself in moderation. Relationship between superiors and inferiors. It means smallness

(Cinelyric written by the tamil poet KANNATHASAN)

The snake represents the Ahamkara (ego). When we poke a snake, it recoils instantly and spreads its hood to attack us. Similarly, when someone says something that we don't wish to hear, our ego spontaneously reacts. This ego lies inside the human body whereas, in the Gods and the Goddesses, the ego becomes powerless. It doesn't affect them because they govern it. Hence, Shiva uses this Ahamkara as an ornament because it doesn't find space within his body.

• OUR CREED AND AIM.

Eagle and Snake

A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves.

A race of freemen is necessarily a race of egoists.

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

To convert the exploiters to altruism is a fatuous programme–a maniac’s dream. The only remedy for social injustice is this: the exploited must save themselves by enlightened self-interest. The exploiters are certainly egoistic enough; the only hope for the exploited is for them to become equally so–yes, consistently, persistently egoistic. 

Egoism spells justice and freedom as surely as altruism spells charity and slavery.

O EXPLOITED PEOPLES! EXCEPT YE ARE CONVERTED AND BECOME AS PROUD AS THE EAGLE AND AS WISE AS THE SERPENT, YE SHALL IN NO WISE ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF JUSTICE.

• Do eagle eat snakes? 

No.

Snakes are carnivores, so they do eat other animals. They would not eat an eagle, though, because they wouldn't be able to catch one. Eagles are apex predators, at the top of the food chain. They have no natural predators except man. A snake may scavenge a dead eagle, but is unlikely to hunt a living one.

Still they fight for life. It is not a fight to save their life, it is a conversation between their lives.

View 5: Mrs. Abrar Khan

From nature, we can learn few values. From the picture,

1. We need to defend ourselves when it is required. 

2. Ego can destroy us.

3. Eagle has the ability to hold and fly, here the present world few people telling lies they try to fly. But they are not aware that God is watching. 

Even eagle has to come down with the prey.

So, with showing the picture we can ask the students to speak their views on values. This activity can be done for moral values.

View 6: Nahid Raza

Each creature has its own strength. When someone attacks it. It responds with it's strongest point. Both the players play with their strength. They know when to attack and when to defend. Their wiring of brain is such. Eagle was devastating sure to make the snake its prey due to its flight and grip along with its pointed and powerful beak. Flight gives it freedom to rule in the air. But snake fights with everything it has. It has immense capacity to coil and crush the Eagle to clot the flow of blood. Nature has its own way.

Eagle knows where to make grip. Hence it may be difficult for the snake to get rid of. Still nature has its own role to play.