The Hindu worldview can be startling to those accustomed to a Western thought process, until we challenge the old definition of myth (‘the irrational, the unreasonable, the false’) and embrace a new definition (‘subjective truth expressed in stories, symbols and rituals, that shapes all cultures, Indian or Western, ancient or modern, religious or secular’). The Sanskrit word for subjective truth is mithya—not the opposite of objective truth, but a finite expression of satya, that which is infinite.