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Vi-vaad is a toolkit for the ego. Sama-vaad is a toolkit for the soul. Silence is a toolkit for sanity. ππππππ
Why The West Doesn't 'get' Joy / Contentment & The Need To Decolonise Hinduism
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Every Indian is born into a caste and a religion. But you cannot leave caste. You can only leave religion. This makes the doctrine of caste an antagonist of the doctrine of conversion.
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Caste as the opposite of conversion www.deccanherald.com/opinion/cast...
Elephants have been a symbol of wealth & power since ancient times. But how did the symbolic meanings of elephants evolve across Vedic, Hindu, Buddhist & Jain traditions? Why were they more culturally significant in India than China?
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Sanatan dharma is not bound to history or culture. It is the realisation that nothing is permanent. Seasons change. People die. Cultures rise and fall. Even death is not permanent. Hence, rebirth is integral to sanatan dharma.
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Very often historians are not aware of their prejudices, but it can be decoded from the tone, tilt and repetitive arguments of their narrations. Many also carry the burden of using history to right a historical wrong.
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Historianβs myth www.mid-day.com/news/opinion...
Along the Makran coast, sindoor is known as Hingula and was offered to Hinglaj Mata, whose oldest shrine is located in Balochistan. Even today, people travel from India to Balochistan to make offerings to her.
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Sindoor Goddesses of India:
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Delulu is by far my favorite Gen Z slag. It means delusional, but in a cheeky, sometimes endearing way. Human beings are often delulu in how we construct our realities. We believe what we want to believe. Who bothers with fact check when truth seems so self-evident.
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If one wishes to delve into etymology further, one could argue that India derives from Indu, meaning moon. Indumati was the name of Ramβs grandmother, the wife of King Aja of Ayodhya.
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Universe: Naming the land beyond Indus
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Modern culture rewards the eternally ravenous, who yearn for more & more resources, power, attention, glamour & victory, like the demon Baka-asura of Indian myth, for whom everything & everyone is an opportunity to be consumed
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Why Kubera is not Ganesha
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The Bhavishya Purana, or the chronicle of the future, is the earliest Sanskrit work that reveals some familiarity with West Asian myths.
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"When was the last time you went raw-dogging?
This Fatherβs Day, I launched my new column Gen Myth with Mumbai Mirror."
China was always centralised with the Dragon throne seeking tributes from the rest of the world. India is based on the Mandala model, a set of intersecting spheres of power that are endlessly pulsating, contracting & expanding over time.
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Buddhism and Jainism continue to thrive today as they did 1,200 years ago, under the Buddhist Pala kings of Bengal and Jain Rashtrakutas of Karnataka. They do so under the guise of vegetarian Hinduism that never existed in Vedic times.
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In many parts of Maharashtra, Buddhist caves are referred to as Pandav Leni or caves. There, we find many goddesses who are worshipped locally as Hindu goddesses, but who are in all probability Tantrik Buddhist goddesses like Aparajita
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The reason Buddhism thrived from the Ashokan period in the 3rd century BC to the Pala period in the 8th century CE is deeply linked to mercantilism. Buddha was even described poetically as the leader of a trade caravan.
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Lakshman Mandir, Sirpur
Built by the Mahasamund dynasty around 1300 years ago
Adorned with Vishnuβs Dashavatara, and named after Lakshman who is believed to be an avatar of Sheshnag.
Valmiki wanted Hanuman to communicate a profound idea β the idea of a person with power but without ambition, one who helps the helpless, and puts them in debt, and asks them to pay it forward, if they seek liberation.
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Punjab has a long history of egalitarian beliefs as it nurtured Sikh and Sufi thoughts. However, it also has a very high population of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (30 per cent), while Brahmins constitute a fraction of the population.
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Ramβs story has reached the masses not through erudite Sanskrit texts but through theatre, song and dance performed in local languages.
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Is truth a function of faith or scepticism?
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Universe: Truth, myth, fact, fiction and the inherited conviction www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment...
Muslims believe that all scripturesβTorah, Psalms, Gospel, Quranβwere revealed in the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, the Ramadan (Ramzan in Persian). Hence, during this month, people fast all day long and eat before sunrise and after sunset.
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The mercantile boom of India emerged 2,500 years ago, with caravans travelling from the Ganga river basin northwards towards Gandhara in the Indus river basin & southwards towards Ajanta & Ellora in the Godavari river basin
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Bharat = Haryana
Kishkinda = Chattisgarh
Lanka = Odisha
As per Valmiki Ramayana's Sugriva's Atlas.
Why is this not taught in Satvik Schools?
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The oral traditions of warrior communities are often overlooked and not given the importance they deserve, but they play a key role in determining the origins of many Rajput clans.
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The fire-born Rajputs
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Pottery in India holds religious and cultural significance, with pots used to represent deities and perform rituals.
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Why pots are integral to understanding culture indianexpress.com/article/upsc...
Rethinking the Past | KLF 2025 | LIVE www.youtube.com/live/2Xmuva2...
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No one knows when the pan-Indian practice of warrior widows burning themselves with (sahagamana) or without (anugamana) the corpse of their husband came to be known as βsatiβ β a word that means the chaste wife.
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Fire, fidelity and an inhuman heritage
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In Nepal, when people stopped worshipping the snake gods, the rains stopped and the rivers refused to flow.
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So many types of Nagas
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There are four reasons there is a bhakti boom. First, the realisation that science helps rich people get richer but does not resolve emotional issues or social problems. Second, the discovery of
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Stage-managed spirituality www.magzter.com/stories/news...