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We try to compile all knowledge about Hinduism at one place, We try to unite people, spread idea's and aware people of the recent happenings around Globe which has an adverse or positive effect on Hindus and Hinduism. We specially want to clarify every unexplained topics on Hinduism.Muskan Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02140703434941808452noreply@blogger.comBlogger2144125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689024986347301300.post-56873321879929132572017-05-26T22:23:00.000+05:302017-05-26T22:23:38.621+05:30The ways of karma.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;">Every object in the universe is endowed with four characteristics: dharma, karma, prema and gyana. Of these, karma is the most talked about; it is also the most misunderstood. The Gita says: “Gahna Karmanyo Gathi” -- Unfathomable are the ways of karma. There are three types of karma: praarabdha, sanchita and agami. The first is latent karma, an impression or seed of action. The second is karma as action, and the third is karma as result. praarabdha means</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;"> ‘begun’; the action that is already manifesting and that is yielding its effect right now.<br /><br />You cannot avoid it or change it, as it is already happening. Sanchita is accumulated karma. It is latent or manifested in the form of a tendency or impression in the mind. Sanchita karma can be burned off by spiritual practices before it manifests. Agami karma is the future karma of action; that which has not yet come and which will take effect in the future. If you commit a crime, you may not get caught today, but will live with the possibility that one day you may get caught. Karma is also always bound by time, because every action has a limited reaction.<br /><br />If you do something good to people they will come to thank you and be grateful to you as long as they are experiencing the effect of your action. So, karma has only a limited sphere of its effect, be it good or badIt is often asked, “Why are good people made to suffer while those who commit injustice go unpunished?” Such questions arise when we see an event in its limited framework. No good action will yield a bad result and no bad action will bring a good result. This is the law of karma As you sow, so shall you reap.<br /><br />If you sow a mango tree, some thorny bushes may come up because of the seeds present in the manure brought from somewhere else. It is not the mango seed that brings up the thorny bush. Your mango seed will bring mango fruit, in due course. Karma is that which propels reincarnation. The stronger the impression, the greater the possibility of the next life being according to that. So, often you reincarnate like the person you hate or love. The mind which is full of different impressions leaves this body but the impressions await suitable situations to come back.<br /><br />So the last thought is very important. Whatever you do throughout your life, in the last moment your mind should be free and happy. Our perception of suffering, of good and bad, is always relative. God is absolute reality; a witness of all. See God as movie director, rather than as a judge. He has no ill feeling for the villain and no special favour for the hero. Each one is playing her role. An awareness of dharma helps in comprehending the strange ways of karma. Whenever you see bad karma or someone suffering, you need to help. ~ S S Ravi Shankar</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14px;">"Yasya Trayastrinshad Devaa Ange Sarve Samaahitaa, Skamma Tam Bruhi Katamah Swideva Sah”. ~(Atharva Veda 10-7-13)</span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14px;"><br />Which means: with God’s influence, these thirty-three (supporting devta) sustain the world.<br /><br />In Brhadaranyaka Upanishad while discussing Brahman, Yajnavalkya is asked how many gods are there. He says that there are three hundred and three and three thousand and three gods. When the question is repeated? He says, thirty three. When the question is again repeated he says, six. Finally, after several repetitions he says ONE. (Chapter I, hymn 9, verse 1)<br /><br />The number 33 comes from the number of Vedic gods explained by Yajnavalkya in Brhadaranyaka Upanishad – the eight Vasus, the eleven Rudras, the twelve Adityas, Indra and Prajapati. (Chapter I, hymn 9, verse 2)<br /><br />They are: 8-Vasu, 11-Rudra, and 12-Aaditya, 1-Indra and 1-Prajaapati.<br /><br />8. Vasus are: Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Ether, Moon, Sun, and Star. They are called Vasus, because they are abode of all that lives, moves or exists. (also mentioned in Mahabharat, 1/66/18)<br /><br />11. Rudras: The ten Pranas (Praana, Apaana, Vyaana, Samaana, Udaana, Naag, Kurma, Krikal, Devadutta and Dhananjaya) i.e. nervauric forces which live in the human body. The eleventh is the human soul. These are called ‘Rudras’ because when they desert the body, it becomes dead and the relations of the deceased, consequently, begin to weep. Rudra means one who makes a person to weep. { also mentioned in Harivansha 13/51-52})<br /><br />12. Adityaas ---the twelve months of a year called Adityaas, they cause the lapse of the term of existence of each object or being. { also mentioned in Mahabharat 1/65/15-16})<br /><br />1. Indra which is also known as the (all-pervading) electricity, as it is productive of great force.<br /><br />1. Prajaapati , also called the “Yajna” because it benefits mankind by the purification of air, water, rain and vegetables and because it aids the development of various arts, and in it the honor is accorded to the learned and the wise.<br /><br />The master of these 33 Devatas is the Mahadeva or Ishwar who alone is to be worshipped as per 14th Kanda of Shatpath Brahman.<br /><br />In HINDI :<br />हिंदू धर्म में 33 कोटि देवता की अवधारणा:<br /><br />वेदों नहीं 33 करोड़ Devatas लेकिन Devatas के 33 प्रकार के (संस्कृत में कोटी) को देखें. वे Shatpath ब्रह्म और बहुत स्पष्ट रूप से कई अन्य शास्त्रों में समझाया जाता है.<br /><br />"Yasya Trayastrinshad Devaa Ange Sarve Samaahitaa, Skamma टैम Bruhi Katamah Swideva साह". ~ (अथर्ववेद 10-7-13)<br /><br />इसका मतलब है: भगवान के प्रभाव के साथ, इन तैंतीस (देवता का समर्थन) दुनिया को बनाए रखने.<br /><br />Brhadaranyaka उपनिषद में ब्रह्म चर्चा करते हुए, याज्ञवल्क्य कितने देवता हैं वहाँ कहा है. उन्होंने +३०३ और +३००३ देवताओं रहे हैं कि कहते हैं. सवाल दोहराया जाता है? वह तैंतीस, कहते हैं. सवाल फिर दोहराया है जब वह छह, कहते हैं. अंत में, कई repetitions के बाद वह बोले. (अध्याय मैं, भजन 9, कविता 1)<br /><br />आठ वसुओं, ग्यारह रुद्र, बारह आदित्यों, इंद्र और प्रजापति - संख्या 33 Brhadaranyaka उपनिषद् में याज्ञवल्क्य के द्वारा समझाया वैदिक देवताओं की संख्या से आता है. (अध्याय मैं, भजन 9, कविता 2)<br /><br />वे हैं: 8 वासु, 11 रुद्र, और 12 आदित्य, 1 इंद्र और 1 Prajaapati.<br /><br />8. वसुओं हैं: पृथ्वी, जल, अग्नि, वायु, आकाश, चंद्रमा, सूर्य, और स्टार. वे सब कि रहता है, चलता रहता है या मौजूद का निवास कर रहे हैं, क्योंकि वे वसुओं कहा जाता है. (यह भी महाभारत, 1/66/18 में उल्लेख किया है)<br /><br />11. रुद्र: मानव शरीर में रहते हैं यानी nervauric बलों दस Pranas (Praana, Apaana, Vyaana, Samaana, Udaana, नाग, Kurma, Krikal, Devadutta और धनंजय). ग्यारहवें मानव आत्मा है. वे शरीर रेगिस्तान, जब यह मृत हो जाता है और मृतक के संबंधों क्योंकि ये 'रुद्र' कहा जाता है, फलस्वरूप, रोने लगते हैं. रुद्र रोने के लिए एक व्यक्ति करता है जो मायने रखता है. ) {भी Harivansha 13/51-52 में उल्लेख किया है}<br /><br />12. एक वर्ष के बारह महीनों Adityaas बुलाया Adityaas ---, वे प्रत्येक वस्तु या होने के अस्तित्व की अवधि की चूक के कारण. ) {भी महाभारत 1/65/15-16 में उल्लेख किया है}<br /><br />1. यह महान शक्ति के उत्पादक के रूप इंद्र जो भी, (सभी सर्वव्यापी) बिजली के रूप में जाना जाता है.<br /><br />1. यह विभिन्न कलाओं का विकास एड्स, और उस में सम्मान सीखा है और बुद्धिमान के लिए दी जाती है क्योंकि यह हवा, पानी, बारिश और सब्जियों की शुद्धि से मानव जाति को लाभ मिलता है और क्योंकि यह भी "यज्ञ" कहा जाता Prajaapati,.<br /><br />इन 33 Devatas के मास्टर अकेले Shatpath ब्रह्म की 14 वीं कांडा प्रति के रूप में पूजा जा रहा है जो महादेव या ईश्वर है.<br /><br />Hindi in English :<br />Hindū dharma mēṁ 33 kōṭi dēvatā kī avadhāraṇā:<br /><br />Vēdōṁ nahīṁ 33 karōṛa Devatas lēkina Devatas kē 33 prakāra kē (sanskr̥ta mēṁ kōṭī) kō dēkhēṁ. Vē Shatpath brahma aura bahuta spaṣṭa rūpa sē ka'ī an'ya śāstrōṁ mēṁ samajhāyā jātā hai.<br /><br />"Yasya Trayastrinshad Devaa Ange Sarve Samaahitaa, Skamma ṭaima Bruhi Katamah Swideva sāha". ~ (Atharvavēda 10-7-13)<br /><br />Isakā matalaba hai: Bhagavāna kē prabhāva kē sātha, ina taintīsa (dēvatā kā samarthana) duniyā kō banā'ē rakhanē.<br /><br />Brhadaranyaka upaniṣada mēṁ brahma carcā karatē hu'ē, yājñavalkya kitanē dēvatā haiṁ vahām̐ kahā hai. Unhōnnē +303 aura +3003 dēvatā'ōṁ rahē haiṁ ki kahatē haiṁ. Savāla dōharāyā jātā hai? Vaha taintīsa, kahatē haiṁ. Savāla phira dōharāyā hai jaba vaha chaha, kahatē haiṁ. Anta mēṁ, ka'ī repetitions kē bāda vaha bōlē. (Adhyāya maiṁ, bhajana 9, kavitā 1)<br /><br />Āṭha vasu'ōṁ, gyāraha rudra, bāraha ādityōṁ, indra aura prajāpati - saṅkhyā 33 Brhadaranyaka upaniṣad mēṁ yājñavalkya kē dvārā samajhāyā vaidika dēvatā'ōṁ kī saṅkhyā sē ātā hai. (Adhyāya maiṁ, bhajana 9, kavitā 2)<br /><br />Vē haiṁ: 8 Vāsu, 11 rudra, aura 12 āditya, 1 indra aura 1 Prajaapati.<br /><br />8. Vasu'ōṁ haiṁ: Pr̥thvī, jala, agni, vāyu, ākāśa, candramā, sūrya, aura sṭāra. Vē saba ki rahatā hai, calatā rahatā hai yā maujūda kā nivāsa kara rahē haiṁ, kyōṅki vē vasu'ōṁ kahā jātā hai. (Yaha bhī mahābhārata, 1/66/18 mēṁ ullēkha kiyā hai)<br /><br />11. Rudra: Mānava śarīra mēṁ rahatē haiṁ yānī nervauric balōṁ dasa Pranas (Praana, Apaana, Vyaana, Samaana, Udaana, nāga, Kurma, Krikal, Devadutta aura dhanan̄jaya). Gyārahavēṁ mānava ātmā hai. Vē śarīra rēgistāna, jaba yaha mr̥ta hō jātā hai aura mr̥taka kē sambandhōṁ kyōṅki yē'rudra' kahā jātā hai, phalasvarūpa, rōnē lagatē haiṁ. Rudra rōnē kē li'ē ēka vyakti karatā hai jō māyanē rakhatā hai. ) {Bhī Harivansha 13/51-52 mēṁ ullēkha kiyā hai}<br /><br />12. Ēka varṣa kē bāraha mahīnōṁ Adityaas bulāyā Adityaas ---, vē pratyēka vastu yā hōnē kē astitva kī avadhi kī cūka kē kāraṇa. ) {Bhī mahābhārata 1/65/15-16 mēṁ ullēkha kiyā hai}<br /><br />1. Yaha mahāna śakti kē utpādaka kē rūpa indra jō bhī, (sabhī sarvavyāpī) bijalī kē rūpa mēṁ jānā jātā hai.<br /><br />1. Yaha vibhinna kalā'ōṁ kā vikāsa ēḍsa, aura usa mēṁ sam'māna sīkhā hai aura bud'dhimāna kē li'ē dī jātī hai kyōṅki yaha havā, pānī, bāriśa aura sabjiyōṁ kī śud'dhi sē mānava jāti kō lābha milatā hai aura kyōṅki yaha bhī"yajña" kahā jātā Prajaapati,.<br /><br />Ina 33 Devatas kē māsṭara akēlē Shatpath brahma kī 14 vīṁ kāṇḍā prati kē rūpa mēṁ pūjā jā rahā hai jō mahādēva yā īśvara hai.</span></div>
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<li><b><span style="font-size: large;">Preface</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: large;">Subhash Chandra Bose's Life</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: large;">Start of the opposition to British by Subhash Chandra Bose</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: large;">Subhash Chandra Bose in Britain for ICS and return to India</span></b></li>
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<li><b><span style="font-size: large;">Subhash Chandra Bose Vs. Congress</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: large;">Formation of 'Azad Hind Fauj' by Subhash Chandra Bose</span></b></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: large;">Effect of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's earlier visits to England</span></b></li>
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Subhash Chandra Bose was one of India's greatest freedom
fighter. He was the founder of the Indian National Army, popularly known
as 'Azad Hind Fauj'. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose had visited London
during pre-independence period to discuss the future of India, with the
members of the Labor party. His sudden disappearance from Taiwan, led to
surfacing of various theories, concerning the possibilities of his
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Subhash Chandra Bose was born on 23 January, 1897 in Cuttack
(Orissa) to Janakinath Bose and Prabhavati Devi. Janakinath Bose was one
of the successful lawyer in Cuttack and received the title of "Rai
Bahadur". He, later became a member of the Bengal Legislative Council.<br /><br />
Subhash Chandra Bose was a very intelligent and sincere student but
never had much interest in sports. He passed his B.A. in Philosophy from
the Presidency College in Calcutta. He was strongly influenced by Swami
Vivekananda's teachings and was known for his patriotic zeal as a
student. He also adored Vivekananda as his spiritual Guru. <br />
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Subhash Chandra Bose decided to take revenge, after reading so
many incidents about the exploitation of the fellow Indians by the
British. In 1916, Subhash reportedly beat and thrashed one of his
British teachers E F Otten. The professor made a racist remark against
the Indian students. As a result, Subhash Chandra Bose was expelled from
the Presidency College and banished from Calcutta University. The
incident brought Subhash in the list of rebel-Indians. In December 1921,
Bose was arrested and imprisoned for organizing a boycott of the
celebrations to mark the Prince of Wales's visit to India.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> Subhash Chandra Bose's father wanted him to become a civil
servant and therefore, sent him to England to appear for the Indian
Civil Service Examination. Bose was placed fourth with highest marks in
English. But his urge for participating in the freedom movement was
intense that in April 1921, Bose resigned from the coveted Indian Civil
Service and came back to India. Soon, he left home to become an active
member of India's independence movement. He, later joined the Indian
National Congress, and also elected as the president of the party.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><u><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7689024986347301300" name="5"></a>Subhash Chaandra Bose with Congress</u></span></h2>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">
Subhash Chandra Bose worked under the leadership of Chittaranjan
Das, an active member of Congress in Calcutta. It was Chittaranjan Das,
who along with Motilal Nehru, left Congress and founded the Swaraj
Party in 1922. Subhash would regard Chittaranjan Das as his political
guru.<br /><br /> While Chittaranjan Das was busy in developing the
national strategy, Subhash Chandra Bose played a major role in
enlightening the students, youths and labors of Calcutta. He was eagerly
waiting to see India, as an independent, federal and republic nation.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><u><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7689024986347301300" name="6"></a>Subhash Chandra Bose Vs. Congress</u></span></h2>
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In freedom struggle congress was large organisation. Subhash
Chandra Bose became a strong leader in Congress and he made brave
attempt to mould the entire party differently. Congress party was always
lenient and never in a position to oppose. Saubhashbabu outrightedly
opposed this behaviour. This opposition was against Gandhi‘s philosophy.
Therefore Mahatma Gandhi and other leaders were hurt and since then
they opposed him.<br /><br /> Congress party had undertaken a deed of
opposing his every thoughts, insulting him and cut down his wings of
high flyer. In this manoeuvre of congress many of times he felt
suffocated. Once there was a picture of ‘Subhash Chandra Bose against
entire congress party’. It was first election of congress that time.
Usually closer aide of Mahatma Gandhi used to get elected; but this time
Subhash Chandra Bose got elected with higher votes. This insulted
Gandhi group, which lead to their less interest of thinking towards
parties campaign for independence.<br /><br /> In order to
acknowledge outside support and get freedom he went till Germany, Japan
when it was period of 2nd world war! He decided to induce soldiers from
outside to get freedom. Nehru at that time said “If Subhash would
bring soldiers from outside and enter India, then I would be the first
person to take sword in hand and oppose him.” so much he disgust
Subhash. <br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7689024986347301300" name="7"></a>Formation of Azad Hind Fauj by Subhash Chandra Bose</span></h2>
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<b><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"> Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was against rendering any kind
of help to the British during the World War II. He warned them so. The
second World War broke out in September of 1939, and just as predicted
by Bose, India was declared as a warring state (on behalf of the
British) by the Governor General, without consulting Indian leaders. The
Congress party was in power in seven major states and all state
governments resigned in protest.<br /><br /> Subhash Chandra Bose now
started a mass movement against utilizing Indian resources and men for
the great war. To him, it made no sense to further bleed poor Indians
for the sake of colonial and imperial nations. There was a tremendous
response to his call and the British promptly imprisoned him . He took
to a hunger-strike, and after his health deteriorated on the 11th day of
fasting, he was freed and was placed under house arrest. The British
could do nothing except locking him in the prison.<br /><br /> It was
in 1941, that Subhash Chandra Bose suddenly disappeared. The
authorities did not come to know for many days that he was not in his
Barrack (the house in which he was being guarded). He traveled by foot,
car and train and resurfaced in Kabul (now in Afghanistan), only to
disappear once again. In November 1941, his broadcast from German radio
sent shock waves amongst the British and electrified the Indian masses
who realized that their leader was working on a master plan to free
their motherland. It also gave fresh confidence to the revolutionaries
in India who were challenging the British in many ways.<br /><br />
The Axis powers (mainly Germany) assured Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
military and other help to fight the British. Japan by this time had
grown into another strong world power, occupying key colonies of Dutch,
French, and British colonies in Asia. Netaji Bose had struck alliance
with Germany and Japan. He rightly felt that his presence in the East
would help his countrymen in freedom struggle and second phase of his
saga began. It is told that he was last seen on land near Kiel canal in
Germany, in the beginning of 1943. A most hazardous journey was
undertaken by him under water, covering thousands of miles, crossing
enemy territories. He was in the Atlantic, the Middle East, Madagascar
and the Indian ocean. Battles were being fought over land, in the air
and there were mines in the sea. At one stage he traveled 400 miles in a
rubber dingy to reach a Japanese submarine, which took him to Tokyo. He
was warmly received in Japan and was declared the head of the Indian
army, which consisted of about 40,000 soldiers from Singapore and other
eastern regions. These soldiers were united by another great
revolutionary Rash Behari Bose. Rash Behari handed over them to Netaji
Subhash Chandra Bose. Netaji Bose called it the Indian National Army
(INA) and a government by the name "Azad Hind Government" was declared
on the 21st of October 1943. INA freed the Andaman and Nicobar islands
from the British and were renamed as Swaraj and Shaheed islands. The
Government started functioning. <br /><br /> Subhash Chandra Bose
wanted to free India from the Eastern front. He had taken care that
Japanese interference was not present from any angle. Army leadership,
administration and communications were managed by Indians only. Subhash
Brigade, Azad Brigade and Gandhi Brigade were formed. INA marched
through Burma and occupied Coxtown on the Indian Border. A touching
scene ensued when the solders entered their 'free' motherland. Some lay
down and kissed, some placed pieces of mother earth on their heads,
others wept. They were now inside India and were determined to drive out
the British! Delhi Chalo (Let's march to Delhi) was the war cry.<br /><br /> The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki changed the history of mankind. Japan had to surrender.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7689024986347301300" name="8"></a>Effect of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's earlier visits to England</span></h2>
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During his sojourn to England, he met with the leaders of
British Labor Party and political thinkers including Clement Attlee,
Arthur Greenwood, Harold Laski, G.D.H. Cole, and Sir Stafford Cripps.
Bose also discuss with them about the future of India. It must also be
noted that it was during the regime of the Labor Party (1945-1951), with
Attlee as the Prime Minister, that India gained independence.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7689024986347301300" name="9"></a>Disappearance of Subhash Chandra Bose</span></h2>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">
Although it was believed that Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose died
in a plane crash, his body was never recovered. There have so many
theories been put forward regarding his abrupt desertion. The government
of India set up a number of committees to investigate the case and come
out with truth. <br /><br /> In May 1956, the Shah Nawaz Committee
visited Japan to look into the situation of Bose's assumed death. Citing
their lack of political relations with Taiwan, the Centre, did not seek
for the assistance from their government. The reports of Justice
Mukherjee Commission, tabled in Parliament on 17 May, 2006 said, "Bose
did not die in the plane crash and the ashes at Renkoji temple are not
his". However, the findings were rejected by the government of India.</span></b><br />
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<strong><br /><u><i><span style="color: red;">References :</span></i></u></strong><b><u><i><span style="color: red;"><br /><br />1. <a href="http://www.culturalindia.net/leaders/netaji-subhash-chandra.html" target="_blank">Culture India</a><br />2. <a href="http://hinduholocaust.com/heroes/subbose.htm" target="_blank">Hall of Heroes</a><br />3. <a href="http://dainiksanatanprabhat.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daily Sanatan Prabhat</a></span></i></u></b></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689024986347301300.post-40780620846485170912017-01-23T10:39:00.000+05:302017-01-23T10:39:38.439+05:30We will win no wars with old weapons<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stephen P Cohen and Sunil Dasgupta, in their book ‘Arming without
Aiming: India’s Military Modernization’ (2010) have focused on the
dilemmas of India’s militarisation. The core problem is that India is
culturally and socially not a militarised state. While the armed forces
are praised and are popular, they are not the fulcrum of the nation.
India’s diplomatic and military policies are marked by restraint rather
than aggression. They are reflective of Indian mind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Military mindset : Nehru versus Subhash</span></h3>
<span style="font-size: large;">Nehru might be blamed in isolation for ruining India’s defence
production. But he was conditioned by the matrix of
historical-cultural-economic forces. Should a newly independent nation,
not self-sufficient in food production, invest in weapons ? Without
building up heavy industries (problem addressed in the Second Five Year
plan) self-sufficiency in defence production was a chimera. India had
achieved its independence by civilian methods – not warfare or
Revolution. The armed forces had played no role in shaping of India’s
republican polity. Those soldiers who had joined Netaji Subhas Chandra
Bose’s Azad Hind Faujj were discredited as traitors. On this issue Nehru
and India’s iron man Sardar Patel were one. These were the challenges
of stepping up indigenous defence production.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It is purely conjectural what would have happened if Netaji Subhas
Bose had been triumphant in his mission. Perhaps he, like George
Washington, would have commanded the nation. One can imagine the India
of Subhash Bose would have been mentally tougher than India of Nehru.
India could have transformed itself into a robust state despite its
perennial mindset. Bose himself had been a Khadi clad Congressman before
he became the Supreme Commander of Azad Hind Fauj.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The issue of India becoming self-reliant in defence matters was not
lost on Subhash Bose. NG Ganpuley in his book Netaji in Germany : A
Little Known Chapter tells how Netaji had met President of Skoda
(originally a Czech arms manufacturing company) in Prague. He had
promised to help Indians set up arms manufacturing facilities and train
its staff when India became independent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Still a lightweight in air</span></h3>
<span style="font-size: large;">Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, formed by merger to two aviation
companies in 1964, is running in its 50th year. The original company
Hindustan Aircraft Limited was set up in Mysore State in 1940. But its
long product line is about light aircraft and light helicopters. India
cannot produce Advanced Light Helicopters, Medium Lift Helicopters let
alone heavy lift helicopters like Chinuk. Thus for purchasing military
aircraft and helicopters we need to be dependent on likes of Agusta
Westland, Boeing, Eurocopter etc.</span><br />
<h3>
<span style="font-size: x-large;">The Tatra Trucks case</span></h3>
<span style="font-size: large;">Building trucks is no rocket science. But we need to import trucks
even while excelling in rocket science. Close to 8000 Tatra Trucks are
being used by the Indian Army in various modifications. The number is
less than five per cent of authorized motorised vehicles used by the
Army. Bharat Earth Movers Limited (established 1964) now known by
acronym BEML is the authorised importer of those trucks. Since 1997,
these trucks have not been purchased directly from the company but
through a vendor Tatra Siphox UK. For the last 24 years, it has not been
able to achieve full indigenisation of Tatra as originally envisaged.
The BEML had converted the currency of payment from dollars to euros
causing a loss of Rs 4 crores and did not levy Liquidated Damages
charges resulting in loss of another Rs 9.27 crores. The BEML chief VRS
Natarjan was suspended, and later retired. Ravi Rishi, CEO of Tatra
Siphox UK is behind the bars. The CBI claims under Natarajan the BEML
had partially surrendered indigenisation rights.</span><br />
<h3>
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Scientists leaving DRDO</span></h3>
<span style="font-size: large;">The DRDO (Defence Research Defence Organisation) is the backbone of
India’s R&D in military matters. The DRDO has developed missiles,
aeronautical systems, radars, sonars, torpedoes, combat vehicles,
bridges etc. This organisation is of critical importance for
indigenisation of defence manufacturing. But for the last few years, it
has been in news for scientists quitting it. In the last five years, 443
scientists at various levels have resigned from the organisation. This
information came from Defence Minister AK Antony to the Rajya Sabha on
March 20, 2013 in response to a question put by BJP’s Piyush Goyal.</span><br />
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<st rong=""> <span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;"><b>Scientists resigned from DRDO</b></span></st><br />
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<td valign="top" width="110"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Post</span></strong></td>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Year</span></strong></div>
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<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">2008</span></strong></div>
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<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">2009</span></strong></div>
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<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">2010</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">2011</span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">2012</span></strong></div>
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<td valign="top" width="110"><span style="font-size: large;">Scientist ‘B’</span></td>
<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;">83</span></div>
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<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;">41</span></div>
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<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;">38</span></div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;">58</span></div>
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<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;">46</span></div>
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<td valign="top" width="83"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;">266</span></div>
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<td valign="top" width="110"><span style="font-size: large;">Scientist ‘C’</span></td>
<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;">64</span></div>
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<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;">18</span></div>
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<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;">18</span></div>
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<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;">21</span></div>
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<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;">16</span></div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="83"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;">137</span></div>
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<td valign="top" width="110"><span style="font-size: large;">Scientist ‘D’</span></td>
<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;"> 9</span></div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;"> 2</span></div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;"> 2</span></div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;"> 5</span></div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;"> 4</span></div>
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<td valign="top" width="83"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;"> 22</span></div>
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<td valign="top" width="110"><span style="font-size: large;">Scientist ‘E’</span></td>
<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;"> 5</span></div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;"> 1</span></div>
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<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;"> 3</span></div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;"> 1</span></div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;"> 1</span></div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="83"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;"> 11</span></div>
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<td valign="top" width="110"><span style="font-size: large;">Scientist ‘F’</span></td>
<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;"> 1</span></div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;"> 3</span></div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;"> 2</span></div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;"> 1</span></div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;"> -</span></div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="83"><div align="center">
<span style="font-size: large;"> 7</span></div>
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<td valign="top" width="110"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Total</span></strong></td>
<td valign="top" width="88"><strong><span style="font-size: large;"> 162</span></strong></td>
<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">65</span></strong></div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">63</span></strong></div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">86</span></strong></div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="88"><div align="center">
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">67</span></strong></div>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="83"><div align="center">
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">443</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Though the resigned scientists have indicated personal / domestic
grounds for leaving DRDO, it is assumed they have secured lucrative
opportunities elsewhere. The Government has now declared a slew of
incentives to retain the scientists.</span><br />
<h3>
<br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">
A middleman with Congress background</span></h3>
<span style="font-size: large;">The challenges of indigenous production are no less than importing
weapons and equipments. Though we perceivably have an honest Defence
Minister, the UPA Government seems to have become a playground for
middlemen. The most pronounced case is that of Abhishek Verma, who is
now lodged in Tihar jail along with his Romanian wife Anca Neascu. He is
charged with trying to bribe a Defence Ministry official on behalf of
American small gun manufacturer Sig Sauer. Interestingly Abhishek Verma,
a proclaimed con man, is the son of late Hindi poet Shrikant Verma.
Shrikant Verma (1933-1986) was national spokesperson of the Congress (I)
and Rajya Sabha member on Congress ticket. Abhishek’s mother Veena
Verma was also a Rajya Sabha member from the Congress. His political
connections helped him until he overreached.</span><br />
<h3>
<span style="font-size: x-large;">A leader with a vision</span></h3>
<span style="font-size: large;">Much depends upon who leads India. Wars are won and lost in the mind.
The same applies to preparation for war. I had concluded an earlier
article by saying we need a strong political leader like Narendra Modi
to ensure India’s indigenous defence production base expanded. I am not
surprised that he is thinking along the right lines. </span><br />
<strong>Source: <a href="http://www.niticentral.com/2013/05/17/we-will-win-no-wars-with-old-weapons-78815.html" target="_blank">Niti Central</a></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Captain Lakshmi Sehgal helped Netaji Subhashcandra Bose to escape by
putting up a brave fight for 16 hours on Burma border with the army
that had latest weapons !
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Subhashbabu founds ‘Jhansi Rani Lakshmi Squad’ and Lakshmi takes up its leadership</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Captain Lakshmi divides the squad in different contingents and marches to fight the British army</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Jhansi Rani
squad defeats squad of valiant British soldiers and forces them to
surrender in the battle fought on the border of Hindustan and Mynamar
(Burma)</span></li>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7689024986347301300" name="1"></a>Subhashbabu founds <br />‘Jhansi Rani Lakshmi Squad’ and Lakshmi takes up its leadership</span></h2>
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Captain Lakshmi was born at Chennai on 24.10.1914. At the age of 24, she
passed MBBS examination in 1938. She heard speeches of Netaji
Subhashchandra at Singapore, was influenced and drawn to ‘Azad Hind
Sena’.<br /><br />Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi was born on 22nd October. On the
same day in the year 1943, Subhashbabu founded ‘Jhansi Rani Lakshmi
Squad’ in ‘Azad Hind Sena’. Lakshmi took over the leadership of this
squad.</span> <br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7689024986347301300" name="2"></a>Captain Lakshmi divides the squad <br />in different contingents and marches to fight the British army</span></h2>
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Along with her different contingents, Captain Lakshmi marched towards
battlefield to fight against her enemy i.e. the British army. In fact,
she didn’t have enough food, clothes or ammunition. The part where she
was to go, was full of thick forest and vallies.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7689024986347301300" name="3"></a>Jhansi Rani squad defeats
squad of valiant British soldiers and forces them to surrender in the
battle fought on the border of Hindustan and Mynamar (Burma)</span></h2>
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An order was received to march at early morning. The British army must
have been a mile away and it charged on the squad. Captain Lakshmi
immediately ordered to retaliate. Jhansi Rani squad attacked the British
army, guns started firing, cannons started blowing fire balls at the
enemy. The acclamations of ‘Jai Hind’, ‘Inquilab Zinzabad’, ‘Azad Hind
Zindabad’ made the British squad to tremble. The firing went on amongst
the slogans. Captain Lakshmi’s ‘Rani of Jhansi’ won. Rani Jhansi squad
forced the brave squad of British soldiers to surrender in the battle
fought on the border of Hindustan and Burma.</span><br />
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<strong>Source : Mr. Nivrutti B. Shirodkar (Dainik Navprabha’, 3.11.1999)</strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Being
in Delhi, anyone fascinated by India's ancient scientific brilliance
cannot afford to miss the Jantar Mantar. This historic observatory is
located on Sansad Marg near Connaught Place. If you are in the mood for a
walk, you can do so from the Rajiv Chowk Metro Station. Otherwise, it's
a 5 minute ride in an auto-rickshaw.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The
"Jantar Mantar" is a common name used to denote the set of 5
astronomical observatories built by Maharaja Jai Singh II. Apart from
the Delhi, these observatories are located in Jaipur, Mathura, Ujjain
and Varanasi. Except the one in Ujjain, all the others have stood the
test of time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The term Jantar Mantar seems to
be a corruption of the term "Yantra Mantra", where Yantra means
Instrument and Mantra means Formula. It can also be a corruption of the
term "Yantra Mandir", which translates into Temple of Instruments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Jantar Mantar in Delhi had a total of 4 major instruments, listed below:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1) Samrat Yantra</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2) Ram Yantra</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">3) Jai Prakash Yantra</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">4) Mishra Yantra</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The
images of these instruments are shown below. It is understood that the
Samrat Yantra is unparalleled in its size, and is clearly the largest
sundial in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Please find all scientific information about the instruments in this enlightening document:</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.jantarmantar.org/Architecture_Science_web.pdf"><span style="font-size: large;">http://www.jantarmantar.org/Architecture_Science_web.pdf</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is wonderful to note that Indians used scientific instruments of such huge proportionality so many years back !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Tirupati Balaji temple is one of the most revered holy sites of Hindu religion and many people believe that life of a devout Hindu is not fulfilled till the time he visits this temple. Let’s go through few of the amazing facts about Tirupati Balaji</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Laddus have been used as Prasad in the temple since the last 300 years. To counter the black market of Laddus developing on the name of Tirupati Balaji Temple, the laddus were patented under the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act. The pious offering was introduced in the year 1715 and today, and as of today more than 150000 laddus are made daily.</span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: decimal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.3800000000000001; margin-bottom: 19.5pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-e75caf8e-b379-2455-e95a-d57a85c53d24"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The whole process of standing in a queue for Darshan could be tiring. To have more comfort in your trip, it is recommended that you travel in Chennai to Tirupati cab. Savaari.com is a reliable provider of </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.savaari.com/chennai/outstation-cabs" style="text-decoration: none;">Chennai cab service.</a></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Introduction of Maharana Pratap</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Childhood of Maharana Pratap</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Maharana Pratap's Coronation</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Unbreakable oath to free 'Motherland' by Maharana Pratap</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Battle of Haldiighat: Supreme fighter 'Maharana Pratap.'</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Severe destiny of Maharana Pratap</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Devotion of Bhamashah towards Maharana Pratap</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7689024986347301300" name="maharana-pratap-1" style="color: #005399; cursor: pointer;"></a><span style="color: red;">Introduction of Maharana Pratap</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Maharana Pratap is a name worth remembering to begin one’s day with. His name is engraved with gold among the list of valiant kings who protected the Nation, Dharma, Culture and Freedom of this country by sacrificing his life! This is a holy remembrance of his valor!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Who does not know the name of the great king of Mewar, Maharana Pratap Singh? In the history of India, this name has always proved to be motivating for qualities like valor, bravery, sacrifice and martyrdom. Many brave warriors like Bappa Rawal, Rana Hamir, Rana Sang were born unto the Sisodiya family of Mewar and were given the title of ‘Rana’ but the title of ‘Maharana’ was only bestowed on Pratap Singh. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Maharana Pratap was born in 1540. Rana Uday Singh, the Second, of Mewar had 33 children. Among them, the eldest was Pratap Singh. Self-respect and virtuous behavior were the main qualities of Pratap Singh. Maharana Pratap was bold and brave right from his childhood, and everyone was sure that he was going to be a very valiant person as he grew up. He was more interested in sports and learning to wield weapons rather than general education.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">During Maharana Pratap Singh’s time, Akbar was the Mughal Ruler in Delhi. His policy was to make use of the strength of Hindu kings to bring other Hindu Kings under his control. Many Rajput kings, abandoning their glorious traditions and fighting spirit, sent their daughters and daughters-in-law to the harem of Akbar with the purpose of gaining rewards and honor from Akbar. Uday Singh appointed before his death, Jagammal, the son of his youngest wife as his heir although Pratap Singh was elder to Jagammal but he was ready to give up his rights like Prabhu Ramchandra and go away from Mewar but the chieftains did not at all agree with their king’s decision. Besides they were of the opinion that Jagammal did not possess qualities like courage and self-respect which were essential in a leader and king. Hence it was collectively decided that Jagammal would have to sacrifice the throne. Maharana Pratap Singh too gave due respect to the wish of the chieftains and the people and accepted the responsibility of leading the people of Mewar.<br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Maharana Pratap's enemy had surrounded Mewar at all its’ boundaries. Shakti Singh and Jagammal, the two brothers of Maharana Pratap had joined Akbar. The first problem was to gather enough soldiers to fight a face-to-face war which would have required vast money, but Maharana Pratap’s coffers were empty whereas Akbar had a large army, a lot of wealth and a lot more at his disposal. Maharana Pratap, however, did not get distracted or lose heart nor did he ever say that he was weak as compared to Akbar.<br /><br />Maharana Pratap's only concern was to immediately free his motherland from the clutches of the Mughals. One day, he called a meeting of his trusted chieftains and made an appeal to them in his serious and lustrous speech. He said, “My brave warrior brothers, our Motherland, this holy land of Mewar, is still under the clutches of the Mughals. Today, I take an oath in front of all of you that till Chittod is freed, I will not have food on gold and silver plates, will not sleep on a soft bed and will not stay in the palace; instead I will eat food on a leaf-platter, sleep on the floor and stay in a hut. I will also not shave till Chittod is freed. My brave warriors, I am sure that you will support me in every way sacrificing your mind, body, and wealth till this oath is fulfilled.” All the chieftains were inspired with the oath of their king and they too promised him that till their last drop of blood, they would help Rana Pratap Singh to free Chittod and join him in fighting the Mughals; they would not retreat from their goal. They assured him, “Rana, be sure that we all are with you; waiting only for your signal and we are ready to sacrifice our life.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Akbar tried his best to bring Maharana Pratap under his clutches; but all in vain. Akbar got angry as no compromise could be arrived at with Maharana Pratap, and he declared war. Maharana Pratap also started preparations. He shifted his capital to Kumbhalgad in the Aravalli range of mountains which was difficult to access. Maharana Pratap recruited tribal people and people dwelling in forests in his army. These people had no experience of fighting any war, but he trained them. He appealed to all Rajput chieftains to come under one flag for Mewar’s independence.<br /><br />Maharana Pratap's army of 22,000 soldiers met 2,00,000 soldiers of Akbar at Haldighat. Maharana Pratap and his soldiers exhibited great valor in this battle although he had to retreat but Akbar’s army was not successful in completely defeating Rana Pratap. <br /><br />Maharana Pratap and his faithful horse named ‘Chetak’ also became immortal in this battle. ‘Chetak’ was seriously injured in the battle of Haldighat but to save his master’s life, it jumped over a big canal. As soon as the canal was crossed, ‘Chetak’ fell and died thus it saved Rana Pratap, risking its life. The strong Maharana cried like a child over the death of his faithful horse. Later he constructed a beautiful garden at the place where Chetak had breathed its last. Then Akbar himself attacked Maharana Pratap but even after six months of fighting the battle. Akbar could not defeat Maharana Pratap and go back to Delhi. As a last resort, Akbar sent another great warrior General Jagannath in the year 1584 with a huge army to Mewar but after trying relentlessly for two years, even he could not catch Rana Pratap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Maharana Pratap used to take his family with him even when wandering in the jungles and valleys of the mountains. There always used to be the danger of the enemy attacking at anytime from anywhere. Getting proper food to eat was an ordeal in the forests. Many times, they had to go without food; they had to wander from one place to another without food and sleep in the mountains and forests. They had to leave the food and immediately proceed to another place on receiving information about the enemy’s arrival. They were constantly trapped in some catastrophe or the other.<br /><br />Once the Maharani was roasting ‘bhakris (Indian bread)’ in the forest; after eating their share, she asked her daughter to keep the left over ‘bhakri’ for dinner, but at that time, a wild cat attacked and took away the piece of ‘bhakri’ from her hand leaving the princess crying helplessly. That piece of ‘bhakri’ was also not in her destiny. Rana Pratap felt sorry to see the daughter in such state; he got angry with his valor, bravery, and self-respect and started thinking whether all his fighting and bravery was worth it. In such a wavering state of mind, he agreed to call a truce with Akbar. A poet named Prithviraj from Akbar’s court, who was an admirer of Maharana Pratap, wrote a long letter in the form of a poem to him in Rajasthani language boosting his morale and dissuading him from calling a truce with Akbar. With that letter, Rana Pratap felt as if he had acquired the strength of 10,000 soldiers. His mind became calm and stable. He gave up the thought of surrendering to Akbar, on the contrary, he started strengthening his army with more intensity and once again immersed himself in accomplishing his goal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There was a Rajput chieftain serving as a minister in the regime of forefathers of Maharana Pratap. He was very much disturbed with the thought that his king had to wander in forests and was going through such hardships. He felt sorry to know about the difficult times Maharana Pratap was going through. He offered a lot of wealth to Maharana Pratap that would allow him to maintain 25,000 soldiers for 12 years. Maharana Pratap was very happy and felt very grateful.<br /><br />Maharana Pratap initially refused to accept the wealth offered by Bhamashah but at his constant insistence, he accepted the offering. After receiving wealth from Bhamashah, Rana Pratap started receiving money from other sources. He used all the money to expand his army and freed Mewar except Chittod which was still under the control of the Mughals. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Maharana Pratap was lying on the bed made of grass even when he was dying as his oath of freeing Chittod was not still fulfilled. At the last moment, he took his son Amar Singh’s hand and handed over the responsibility of freeing Chittod to his son and died in peace. There is no comparison in history to his fight with a cruel emperor like Akbar. When almost the whole of Rajasthan was under the control of the Mughal Emperor Akbar, Maharana Pratap fought for 12 years to save Mewar. Akbar tried various means to defeat Maharana, but he remained unbeatable till the end. Besides, he also freed a large portion of land in Rajasthan from the Mughals. He underwent so much of hardship, but he preserved the name of his family and his Motherland from facing defeat. His life was so bright that the other name for freedom could have been ‘Maharana Pratap.' We pay tribute to his valiant memory! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When Swamiji</strong> was at Khetri about a year previously, the Maharajah of Khetri had begged of him to confer the boon of a son and Swamiji while he was in one of his higher moods had actually blessed him saying that God had granted his prayer. So the Maharajah wanted Swamiji back in his palace at any cost and could not remain contented until he saw him. When I went over there after my office work I prostrated before Swamiji and took my seat; and suddenly Swamiji began to sing a Hindi song in praise of Shivaji in his own masterly way, the last two lines of which were:—</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">दावा द्रुमदंड पर चित्ता मृग झुंड पर, भूषण बितंड पर जैसे मृगराज हैं ।</em></strong><br /><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">तॆज तम अंशपर काह्न जिम कंसपर, त्यॊंमिलेच्छवंसपर शर शिवराज हैं ॥</em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was a long</strong> song as I learnt it afterwards; but I who had learnt in my school days that Shivaji was a cunning unprincipled freebooter, ‘an upstart robber,’ a marauder and a treacherous mur-derer, suddenly interrupted Swamiji and asked him how that praise and those lines were justified in the case of Sivaji. Was he not a mere child of fortune, a marauder who collected similar men like himself and succeeded in establishing a kingdom by sheer cunning and treachery? Swamiji imme-diately gave up his singing and saw me full in the face, his face being lit up with the fire of indignation and said,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.hinduhumanrights.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Shivaji-Maharaj1.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4131" src="http://www.hinduhumanrights.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Shivaji-Maharaj1-300x171.jpg" height="171" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Shivaji Maharaj" width="300" /></a><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“You are a Mahratta</strong> and still that is all you know of the greatest king that India had produced within the last three hundred years; one who was the very incarnation of Siva, about whom prophecies were given out long before he was born; and his advent was eagerly expected by all the great souls and saints of Maharashtra as the deliverer of the Hindus from the hands of the Mlechchas and one who succeeded in the establishment of the Dharma which had been trampled under foot by the depredations of the devastating hordes of the Moghals.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I was simply</strong> thunderstruck and seemed to myself so small, so foolish and so ignorant; still the spirit of enquiry in me could not be put down even by those eloquent and fiery words of indignation which Swamiji gave expression to, for I thought whatever might be said of Shivaji there could be no explanation for his treacherous conduct towards Afzul Khan, the great Pathan commander sent from the court of Bijapur, whom he is said to have killed under circumstances which any one who has a spark of morality in him could not but abhor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.hinduhumanrights.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/shivaji_statue_20080707.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4135" src="http://www.hinduhumanrights.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/shivaji_statue_20080707-300x212.jpg" height="212" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="shivaji_statue_" width="300" /></a><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Still with some</strong> amount of hesitation but with a mischievous curiosity to find out how Swamiji could condone this treacherous deed of Shivaji, I begged of him to tell us something about the real life-history of Shivaji and what he thought of his one act which had been considered the greatest blot in his life and on account of which his character had been painted so black.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Then Swamiji</strong> began to give a brief account of the life of Shivaji, with great feeling and enthusiasm and we listened to the same with great eagerness and rapt attention; for so engrossing and interesting it was to listen to those soul-stirring words of Swamiji who spoke at the time with so great an earnestness and yet with so much pity and kindness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.hinduhumanrights.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/3632678714_6dd7dc8995_o.gif" style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4136" src="http://www.hinduhumanrights.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/3632678714_6dd7dc8995_o-210x300.gif" height="300" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Swami Vivekananda" width="210" /></a><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was a pity there</strong> was no one to take down all that he spoke that evening in shorthand, nor did I make any notes at the time either, for my mind was so absorbed in following his narrative that the idea of taking down any notes never entered my brain. Yet the indelible impressions he made on even our callous hearts that memorable evening do still persist though somewhat dimmed, and the following is but an imperfect reproduction of those impressions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Doctor,” began</strong> Swamiji, “it is a pity that in our schools, History of India written by foreigners alone is taught to our boys. The foreign writers of the Mahratta History can never shake off their bias nor understand the real character and greatness and the inner motive of the actions of Shivaji.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We cannot</strong> blame them for their beliefs which more or less depended on the writings of the Mussalman chroniclers who out of spite and hatred, denounced Shivaji as a felon or freebooter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On the other hand</strong> there are many Mahratta bakhars or chroniclers who have written about him but who, true to their ancient puranic ideal, looked upon Shivaji as an incarnation of God born to relieve His devotees from the oppressions of Mahomedan fanaticism and to re-establish the Dharma.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.hinduhumanrights.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Shivaji_The_Tiger.jpg" style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignleft wp-image-4139" src="http://www.hinduhumanrights.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Shivaji_The_Tiger.jpg" height="368" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Shivaji_The_Tiger" width="267" /></a>Naturally the foreign</strong> writers leaned on the side of the Mussalman chroniclers and considered the account given by the Mahrattas as mere superstition. But fortunately there are many independent Persian manuscripts dealing with the history of Aurangzeeb, Shivaji and the Bijapur kings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They corroborate</strong> the account of the Mahratta chroniclers so far as facts are concerned, though they do not share in their belief of the superhuman nature of the exploits of Shivaji.And if young men who have any patriotic feeling towards the history of their motherland were to make researches in finding out and translating these manuscripts much truer light may be thrown on the greatness of the doings of Shivaji and of many others who helped in the formation of the great Mahratta Confederacy and it will be a valuable addition to our knowledge of the real History of India.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">From the Archives of The Vedanta Kesari<br />The Echoes of Teachings of Swami Vivekananda<br />IV<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(November 1914, p. 218-219)</em></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689024986347301300.post-22649913952643497222016-03-23T12:37:00.000+05:302016-03-23T12:37:20.020+05:30Let's celebrate Holi and Rangapanchami in righteous way !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b>History of Holi</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Rituals of Holi</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Subtle drawing of the Holi ritual by Sanatan Sanstha's seekers </b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Tradition of Holi</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Significance of Holi</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Do's and Dont's during the Holi Festival</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Celebrate Holi in the traditional way !</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b>But did you ever ponder over this ?</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Curbing Malpractices during Holi is our Religious Duty !<br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Dhoolivandan </b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Rangapanchami</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b>HJS's appeal to Hindus !</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7689024986347301300" id="1" name="1"></a><span style="color: red;">History of Holi</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Bhavishya purana narrates a story in the context of this festival
which is as follows - A female demon invaded a village and she started
harassing little children. Hence the people obscenely abused and cursed
her, they lit a fire everywhere to frighten her and thus drove her
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<span style="font-size: large;">In this festival the main emphasis is laid on the burning of Holika
or lighting of the Holi bonfire. The origin of the traditional lighting
of Holi is attributed by some to the burning of evil demons like Holika,
Holaka and Putana who troubled little children or to the burning of
Madan (the Deity of Beauty who tried to distract Lord Shiva's
meditation) according to others.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">According to some scholars this is probably a remnant of the
tradition of fire worshippers. However one should not light the Holi
bonfire during the day. First the doer should purify himself and make
the resolve 'I am performing this ritual of worship along with my family
to overcome the trouble wrought by the demons' After the Holi
sacrificial fire dies down, it should be extinguished by sprinkling milk
and ghee and then fruits like coconuts and pomelo should be distributed
to the people assembled there. The entire night should be spent
joyfully in dance and song.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This particular full moon day carries special importance as this day
holds the Raja-Tama in the atmosphere in its original fire-form (Tej).
This is the day when the Principle of the Primal Shakti from the
Universe, which imparts dissolution, is active in a Marak form. The
worship of this Principle helps the jiva by purifying its subtle body
and to a certain extent the atmosphere around it is also purified. The
worship performed on this day liberates the jiva from its Raja-Tama
orientation. Thus in a way, the jiva is reborn after this Pournima.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Hutashani Pourninma (nature's first sacrificial fire) and Ninad (yell) the reason for the yell.</b>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Due to not being able to tolerate the marak Shakti and satvikta
of the Deities that get prakat in this sacrificial fire, the negative
energies get disturbed and begin to move at an incredible speed. Due to
this, a negative pressure is created in the environment. The pockets of
subtle vacuum in the atmosphere get filled with the negative energies
and they start to dash into one another due to the sheer numbers rushing
into the subtle vacuum at the same time. This causes them to create a
yowling sound. This is why this Holi pournima is called Hutashani
(yelling) pournima.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A representation or immitation of this sound is the yelling that
people do during the Holi sacrificial fire. The spontaneous sound that
is generated out of a person when falling from a great height is a
shrieking type of sound which is known as Hutashana. (For example - The
butterflies in the stomach that are experienced when in downward motion
whilst sitting in a giant wheel are due to the pressure which is
experienced in the pockets of vacuum in the stomach. This in turn
creates surrounding vacuum pockets in the adjoining area in the stomach.
In the entire stomach cavity, the air that rushes in to fill these
pockets of vacuum creates a subtle sound due to the speed of its
movement. There is no word to describe this sound and so it is called
'subtle hutashana' These subtle sounds which have been generated in the
body cavity are released through the medium of the actual yelling
sounds.) - Brahma tatva (18.5.2006 7.58 am.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7689024986347301300" id="3" name="3"></a><span style="color: red;">Tradition of Holi</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seeing the form of the Holi festival as prevalent today one realises
that this festival is basically celebrated at a social level. Though
over the passage of time a number of religious and cultural rites and
rituals have been included in it by more civilised people, yet the
social form of this festival has still remained intact. Holikotsav,
Dhulikotsav and Rangotsav are the three festivals which stand out
easily. Holi, Dhulvag and Rangapanchami are their popular names.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Beginning from the full moon day (pournima) of the Hindu lunar month
of Phalgun till the fifth day (panchami) this festival is celebrated for
two to five days depending on the regional variations. It has various
names such as Hori, Dolayatra in North India, Shimga, Holi and Hutashani
mahotsav, Holikadahan (burning of Holika) in Goa, Konkan and
Maharashòra and Kamadahan (burning of desires) in South India. One can
also call it Vasantotsav or Vasantagamanotsav that is the festival
celebrated to welcome the Vasant (spring) season.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It is a festival of radiance (Tej) in the universe. During this
festival, different waves of radiance traverse the universe, thereby
creating various colours that nourish and complement the function of
respective elements in the atmosphere. - A Scholar (Through Ms Anjali
Gadgil)
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<span style="font-size: large;">* Burn dry wood instead of wet wood.<br />
* Do not steal wood for the Holi bonfire.<br />
* Celebrate Holi keeping in mind it's purpose of uniting the Hindus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Recently, citing reasons of deforestation, Anti-Dharmik Organisations
like the Andha-shraddha Nirmulan Samiti (ANIS) have been giving wrong
advice to the people in society encouraging them to use garbage to light
the Holi fire. One should not light the Holi sacrificial fire with
garbage, since it pollutes the environment. Rather, if Holi is
celebrated with the bhav of worshipping the Deity Holika, the atmosphere
will become sattvik.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> There is wide scale deforestation throughout the year on account of
felling of trees for construction purposes, production of paper and
other activities backed by man's selfish interests. However, so-called
environmenta-lists ignore this and wake up from their slumber to create a
hue and cry over the felling of trees on Holi, the religious occasion
for Hindus that is celebrated once in a year. Their contention is that
'Trees are cut during Holi, which causes damage to the environment'.
They also make fake appeals like - 'Burn (eradicate) evil thoughts in
the fire of Holi' or 'Burn garbage in the fire of Holi'. Do not fall
prey to such false, sacrilegious reasoning; but celebrate Holi and
Rangapanchami as prescribed by Hindu Holy scriptures and use natural
colours.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Dry wood should be used instead of felling good trees
to light Holi fires. Also, the basic objective of celebrating Holi is
to forget our differences and come together. If people bear this in mind
and celebrate the festival, they can save wood by having just one Holi
sacrificial fire for the entire village or locality instead of each
group separately burning wood for Holi. When Holi is celebrated, as per
traditional practices, it is essential that the sanctity of the
religious practice be maintained. Sanctity will be lost if dirt and
garbage is used for the sacrificial fire of Holi.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the present times, there are a lot of malpractices taking place in
the name of celebrating Holi. Similarly, on the day of Rangapanchami,
people indulge in malpractices such as - throwing balloons filled with
dirty water, applying dangerous dyes and colours to the body etc. These
malpractices harm Dharma, and thus, putting an end to them is our
religious duty. Spread this word in society and even after doing so, if
you come across such incidents, lodge complaints with the Police.
Sanatan Sanstha conducts public awareness campaigns in this regard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On this day either the ashes of Holi or dust is worshipped. This is
the first day (pratipada) in the dark fortnight of the Hindu lunar month
of Phalgun. Dhoolivandan itself is Dhulvad in Marathi. After
ritualistic worship the ashes of the Holi sacrificial fire is offered
obeisance with the following mantra which means:</span><br />
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"O dust (dhuli), Brahma,<br />
Vishnu and Mahesh salute you,<br />
Hence O Deity of the elements,<br />
Grant us opulence and protect us."<br />
</span><span style="font-size: large;">Lord Vishnu performed Dhoolivandan at the beginning of Tretayuga. The
implied meaning is, Lord Vishnu began His 'work' through the
incarnation of various radiant colours. Rang panchami, played without
Dhoolivandan signifies the 'Play' (Leela) of the Incarnation, which is
manifest in the forms of various colours. The Dhoolivandan is the
worship of the destroyer form of the Deities. - A Scholar (Through the
medium of Ms Anjali Gadgil)</span><br />
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<img align="left" alt="krishna-holy" src="http://www.hindujagruti.org/hinduism/festivals/holi-rangapanchami/images/holy_krishna.jpg" height="219" hspace="4" vspace="1" width="350" /><span style="font-size: large;">It
is celebrated on the fifth day (panchami) in the dark fortnight of the
Hindu lunar month of Phalgun by throwing a red, fragrant powder (gulal)
and splashing coloured water, etc. on others.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The fire, which shines with its brilliance on Holi, decomposes the
raja-tama particles in the atmosphere and this helps activate various
Deities in the form of colours. This bliss is celebrated by throwing
colours in the air. Thus, Rang Panchami is a symbol of victory over
raja-tama. Rang Panchami, played on Falgun Vadya Panchami involves
invocation of Gods and is a part of worship of the manifest form of
Gods. Its purpose is to activate the five elements of radiant manifest
colours and to touch and feel the Deities who are attracted to the
respective colours. These five elements are a source, which help
activate the element of the Deities according to the spiritual emotion
of the Jiva. Rang Panchami is the worship of the saviour form of the
Deities. - A Scholar (Through the medium of Ms Anjali Gadgil)
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Let us stop immoral practices during this Rangapanchami and Protect Dharma</strong><br />
1. Do not apply colours forcibly. Stop people from doing so and give them the reasons.<br />
2. Stop those who extort money from people on the roads.<br />
3. Stop beggars from wearing masks of Deities.<br />
4. Stop people from using excessive colours and hurling water balloons.<br />
5. Do not use harmful chemical colours.<br />
- A Scholar (Through the medium of Ms Anjali Gadgil, 26th February 2006, 11.09 a.m.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is wide scale deforestation throughout the year on account of
felling of trees for construction purposes, production of paper and
other activities which are fuelled by man's selfish interests. However,
so-called environmentalists ignore this and wake up from their slumber
to create a hue and cry over the felling of trees on Holi, the occasion
of Hindus that is celebrated just once in a year. Their contention is
that 'Trees are cut during Holi, which causes damage to the
environment'. They also make fake appeals like 'One should burn
(eradicate) one's evil thoughts in the fire of Holi'. They irreverently
appeal to people to 'Burn garbage in the fire of Holi'. Hindu
Janajagruti Samiti appeals to all Hindus that they should not fall prey
to such misguided thoughts and pseudo appeals and should instead
celebrate Holi and Rangapanchami as prescribed by the Hindu Holy
Scriptures by using natural colours.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The appeal letter further states that dry wood be used instead of
felling good trees for Holi. Also, the basic objective of celebrating
Holi is for one and all to forget their differences and come together.
Thus, if people bear this in mind and celebrate the festival, they can
save wood by having just one sacrificial fire of Holi for the entire
village or locality instead of each group separately burning wood for
Holi.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If the directive of the so-called environmentalists to burn
garbage in the sacrificial fire of Holi is followed, then poisonous
gases emitted by poisonous waste will in turn lead to more pollution.
Thus, do not implement such dangerous directives. When Holi is
celebrated, as per traditional practices, it is essential that the
sanctity of the religious practice be maintained. The sanctity of the
festival will be lost if dirt and garbage is used for the sacrificial
fire of Holi. The HJS also asserts that why does one need the pretext of
Hindu festivals to burn (eradicate) one's evil thoughts; they (evil
thoughts) can be eradicated at every moment, right through the entire
year !</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Several malpractices, such as the use of dangerous colours containing
chemicals that harm the skin, throwing balloons at people which are
filled with colours and dirty water, smearing colours on people
forcibly, consuming liquor and misbehaving with ladies, eve teasing,
fighting, polluting lakes and wells with colours, etc. have crept into
the festival of Rangapanchami, which in reality is a blissful event. The
HJS appeals to all to prevent the occurrence of such malpractices and
celebrate the festival of Rangapanchami in a traditional way using
natural colours.- Shri. Ramesh Shinde, Spokesperson for Maharashtra
State, HJS</span><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">>>Related News</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This news report appeared in the Times Of India regarding HJS'
campaign to protect Khadkwasla Dam from pollution on Rangpanchami.</span><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Volunteers to protect Khadakwasla dam</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Manjiri Damle<br />
[23 Mar, 2005 TIMES NEWS NETWORK ]</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">PUNE: Volunteers of the city based Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS)
will deploy a team of volunteers to protect the Khadakwasla dam water
from pollution on Holi and Rangpanchami day.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A statement released by the HJS here on Wednesday said that hundreds
of youths smeared with colours come to bathe at the Khadakwasla dam on
Holi and Rangpanchami. "The colours used for the festivals contain
harmful chemicals. Since Pune draws its drinking water from Khadakwasla
dam it was the duty of every Puneite to protect the dam water from this
pollution", the statement said.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">As many as 70 volunteers of the HJS will stand guard at the
Khadakwasla dam right from morning till evening on March 26 (Holi) and
March 30 (Rangpanchami). They will prevent revellers from entering the
water and bathing in it. Another team of volunteers will also patrol the
city areas to prevent incidents like eve-teasing and other untoward
incidents during the celebrations.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The statement said that this time volunteers of the Khadakwasla
grampanchayat, local police and employees of the irrigation department
have also decided to assist HJS activists in their drive. It further
said that during Holi and Rangpanchami a large number of youths come to
the dam and park their vehicles haphazardly which results in traffic
jams. This puts added pressure on the police, HJS said adding that the
Samiti decided to pitch in and do the job of guarding the dam.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1060192,prtpage-1.cms</span><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">(Ref.: Sanatan's Publication : Holy Festivals, Religious Festivals and Vowed Religious Observance <br />
Compilers : H.H. Dr. Jayant Athavale and Dr. (Mrs) Kunda Athavale)</span></strong><br />
<em>Courtesy: <a href="http://sanatan.org/eng/masik/2007/2/festivals.htm" target="_blank">Monthly Sanatan Prabhat </a></em><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Towards the end of every ritualistic worship (pooja or bhajan) of God or to welcome an honored guest or saint, we perform the aarati. This is always accompanied by the ringing of the bell and sometimes by singing, playing of musical instruments and clapping.</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">It is one of the sixteen steps (shodasha upachaara) of the pooja ritual. It is referred to as the auspicious light (mangla niraajanam). Holding the lighted lamp in the right hand, we wave in a clockwise circling movement to light the entire form of God. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Each part is revealed individually and also the entire form of God. As the light is waved we either do mental or loud chanting of prayers or simply behold the beautiful form of God, illumined by the lamp. At the end of the aarati we place our hands over the flame and then gently touch our eyes and the top of the head. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">We have seen and participated in this ritual from our childhood. Let us find out why we do the aarati? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Having worshipped God with love - performing abhisheka, decorating the image and offering fruits and delicacies, we see the beauty of God in all His glory. Our minds are focused on each limb of God as the lamp lights it up. It is akin to silent open-eyed meditation on His beauty. The singing, clapping, ringing of the bell etc. denote the joy and auspiciousness, which accompanies the vision of God. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Aarati is often performed with camphor. This holds a telling spiritual significance. Camphor when lit, burns itself out completely without leaving a trace of it. It represents our inherent tendencies (vaasanas). When lit by the fire of knowledge which illumines God (Truth), our vaasanas thereafter burn themselves out completely, not leaving a trace of ego which creates in us a sense of individuality that keeps us separate from God. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Also while camphor burns to reveal the glory of God, it emits a pleasant perfume even while it sacrifices itself. In our spiritual progress, even as we serve the guru and society, we should willingly sacrifice ourselves and all we have, to spread the "perfume" of love to all. We often wait a long while to see the illumined God but when the aarati is actually performed, our eyes close automatically as if to look within. This is to signify that each of us is a temple of God. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Just as the priest reveals the form of God clearly with the aarati flame, so too the guru reveals to us the divinity within each of us with the help of the "flame" of knowledge (or the light of spiritual knowledge). At the end of the aarati, we place our hands over the flame and then touch our eyes and the top of the head. It means - may the light that illuminated God light up my vision; may my vision be divine and my thoughts noble and beautiful. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">The philosophical meaning of aarati extends further. The sun, moon, stars, lightning and fire are the natural sources of light. God is the source of this wonderous phenomenon of the universe. It is due to Him alone that all else exist and shine. As we light up God with the flame of the aarati, we turn our attention to the very source of all light, which symbolizes knowledge and life.</span></span></span><br />
<img src="http://www.excitingindia.in/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/pooja-aarti-festive-diwali.jpg" /><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Also the sun is the presiding deity of the intellect, the moon, that of the mind, and fire, that of speech. God is the supreme consciousness that illuminates all of them. Without Him, the intellect cannot think, nor can the mind feel, nor the tongue speaks. God is beyond the mind, intellect and speech. How can this finite equipment illuminate God? Therefore, as we perform the aarati we chant; </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Na tatra suryo bhaati na chandra taarakam </span><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Nemaa vidyuto bhaanti kutoyamagnib </span><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Tameva bhaantam anubhaati sarvam </span><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Tasya bhasa sarvam idam vibhaati</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">He is there where the sun does not shine, </span><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Nor the moon, stars and lightning. </span><br /><span style="color: #333333;">then what to talk of this small flame (in my hand), </span><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Everything (in the universe) shines only after God, </span><br /><span style="color: #333333;">And by His light alone are we all illumined.</span><br /><br /><b><span style="color: orange;">~By Swamini Vimalananda</span></b></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689024986347301300.post-67450417225917625252016-01-12T21:47:00.000+05:302016-12-01T11:56:12.571+05:30Swami Vivekananda – Principles and Philosophy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Vivekananda was a renowned thinker in
his own right. One of his most important contributions was to
demonstrate how Advaitin thinking is not merely philosophically
far-reaching, but how it also has social, even political, consequences.
One important lesson he claimed to receive from Ramakrishna was that
“Jiva is Shiva ” (each individual is divinity itself). This became his
Mantra, and he coined the concept of daridra narayana seva – the service
of God in and through (poor) human beings. If there truly is the unity
of Brahman underlying all phenomena, then on what basis do we regard
ourselves as better or worse, or even as better-off or worse-off, than
others? – This was the question he posed to himself. Ultimately, he
concluded that these distinctions fade into nothingness in the light of
the oneness that the devotee experiences in Moksha. What arises then is
compassion for those “individuals” who remain unaware of this oneness
and a determination to help them. Vivekananda didn’t advocate the
emerging area of parapsychology, astrology (one instance can be found in
his speech Man the Maker of his Destiny, Complete-Works, Volume 8,
Notes of Class Talks and Lectures) saying that this form of curiosity
doesn’t help in spiritual progress but actually hinders it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Swami Vivekananda belonged to that
branch of Vedanta that held that no-one can be truly free until all of
us are. Even the desire for personal salvation has to be given up, and
only tireless work for the salvation of others is the true mark of the
enlightened person. He founded Sri Ramakrishna Math and Mission on the
principle of Atmano Mokshartham Jagad-hitaya cha (for one’s own
salvation and for the welfare of the World).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Vivekanda adviced to be holy , unselfish
and have shraddha (faith). He encouraged the practise of Brahmacharya.
In one of the conversations with his childhood friend Sri Priya Nath
Sinha he attributes his physical and mental strengths, eloquence to the
practice of brahmacharya.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, Vivekananda also pleaded for a
strict separation between religion and government (“church and state”).
Although social customs had been formed in the past with religious
sanction, it was not now the business of religion to interfere with
matters such as marriage, inheritance and so on. The ideal society would
be a mixture of Brahmin knowledge, Kshatriya culture, Vaisya efficiency
and the egalitarian Shudra ethos. Domination by any one led to
different sorts of lopsided societies. Vivekananda did not feel that
religion, nor, any force for that matter, should be used forcefully to
bring about an ideal society, since this was something that would evolve
naturally by individualistic change when the conditions were right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The turban that Vivekananda used to wear
is generally believed to be suggested by Maharaja of Khetri. But some
followers of Ayyavazhi claim that Vivekananda visited the Swamithope
Pathi during his visit to Kanyakumari in December 1892 and believe that
he was impressed by the principles behind rituals of this monistic
faith, such as wearing a head gear during worship in temple, worshipping
in front of mirror etc., and started wearing a turban then on. Some
also suggest that Vivekananda received some spiritual instructions from
the disciples of Ayya Vaikundar. [1] There is no mention of this in
Vivekananda’s biographies or works. It is also said that while he was a
child, he was impresssed by the turban of the horse cab driver, who used
to ferry his father on his daily work. Subsequently when he renounced
the world and took to sanyasa, he started using one himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Though it may not be obvious but Swami
Vivekananda inspired India’s (whom he loved so dearly) freedom struggle
movement. His writings inspired a whole generation of freedom fighters
in Bengal in particular and India at large. Most prominent were Subhas
Chandra Bose, Aurobindo and countless others.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Source: <a href="http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Swami_Vivekananda_-_Principles_and_Philosophy/id/5498561" target="_blank">http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Swami_Vivekananda_-_Principles_and_Philosophy/id/5498561</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Photograph: Vivekananda House in South Pasadena – Swami Vivekananda
stayed in this house for six weeks in 1900. On the left is the
Vivekananda House as it is today. On the right is Swami Vivekananda
standing in front of the house in 1900.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.yousaytoo.com/aditya/rare-photos-swami-vivekananda/18461" target="_blank">http://www.yousaytoo.com/aditya/rare-photos-swami-vivekananda/18461</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">How does Quantum Physics work? You may ask.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In this article we discuss a very brief simplified history of Quantum
Mechanics and will quote what the founding fathers of this branch of
science had to say about it.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">We are not interested in new age mumbo-jumbo. We are interested in
understanding what is real and what is false. This is why we, along with
all other great minds, consult the Vedic texts. Please read on…</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The famous Danish physicist and Nobel Prize Laureate Niels Bohr
(1885-1962) (pictured above) was a follower of the Vedas. He said “I go
into the Upanishads to ask questions.” Both Bohr and Schrödinger, the
founders of quantum physics, were avid readers of the Vedic texts and
observed that their experiments in quantum physics were consistent with
what they had read in the Vedas.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Niels Bohr got the ball rolling around 1900 by explaining why atoms
emit and absorb electromagnetic radiation only at certain frequencies.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Then, in the 1920′s Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), an Austrian-Irish
physicist (pictured below), who won the Nobel prize, came up with his
famous wave equation that predicts how the Quantum Mechanical wave
function changes with time. Wave functions are used in Quantum Mechanics
to determine how particles move and interact with time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" src="http://www.krishnapath.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Schrodinger-1024x945.jpg" height="590" title="Schrödinger read the Veda's regularly" width="640" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class=" alignleft" src="http://www.krishnapath.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Werner-Heisenberg-239x300.jpg" height="300" title="Werner Heisenberg" width="239" /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In the 1920′s Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) (pictured at Left)
formulated his famous uncertainty principal, which states that when a
physicist attempts to observe a subatomic particle, the experimental
apparatus inevitably alters the subatomic particle’s trajectory. This is
because they are trying to observe something that is of the same scale
as the photons they are using to observe it.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">To be more specific, to observe something that is subatomic in size
one must use a device (apparatus) that projects photons at the particle
that is being observed. This is because the reception of photons by our
retina are what we call vision. Basically, to observe something, we must
bounce photons off it. The problem is that the photons disturb the
subatomic particles because they are of the same size. Thus, there is no
way to observe subatomic particles without altering their trajectories.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Bohr, Heisenberg and Schrödinger regularly read Vedic texts.
Heisenberg stated: “Quantum theory will not look ridiculous to people
who have read Vedanta.” Vedanta is the conclusion of Vedic thought.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Furthermore, Fritjof Capra, who was interviewed by Renee Weber in the book <em>The Holographic Paradigm</em> (page 217–218), has stated that Schrödinger, in speaking about Heisenberg, has said:<br />
“I had several discussions with Heisenberg. I lived in England then
[circa 1972], and I visited him several times in Munich and showed him
the whole manuscript chapter by chapter. He was very interested and very
open, and he told me something that I think is not known publicly
because he never published it. He said that he was well aware of these
parallels. While he was working on quantum theory he went to India to
lecture and was a guest of Tagore. He talked a lot with Tagore about
Indian philosophy. Heisenberg told me that these talks had helped him a
lot with his work in physics, because they showed him that all these new
ideas in quantum physics were in fact not all that crazy. He realized
there was, in fact, a whole culture that subscribed to very similar
ideas. Heisenberg said that this was a great help for him. Niels Bohr
had a similar experience when he went to China.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Consequently, Bohr adopted the Yin-Yang symbol as part of his family coat-of-arms when he was knighted in 1947.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Schrodinger wrote in his book Meine Weltansicht:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="alignleft" src="http://www.krishnapath.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/dualtorus.gif" height="175" title="dualtorus" width="185" />“This
life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire
existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so
constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we
know, is what the Brahmins [wise men or priests in the Vedic tradition]
express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and
so clear; tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as “I am
in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world.”<br />
ब्रह्मैवेदममृतं पुरस्तात् ब्रह्म पश्चात् ब्रह्म उत्तरतो दक्षिणतश्चोत्तरेण ।<br />
अधश्चोर्ध्वं च प्रसृतं ब्रह्मैवेदं विश्वमिदं वरिष्ठम् ॥ 2.2.11<br />
This is a reference to the Mundaka Upanishad mantra (above) in which the
Vedic understanding of the connectivity of living entities is put
forward to help the Bhakta (practitioner of <em>yoga</em>) to understand
the difference between the body and the living entity. How the real
nature of the living entity is realized only in union with the source,
the supreme being (Brahman/Krishna) through a platform of transcendental
divine loving service.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Schrödinger, in speaking of a universe in which particles are
represented by wave functions, said: “The unity and continuity of
Vedanta are reflected in the unity and continuity of wave mechanics.
This is entirely consistent with the Vedanta concept of All in One.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="alignleft" src="http://www.krishnapath.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/as-is-below-so-is-above.jpg" height="195" title="as is below so is above" width="258" /> <img alt="" class="alignright" src="http://www.krishnapath.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/consciousness-reacts-to-reality.jpg" height="363" title="consciousness reacts to reality" width="280" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the
Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of
the union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong
prejudices stand in the West.”<br />
(Source: WHAT IS LIFE? By Erwin Schrödinger Pg. Cambridge University Press)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness
in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the
temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction… The
only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all
lies<strong> in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad</strong>.”<br />
(Source: Mein Leben, Meine Weltansicht [My Life, My World View] (1961) Chapter 4)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Schrödinger’s biographer Moore, wrote: “His system – or that of the
Upanishads – is delightful and consistent: the self and the world are
one and they are all. He rejected traditional western religious beliefs
(Jewish, Christian, and Islamic) not on the basis of any reasoned
argument, nor even with an expression of emotional antipathy, for
he loved to use religious expressions and metaphors, but simply by
saying that they are naïve – and will not understand Quantum theory and
consciousness.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In his famous essay on determinism and free will, he expressed very
clearly the sense that consciousness is a unity, arguing that this
“insight is not new…From the early great Upanishads the recognition
Atman = Brahman (the personal self equals the omnipresent,
all-comprehending eternal self) was in Indian thought considered,
far from being blasphemous, to represent, the quintessence of deepest
insight into the happenings of the world. The striving of all the
scholars of Vedanta was, after having learnt to pronounce with their
lips, really to assimilate in their minds this grandest of all
thoughts.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" src="http://www.krishnapath.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/handspiral.jpg" height="480" title="We are all controlled by our own consciousness, and according to our consciousness we will see the world around us." width="640" /></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Schrödinger wrote: “Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular,
all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there
is no multiplicity of selves… The stages of human development are to
strive for Possession (Artha), Knowledge (Dharma), Ability (Kama), Being
(Moksha)… Nirvana is a state of pure blissful knowledge. It has nothing
to do with individual. The ego or its separation is an illusion. The
goal of man is to preserve his Karma and to develop it further – when
man dies his karma lives and creates for itself another carrier.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In the above quote we can clearly see Schrödinger’s firm belief in reincarnation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" src="http://www.krishnapath.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/KA1_013.jpg" height="480" title="Reincarnation is a real science accepted by Einstein, Schrödinger and many others. Not hindu mumbo-jumbo!" width="640" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Schrödinger wrote in his book <em>My View of the World</em> (Chapter
4). “In all the world, there is no kind of framework within which we can
find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct
because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false
construction….The only solution to this conflict in so far as any is
available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The Vedas teach that we are more than physical bodies operating
according to the laws of physics and chemistry. We, the eternal
conscious self (<em>Atma</em>), are inherently connected to the greater whole (<em>ParamAtma</em>), and this eternal inherent connection is totally transcendental to matter. All living entities (<em>Atmas),</em> having
free will, are able to ignore this connection or recognize it. The
Vedas teach us how to do both. When we act as scientists and look for
facts and accept them and then go on to use and act according to our new
realizations we can make great progress. So similarly as living
entities we must scientifically study the great work of the evidential
books of the Vedas in order to help us realize the facts of this
universe and beyond, and our natural position in it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Schrödinger explicitly affirmed his conviction that Vedantic jnana
[knowledge] represented the only true view of reality – a view for which
he was prepared even to offer Empirical proof.<br />
(source: A Short Introduction to Hinduism – By Klaus K. Klostermaier p. 168).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Regarding mystical insights, Schrödinger tells us: “The multiplicity
is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the
Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with God
regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the
West.”<br />
(source: The Eye of Shiva: Eastern Mysticism and Science – By Amaury de Riencourt p.78).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In autumn of 1925 Schrödinger wrote an interestingly personal account
of his philosophy of life (Mein Weltansicht – My World View).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="alignright" src="http://www.krishnapath.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/8-cell-simple.gif" height="256" title="8-cell" width="256" />He
completed this in 1960 and in chapter 5 of this book he gives his
understanding of the basic view of Vedanta. He writes – “Vedanta teaches
that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in
one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Maya [illusion] is the cause of our faulty identification with this
material world. In all the embodied forms of existence the individual
Atma Brahman living entity enters he is fully able to at any time revive
his forgotten eternal and inherent connection with Brahman (Paramatma)
the supreme self.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Schrödinger did not believe that it will be possible to demonstrate
the unity of consciousness by logical arguments. One must make an
imaginative leap guided by communion with nature and the persuasion of
analogies. He understood the nonmaterial eternal nature of the conscious
self and how the that Atman is intimately connected to the supreme.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In the 1920′s quantum mechanics was created by the three great minds
mentioned above, Heisenberg, Bohr and Schrödinger, who all read from and
greatly respected the Vedas. They elaborated upon these ancient books
of wisdom in their own language and with modern mathematical formulas in
order to try to understand the ideas that are to be found throughout
the Vedas, referred to in the ancient Sanskrit as “Brahman”,
“Paramatma”, “Akasha” and “Atman”, and as Schrödinger said, they all he
wanted “Some blood transfusion from the East to the West to save Western
science from spiritual anemia.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" src="http://www.krishnapath.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/fellow-scientists-1024x479.png" height="299" title="fellow scientists" width="640" /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In 1935 Einstein Prodolsky and Rosen challenged Quantum Mechanics on
the grounds that it was an incomplete formulation, they were the first
authors to recognize that quantum mechanics is inherently non-local,
which means that it allows for instantaneous action across arbitrarily
great distances. So that an action in one place can instantly influence
something on the other side of the universe in no time at all. This very
powerful paper (The EPR paper) explaining Quantum Entanglement changed
the world and alerted the world to the magical implications of quantum
mechanics metaphysical implications<strong>.</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But, Einstein states: “Es gibt keine spukhafte Fernwirkung” which
translates to “There is no spooky action at a distance.” He did not
believe in magic. He believed in science and would regularly read the
Bhagavad-gita. Einstein’s famous quote on the Bhagavad-gita is – “When I
read the Bhagavad-gita and reflect about how God created this universe
everything else seems so superfluous.” He also wrote in his book<em> The World as I See It</em>, pp. 24 – 28.”I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Physicists have not yet ascertained whether Bohr and company or Einstein and company are right.</span></h3>
<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="alignleft" src="http://www.krishnapath.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Krishna-is-not-understood-by-dry-mental-speculators.jpg" height="420" title="Krishna/God is never understood by dry mental speculators. He is all powerful and the source of everything. He only choses to reveal himself to those devotees that have surrendered to him in love and devotion." width="287" />One
thing that all this materialistic research has done is to open up the
doors for the world to look deeper into the validity of the Vedas. For
it is stated in the Bhagavad-gita “A mundaner 1) is sure to commit
mistakes, 2) is invariably illusioned, 3) has the tendency to cheat
others and 4) is limited by imperfect senses. With these four
imperfections, one cannot deliver perfect information of all-pervading
knowledge.” So no matter how much experimenting we do we can never come
to the absolute truth using imperfect instruments of perception even if
we have a super brain like Einstein or Schrödinger. For our very minds,
thoughts and power of intelligence only work on the platform of time and
space and are defective being subjected to the 4 defects that the
Bhagavad-gita mentions. So we must come to accept a higher authority.
Not a mundane person of the material world that is limited by his own
imperfect senses and instruments in a laboratory. We must approach
Krishna the supreme person! We must give Him the credit For he is the
supreme father of all Quantum processes that all these other men
mentioned in this article are trying to understand. He has established
all these laws of nature and is controlling it and it is by his will
that they will or will not ever understand it. For the Vedas are coming
from and meant to ultimately understand and love Krishna the supreme
being. The dry mental speculators and scientists (depicted at the bottom
of the picture, at left) try by their own limited power of intellect
and observation to understand Krishna/God but they do not know that
Krishna is only known by those fortunate souls that serve Him in the
mood of love and surrender. Let us not forget, “God” means the all
powerful, so we cannot force the all powerful supreme personality to
reveal Himself to us by our own limited strength and arrangements.
Krishna is way above that. The scientific process to do this is to hear
from a fully self realized soul like Srila Prabhupada by reading his
books and purify our minds and hearts so we are qualified to understand
those transcendental books by chanting the hare Krishna Maha mantra,
Practicing celibacy (controlling the senses) and thus surrendering to
the supreme being Krishna.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="alignleft" src="http://www.krishnapath.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/J.-Robert-Oppenheimer-300x219.jpg" height="219" title="J. Robert Oppenheimer" width="300" />Since
scientists like Schrödinger did not possess a direct knowledge of
Sanskrit to discern first hand what the Vedic texts actually were
saying, they were forced to read various translations of these great
books of wisdom such as the Upanishads. There are persons like
Robert Oppenheimer (1904 – 1967) (pictured on left) who were not lacking
in such an advantage. Oppenheimer learned Sanskrit in 1933 and read the
Bhagavad-gita in the original, citing it later as one of the most
influential books to shape his philosophy of life, and stated that “The
Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Upon witnessing the world’s first nuclear test in 1945, he instantly
quoted Bhagavad-gita chapter 11, text 32 “Now I am become death, the
destroyer of worlds.”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Vedic texts such as the Bahgavad-gita and the Upanishads were
collectively considered the most influential books ever written by
eminent people like Thoreau, Kant, Schopenhauer, Schrödinger, Werner
Heisenberg , Tesla, Einstein etc.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The fact is that, irrespective of east or west, great minds that come
in contact with the Vedic texts agree that the ultimate reality remains
timeless and changeless, and is contained in the Vedic texts such as
the Bhagavad-gita and the Upanishads.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4039" src="http://www.krishnapath.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Isaac-Newton-218x300.jpg" height="300" title="Isaac Newton" width="218" />Furthermore
300 years before Quantum Mechanics Sir Isaac Newton came up
with Classical Mechanics which is very basic action and reaction.
Newton’s entire work in Physics and Calculus was taken wholesale from
the Vedas and Kerala book of Calculus. It was simply taken from the
Vedas where it was originally used for calculating rates of change in
Astronomy and Astrology for many thousands of years before Newton.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another genius scientist was Nikola Tesla, a super genius Serbian.
Tesla along with the others mentioned above knew that the ancient Indian
Brahmans (wise men), well equipped with knowledge from the Vedas had
understandings of the intricate laws, mathematical formulas and subtle
workings of the universe that far surpass anything we can even imagine
today.</span><br />
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It is uncertain how Nikola Tesla was introduced to the Vedas. Much of
Teslas life and work has been erased from history due to this mastermind
inventor and scientist wanting to make the fruits of all his work
available for free to the world (google “free energy Tesla” And your
mind will be truly blown away). Unfortunately for us, because he was not
trying to use his genius for profiteering and exploiting others he met
with one setback after another. His grants and funding were constantly
being revoked by those that control the economy and trade. Nikola Tesla
originally invented many things that we all use on a daily basis but
most people have never even heard of him because his name was removed
from common history (just like much of the teaching of the Veda’s) and
he was eventually murdered. I guess he know too much and wanted to share
it freely for the betterment of mankind, (just like the Veda’s) not to
exploit. Unfortunately not every one saw eye to eye with him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tesla understood the great power of Zero
Point Field or Akasha or Ether–the power of space between the electrons
and the nucleus. Vivekanda’s effect on Tesla was so great that he became
vegetarian, became celibate and started using Sanskrit words. He died
with his scalar energy science in his head, because he did NOT want the
US military to use it to destroy the planet. No wonder he was denied the
Nobel prize and eventually killed. Knowledge is power, and there are
many people that want all the power for themselves. Tesla wanted to give
power to everyone for free! He was actually the first person to figure
out how to make radio communication possible across the atlantic ocean.
But because he wanted to make this ability free for others his funding
was stopped and the credit was later given to someone else that played
the power game better then him.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3020" src="http://www.krishnapath.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Nikola-Tesla-at-work.jpg" height="423" title="Nikola Tesla at work" width="640" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is just a small list of some of Tesla’s contributions to the world that he has not been given credit for:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><em>Alternating Current -AC electricity</em> (Thomas Edison literally stole his ideas from him and took the credit for for it).<br />
<em>Radio</em> (Marconi just took the ideas and work of Tesla and got the cerdit for it).<br />
<em>Hydro-electricity</em> (Tesla Built the first Hydro-electric power plant at Niagara falls As a result we see whats there now)<br />
<em>X-rays</em><br />
<em>transistors</em> (you are using a transistor right now to view this webpage :) )<br />
<em>Resonant frequency</em> (every one else figured it out 50 yeas later)<br />
<em>Fluorescent and Neon lighting</em><br />
<em>The induction motor</em><br />
<em>The rotating magnetic field</em> (precursor to gyroscope)<br />
<em>Arc lighting</em><br />
<em>Tesla coil</em><br />
<em>Oscillators</em><br />
<em>Encryption technology and scrambler</em><br />
<em>Wireless communication and power transmission</em><br />
<em>remote control</em><br />
<em>Telegeodynamics</em> (a way to search for metals and minerals)<br />
<em>Tachometer and speedometer</em><br />
<em>Refrigeration machines</em><br />
<em>Bladeless turbines and pumps</em><br />
<em>Cryogenic engineering</em><br />
<em>reactive jet dirigible</em> (precursor to Harrier jet)<br />
<em>Hovercraft Flivver plane</em> (precursor to Osprey helicopter/aircraft)<br />
<em>Particle-beam weapons</em> (precursor to Starwars)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">All Teslas engineering was done in his head he never worked things
out on paper or used scale models to come to a functioning final result.
He was truly empowered by Krishna. Things would appear in his head and
he would simply record it exactly as it came to him, similar to
Beethoven.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Below is a picture of the tower Tesla built in the early 1900s
in Shoreham, New York referred to as “Wardenclyffe.” This tower was
proposed to be a model for more of these towers located around the world
to provide free wireless energy to everyone. Upon J.P. Morgans finding
out it was not equipped with any type of meter to monitor who was using
how much of the energy it provided and was thus not for profit he ripped
Tesla’s funding out from under him and the tower was tore down.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Tesla tower" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4733" src="http://www.krishnapath.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Tesla-tower.png" height="365" width="500" /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Tesla lived to be 86 years old. He was 6 ft. 2 in. (1.88 m) tall and
reported to be strikingly handsome. He was also a celibate his whole
life. This goes in line with the teaching’s of the Vedas that Tesla and
other master minds were familiar with. The Veda’s recommend for yogis
and those wanting super intelligence and inner power to conserve their
own divine energy by observing celibacy. As Tesla himself has said “The
gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate
our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power.”
& “Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the
outside world.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Now ask you self why don’t we learn about the Veda’s in school but instead are told it is all just some <em>hindu</em> ”mythology” well maybe for the same reason why we have not ever heard about Mr. Nikola Tesla.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" class="alignleft wp-image-3049" src="http://www.krishnapath.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Arthur-Schopenhauer.jpg" height="574" title="Arthur Schopenhauer, 1845" width="440" />Although
not a physicist, the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer(1788 –
1860) I feel also deserves a place in this article due the fact that he
read a Latin translation of the Vedic texts and also glorified
the Upanishads in his main work, The World as Will and Representation
(1819), as well as in his Parerga and Paralipomena (1851). He found his
own philosophy was in accord with the Vedic, ideas.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">As he states: “That I encounter in the Vedas deep original lofty thoughts, suffused with a high and holy seriousness”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">“If the reader has also received the benefit of the Vedas, the access
to which by means of the Upanishads is in my eyes the greatest
privilege which this still young century (1818) may claim before all
previous centuries, if then the reader, I say, has received his
initiation in primeval Indian wisdom, and received it with an open
heart, he will be prepared in the very best way for hearing what I have
to tell him. It will not sound to him strange, as to many others, much
less disagreeable; for I might, if it did not sound conceited, contend
that every one of the detached statements which constitute the
Upanishads, may be deduced as a necessary result from the fundamental
thoughts which I have to enunciate, though those deductions themselves
are by no means to be found there.”<br />
(source: <em>The World as Will and Representation</em> Preface to the first edition, p. xiii)</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689024986347301300.post-15237604700374331032016-01-09T21:24:00.000+05:302016-01-09T21:24:04.449+05:30How I Embraced Hindu Dharma<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1380409004951_2061" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><img alt="" class="alignleft" src="http://www.exoticindiaart.com/buddha/brocade/tp88b.jpg" height="393" id="irc_mi" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="188" /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;">For several</span></strong><span style="font-size: large;"> years now I have identified myself as a believer in Sanatan Dharma. Sometimes I feel comfortable referring to myself as a Hindu, and yet other times I feel quite uncomfortable. I’ll explain why shortly. Embracing the Hindu philosophy has been quite simple for me really. The moment I began reading The Upanishads something awoke inside of me. I had this incredible moment, or moments I should say, of absolute clarity that what I was reading was truth, and it made complete sense. I was giddy with excitement about it for days. I read The Upanishads every night to my husband before bed. I’ll always cherish those first moments of discovery with him.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;">As any</span></strong><span style="font-size: large;"> convert to a new religion knows, I was quite overwhelmed in the beginning. I read everything I could get my hands on regarding Hinduism. My mind was flooded with the immense history and rich culture that comprises the oldest religion in the world. There were many times when I thought to myself, ‘What are you doing? This is madness, you are not from India, you have nothing in common with this religion and these people!’ I would put my books away for a while and go about my daily life pretending that I was not seeking anything, that I was content with my life the way it was. This would only last maybe a week or two at a time until I was once again drawn back to my spiritual seeking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I grew</strong> up from childhood until I was the age of 40 as a Latter Day Saint, or Mormon. My religious upbringing has had a great deal of influence on the spiritually inclined woman I am today and I am very grateful for that. Leaving the Mormon religion was not easy for me. I had grown to be quite devout and unquestioning of my faith. But over the years I had become increasingly dissatisfied with it and the self-guilt was at times unbearable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My husband,</strong> who was himself a convert to Mormonism, had already lost faith in the church philosophy long before we left, he chose not to tell me his true feelings about it as he did not want to let me down. This is all I will say about our departure from the Mormon religion since I want to focus my thoughts here on my views as a Western convert to Hinduism.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignleft" src="http://indesignartandcraft.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/hindu-art-prints.jpg" height="223" id="irc_mi" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="336" /><span style="font-size: large;">The reason</span></strong><span style="font-size: large;"> I have struggled with calling myself a Hindu is the mere fact of not quite knowing where I fit into the Hindu structure. I have never been through a formal conversion and embarrassingly enough have only attended one temple in all this time I have been studying. I live in Hawaii and the only temple that I know of on Oahu is an ISKCON temple. My husband and I had a lovely visit there, but I have not returned. Mainly, because I do not identify myself as Vaishnav. I know that there is a great deal of controversy around the ISKCON movement. Having looked into this particular sect of Hinduism, it just did not resonate with me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Over the</strong> years I continued to read and study. I began a meditation practice that included japa mantra. I found I enjoyed chanting immensely. Oftentimes I would come away from my practice with intense feelings of bliss that would last for several days. Although I had fully accepted Hindu philosophy, I still was unsure of what sect I should follow and would never quite commit myself to any one sect in particular. I was very drawn toward the teachings of Spiritual Masters such as Paramahansa Yogananda and Vivekananda. I think mainly for the reason that both of these men had come to the West and were adept in teaching Westerners. I felt comfortable with them as a Westerner. I have studied the full works of both of these men and love them deeply.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignleft" height="305" id="irc_mi" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSNBqIZ1UhOpHHjwNPe5cQ4p0w2tW5vAUeLN4p50-3YvC1YCaFX" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="203" /><span style="font-size: large;">Over the</span></strong><span style="font-size: large;"> last year in particular, I have begun to finally narrow down my own spiritual path in Hinduism. I feel a great pull toward the Divine Feminine aspect of God. This may very well be because of having been raised in a deeply patriarchal spiritual community and culture. It has been so refreshing for me to see God as the mother aspect, such as Maa Durga and Maa Kali. Although it was strange at first, it now feels so right. Through some very unusual, rather synchronistic events over the last year I have been lead to study the teachings of Kashmiri Shaivism and it resonates with me deeply. I have decided to focus my worship on this particular sect of Hinduism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I am a Hindu</strong>-by-choice. I like that term. If you think of the countless people born and raised in a given religion, many of them practice half-heartedly or not at all by the time they are adults. People who seek and embrace a spiritual path on their own tend to be very devout in their practice. When something is just given to you you tend to take it for granted, but when you earn it on your own with much effort it tends to be very precious to you. I am fully convinced that I was led to the dharma. It found me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Universe</strong> willed it. I like to think that I procured some pretty good karma to have been led to this path. I could not turn my back on it now if I tried, it would haunt me forever. I now do not see Sanatan Dharma as a particular culture or birthright. It is for all humankind. For a while I thought it was necessary for me to embrace another <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><img alt="" class="alignleft" src="http://www.exoticindia.com/oils/mother_goddess_durga_or90.jpg" height="293" id="irc_mi" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="218" /></span></span>culture to be called Hindu, but now I know that that is wrong. I can be who I am, love my own heritage and still be a Hindu in my heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I am still fine</strong> tuning my own ritual practice. I may not be following every ritual custom perfectly, but I am working on it. I study voraciously and plan to attend a Hindu temple in the next year that I can all my home temple. I am also studying Ayurvedic medicine, while working to incorporate it into my lifestyle. I practice vegetarianism. The day I found Hinduism, was the day I opened a Pandora’s Box.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Life has</strong> never been the same for me. I feel in my heart that I am on a spiritual journey back home and it is only through the dharmic path of yoga that I will get there. I have had very little face to face contact with other Hindus and I greatly look forward to the day that I will have that opportunity. For the time being, I rely greatly on my online Hindu family. I have met some amazing Hindus from around the world. I hope one day to be able to travel to India, and experience that magical land. I owe so much to the great sages who have left a wealth of sacred writings for us in the modern age.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The world, perhaps as usual, is in a state of crisis. Yet unlike previous crises, which were local in nature, the fate of the globe itself is now at stake, not only humanity but all life on Earth is threatened. And in this extremity no nation has yet arisen as a defender of the Truth or spokesperson for the spiritual values of humanity.</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The communist</strong> nations, after decades of floundering in confusion and corruption, have recently faded with the collapse of their economic structures through perpetual mismanagement. Only the ghost or shadow of communism lingers, while whatever idealism it might have had has been traded in for personal gain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The capitalistic</strong> nations strive to maintain their wealth and affluence by exploiting the planet, selfishly consuming the future resources of humanity for their present transient enjoyment. Between new technological wonders and a growing disillusionment with material gains, they move at an uneasy pace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The underdeveloped</strong> or third world falters under exploitation both within and without. Some poor nations slide backwards and carve up their forests to cover short term economic debts to the wealthier countries. Others strain to recover from civil wars fed by arms suppliers from wealthy nations abroad. Yet others are held back by ever growing populations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignleft" src="http://norzkiland.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/famine.jpg" height="277" id="irc_mi" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="316" />Famine and disease</strong> lurk behind them and prey on them periodically, threatening an all out attack on them in the coming years. The environment of the planet is reeling under all forms of chemical and industrial pollution and toxic wastes. The Earth is groaning under the weight of human greed and a sense of great planetary changes, climatic and atmospheric appears imminent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Will we</strong> be able to continue as we have without something major going wrong in the natural world that we have spoiled? Even if we avoid nuclear war our wastes may prove as lethal as our bombs. Our very medicine itself, which attacks nature, may create the new diseases that will bring down our excessive numbers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Most of the</strong> religions of the world, remnants of worn medieval mind, struggle between a new secular modernism and an old retarded fundamentalism. Some are still trying to impose their selfish will upon the world and convert the planet to their narrow beliefs – that theirs is the only true God, prophet or holy book – as if the acceptance of their religious dogma would somehow solve our human problems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Other religions</strong> have comprised and are willing to take a corner in the new material age, bowing down to science as long as they are given a place to continue ruling over their diminished flocks. The great spiritual traditions of the East, Hinduism and Buddhism, do battle with the economic and ideological forces of the West, and the continued shadow of proselytizing Western religions which would still destroy them if they could.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I</strong><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignleft" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Trafficjamdelhi.jpg" height="246" id="irc_mi" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="india" width="328" />n this struggle</strong> we must ask: Where is India? and what role does she have to play? India too struggles with ethnic and religious divisions, with a rapid and often ugly industrialism, with a plundered land and a population out of control. She has here leftists and communists who have twisted her economy and tried to turn the souls of her people against her spiritual heritage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">She has her</strong> new capitalists ready to make quick money or to ally themselves with the multinational corporations who see India as a great new land to exploit. Where is the soul of India today? Where is her will? She tries to stand for the underdeveloped world, for peace, tolerance, the unity of humanity and respect for all religions. But her direction is not clear. It appears that she can’t even discipline herself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Western secularism, a popular culture caught up in superficial sensation, marks one line of attack against her. Western religions, their exclusive belief systems and their vast resources spent on conversion, attach on the other side. India would like to please everyone. And each group, religious, ethnic or political wants their portion of the country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignleft" src="http://www.exoticindia.com/religious/taupe_hindu_prayer_shawl_of_lord_vishnu_the_preserver_srb53.jpg" height="211" id="irc_mi" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="140" />Separatism reigns,</strong> with each group placing its own interests before that of the country as a whole. Everyone wants to take and no one appears willing to give. No one is standing firm to halt this tide of growing sectarianism, selfishness and materialism. In this battle the modern Hindu does not want to fight, or even to speak out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He accepts</strong> the growing secularism and sensationalism coming to his culture from the West, as perhaps necessary for economic growth, or may even see it as progressive, modern and humanitarian.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He tolerates</strong> in silence the continuing assaults on his culture and its spiritual values from Islamic and Christian forces within his own land. He doesn’t like to criticize anyone’s religion even if they mock his. He seems weak, in disarray, without confidence or self-esteem. He appears to think that if he ignores these things they will go away in time, but like an infection they continue to spread and poison the country.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The image of the passive Hindu has arisen: </span></span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“They do not resist. They do not stand firm. You can take anything you want from them and they won’t say anything. They retire in fear, though they hold on to their superstitions. First, they let the Muslims conquer them, then the British. They seldom fought back. They often joined hands with their conquerors and took sides against their own people. Now that they are free they don’t know who they are or what to do. They don’t know how to rule themselves. They are used to being ruled. They are lucky their country doesn’t fall apart. They are looking for a new conqueror, perhaps the economic forces of the West.”</span></strong></em></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignleft" height="291" id="irc_mi" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT26FIHpfJk5FJiizOrZo0ifHmAh7xPQsnEgpFT7TDcBZXFHdgK" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="shivaji" width="365" />Such are</strong> the ideas about India that one hears today. But classical India was never passive and resigned, never gave up without resistance, never gave in without defending Truth in all possible ways. India was a land of great sages and yogis, like Buddha and Shankara, but they were not merely concerned with the Transcendent, they tried to raise up the country and unite it toward a higher goal, turning it into a land where the spiritual life was honored.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> India was</strong> also the land of Rama and Krishna, of great kings and warriors who knew how to rule according to a higher law and protect the spiritual life. India was not a land contracted in itself but open and expansive, spreading its culture of yoga and enlightenment across the seas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In time</strong> the riches of India became the great spoil for all the kings and peoples of the Middle East and Central Asia to assault. Some of these forces gradually made headway into the country. Native dynasties arose in time and drove the invaders out. They did not compromise with outsiders who were inimical to their spiritual heritage. While India’s kings gave refuge to the oppressed, they did not bow down before the forces of exploitation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignleft" src="http://www.writespirit.net/wp-content/uploads/old-images/arjuna.jpg" height="393" id="irc_mi" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="arjuna" width="266" />Even the</strong> Muslims made dozens of invasions before they ever gained a foothold. The souls who strove so hard, who gave up everything, including their lives, to maintain a land where the spiritual life could flourish should not be forgotten. We must call on them to return again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is how</strong> the spirit of the country appears. But life is always Kurukshetra. There is always a difficult choice that has to be made. There are always two forces in life, not simply the good and the bad but the ascending force of spiritual growth and the descending force of worldly illusion and division. Nor are the two forces entirely separate. What is one day a spiritual force may in time become a force of ignorance and falsehood once its spirit is lost.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">These forces</strong> cut across humanity and may divide a nation or a family, not to speak of the world itself. To not be willing to face opposition, even from those whom we love if necessary, is to accept the force of decay. This does not mean to be aggressive or violent but to take a stand for the Truth, even if the world turns against us.</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Arise Arjuna! Yours is not a battle at one point of time only. It is for all time. It must be fought over and over again, even for eternity. Truth cannot compromise itself with falsehood. Someone has to hold the limit. If not you, who will it be? And what will you say to your children? What will you bequeath them having surrendered your soul without a struggle?</span></strong></em></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“I will not give in, even one inch to the forces of destruction. If I must be sacrificed, so be it. But I will dedicate my total effort to the fight. Death in the battle is preferable to a life without dignity. The Dharma must be upheld. With adharma there can be no tolerance. We cannot rest until it is completely removed and first it must be stripped from our own hearts.”</span></strong></em></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignleft" src="http://www.hinduhumanrights.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Arjuna_The_Thousand_Arrow_by_Rhein_Salvation.jpg" height="393" id="irc_mi" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="arjuna" width="278" />Such is the spirit</strong> that India and the entire world need today. As a Westerner who has followed Hindu spiritual teachings for over thirty years, returning to the West from India I find some people who delight in the problems of India and other who ignore them. I tell them that to take pleasure in the problems of India is to delight in the sufferings of one’s own mother, as India is the mother of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">India is like</strong> the heart center of the planet. That the heart of the globe suffers is not surprising when the head and the hands of the world (Western scientific and technological cultures) are acting without a heart, are living as though their petty pleasures alone were real, anaesthetized to the suffering of the majority of humanity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">India may</strong> have difficulties by they only reflect those of the world as a whole. Hence my concern with the fate of India though I am not an India. The fate of India mirrors the real conditions of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A force inner</strong> strength and spiritual guidance for the world is unlikely to come from the countries of the West. The West is too immature, too distorted by the mass media and its culture of self-indulgence. Its spirituality is mixed with a seeking of new sensations and personal achievement, trapped in the body and intellect, and generally far short of any real renunciation or realization.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Westerners</strong> are more concerned with their own personal, emotional and family problems, not with any greater life of service or spiritual practice. Though there are those in the West who appreciate true spirituality and their number is growing, they are still too small to produce the kind of spiritual leadership that the world needs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignleft" height="377" id="irc_mi" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7D5knLqTnfqo1C6qxx4onpcqJ3FAKS1AUdbJs7QyToVQ4HNX-4iW246n4svUH84VEPn-NwMiAr_RPSl3YPMEOeeqY7FwlQcOwOb0tkC0ZmJXThf6_MnnyixeE3dc8PksyiHI6wuIUjp8/s400/hanuman-bajrang-bali-hindu-god-meaning-panchmukh.jpg" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="hanuman" width="278" />Such a spiritua</strong>l force is less likely to come from Islamic countries. They are still caught in a karma of violence and oppression, in a religion that is more a political movement to gain worldly power, than any spiritual search. Their religion is dominated by fundamentalism and militancy, not with respect for life and seeking of truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">China, the</strong> other great culture of Asia like India, unfortunately will take decades to assimilate communism and develop economically before recovering its more spiritual roots, but it too will arise in time. Its great Buddhist and Taoist traditions are too strong to remain suppressed for much longer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">India alone</strong> as a country has the potential to take the role of spiritually guiding the world. But if there is corruption in India, in its leaders and thinkers, it can have no moral force in the world or even within its own borders. Or if India is unwilling to offend any country, group or religion by challenging the negative and thoughtless practices of our times, it will have no voice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To compromise</strong> with falsehood is not tolerance or nonviolence. It is self-destruction. To turn away in fear or hesitation, not to stand up for what one believes is true, is not modesty but self-betrayal. The world needs a spiritual and moral force that speaks out, or a Divine silence that makes us question all that we do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignleft" src="http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/001/e/f/arjuna_by_heronart-d365fqy.jpg" height="288" id="irc_mi" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Arjuna" width="201" />Not only</strong> the leaders of India, Whether political, intellectual or religious, must arise with the force of Arjuna, they must defend humanity as a whole, the environment as a whole, the Earth as our Mother, religion as a force of universality and peace. This is not merely to tell everyone that they are right and approve of all cultures and all religions. It is to be the conscience of the world and most people will not like to hear its voice, as we have been ignoring it so much and for so long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The true</strong> leaders and teachers of India-those who are willing to defend at all costs the religion of Truth and the culture of universality-must speak out. And if they do, Vishnu will come again and for the whole world. However for this to occur India must undergo a radical change. India today does not represent the soul of India but only its shadow. It is inexcusable for the land of the Rishis to be filled with such corruption, ignorance and servility as pervades the country today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Those who</strong> know the true spiritual greatness of India can only be shocked and disheartened to see the state of the country. Yet the rest of the world is no better. The Western world has only succeeded in greed, materialism and religious dogma, not in the spiritual life. For this India, with all its short-comings, still holds the torch, however feeble. Let India awaken and for this the true spirit of Arjuna must arise! This is the prayer for the world’s deliverance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">source:- </span><a href="http://www.hinduhumanrights.info/christian-missionaries-harm-india/" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank">hinduhumanrights.info</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689024986347301300.post-21532657200724365622016-01-09T21:08:00.000+05:302016-01-09T21:08:58.363+05:30Basic Teachings of Guru Nanak Dev...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;">Guru Nanak did not advocate ascet</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;">ic life as a way to salvation. He himself led a normal life, amidst society, in touch with people of his time, though he was completely God centered and detached from the world and its ways. He preached that asceticism was not the way and the way to salvation was not incompatible with good life, laughing, eating, playing and dressing well.<br /><br />Humility<br />---------<br />Nanak was humility personified. He often described himself as servant of God or slave to God. He preached service to humanity as service to God and as the right means to cultivate humility. He never declared himself as a prophet or founder of any new religious faith, though he was no less greater than the prophets who were born before him on the Indian soil. He exhorted his followers to crush the crust of pride into true humility and sow the seeds of love so that it would grow unhindered.<br /><br />Religious tolerance<br />----------------------<br />In many ways the teachings of Nanak aim to create amity and understanding among various religious creeds of his time. We cannot say that it was a deliberate attempt on his part to try to integrate the traditions and beliefs of Islam with those of the native religions. His faith in the universal harmony of various religions was in total agreement with his inviolable faith in God as the supreme lord and the goal of all our endeavors. He declared, "For me there no Hindu and no Muslim. With all I am at peace. The God residing in us renders us incapable of hate and prejudice."<br /><br />God, soul and man<br />----------------------<br />God is the supreme creator and commander, the one god, the eternal, all pervading, divine light. His form is beauty, his form is love, his form is justice, his form is bliss, eternal and immortal. All the virtues exist in Him. Man contains with in himself a tiny fragment of Him. As a fragment dwells in a flower, or an image in a mirror so does the soul resides in the human body. Man is truly a reflection of the glory of God, a true micro specimen of the infinitesimal Universal Soul. "Such is the divine play of God that He has reflected the whole cosmos in the human body."<br /><br /><br />The five stages of spiritual upliftment<br />--------------------------------------------<br />Guru Nanak explained the five stages of a man's spiritual progress which are enumerated below:<br /><br />1. Dharam Khand: The first stage consists of performance of ones duty sincerely.<br /><br />2. Gian Khand: The first stage leads to the second where a devotee gains a true awareness of the greatness of God, His true attributes.<br /><br />3. Saram Khand: In this phase the devotee attains purity of mind and understanding.<br /><br />4. Karam Khand: In the fourth phase, the devotee gains the fruits of his good actions. He acquires divine grace and true spiritual power.<br /><br />5. Such Khand: through the grace of God now the devotee enters the realm of God, which is beyond all human activity and the ordinary reality.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689024986347301300.post-30037060030058785202016-01-09T21:05:00.000+05:302016-01-09T21:05:29.770+05:30Time for India’s Rebirth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Was life always so trivial, always so vulgar, always so loveless, pale and awkward as the Europeans have made it ? This well-appointed comfort oppresses me, this perfection of machinery will not allow the soul to remember that it is not itself a machine. Is this then the end of the long march of human civilisation, this spiritual suicide, this quiet petrifaction of the soul into matter ? Was the successful businessman that grand culmination of manhood toward which evolution was striving ? After all, if the scientific view is correct, why not ? An evolution that started with the protoplasm and flowered in the ourang-outang and the chimpanzee, may well rest satisfied with having created hat, coat and trousers, the British Aristocrat, the American Capitalist and the Parisian Apache. For these, I believe, are the chief triumphs of the European enlightenment to which we bow our heads. [...] What a bankruptcy !</span></strong></em></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What a beggary of things that were rich and noble !</strong></em><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </strong><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Europe boasts of her science and its marvels. <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But [...] to the braggart intellect of Europe the Indian is bound to reply, “I am not interested in what you know, I am interested in what you are. With all your discoveries and inventions, what have you become ? Your enlightenment is great—but what are these strange creatures that move about in the electric light you have installed and imagine that they are human ?” Is it a great gain for the human intellect to have grown more acute and discerning, if the human soul dwindles ? [...] Man in Europe is descending steadily from the human level and approximating to the ant and the hornet. The process is not complete but it is progressing apace, and if nothing stops the debacle, we may hope to see its culmination in this twentieth century. After all our superstitions were better than this enlightenment, our social abuses less murderous to the hopes of the race than this social perfection.[1]</em></strong><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ninety years later,</strong></span> <span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">what was then behind the veil is now out in the open. We have almost reached the “culmination” of the West’s failure. It has failed in spite of all its achievements because it has ignored what we “are,” scoffed at what we are expected to “become.” And that is precisely, for Sri Aurobindo, the heart of Indian civilization, its constant concern through ages, in art or science or yoga, in every activity of life. “The laboratory of the soul has been India,”[2] he said. Indian culture is simply the culture of man’s inner richness. It is a realization that the entire universe is divine, tree, bird, man and star—and our Mother Earth, whom the West has for two thousand years regarded as a chunk of inanimate matter created to serve our ever-expanding greeds.</span></span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">While fighting for India’s independence, Sri Aurobindo reminded his countrymen :</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> This great and ancient nation was once the fountain of human light, the apex of human civilisation, the exemplar of courage and humanity, the perfection of good Government and settled society, the mother of all religions, the teacher of all wisdom and philosophy. It has suffered much at the hands of inferior civilisations and more savage peoples; it has gone down into the shadow of night and tasted often of the bitterness of death. Its pride has been trampled into the dust and its glory has departed. Hunger and misery and despair have become the masters of this fair soil, these noble hills, these ancient rivers, these cities whose life story goes back into prehistoric night. [... But] all our calamities have been but a discipline of suffering, because for the great mission before us prosperity was not sufficient, adversity had also its training; to taste the glory of power and beneficence and joy was not sufficient, the knowledge of weakness and torture and humiliation was also needed.[3]</strong></em></span><br /><img alt="" class="aligncenter" src="http://www.hinduhumanrights.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/ardhanareeswara-form-of-hindu-god-shiva-goddess-parvati.jpg" height="410" id="irc_mi" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="443" /></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One hopes that</strong> the lesson of weakness and humiliation is coming to its end. It has lasted long enough. But, for Sri Aurobindo, it can only end if we get rid of a central misconception, a fatal misconception. When we speak of the “laboratory of the soul,” of India’s wisdom and spirituality, a widespread tendency is to think that all this is fine for those confined to ashrams, or perhaps for old age, but of little practical use to build a nation. Sri Aurobindo frankly disagrees. To him, inner growth can never contradict outer growth, but can alone put it on a sound foundation. Referring to India’s extraordinarily creative past, which certainly never neglected material life and achievements, he observed :</span></span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Without this opulent vitality and opulent intellectuality India could never have done so much as she did with her spiritual tendencies. It is a great error to suppose that spirituality flourishes best in an impoverished soil with the life half-killed and the intellect discouraged and intimidated.[4] It is an error, we repeat, to think that spirituality is a thing divorced from life.”[5]</span></span></strong></em></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></strong></em><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When</strong>, in 1920, Sri Aurobindo was asked to resume politics, while spelling out his reasons for turning down the request, he also said :</span></span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I have always laid a dominant stress and I now lay an entire stress on the spiritual life, but my idea of spirituality has nothing to do with ascetic withdrawal or contempt or disgust of secular things. There is to me nothing secular, all human activity is for me a thing to be included in a complete spiritual life.[6] </span></span></em></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With</strong> </span><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">half-veiled causticity, Sri Aurobindo explained :</span></span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"> People care nothing about the spiritual basis of life which is India’s real mission and the only possible source of her greatness, or give to it only a slight, secondary or incidental value, a something that has to be stuck on as a sentiment or a bit of colouring matter. Our whole principle is different.[7] We are sometimes asked what on earth we mean by spirituality in art and poetry or in political and social life—a confession of ignorance strange enough in any Indian mouth at this stage of our national history. [...]</span></span></em></strong></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We have here</strong> really an echo of the European idea that religion and spirituality on the one side and intellectual activity and practical life on the other are two entirely different things and have each to be pursued on its own entirely separate lines and in obedience to its own entirely separate principles. [... But] true spirituality rejects no new light, no added means or materials of our human self-development. It means simply to keep our centre, our essential way of being, our inborn nature and assimilate to it all we receive, and evolve out of it all we do and create. [... India] can, if she will, give a new and decisive turn to the problems over which all mankind is labouring and stumbling, for the clue to their solutions is there in her ancient knowledge. Whether she will rise or not to the height of her opportunity in the renaissance which is coming upon her, is the question of her destiny.[8]</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To achieve</strong> India’s “renaissance,” Sri Aurobindo boldly and repeatedly called on his countrymen to develop the Kshatriya spirit, almost lost after centuries of subjection :</span></span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The Kshatriya of old must again take his rightful position in our social polity to discharge the first and foremost duty of defending its interests. The brain is impotent without the right arm of strength.[9]What India needs especially at this moment is the aggressive virtues, the spirit of soaring idealism, bold creation, fearless resistance, courageous attack; of the passive tamasic spirit of inertia we have already too much. We need to cultivate another training and temperament, another habit of mind.[10] </span></span></strong></em></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And how do</strong> we cultivate that other training and temperament ? We can cultivate it on the individual or on the collective level. Individually, that is yoga; it means opening ourselves to a wider consciousness and a greater power; it means allowing them to fashion anew our hardly human nature. And of course, it means discarding the misconception that yoga is good only for escaping from this world. Recently, a young Indian friend asked me, “But what is the benefit of yoga ?” Overlooking the rather mercantile aspect in his question, I tried to explain that the “benefit” is all that ordinary life cannot provide—all that the ancient Rishis were after : true mastery, true power, true expansion, and a true understanding of the world, which is so tragically lacking today. I don’t think my young friend was convinced it was really worth all the trouble ! Which is why Sri Aurobindo never expected too many people to sincerely practise his exacting integral yoga.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That brings</strong><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> us to the slower but crucial collective level. Sri Aurobindo always laid great stress on education. He himself had the best European education while in Cambridge, and, between 1897 and 1906, was a professor in the Baroda State College, then in the Bengal National College. So he knew the question in depth. And he had hopes in the young.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Our call</strong> is to young India. It is the young who must be the builders of the new world—not those who accept the competitive individualism, the capitalism or the materialistic communism of the West as India’s future ideal, not those who are enslaved to old religious formulas and cannot believe in the acceptance and transformation of life by the spirit, but all who are free in mind and heart to accept a completer truth and labour for a greater ideal.[11]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sri Aurobindo</strong> </span><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">never tired of calling for what he termed<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> “a national education.”</strong> He gave this brief defin</span>ition for<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> it :</span></span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"> [It is] the education which starting with the past and making full use of the present builds up a great nation. Whoever wishes to cut off the nation from its past is no friend of our national growth. Whoever fails to take advantage of the present is losing us the battle of life. We must therefore save for India all that she has stored up of knowledge, character and noble thought in her immemorial past. We must acquire for her the best knowledge that Europe can give her and assimilate it to her own peculiar type of national temperament. We must introduce the best methods of teaching humanity has developed, whether modern or ancient. And all these we must harmonise into a system which will be impregnated with the spirit of self-reliance so as to build up men and not machines.[12] </span></span></em></strong></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sri Aurobindo</strong> had little love for British education in India, which he called a “mercenary and soulless education,”[13] and for its debilitating influence on the “the innate possibilities” of the Indian brain. “In India,” he said, “the students generally have great capacities, but the system of education represses and destroys these capacities.”[14] As in every field, he wanted India to carve out her own path courageously :</span></span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The greatest knowledge and the greatest riches man can possess are [India's] by inheritance; she has that for which all mankind is waiting. [...] But the full soul rich with the inheritance of the past, the widening gains of the present, and the large potentiality of the future, can come only by a system of National Education. It cannot come by any extension or imitation of the system of the existing universities with its radically false principles, its vicious and mechanical methods, its dead-alive routine tradition and its narrow and sightless spirit. Only a new spirit and a new body born from the heart of the Nation and full of the light and hope of its resurgence can create it.[15]</span></span></strong></em></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is beyond</strong> this brief presentation to spell out the features of a national education as Sri Aurobindo envisioned it; let me just mention that he laid great stress on the cultivation of powers of thought and concentration, which runs counter to the present system of rote learning. The student had to be trained to think freely and deeply : “I believe that the main cause of India’s weakness,” Sri Aurobindo observed in 1920, “is not subjection, nor poverty, nor a lack of spirituality or Dharma, but a diminution of thought-power, the spread of ignorance in the motherland of Knowledge.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Everywhere</strong> I see an inability or unwillingness to think.”[16] Sri Aurobindo also insisted on mastery of one’s mother-tongue, on the teaching of Sanskrit, which he certainly did not regard as a “<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">dead language,”</strong> on artistic values based on the old spirit of Indian art, all of which he saw as essential to the integral development of the child’s personality. In short, nothing whether Indian or Western was rejected, but all had to be integrated in the Indian spirit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is clearly</strong> not the line Indian education has taken. If we see today that nothing even of the Mahabharata or the Ramayana is taught to an Indian child, we can measure the abyss to be bridged. That the greatest epics of mankind should be thrown away on the absurd and erroneous pretext that they are “religious” is beyond the comprehension of an impartial observer. A German or French or English child will be taught something of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, because they are regarded as the root of European culture, and somehow present in the European consciousness. He will not be asked to worship Zeus or Athena, but will be shown how the Ancients saw and experienced the world and the human being. But Indian epics, a hundred times richer and vaster in human experience, a thousand times more present in the Indian consciousness, will not be taught to an Indian child. Not to speak of other important texts such as the beautiful Tamil epics, Shilappadikaram and Manimekhalai. Even the Panchatantra and countless other highly educational collections of Indian stories—even folk stories—are ruled out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The result is</strong> that young Indians are increasingly deprived from their rightful heritage, cut off from their deeper roots. I have often found myself in the curious position of explaining to some of them the symbolic meaning of an ancient Indian myth, for instance—or, worse, of having to narrate the myth itself. Again, a French or English child will be given at least some semblance of cultural identity, whatever its worth; but here, in this country which not long ago had the most living culture in the world, a child is given no nourishing food—only some insipid, unappetizing hodgepodge, cooked in the West and pickled in India. This means that in the name of some irrational principles, India as an entity is throwing away some of its most precious treasures. As Sri Aurobindo put it :</span></span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Ancient India’s culture, attacked by European modernism, overpowered in the material field, betrayed by the indifference of her children, may perish for ever along with the soul of the nation that holds it in its keeping.[17] </span></span></strong></em></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Certainly some</strong> aberration worked upon the minds of those who devised Indian education after Independence. Or perhaps they devised nothing but were content with dusting off Macaulay’s brainchild. It is painful to see that the teaching of Sanskrit is almost systematically discouraged in India; it is painful to see that the deepest knowledge of the human being, that of yogic science, is discarded in favour of shallow Western psychology or psychoanalysis; it is painful to see that the average Indian student never even hears the name of Sri Aurobindo, who did so much for his country; and that, generally, Western intellectualism at its worst is the only food given to a nation whom Sri Aurobindo described as once the “deepest-thoughted.”[18]</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">India will</strong> certainly be compelled to address these central questions in the very near future, even as the Western edifice crumbles. Again and again, in the clearest and strongest terms, Sri Aurobindo asserted that India can never survive as a nation if she neglects or rejects what was always the source of her strength. Again and again, he saw India as the key to humanity’s rebirth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 1948, just two years before his passing, Sri Aurobindo said in a message to the Andhra University :</span></span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">It would be a tragic irony of fate if India were to throw away her spiritual heritage at the very moment when in the rest of the world there is more and more a turning towards her for spiritual help and a saving Light. This must not and will surely not happen; but it cannot be said that the danger is not there. There are indeed other numerous and difficult problems that face this country or will very soon face it. No doubt we will win through, but we must not disguise from ourselves the fact that after these long years of subjection and its cramping and impairing effects a great inner as well as outer liberation and change, a vast inner and outer progress is needed if we are to fulfil India’s true destiny.[19]</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">References <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">N.B. :</strong> In references to Sri Aurobindo’s works (‘Centenary Edition,’ Pondicherry : Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1972), the first number refers to the volume, the second to the page number.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sri Aurobindo’s <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">India’s Rebirth</strong></em> (3rd ed., 2000; also in Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Oriya, Tamil and Gujarati translations) is co-published and distributed by:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mira Aditi</strong> 62 ‘Sriranga’, 2nd Main, 1st Cross T. K. Layout, Saraswatipuram Mysore – 570 009, India miraditi@vsnl.com</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">[1] “<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Epistles from Abroad</em>,” 3.454-456.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">[2] <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bande Mataram</em>, 28 March 1908, 1.800.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">[3] Ibid., 7 October 1907, 1.560-561.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">[4] <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Renaissance in India</em>, 14.404.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">[5] <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Karmayogin</em>, 19 June 1909, quoted in India’s Rebirth (Mysore, 1997), p. 51.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">[6] <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On Himself</em>, 26.430.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">[7] From a <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">letter to Motilal Roy</em>, May 1920, 27.487.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">[8] <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Renaissance in India</em>, 14.426-433.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">[9] <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bande Mataram</em>, 8 April 1907, 1.244.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">[10] “<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ourselves</em>,” 15 August 1920, 16.331.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">[11] Ibid., 7 June 1907, 1.405.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">[12] <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bande Mataram</em>, 24 February 1908, 1.718.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">[13] “<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The National Value of Art</em>,” in Karmayogin, 20 November 1909, 17.231.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">[14] “<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">National Education</em>,” April 1918, 27.505.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">[15] �<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">National Education</em>,� April 1918, 27.505.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">[16] Letter to Barin Ghose, April 1920, India’s Rebirth, p. 151.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">[17] <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Foundations of Indian Culture</em>, 14.1.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">[18] <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Karmayogin</em>, 25 September 1909, 2.211. [19] Message to the Andhra University, December 1948, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On Himself</em>, 26.412-413.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689024986347301300.post-4880333991886714362016-01-09T21:04:00.000+05:302016-01-09T21:04:40.667+05:30Dogs are Impure and Develish says Islam<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>It is not permissible for a Muslim to keep a dog, unless he needs this dog for hunting, guarding livestock or guarding crops.</b></span></div>
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You might be wondering from where did this come.... But no matter how wonder stuck you are or how many examples that might comes in your mind of people of muslim faith having Dogs or how absurd it might sound to you, but this what is stated in their scripturerules:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Al-Bukhaari (2145) narrated that Abu Hurayrah said:</span><i> <b><span style="color: #073763;">“Whoever keeps a dog, a qiraat from his good deeds will be deducted every day, except a dog for farming or herding livestock.” </span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #2e5092;">Muslim (2978) narrated from Abu Hurayrah said:</span><i><span style="color: #073763;"><b> “Whoever keeps a dog that is not a dog for hunting, herding livestock or farming, two qiraats will be deducted from his reward each day.”</b></span></i><span style="color: #2e5092;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #2e5092;">Muslim (2943) narrated from ‘Abd-Allaah ibn ‘Umar said: </span><i><span style="color: #073763;"><b>“Whoever keeps a dog, except a dog for herding livestock or a dog for hunting, a qiraat will be <u>deducted</u> from his <u>good </u>deeds each day.”</b></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #2e5092;"> ‘Abd-Allaah said: Abu Hurayrah said: </span><span style="color: #073763;"><b><i>Or a dog for farming.</i></b></span><span style="color: #2e5092;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #2e5092;">Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr said: </span><span style="color: #073763;"><i><b>This hadeeth shows that it is permissible to keep a dog for hunting and herding livestock, and also for farming.</b></i></span><span style="color: #2e5092;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">So from a Hindu prospective by closely observing the above scriptures, with our limitted understanding, it can be stated that a muslim can have a dog only for purpose and that purpose can be anything(which are allowed by scriptures) but not love.You cannot have a dog just because you love a dog, "love for the loves sake" this phliosophy of ours are missing in the above scriptures .So in plain language it can be said that if you have any work to be done use it or else throw it.If any one asks why?? Because it is KAFARIC attitute to love a dog. The reason that one should avoid dogs are being stated as </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Ibn Maajah (3640) narrated from ‘Ali ibn Abi Taalib said: <i><b>“The angels do not enter a house in which there is a dog or an image.”</b></i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Now the Islamic scholars after many brain storming sessions and exhausting its superior intellect have managed solved the most muddling issue the world faces, How many qiraat(kind of currency of good things you do) are deducted? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"> <b><i>The scholars differed as to how to reconcile between the reports which speak of one qiraat being deducted and those which speak of two qiraats being deducted. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><b><i>It was said that two qiraats will be deducted if the dog is more harmful and one qiraat will be deducted if it is less so. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><b><i>And it was said that that at first the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said that one qiraat would be deducted, then the punishment was increased after that, so he said that two qiraats would be deducted in order to put people off from keeping dogs even more. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><b><i>The qiraat is an amount that is known to Allaah, may He be exalted, and what is meant is that some of the reward for a person’s good deeds will be deducted. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><b>See <i style="font-size: 16px;">Sharh Muslim</i> by al-Nawawi, 10/342; <i style="font-size: 16px;">Fath al-Baari</i>, 5/9 </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen said in <i style="font-size: 16px;">Sharh Riyaadh al-Saaliheen</i>, 4/241: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i>With regard to keeping dogs, this is haraam and is in fact a major sin, because the one who keeps a dog, except those for which an exception has been made, will have two qiraats deducted from his reward every day.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Who keeps a Dog and the nature of its impurity is stated as:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><i>It is by the wisdom of Allaah that like calls to like and evil calls to evil. It is said that the kaafirs, Jews, Christians and communists in the east and the west all keep dogs, Allaah forbid. Each one takes his dog with him and cleans it every day with soap and other cleansing agents. But even if he were to clean it with the water of all the seas in the world and all the soap in the world, it would never become pure! Because its impurity is inherent, and inherent impurity cannot be cleansed except by destroying it and erasing it altogether. </i></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689024986347301300.post-26451534296748021882016-01-09T21:03:00.000+05:302016-01-09T21:03:33.774+05:30Western capitalism is looking for inspiration in eastern mysticism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">In HIS 1905 book, “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”, Max Weber credited the Protestant ethic with giving rise to capitalism. Now it sometimes seems as if it is the Buddhist ethic that is keeping capitalism going. The Protestants stressed rational calculation and self-restraint. The Buddhists stress the importance of “mindfulness”—taking time out from the hurly-burly of daily activities to relax and meditate. In today’s corporate world you are more likely to hear about mindfulness than self-restraint.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Google offers an internal course called “search inside yourself” that has proved so popular that the company has created entry-level versions such as “neural self-hacking” and “managing your energy”. The search giant has also built a labyrinth for walking meditation. EBay has meditation rooms equipped with pillows and flowers. Twitter and Facebook are doing all they can to stay ahead in the mindfulness race. Evan Williams, one of Twitter’s founders, has introduced regular meditation sessions in his new venture, the Obvious Corporation, a start-up incubator and investment vehicle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The fashion is not confined to Silicon Valley: the mindfulness movement can be found in every corner of the corporate world. Rupert Murdoch has a well-developed bullshit detector. But earlier this year he tweeted about his interest in transcendental meditation (which he said “everyone recommends”). Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates and Bill Gross of PIMCO are two of the biggest names in the money-management business, and both are regular meditators. Mr Dalio says it has had more impact on his success than anything else.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">What got the mindfulness wagon rolling was the 1960s counter-culture, which injected a shot of bohemianism into the bloodstream of capitalism: witness the rise of companies such as Virgin, Ben & Jerry’s and Apple, whose co-founder, Steve Jobs, had visited India on a meditation break as a young man, and who often talked about how Zen had influenced the design of his products. But three things are making the wheels roll ever faster.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The most obvious is omni-connectivity. The constant pinging of electronic devices is driving many people to the end of their tether. Electronic devices not only overload the senses and invade leisure time. They feed on themselves: the more people tweet the more they are rewarded with followers and retweets. Mindfulness provides a good excuse to unplug and chill out—or “disconnect to connect”, as mindfulness advocates put it. A second reason is the rat race. The single-minded pursuit of material success has produced an epidemic of corporate scandals and a widespread feeling of angst. Mindfulness emphasises that there is more to success than material prosperity. The third is that selling mindfulness has become a business in its own right.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The movement has a growing, and strikingly eclectic, cohort of gurus. Chade-Meng Tan of Google, who glories in the job title of “jolly good fellow”, is the inspiration behind “search inside yourself”. Soren Gordhamer, a yoga and meditation instructor, and an enthusiastic tweeter, founded Wisdom 2.0, a popular series of mindfulness conferences. Bill George, a former boss of Medtronic, a medical-equipment company, and a board member at Goldman Sachs, is introducing mindfulness at Harvard Business School in an attempt to develop leaders who are “self-aware and self-compassionate”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Many other business schools are embracing mindfulness. Jeremy Hunter of the Drucker management school at Claremont university teaches it to his students, as does Ben Bryant at Switzerland’s IMD. Donde Plowman of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s business school has even tried to quantify the mindfulness of management schools themselves. The flow of wisdom is not one-way: Keisuke Matsumoto, a Japanese Buddhist monk, took an MBA at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad and is now applying its lessons to revitalise temples back home.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">As for its exploitation as a business, Arianna Huffington runs a mindfulness conference, a “GPS for the soul” app and a mindfulness corner of her <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Huffington Post</span>. Chip Wilson, the boss of lululemon, a seller of yoga gear, has set up a website, whil.com, that urges people to turn off their brains for 60 seconds by visualising a dot. (“Power down, power up, and power forward.”)</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A walk in the countryside</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Does all this mindfulness do any good? There is a body of evidence that suggests that some of its techniques can provide significant psychological and physiological benefits. The Duke University School of Medicine has produced research that shows that, in America, an hour of yoga a week reduces stress levels in employees by a third and cuts health-care costs by an average of $2,000 a year. Cynics might point to the evidence that a walk in the countryside has similar benefits. They might also worry that Aetna, an insurer which wants to sell yoga and other mindfulness techniques as part of its health plans, is sponsoring some of the research that supports them. But it seems not unreasonable to suppose that, in a world of constant stress and distraction, simply sitting still and relaxing for a while might do you some good.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">The biggest problem with mindfulness is that it is becoming part of the self-help movement—and hence part of the disease that it is supposed to cure. Gurus talk about “the competitive advantage of meditation”. Pupils come to see it as a way to get ahead in life. And the point of the whole exercise is lost. What has parading around in pricey lululemon outfits got to do with the Buddhist ethic of non-attachment to material goods? And what has staring at a computer-generated dot got to do with the ancient art of meditation? Western capitalism seems to be doing rather more to change eastern religion than eastern religion is doing to change Western capitalism.</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689024986347301300.post-23036507255654033122016-01-09T21:02:00.000+05:302016-01-09T21:02:49.723+05:30Why Hindus have many Devatas? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Akbar said to Birbal, “We Muslim’s have only Allah, Christians have Christ, Buddhists have Buddha. But you Hindus worship so many Gods. Why is it so? </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;" /><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><br />Birbal said : ”God is one but His names are many.”<br /><br />Akbar: “How is it possible? How can God assume so many forms and yet only be one?”<br /><br />Birbal summoned a servant who was wearing a turban. He pointed to it and said: “What is that?”<br /><br />Servant said: “A turban”<br /><br />Birbal : “Untie it, roll it and tie it to your waist”<br /><br />When he had done so, Birbal asked, “ What is that?”<br /><br />Servant answered : “A kamarbhand”<br /><br />Birbal, turning to Akbar. “You have seen how the same cloth acquires different names when performing different functions. So also water can be a cloud when in sky; it is rain when it falls to earth; it is river when it flows, ice when it freezes.<br /><br />Similarly God is one but is called by different names by different people<br /><br /><br />Moral<br /><br />We name things according to our own perceptions. It is important to bear in mind that the name is not the thing named. Just as map is not the territory it refers to. Sometime it is useful to think and view a thing in entirety apart from its name or utility. As far as the God is concerned we give forms to Him according to our perception.<br /><br />Plz Visit-<br /><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/omproudtobeahinduom/concept-of-god" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>omproudtobeahinduom/</a></span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689024986347301300.post-45967281518748145272015-11-10T15:21:00.001+05:302015-11-10T15:37:10.771+05:30Diwali celebration in its truest purpose and spirit<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Diwali<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> is one of the most
colorful, sacred and loveliest festivals of the Hindus. It is celebrated every
year with great joy and enthusiasm throughout the length and breadth of the
country.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7689024986347301300" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The festival of Diwali marks the happy return of
lord Rama to Ayodhya after fourteen year’s exile. It is a festival of lights
and festivities. It comes off about twenty days after <a href="http://www.importantindia.com/17410/paragraph-on-dussehra/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Dussehra</span></a> and
shows the advent of winter. It is to the Hindus what <a href="http://www.importantindia.com/15638/short-essay-on-christmas-festival/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Christmas</span></a> is
to the Christians. It lends charms and delight to our life.</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141412; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Shrīkrushna
liberated the troubled masses from immorality, greed and bad tendencies by
slaying the demon Narakasur, who was an icon of demonic attitude. Diwali
symbolises this conquest of Divine thoughts over evil tendencies. Today,
unfortunately, Diwali is celebrated just as a cultural festival, without an
understanding of its spiritual context.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141412; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">However, if people learn, appreciate and
understand this spiritual context then all the ills in society; caused by
spiritual ignorance, carnal and bad tendencies would reduce and even the
dominance of immoral people over the pious masses will subside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141412; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Therefore,
igniting the flame of one’s soul with spiritual passion, by reducing all
worldly attachments can be known as true “Diwali.” The increased power of
piousness will lend happiness to everyone. This is possible by sacrificing
our carnal pleasures without any expectations. The Upanishads have
advised to seek pleasure in the reduction of that very pleasure itself !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141412; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O
God, through this Diwali, please light the bright flame of doing every action
without any expectations in our hearts. We have surrendered ourselves
unto you completely. Please give us the spiritually pure (Sattvik) intellect
(sadbuddhi) and strength to spread these noble thoughts to everyone so that we
can become like a single earthen lamp that ignites multiple lamps around
it. Through this we would be graced to celebrate ‘Diwali’ in its truest purpose
and spirit. I wish everybody a Blissful Diwali !”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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H. H. Pande </span><i><span style="color: #0724a2; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Maharaj</span></i><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><i><span style="color: #0724a2; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sanatan</span></i><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><i><span style="color: #0724a2; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ashram</span></i><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, Panvel, India.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="color: #005399; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1. Introduction</span></b><b><span style="color: #005399; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141412; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Diwali
in recent years is being considered and celebrated as a cultural activity. It
is thought of, as the time of the year to buy new clothes, sweets, to
illuminate homes with colourful electric lights and hang lanterns. There is a
lot of fanfare in the form of parties, dancing to film music or western music
and even drinking alcohol. All this is done in the name of a festival which has
to be celebrated with sanctity in a spiritually correct way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is one of the important </span><i><span style="color: #0724a2; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hindu</span></i><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> festivals, which
comprises of four consecutive days of celebrations. Diwali festival starts with
Dhantrayodashi or Dhanteras, followed by Narak-Chaturdashī and </span><i><span style="color: #0724a2; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lakshmi</span></i><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-pūjān on 2nd November, and Balipratipada on 3rd November.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141412; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Every
day of Diwali represents the conquest of good over evil. The word Diwali is
made of two words; deep (lamp or diyas) and avali (row), which means a
line or a row of lamps. During the festival of Diwali lamps are lit in
every home and workplace. That is why this festival is also known as the
‘Festival of Lights’.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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way</span></b><b><span style="color: #005399; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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When we shop for new clothes we can buy clothes like sārī for ladies and
kurtā-pyjāmā or </span><i><span style="color: #0724a2; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">dhoti</span></i><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> for men, long skirts for girls and </span><i><span style="color: #0724a2; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">kurta-pyjama</span></i><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> for boys. Wearing such sāttvik clothes helps to
imbibe more positivity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Giving gifts to friends and families is a new trend, which is unnecessary.
However if we still wish to gift then we can choose gifts like items used for
ritualistic worship, books on Spirituality, etc. When we indulge in such
practices there are expectations from each other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rather than ordering commercially, if possible we can try to make sweets,
snacks or food at home, using pure ghee and fresh products. Thus we can ensure
purity in the food we consume.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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If we wish to have a get-together we can organise a pūjā rather than a
party.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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On the three days of Diwali starting Narak </span><i><span style="color: #0724a2; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chaturdashi</span></i><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> we can wake up at dawn and have a bath with oil massage
(abhyangasnā). Such a bath increases our </span><i><span style="color: #0724a2; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sattva</span></i><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> component by
0.00001% compared to regular bath on other days. By applying ubtan the
sensitivity of the body to absorb Chaitanya (Divine Consciousness) increases.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Music like bhajans or shlokas can be played rather than playing noisy music
which spreads </span><i><span style="color: #0724a2; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Raja</span></i><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-</span><i><span style="color: #0724a2; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tama</span></i><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> vibrations and
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Flowers like marigold can be used to make a garland along with mango leaves and
hung at the main door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rangolī with sattvik designs can be drawn outside the door. Drawing </span><i><span style="color: #0724a2; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">rangoli</span></i><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> designs like lotus, swāstik, conch, etc help to attract
positive vibrations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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If we wish to celebrate Diwali as a community we can organise a </span><i><span style="color: #0724a2; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">rangoli</span></i><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> competition, bhajan singing, etc. rather than games like
lotto, food stalls, jewellery stalls, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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We can devote time to prayers and chanting during the days of Diwali as it will
help us to absorb the Divine Consciousness (Chaitanya) present in the
atmosphere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The lady of the house should do </span><i><span style="color: #0724a2; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">aukshan</span></i><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (waving
of lit lamps) for the other members of the family.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Nowadays many people light wax candles as they are easier to handle. However do
you know that wax does not emit positive vibrations ? At twilight we can light
oil lamps made of clay rather than acrylic or glass to illuminate our homes. We
can avoid artificial lighting like relay of electric bulbs or lanterns in the
shape of a Star or Chinese lanterns<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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We can discourage children from lighting fire-crackers as they are a waste of
money and the smoke that is emitted pollutes the atmosphere and can be
hazardous to health.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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pray that you will be able to celebrate this Diwali in a spiritually
correct way and experience joy and derive maximum benefit of the Divine
Consciousness (Chaitanya) of this years Diwali celebration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Steve Jobs had revolutionized the world of computers and e based
communications through his Apple computers. Here are some facts about
Mr. Steve Jobs.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"> • He used to “walk 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna Hindu Temple”.<br />
• He said in his Stanford University lecture “you have to trust in your
gut, destiny, life and Karma. He was a staunch believer of karma yoga.<br />
• He visited many Ashrams in Risheekesh particularly Neem Karoli Baba
ashram, a devotee of Hanuman. After visiting for the first time he
returned from India to US with a shaved head and in traditional Indian
robes.<br /> • He used to walk in his company bare footed like a Hindu sanyaasee..<br /> • He used to do Yoga daily and he was a perfect vegetarian till his last breath.<br /> • He visits many ashrams in north India and used to do yoga in the holy places.<br /> • He started touring India from 1970 onwards and he is a great lover of animals.<br /> • He has not requested money from his parents even when he was jobless and generally took food from Hindu temples wherever he goes.<br /> • He religiously followed and spread the ‘amazing Hindu dharma’ and Vedic messages.<br /> • He did not complete his studies in the university but remained in university for discussing with his friends.<br />
• He was removed from his own company by the management and latter on
those management people were removed from their chair and Mr. Steve was
brought back<br /> • It is said that in Himalayas, one of the Hindu
swamijies gave him a green apple and told him to bite it. He did and
looked into the apple after biting a piece from that.<br /> • That apple has come as the emblem of the Apple computers.<br />
•He did not have a great university degree, still he could do the best
for the world. One need not have to have highest degree for become great
and good.<br /> •It is said that he was a drop out from university.
Remember, one need not think that only those who get good college, good
subject, good education, can survive in this world.<br /> •He was a pure
vegetarian. One need not eat the dead body of the animals, blood oozing
flesh for becoming healthy and do the work. Steve was a pure vegetarian.<br />
•He used to walk bare footed in his office and also used to walk a long
distance to Hare Krishna temple even when he had enough money. It is
wrong to believe that for a scientist there should be perfect suits,
tie, cap, over coat and super specialty moustache and beard etc for
showing that ‘ I am a great scientist’.<br /> •One can be ordinary when he does extraordinary work/thing also. That means become simple and humble always<br />
•He used to visit Himalayas and Hindu gurus for the last many years.
You should also visit through pilgrimage, the Himalayas and spend few
days when you grow up or now with your parents. Whether you are
Christian, Muslim or Hindu, it is immaterial.<br /> •Steve Jobs proved
that even when cancer conquered his body. He loved India and Indians
with all the amazing cultural specialty of Hindu dharma</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> •Even though
Steve Jobs was born as a Christian and an American, He lived a Hindu
life and like an Indian, even when he reached the topmost position in
his profession and karma.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>source: <a href="http://globalhinduism.com/2011/12/25/some-facts-about-mr-steve-jobs-who-embrace-hinduism/">http://globalhinduism.com/2011/12/25/some-facts-about-mr-steve-jobs-who-embrace-hinduism/</a></b></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7689024986347301300.post-73254597137852462922015-09-26T13:34:00.000+05:302015-09-26T13:34:17.647+05:30Seeing Hinduism with Clarity(Understanding Hinduism)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In these last decades,</strong><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;">the world has been changing. The phenomenon called “Hindu Awakening” has created a growing favorable interest towards Hinduism not only in India, but at global level. Simultaneously, we have seen that in Western countries there has been a considerable development of the neo-pagan movements and the resurgence of ancient native religions and cultures – all of which are fundamentally compatible with Hinduism, the last surviving bulwark of ancient pre-abrahamic cultures.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignleft" src="http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/faith-and-reason/2010/08/07/juliawidex-large.jpg" height="228" id="irc_mi" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="340" />The monolith of</strong> the abrahamic ideologies is cracking, and so is the biased academic approach that was aimed at dismissing the ancient pagan cultures as primitive and ignorant superstitions or childish fables.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">People from</strong> all walks of life and backgrounds are eager to get direct access to the ancient texts and original traditions, to find answers to their individual and collective questions, and better solutions to the serious problems we are all facing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A paradigm shift</strong> is actually happening. One of the central concepts in this new consciousness is the need to overcome artificial damaging divisions and to unite all the good people in taking action for the benefit of the entire planet. The old discriminations and prejudice, fostering fear and hatred, need to be replaced by open-mindedness and a sincere spirit of understanding and cooperation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignleft" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/galleries/hindutemple/images/01.jpg" height="308" id="irc_mi" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="410" />Hinduism does</strong> not look out of place at the forefront of this movement, if we consider that along history many great intellectuals, philosophers and seekers from all corners of the world traveled to India to find inspiration and knowledge, and praised the Vedic texts as amazingly deep and scientifically accurate, both on the level of physics and on the level of metaphysics.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Still today,</strong> Hinduism has much to offer to mankind, provided it returns to its roots, removing the noxious weeds of avidya and adharma that have been sown by enemies and have grown into a confused mess of misconceptions even in the minds of “traditional Hindus”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This clean</strong> up work is not against the inherently inclusive and tolerant nature of Hinduism, exemplified by the Vedic hymn that teaches</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">aa no bhadra kritavo yantu visvatah</span>,</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“let all good things come to us from all directions”</strong> (Rig Veda 1.1.89, Sukla Yajur Veda 27.1)</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">and by the quote<a href="http://www.hinduhumanrights.info/the-hindu-psychology-of-surrender/" style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ekam sat vipraha, bahudha vadanti</span>,</strong></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Truth is one, but the wise call it by various names”</strong> (<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rig Veda</span> 1.164.46).</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignleft" src="http://www.brittanytrubridge.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/gunas.jpg" height="410" id="irc_mi" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="410" />We must</strong> be extremely careful here to clearly understand the basics, because ignorantly mistaking abhadra (bad things) for bhadra (good things), asatya (deceit) for satya (truth) and adharma (evil) for dharma (good) is a fundamental disaster that poisons the entire system.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bhagavad gita</strong> (18.29-32) details the three approaches to understanding religion, based respectively on goodness (sattva), selfishness (rajas) and stupidity (tamas), according to the mentality of people.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The good (sattvic)</strong> religious approach is based on intelligence and clearly makes a distinction between ethical and unethical, between the path of evolution and liberation and the path of conditioning and suffering. The selfish (rajasic) religious approach does not give much importance to the difference between dharma and adharma, and makes choices based on selfish interest (individual or collective) and sectarianism.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The idiotic</strong> (tamasic) religious approach regularly gets things upside down, mistaking dharma for adharma and the other way around, protecting the bad people and persecuting good people.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The key to solv</strong>e our problem is knowledge (jnana, or vidya) that helps us to overcome the ignorance (tamas) and see things as they are, and not “upside down”. The ignorance of illusory perception is caused by the artificial superimposition (adhyasa) of two different concepts, as for example a rope and a snake: this makes us see a rope as a snake, and the other way around – with the result of being bitten and poisoned.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignleft" src="http://hinduexistence.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/gangasagar43.jpg" height="299" id="irc_mi" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="243" />In brief,</strong> we can say that Hinduism, or better Sanatana Dharma (“the eternal/ universal principles of ethics”) should accept, embrace and assimilate only those religious approaches that are compatible with such principles.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When we say</strong>, <a href="http://www.hinduhumanrights.info/sarva-dharma-sambhava-unity-or-confusion-of-religions/" style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">sarva dharma samo bhavah</a> (“all dharmas are based on the same sentiments”) we should not allow adharma to line up in the picture together with the various dharmic approaches, because that is the root of the disaster. The variety of dharmas only applies to the many specific paths that afford proper engagement and a gradual system of realization for the different levels of personal evolution.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">So the dharma</strong> or religious engagement for a brahmana (an intellectual and teacher) is different from the religious engagement for a kshatriya (administrator, warrior and policeman), and from the religious engagement for a vaisya (entrepreneur) and the religious engagement for a sudra (unskilled laborer). It also applies to the variety of worship systems offered by the tantric knowledge that gives slightly different specifications for the individuals who have chosen a particular ista deva – vaishnavas, shaivas, shaktas, etc. This means that the worship of Vishnu includes slightly different parameters from the worship of Shakti, etc.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But dharma</strong> is only what is based on the universal and eternal principles of dharma: there is no such a thing as “criminal dharma”, or “adharmic dharma” – an oxymoron if there has ever been one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The word DHARMA</strong> does not correspond precisely to the word “religion”. It is much more than that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="irc_mut alignleft" src="http://www.exoticindia.com/oils/mother_goddess_durga_or90.jpg" height="393" id="irc_mi" style="border: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="293" />Dharma</strong> comes from the Sanskrit root dhar, meaning “to support”, and indicates that subtle natural law of cooperation and mutual support that binds together all realities in the universe for the proper functioning of everything. The basic principles of Dharma are sincerity or truthfulness, compassion, cleanliness and purity, self-discipline, the cultivation of knowledge and consciousness, personal evolution, and the sense of duty and responsibility.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">These</strong> concepts are naturally embedded in the conscience of all human beings, and also govern the natural laws of the universe including the functions of the elements and the orbits of the planets.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When a “religion”</strong> preaches and/ or practices adharma, the opposite of these basic principles of dharma, it cannot be called dharma, and it cannot be accepted as a legitimate justification for criminal actions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Because</strong> normal human intelligence and conscience can easily and spontaneously recognize the difference between dharma and adharma, false “religions” need to create a number of oppressive and distorting mechanisms to confuse the minds of people and reinforce the tendency to ignorance (tamas) in society, starting from the construction of a deceitful system of “knowledge” that ensures the perpetuation of adharma in the name of adharma.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Some of these</strong> adharmic concepts have been treacherously introduced in Indian society by the colonial regime under the guise of modern education, through the biased and untruthful presentation of the original Vedic concepts in denigratory definitions in English language – definitions that nobody in abrahamic ideologies (Christians, Muslims or Jews) would ever apply to their own tradition, rather choosing dignified expressions such as “hagiography”, “sacred image”, and so on.</span><br /><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many innocent</strong> or uninformed Indian Hindus still use such denigratory definitions without realizing their real import, or even the actual meaning of the original Vedic concepts, while many western students of Hinduism are now happy to use the appropriate Sanskrit definitions as they were originally established in the Vedic scriptures – for example, dharma, vigraha, lila, puja, bhakta, mantra, deva, sannyasi, sadhu, brahmachari, brahmana, guru, and so on.</span></span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">A quick perusal of a good dictionary (Webster’s, for example), will make us aware that:</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IDOL</strong> means “false god, pretender, impostor, a form of appearance visible but substance, a fallacy, a false conception”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IDOLATER</strong> means “a worshiper of idols, a person that admires intensely and often blindly one that is not usually an object of worship”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IDOLATRY</strong> means, “the worship of a physical object as a god, immoderate attachment or devotion to something”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MYTH</strong> means, “a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon”, but also “an unfounded or false notion, a person or thing having only an imaginary or unverifiable existence”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MYTHOLOGY</strong> means, “an allegorical narrative, a body of myths, the myths dealing with the gods, demigods, and legendary heroes of a particular people”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.5px;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">I</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">ndependence Day</span></span></b></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, observed annually on 15 August, is a National Holiday in India commemorating the </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #e69138;">nation’s independence from the British Empire on 15 August 1947</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">"</span><i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment, we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity.. "</span></i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.5px;"><b><i><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">The day is observed throughout India with flag-hoisting ceremonies, parades and cultural events.</span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: large;">The Indian diaspora celebrates Independence Day around the world with parades and pageants, particularly in regions with higher concentrations of Indian immigrants. In some locations, such as New York and other US cities, 15 August has become “India Day” among the diaspora and the local populace. Pageants celebrate “India Day” either on 15 August or an adjoining weekend day.Flag hoisting ceremonies and cultural programmes take place in governmental and non-governmental institutions throughout the country. </span></span><br />
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