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20:53, 2 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Evocations from Daksha Yagnam (Created page with " I am reminded of my teacher, who repeatedly tells us as we keep learning texts: It is okay if we don’t understand it the very first day, it is okay if we don’t remember it after we learn. '''It is the experience in the contexts that occur one day in the future, and how we relate that experience with the learning of the text in the past, which will open the gates of awareness.''' ===== One day when we come across a certain context it will dawn upon us as to how tha...") Tag: Visual edit
00:36, 2 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page A Glimpse into Shakta Worldview and Practice, Part 2 (Created page with "==== Hymns in the Praise of Supreme Goddess ==== Stuti can be a string of devotional hymns that are composed in the adulation of the deity. This approach is present in almost all the major religious traditions of India. Often, they are the stepping stones into the realms of worship for many seekers. Representation of divine form has clear underlying rules in iconography. Often what are known as ‘dhyāna-śloka’ or meditative verses are recited before embarking on the...") Tag: Visual edit
00:33, 2 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page A Glimpse into Shakta Worldview and Practice, Part 1 (Created page with "==== Introduction ==== Śākta traditions wherein Devi or Goddess is worshipped as the primary power is an ancient religious stream that originated in the immeasurable antiquity of the ancient Indian spiritual thought. This stream too, like the religious milieu it originated in, does not yield easy answers for the scholarly pursuits that attempt to find its origins. Spiritual schools that emerge from this soil are intricately connected like an unseen underground network...") Tag: Visual edit
00:16, 2 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Reclaiming Medical Ethics (Created page with " The oath-taking ceremony is perhaps one of the most profound moments in the life of a young doctor through medical school. There is a certain sense of gravity that the oath tends to impart, which harkens to the seriousness and difficulty of the years ahead. To me, it was the moment I realized that down the line, I might have to contend with the daunting challenge of balancing ethics and empathy with day-to-day patient decisions — decisions which tend to be sterile and...") Tag: Visual edit
00:05, 2 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page How Gurukulam Learning Differs from Regular Education, Part 11 (Created page with " Do your duty, you get fulfilment, you get the fruits of your karma, there is no compulsion to chant Vedās. Take a carpenter for example, his is hard work, doing physical labour on a daily basis, where is the mental space and time for performing sandhyā, where is the inner leisure for bhāṣya, for scriptural study or commentary? Is it not enough that he slogs day in and out to create something exquisite and functional, and is proud of what he does? It is enough. He h...") Tag: Visual edit
00:01, 2 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page How Gurukulam Learning Differs from Regular Education, Part 10 (Created page with " One major confusion regarding advaita vedānta is that we consider the world as māyā, as non-existent. So it should not matter how we live in the world at all, right? This can pave the way to cynicism, to negativity. Mithyā is not an illusion, it is instead magic!! Magic because it is there; I see and feel it yet it is not real i.e. it is temporary and not permanent, it ultimately depends on another entity for its existence. It is adhiṣṭhāna ananyavat, not separ...") Tag: Visual edit
23:55, 1 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page How Gurukulam Learning Differs from Regular Education, Part 9 (Created page with " We are not doing śāstra a favour by calling it ‘scientific’, it is in fact very limiting to term it so! Moreover it is false too. But unlike other blind belief systems, śāstra assures us of results in the here and now once we cross over the bridge of distrust. By sādhanā which is experiential learning one can transform at the physical, emotional, psychological, and mental level. Our limited knowledge of a three or four dimensional world is smiled at by a benig...") Tag: Visual edit
23:51, 1 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page How Gurukulam Learning Differs from Regular Education, Part 8 (Created page with "==== What I Learnt in Time ==== From the little time spent at the gurukulam, I have tried my best to be an ātmārāmā not an indriyārāmā. Someone who revels in herself and not in the sense objects. This is easier said than done and is only possible when we do regular study of the texts which tell us why the latter is anathema. When I was nine, my maternal grandfather Challapalli Apparao consoled me one evening when I was alone at home with him, as my parents had go...") Tag: Visual edit
23:43, 1 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page How Gurukulam Learning Differs from Regular Education, Part 7 (Created page with " Educational institutions mostly pander to the child these days, helicopter parents who are constantly hovering do not help their children grow emotionally either. If a teacher is not allowed to reprimand or punish, instead only praise, there will be no growth on the part of the ward. If the young are not exposed to different mentalities and do not learn to be sensitive to others, they will turn into adults who will always want their way, refusing to budge an inch for th...") Tag: Visual edit
23:39, 1 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page How Gurukulam Learning Differs from Regular Education, Part 6 (Created page with " What I value most from my time at the gurukulam apart from the teachings which have held me in good stead in my life’s highs and lows are the relationships that I formed there. Usually we tend to make the best of friendships in school and college, or with those we grow up with; our relatives, cousins, neighbours. As adults it is really tough to strike that innocent chord and allow for the outpourings of deep affection for a stranger. Interestingly, a stay at the guruk...") Tag: Visual edit
23:32, 1 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page How Gurukulam Learning Differs from Regular Education, Part 5 (Created page with " Sitting in the front row to the right of Pūjya Svāmīji, as he sat facing us on his chair, I had to be extra vigilant to be attentive, not to nod off into a quick nap. What with getting up early to make it in time for the 5.30am abhiśekam for Lord Dakṣiṇāmūrti followed by dhyānam, followed by a slew of Vedānta and Sanskṛtam classes the whole day, the Śrīmadbhagavad‌gītā class at 5.00pm seemed to help ease some of us into happy slumber! I shook myself...") Tag: Visual edit
23:29, 1 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page How Gurukulam Learning Differs from Regular Education, Part 4 (Created page with " Pūjya Svāmī Dayananda Saraswati ji would say: '''success is your ability to manage your desires…..where your desires do not create any problem for you.''' This took a while to internalize. In one’s youth the ‘heat of the moment’ is everything, so is ‘being a free-bird’. Spontaneous actions are complimented as natural and normal. But if those very actions cause harm to one’s spiritual growth or keep us tied to sorrow and fear then these are actions stemm...") Tag: Visual edit
23:26, 1 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page How Gurukulam Learning Differs from Regular Education, Part 3 (Created page with " How does such a transformation happen; from being self centered to knowing that Self as the centre of everything; not overnight, definitely not easily. It takes paying attention to every moment of our waking life, to everything we think, do, and speak, to be able to reach a stage of spontaneous action wherein we are in line with śāstra and dharma. In line with how our gurus live. In line with the Vaidika civilization which turned vyavahāra into an art of living throu...") Tag: Visual edit
23:23, 1 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page How Gurukulam Learning Differs from Regular Education, Part 2 (Created page with "==== What I Learnt from Our Sacred Texts ==== The mahāvākya '''aham brahmāsmi''' and this spectacular knowledge '''released me from all ideas of smallness and complexes regarding myself.''' The means to acquire this clarity is first to acquire adhikāritvam, the eligibility to comprehend this subtle truth and by listening to śāstra, gurumukhāt, i.e. hearing the words of śāstra from a qualified guru. No, not by reading and theorizing, that will put us back in the...") Tag: Visual edit
23:15, 1 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page How Gurukulam Learning Differs from Regular Education, Part 1 (Created page with "<blockquote>''न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विद्यते'' ''na hi jñānena sadṛiśaṁ pavitramiha vidyate'' ''there is nothing as purifying as knowledge in this world''</blockquote>The Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) bus pulls itself up the winding roads of the verdant Western ghats, at the foothills of Nilgiris, and comes to a sudden halt after the Salim Ali Center for Ornithology, in the mid...") Tag: Visual edit
23:09, 1 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page India’s Storytelling Tradition and its Influence on World Literature (Created page with "<blockquote>As on the mighty ocean’s waves Two floating logs together come. And, having met, forever part: So briefly joined are living things. As streams of rivers onward flow, And never more return again: So day and night still bear away The life of every mortal man. Hitopadeśa</blockquote>Hugh Blair in his ''Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres'' wrote that ''“The genius of the eastern nations, in particular, was from the earliest times much turn...") Tag: Visual edit
22:52, 1 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Harnessing AI in the Global Fight Against Anti-Hindu Hate (Created page with "==== Recognizing the Global Challenge ==== In an era where digital communication transcends geographical boundaries, the Hindu community globally faces a growing challenge – the rise of anti-Hindu sentiments. Manifesting through misinformation, stereotypes, and online hate speech, these sentiments not only distort the understanding of Hinduism but also propagate biases and incite potential violence1. Artificial Intelligence (AI) emerges as a beacon of hope t...") Tag: Visual edit
22:49, 1 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Culture and Warfare - Finding Balance Through Dharma (Created page with " H. G. Wells, more than a hundred years ago wrote ‘The Time Machine’ in which he encapsulated the whole dilemma of civilization and barbarism. Wells describes a future where the difference between the barbarians and the cultured has become so acute - that they have become two species: * The civilized, the Eloi, have all the comforts and luxuries of culture and civilization, they enjoy arts and aesthetics. They live a plush life; however, violence and war has been c...") Tag: Visual edit
22:46, 1 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Art and Meaning Making (Created page with "==== Meaning Making in Culture ==== Of all the functions that Culture provides us, one of the greatest is the meaning making process. Man’s quest for meaning in life is eternal and it has been the primary function of Culture to provide meaning in individual and social life. All tradition and dharma affirms that life is not random; it has meaning. That something exists instead of nothing; that there is a cosmos, intelligent life, and a species capable of reflecting upon...") Tag: Visual edit
22:40, 1 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Ahoi Ashtami (Created page with " Ahoi Ashtami is a festival most of us barely even know about. Some would be familiar with a faint memory of their childhood, when after Barsātein (another almost forgotten festival) and one week before Diwali, married women with children would keep nirjala vṛta (without food and water) for a day and worship Ahoi Mātā. Ahoi Mātā has various different depictions and appearances but she is often imagined in the form of a porcupine. Women cook festive food and most i...") Tag: Visual edit
22:36, 1 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Oral Storytelling Traditions of Bharat and the World (Created page with " Storytelling and the power of imagination are perhaps among the most universal qualities of civilizations worldwide, one that stems from basic human nature and can take on various shapes and forms. In West Africa, there are the griots — troubadour-historians that travel far and wide preserving the genealogies, culture and oral histories. The Jewish people practice a tradition known as seder for Passover, wherein the elders narrate the story of Exodus and the four youn...") Tag: Visual edit
22:29, 1 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Shiva as Nataraja, the Cosmic Dancer - Iconography and Symbolism (Created page with "<blockquote>“When our Lord who is both end and beginning dances to the deep sound of the mulavam drum, holding blazing fire in the hollow of his hand, as the mountain’s daughter watches, the Gaṅgā’s murmuring stream with foaming waves flows over the cool crescent moon. He who smears his body with ash from the burning-ground is our Lord who dwells in Vēṭkaḷam’s fine town.” Jñāṉacampantar, translated by Indra Viswanathan Peterson</bloc...") Tag: Visual edit
22:17, 1 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page What Carl Jung Learnt from India (Created page with " Carl Jung was a rebellious student who broke rank from his influential master, Sigmund Freud. He was a maverick thinker who studied odd subjects such as astrology, alchemy, and parapsychology. He had Nobel Prize winners such as Wolfgang Pauli as his patients. And above all, Jung was a psychotherapist – a doctor of the soul working hard to heal the painful wounds on the Western man’s psyche. Carl Jung understood that all psychological questions ultimately meld into...") Tag: Visual edit
22:14, 1 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page S. Radhakrishnan on What Makes Art, Science and Religion Work (Created page with " Controversies of the day pass but eternal questions endure. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan dedicated his life to precisely these eternal questions: From where does art derive its moving power? What is the mysterious source of scientific insight? How to differentiate between dogmatic religion and genuine spiritual insight? This is not to say that S. Radhakrishnan lived in the ivory tower. He represented India at UNESCO, was the Indian ambassador to the Soviet Union, and topp...") Tag: Visual edit
22:06, 1 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Colonial Consciousness and the Production of Hybridized Indians (Created page with " In development paradigms, the representation of colonized countries has either been of socio-economic-culturally backward regions in comparison to the Western countries or as the sites for resource extraction. In both of these development paradigms, which are ideologically opposed to one another, colonized countries have been denied agency. At one end of this ideological spectrum stand theories such as, ‘The Stages of Economic Growth’, by Walt Rostow where coloniz...") Tag: Visual edit
12:25, 28 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Resurgence of Culture in Shaping Public Policy (Created page with "<blockquote>There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys, how’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?” David Foster Wallace‘s 2005 commencement speech to the graduating class at Kenyon College. From Michael Muthukrishna’s book, A Theory of Eve...") Tag: Visual edit
12:16, 28 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Colonial Alienation and Historical Amnesia (Created page with " Many reject the notion that Indians could have had scientific and engineering traditions in the past, given that the terms “science and engineering” are themselves European inventions. The denial persists despite the fact that, if true, the Indians could not have constructed the Kallanai Dam, which was built in the second century by King Karikalan of the Chola Dynasty and is one of the world’s oldest irrigation systems that is still in use. If Indians did not ex...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
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15:33, 27 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Timeless Elegance of Ancient Indian Hairstyles: A Journey Through the Ages (Created page with "<blockquote>“O your hair, he said, It is like rain clouds moving between branches of lightning. It parts five ways between gold ornaments braided with a length of flowers and the fragrant screwpine.”</blockquote><blockquote>“The sight of me combing my long hair brings you back to your country where you tell me girls sit in the open air combing each other’s hair.”</blockquote><blockquote>“Adorned with golden koṉṟai<ref>Hairstyles in Ancient India...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
15:21, 27 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Necklace's Journey through Ancient Indian Literature (Created page with "<blockquote>''The beauty of the necklace exceeds that of nectar and pearls,'' ''So says Avvaiyār, skilled in speech.'' Avvaiyār (Tamil: ஔவையார்), from Avvai Kuṟaḷ</blockquote><blockquote>''Adorning the large bosom with radiant necklaces,'' ''I praise you, Tāḷḷapāka Timmakka, the embodiment of devotion.'' Verse from Tāḷḷapāka Tirumalammā (తాళ్ళపాక తిరుమలమ్మ)'s Composition</blockquote>In...") Tag: Visual edit
15:12, 27 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Swami Vivekananda - A Psychologist for Our Times (Created page with " Every great teacher speaks in the vernacular and language of his students. Speaking to a world living under the shadow of enlightened rationalism, Vivekananda insisted on the importance of “direct experience.” In Rāja Yoga, he writes: ''“It is clear that all the religions of the world have been built upon that one universal and adamantine foundation of all our knowledge — direct experience. The teachers all saw God; they all saw their own souls, they saw their...") Tag: Visual edit
15:09, 27 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Sri Aurobindo on What the West and India Have to Teach Each Other (Created page with "Ideas and Matter, Philosophy and Religion, and Europe and India. These pairs can and have danced together – but they can also duel violently. In these three pairs, Śrī Aurobindo, the great Indian mystic of the 20th century, sees a creative tension. A tension that can be productive as well as destructive. What should sit in the driver’s seat: Ideas or Matter? Must the reason of philosophy and the energy of religion always be at odds? Can Europe and India teach each...") Tag: Visual edit
11:19, 27 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page How To Best Live? Answers From the Mahabharata & the Purusharthas (Created page with "====== Introduction ====== To be human is to be pulled in different directions by competing forces. The pull of pleasure, the tug of money, the gravity of duty, the attraction of freedom – and in the center, a human being. A human being capable of choice, judgment, and focus – but usually spoilt for choice. This has always been the human fate – to find the good choice from a dizzying array of options. This is the fate that confronted fighters on the battlefield o...") Tag: Visual edit
00:34, 27 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Quantum Physics & The Upanishads : Discovering Interdisciplinary Dialogues (Created page with "====== Introduction: Physics is Over? ====== Let us tell you a story. A story of confusion, geniuses, quantum physics, and a beautiful dialogue between the West and the East. A story that has modern-day Nobel Prize Winning scientists, and the eternality of the Upaniṣads. Ready to have your mind expanded and heart warmed? Let’s start. William Thomson was a prominent 19th century British scientist. So prominent and influential that he became the first man of science t...") Tag: Visual edit
20:25, 26 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Indian Civilizational Consciousness (Created page with "Being of the same basic physio-neurological make, humans are largely the same everywhere, but human cultures are wildly different. The culture we are born to and/or internalize creates a sort of ‘operating system’ inside our minds. By a human OS we mean a set of code (lexical and semiotic memes, normative protocols, cultural motifs and more) that determines the nature of interactions with other individuals, with groups, and among groups. The prevalent OS for our spec...") Tag: Visual edit
20:16, 26 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Gurukulavasa - Making a Shishya Out of a Vidyarthi (Created page with "The thrust of all vaidika education is towards self knowledge. Only by knowing our true selves can we claim to be wholesome. And this was the thrust of the gurukulams of yore. This paramparā which continues to be extant is the core of sanātana dharma and of the IKS. And the place where central transmission of such a knowledge of self takes place is called a gurukulam. It is a place which requires us to suspend our cynicism and to make a cognitive shift in our way of se...") Tag: Visual edit
14:44, 25 June 2024 Manorama talk contribs created page ಸಂಗೀತ ಮಾಲಿಕಾ ಗ್ರಂಥ (Created page with " Authored by ಡಾ.ಮನೋರಮಾ ಬಿ.ಎನ್. Published by ನೂಪುರ [https://www.noopurabhramari.com/ ಭ್ರಮರಿ]. ಈ ಲೇಖನ ನೂಪುರಭ್ರಮರಿ ಐ ಕೆ ಎಸ್ ಸೆಂಟರ್ ನ ಕೊಡುಗೆ,<ref>ಮನೋರಮಾ ಬಿ.ಎನ್, ಶಾಸ್ತ್ರರಂಗ ಭಾಗ ೧: ದಾಕ್ಷಿಣಾತ್ಯ (Video series)-ಸಂಚಿಕೆ 38- <nowiki>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzsvThi5o-5X1-5kp7...") Tag: Visual edit
11:48, 21 June 2024 Pijuskantipal talk contribs created page संस्कृतसाहित्यस्य गुणविषये चर्चा एकस्य काव्यस्य दृष्टान्तमाध्यमेन (Created page with "'''भूमिका''' काव्यस्य अलंकाररीत्याद्युपादानानां मध्येऽन्यतमो भवति गुणः। संस्कृतसाहित्यस्य अनेकैरालंकारिकैः शब्दार्थयोरन्यतमधर्मरूपेण गुणालंकारौ स्वीकृतौ। यथा – मम्मटस्य का...") Tag: Visual edit
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21:18, 20 June 2024 Pijuskantipal talk contribs created page भारते गणितशास्त्रस्य विस्तारे संस्कृतसाहित्यस्य दानम् (Created page with " '''भूमिका''' इतिहासपाठात् ज्ञायते सिन्धुसभ्यतायाः परवर्तिनी सभ्यता भवति आर्यसभ्यता। सिन्धुसभ्यताया आनुमानिकः कालः त्रिसहस्रखिस्तपूर्वाब्दात् सार्धसहस्रखिस्तपूर्वाब्दपर्य...") Tag: Visual edit
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