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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
23:27, 27 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page File:H5.png
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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
22:18, 16 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Swami Vivekananda’s School of Hindu Renaissance (Created page with "Tradition is that which continues. To be able to stand on firm ground in the present; to be able to build a sustainable future, we need a deep foundation in the past, and an underpinning of culture. But for that we also need to stand upon the intellectual, cultural and spiritual foundation of our forefathers – ṛṣis and scholars who made the world a better and a more comprehensible place. We come from a tradition in which Sanātana culture was never divorced from t...") Tag: Visual edit
22:07, 16 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Problem of Culture Transmission (Created page with "=== Culture, Tradition and State === Tradition is the bedrock on which civilization stands and culture flourishes. And tradition is that which continues. For anything to be called tradition, it has to have continuity; an unbroken link with the past which has never disappeared. Tradition is not old. It is not new. It is that which is continuous; which flows like a river, something which is perpetually changing and yet has always been there in its form and spirit. But how...") Tag: Visual edit
21:50, 16 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Kshetra, Shastra and Utsava (Created page with "<blockquote>Festivals are to time, what temples are to space. They are gradients of divinity. </blockquote>The day or muhūrta on which a festival is celebrated is a particularly auspicious time to access the divine through meditation, pūjā and arcanā. While anytime is good for meditation, some time periods are much better, just like any place is good for pūjā but some kṣetras have special power in them. Similarly, though all language ultimately originates in Śab...") Tag: Visual edit
21:13, 16 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Turners of Time - How Hindu Festivals Rotate the Year (Created page with "Holī was one of the biggest festivals of the year in the parts of north India where I was born. The main festival was celebrated on the night of pūrṇimā when Holikā dahan was done, which is often known as ‘Choti Holī’ these days. The next day people would play with color and was called as Dhulenḍī which was on paḍvā, the first day of the next cycle of the moon. Like most important festivals, Holī sat on the confluence of two seasons. It was celebrated...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
21:02, 16 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Return of Rama (Created page with "One of the most evocative of scenes in the Rāmāyaṇa is the one in which Prabhu Rāma has already been exiled, and he must leave along with his beloved wife and loving brother, on a barge, in the sacred Sarayū River. As the holy banks of the Sarayū of Ayodhyā recede in the distance, the city in which Śrī Rāma was born - the city in which He played with is mothers, the city which He was once destined to rule - as that city receded in the distance, tears come to...")
01:30, 15 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Eco-feminism - Roots in Ancient Hindu Philosophy (Created page with "''मायां तु प्रकृतिं विद्यान्मायिनं च महेश्वरम् ।'' ''तस्यावयवभूतैस्तु व्याप्तं सर्वमिदं जगत् ॥'' ''māyāṃ tu prakṛtiṃ vidyānmāyinaṃ ca maheśvaram'' ''tasyāvayavabhūtaistu vyāptaṃ sarvamidaṃ jagat'' ''Know, then, that prakṛti is māyā and that Great God is the Lord of māyā. The whole universe is...")
01:23, 15 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Colonial Education and Cultural Amnesia (Created page with "Suella Braverman, the recently-resigned British Home Secretary, made headlines when she stated that she was proud of the British Empire and would not apologize for its past actions. The unfortunate aspect of her remark is not that she uttered this statement so blatantly, demonstrating sheer ignorance of history, but rather that her own parents had immigrated to the United Kingdom from the countries that were left ravaged by British colonization. While Braverman has her o...")
01:07, 15 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Rigvedic Education and Foundations for the Future (Created page with "As rightly noted by A. S. Altekar, the objective of Vedic education was to approach knowledge as “''a third eye of man, which gave him insight into all affairs and taught him how to act. In the spiritual sphere, it led to salvation; in the mundane sphere, it led to all-round progress and prosperity.''” The illumination achieved by such education “''dispelled all delusions, eliminated obstacles, and enabled students to recognize life’s true values''” (Sharma &...")
00:59, 15 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Learning Methods of Ancient Indian Education (Created page with "The distinctive tendencies of Hindu thought are manifested nowhere more clearly than in the realm of education and learning. It was an integral part of the Indian theory of knowledge and the corresponding scheme of life and values. It is no surprise, then, that learning has long been valued and pursued in India, not only as part of dharma and philosophy, but for its own sake—knowledge itself was a pursuit. It was held in such high regard that those who completed their...")
00:52, 15 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Place of Gurus in Ancient Indian Education (Created page with "The Vedas contain the seeds and sources from which the entire course of Hindu thought has been derived and has flowed in many streams throughout the ages. Rudolph Steiner, an Austrian philosopher and educationist, and a lifetime student of science and spirituality, found in Vedas ‘the archives of Hindu wisdom’ which according to him, even if not in its original form, gives: ''A faint idea of the sublime doctrines of the ancient teachers….and only the gaze of a cla...")
00:37, 15 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Educational Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda (Created page with "In his writings and speeches, Svāmī Vivekānanda emphasized that education should not be limited to merely the acquisition of knowledge, but should also aim to develop the physical, moral, and spiritual dimensions of an individual. Svāmī Vivekānanda’s educational ideas cannot be analyzed without stressing the significance his guru, śrī Rāmakṛṣṇa Paramahaṃsa, had in his life, who discovered the genius in him. Svāmījī and śrī Rāmakṛṣṇa Parama...")
00:30, 15 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Education Legacy of Bengal (Created page with "In the realm of history, where the past dances with the present, we encounter the profound words of Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o, echoing through the corridors of time like a haunting refrain. ''“If you can control the psyche of a people, then in a sense, you don’t even have to have a police force,”'' he proclaimed, peering into the depths of colonialism’s brutal impact on the minds of the colonized. For colonialists, the dominance was not merely a matter...")
00:24, 15 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Agriculture and the Vedas (Created page with "''Evidence of the extensive practice of agriculture—the discovery of furrowed fields, deposits of wheat, barley and rice husk, and the large granaries found at some sites, especially at Harappa—indicates that these preindustrial urban settlements were supported by the agricultural surplus. Together with these food crops, there is ample evidence of the cultivation and weaving of cotton.'' - Zaheer Baber, The Science of Empire Agriculture was profoundly interlinked wi...")
00:20, 15 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Ayurvedic Texts on Agriculture (Created page with "Ayurvedic texts that discuss agricultural practices and their relationship to health and well-being are known as “Vṛkṣāyurveda” or “Kṛṣi Āyurveda.” These texts provide guidance on farming, crop cultivation, and the use of agricultural produce in traditional medicine. With regard to publications related to the discipline of Vṛkṣāyurveda, it has been noted that while the term “Vṛkṣāyurveda” was initially introduced in Kautilya’s Arthaśās...")
22:58, 13 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Agriculture and Ayurveda (Created page with "'''Concept and Classification of Āhāra''' In the ancient wisdom of Āyurveda, āhāra (food) is one of the pillars of life (upastambhas); the other two being sleep and a balanced sexual life. Food is crucial to health and well-being on a psychological, physical, and mental level. The classical texts of Āyurveda of 300 BCE – 700 CE dedicate elaborate sections to foods, classifying them according to their various qualities, their composition and effect on the body. T...")
22:39, 13 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Perspectives on Ontology and Epistemology (Created page with "Brahman, or Self, with the primary attributes of Knowledge (sat), Truth (cit), and Bliss (ānaṅda) is the fundamental ground of both epistemology and ontology in Indian traditions. The ontology, or perception of reality, is an inside-out process starting from the Self which directly contacts the objects of perception. Knowledge of any object in the parā or aparā realm is an access to Brahman. Hence, any activity can be a route to mokṣa in Indian traditions. Ananda...")
22:37, 13 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Maya and the Self (Created page with "When we strive to obtain knowledge about an object, there are three factors involved in the process of obtaining knowledge: the subject, the object to be known, and the internal instrument by which the subject obtains knowledge of the object. In both science and Western philosophy, the focus is entirely on knowing the object without regard to the nature of the internal instrument that we use to obtain knowledge. In Vedānta, the situation is drastically different becaus...")
22:33, 13 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Philosophical Underpinnings of Knowledge Generation (Created page with "Bhaskar Kamble (The Imperishable Seed) shows how most of the mathematics we take for granted has its strongest roots in India. Apart from the value of zero in mathematical operations, Brahmagupta, Bhāskara 1, Bhāskara 2, Mahāvīra, and the Kerala mathematicians laid the foundations in the fields of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, combinatorics, linguistics, and calculus starting in the 5th century of the Common Era. Many of the ‘inventions’ and ‘di...")
22:31, 13 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Yoga, Science and Metaphysics (Created page with "Yoga is obtaining knowledge of the immortal Self, which frees man from the shackles of prakṛti. All orthodox and non-orthodox schools (except Cārvāka) give importance to Yoga and meditation in their schemes of things. The first five aṅgas(parts) of Yoga are the preparations for the higher states: yama, niyama, āsana, prāṇāyāma, and pratyāhāra. The first two (yama and niyama) are for control of desires and emotions; the next two (āsana and prāṇāyāma) e...")
22:24, 13 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Knowledge and Epistemology (Created page with "'''Epistemology In Western Definitions''' It is surprising that western philosophy, which prides itself on scientific innovation and technology, does not seem to have a proper theory of knowledge or epistemology. It has hardly spent time on developing the meaning of knowledge and methods to acquire it. The standard definition of knowledge in western philosophy is justified true belief (JTB). In 1963, American philosopher Edmund Gettier presented two famous counterexampl...")
22:21, 13 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Advaita, Nyaya, and the Perceptual Process (Created page with "There are philosophers who argue that there can be no means to know whether there are real objects in the world, given that everything we experience arises in our minds and is contained in the mind itself. This is a philosophical position termed “Idealism.” There are many variants of Idealism, from the kind first proposed in the West by Berkeley (1685–1753) to the later variants known as Phenomenology and Existentialism, but they all fit into the broad category cal...")
22:18, 13 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page File:Groundofuniverse.png
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22:08, 13 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Causality, Karma and Rebirth (Created page with "The Self, being of the nature of consciousness, is self-effulgent. And it has, by virtue of its self-effulgence, the capacity to reveal objects directly and instantaneously. The absence of ubiquitous perception indicates that there is some primal covering over the Self, which obstructs its natural revealing power from revealing the objects of the world. In Indian philosophy, this obstruction of the Self is the body itself. Embodiment is three-layered. At its most primal...")
22:03, 13 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Consciousness and Ontology in Indian Philosophies (Created page with "Indian and western philosophies distinctly differ on many issues. Fundamentally, Consciousness (also known as the Self, Puruṣa, Cognizer) is primary in Indian traditions; it is secondary to matter in western traditions. Consciousness does not include a deep sleep state in western definitions. In Indian traditions, the three brain states are the awake state, the dream state, and the deep sleep state, and ‘Consciousness’ is transcendental to all three. Mind and matte...")
21:48, 13 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Ontology in Western and Indian Descriptions (Created page with "Ontology (‘onto’- real or existence; ‘logia– science) studies what is real and what exists. When it comes to perceiving objects in the external world, the standard Western paradigm is that light falls on an object first. This reflected light enters the eyes and falls on the retina, from where neural impulses travel via the nerves to a region of the brain. Here, the image gets a reconstruction, and the person ‘sees’ the object. The same sequence is true for al...")
21:42, 13 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page What Represents Hindu Religion (Created page with "Indian knowledge traditions are not the exclusive hold of any single country, faith, or community. The main point is that India had a huge corpus of literature covering all aspects of life by reflecting its own experiences and using its own metaphysics. The knowledge tradition had very exacting standards which led them to postulate the laws of motion and create perfect astronomical tables on the one hand; while on the other, for example, devise plastic surgery techniques...")
20:18, 7 June 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Introduction to Indian Knowledge Systems (Created page with "We have a legitimate heritage to be truly proud of, without requiring outside validation. How did it happen that everything in Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) suffers from ignorance or denial? Everything good in India seems to be derived from the Greeks, Romans, Mesopotamians, Chinese, Arabs, or Europeans, and rarely from Bhārata itself! Simultaneously, critics have a field day at the extreme claims of head transplantation, flying aeroplanes, and cloning in the Indian pa...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched

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