User contributions for Akshayjha

15 July 2024

• 02:5802:58, 15 July 2024 diff hist +14,137‎ N One-life vs. Multiple-life Metaphysics ‎ Created page with " When thinking of what is fundamentally different between a Hindu worldview and Western one, a few primary points come to mind. Here, by Western we refer in specific to the Judeo-Christian worldview, which also includes the Islamic and is alternately called the Abrahamic worldview. The seeming difference of a monotheistic conception vs. a polytheistic one is relatively superficial, in that it more describes an outcome of the fundamental than the fundamental itself. But..." Tag: Visual edit
• 02:5102:51, 15 July 2024 diff hist +28‎ Dasarajna Recontextualized: Part 3 ‎No edit summary current
• 02:5102:51, 15 July 2024 diff hist +17,892‎ N Dasarajna Recontextualized: Part 3 ‎ Created page with " All of OIT does not rest upon asserting these connections as true. The case is already made without these notices. But with the case established, it’s special pleading not to see dispersal patterns in Dāśarājña names. Talageri connects Ālinas with the Greek Hellenes, and the Alans of Roman records. The point is not to folk etymologize Ālina, Hellene and Alan. The point is to speculate afresh on previous paradigms, given that IE dispersals did happen OIT. First..." Tag: Visual edit
• 02:4302:43, 15 July 2024 diff hist +28‎ Dasarajna Recontextualized: Part 2 ‎No edit summary current
• 02:4302:43, 15 July 2024 diff hist +18,325‎ N Dasarajna Recontextualized: Part 2 ‎ Created page with "==== '''D - The Dāśarājña Data''' ==== The bulk of the data about the Battle of Ten Kings is found in sūktas of Maṇḍala 7, all attributed to Maitrāvaruṇi Vasiṣṭha. A complete list of the sūktas in question is shared as appendix to this essay. Some things of note: * 7-18-5 refers to the crossing of river Parūṣṇī, and the “fords” around this river is read as the well-irrigated situation around this river during the Mature Harappan phase by Stuhr..." Tag: Visual edit
• 02:2802:28, 15 July 2024 diff hist +28‎ Dasarajna Recontextualized: Part 1 ‎No edit summary current
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• 02:2602:26, 15 July 2024 diff hist +28‎ Dasarajna Recontextualized: Part 1 ‎No edit summary
• 02:2502:25, 15 July 2024 diff hist +19,860‎ N Dasarajna Recontextualized: Part 1 ‎ Created page with " History is an art. Artifacts of the past talk to us in silence, and we fill the empty spaces with narratives that are presumably rational, reasonable and well-substantiated. When this is done well, we arrive at what looks like an elegant story, a ‘real picture’ of what really happened. Sometimes these artifacts, and ensuing narratives, congeal around a singular or group of events, such that we derive information about a significant arc of history. One such congealin..." Tag: Visual edit
• 02:1502:15, 15 July 2024 diff hist +28‎ Macrohistoric Case for India's Civilizational Primacy, Part 4 ‎No edit summary current
• 02:1402:14, 15 July 2024 diff hist +13,955‎ N Macrohistoric Case for India's Civilizational Primacy, Part 4 ‎ Created page with " The jāti-varṇa superstructure was the Indian way to manage the fundamental problem of stewarding it all, and when combined with the four āśramas and puruṣārthas it was the very essence of dharma. It was OUR way of managing collective wealth and stability, as well as individual well-being and stability. A way to exorcize monopolies and allow for individual aspirations. A way to preserve balance in society, such that each fulfilled themselves regardless of the con..." Tag: Visual edit
• 02:0902:09, 15 July 2024 diff hist +28‎ Macrohistoric Case for India's Civilizational Primacy, Part 3 ‎No edit summary current
• 02:0902:09, 15 July 2024 diff hist +14,244‎ N Macrohistoric Case for India's Civilizational Primacy, Part 3 ‎ Created page with " The Śukras and Bṛhaspatis, the Bhṛgus and Āṅgirasas, the fire-bringers and the metallurgy-magicians, had done their job. They had laid down the palimpsest that is Bhārata, but much more was to be carved atop yet. Each layer of India’s civilizational trajectory builds atop another, and with the Vedic Indians it was time for yet another layer. It was time for our civilization to become fractal. '''When you (re)embed the same wisdom and insights at every new l..." Tag: Visual edit
• 02:0302:03, 15 July 2024 diff hist +28‎ Macrohistoric Case for India's Civilizational Primacy, Part 2 ‎No edit summary current
• 02:0302:03, 15 July 2024 diff hist +18,567‎ N Macrohistoric Case for India's Civilizational Primacy, Part 2 ‎ Created page with "Our examination of civilizational trajectory so far summarizes to this: Modern homo sapiens, once they had eliminated all competing human species, were left to deal with competing tribes of same competence/ability/motivation. In broad, our history on this emerges violent and genocidal. But surely humans across the planet attempted peaceful solutions- ones that recognised both shared interests and differing paradigms. The Indian civilization contains vivid records of thi..." Tag: Visual edit
• 01:5301:53, 15 July 2024 diff hist +28‎ Macrohistoric Case for India's Civilizational Primacy, Part 1 ‎No edit summary current
• 01:5301:53, 15 July 2024 diff hist +19,357‎ N Macrohistoric Case for India's Civilizational Primacy, Part 1 ‎ Created page with " Humanity’s route to ‘progress’ has been a faustian bargain. Every next level of organization, co-operation and productivity has mandated new choices, new sacrifices and new problems. In the Purāṇas, humans are listed alongside cattle, goats and horses as “domesticated animals,” implying that ancient Indians too perceived this bargain. Every civilizational trajectory is different, but all deal with some common and fundamental problems. This is better under..." Tag: Visual edit
• 01:4801:48, 15 July 2024 diff hist +35‎ Hinduism in the Blindspot ‎No edit summary current
• 01:4801:48, 15 July 2024 diff hist +18,940‎ N Hinduism in the Blindspot ‎ Created page with " In both academic and general discourse on the prevalent web, it is easy to understand ignorant/dismissive/derogatory views on Hinduism as a result of varying degrees of bigotry and/or Hinduphobia. But what bewilders is the ignorance of Hinduism/Dharma among the free-thinking, open-minded, and even conspiracy theorizing corners of the web. '''Among those who speak of UFOs as either psychic phenomena or as the evidence of higher/non-material entities, among those who pu..." Tag: Visual edit
• 01:3701:37, 15 July 2024 diff hist −16‎ Walking the Tightrope Between Big Brother and Soma ‎No edit summary current
• 01:3601:36, 15 July 2024 diff hist −6‎ Walking the Tightrope Between Big Brother and Soma ‎No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
• 01:3601:36, 15 July 2024 diff hist +35‎ Walking the Tightrope Between Big Brother and Soma ‎No edit summary
• 01:3601:36, 15 July 2024 diff hist +23‎ Walking the Tightrope Between Big Brother and Soma ‎No edit summary
• 01:3601:36, 15 July 2024 diff hist +16,192‎ N Walking the Tightrope Between Big Brother and Soma ‎ Created page with " Orwell and Huxley, two literary titans, painted contrasting yet eerily prophetic visions of dystopian futures. Orwell’s “1984” is a stark tableau of totalitarian dread, where Big Brother’s iron fist crushes individuality and truth becomes a twisted weapon. Huxley’s “Brave New World” presents a subtler horror – a hedonistic Eden, where engineered happiness breeds complacency and drowns genuine meaning in a sea of drugged up stupor. In the modern world we..." Tag: Visual edit
• 01:3201:32, 15 July 2024 diff hist +35‎ On Artificial Intelligence ‎No edit summary current
• 01:3201:32, 15 July 2024 diff hist +17,497‎ N On Artificial Intelligence ‎ Created page with " Dharma tells us that the homo sapien birth is a privileged one, for among all extant discrete life-simulations (species) on the planet, only the homo sapien possesses the mirror-gaze of ātman. It is only in the human form that a conscious being may comprehend ultimate and fundamental reality, and thus only in the human form could it plausibly transcend it. Even as science intellectualizes on consciousness, imaginations fuelled by the expanding arc of neuroscientific di..." Tag: Visual edit
• 01:2001:20, 15 July 2024 diff hist +23‎ The Dharmika Gene ‎No edit summary current
• 01:2001:20, 15 July 2024 diff hist +19,638‎ N The Dharmika Gene ‎ Created page with " In the beginning, there was nothing. A great explosion ripped across this nothingness. In an unimaginably fleeting moment of time, space mushroomed out. Combinations of quarks and bosons permuted themselves into protons, neutrons and electrons. Time was still an infant, but in its infancy arose rules to govern interactions between these newborn entities. Nuclear forces strong and weak, to bind together particles infinitesimally small. Gravitation at large, to keep in..." Tag: Visual edit
• 01:1501:15, 15 July 2024 diff hist +23‎ The Ontic Bloom of ऋ ‎No edit summary current
• 01:1501:15, 15 July 2024 diff hist +6,193‎ N The Ontic Bloom of ऋ ‎ Created page with " Some etymology: Pāṇini defined the root √ṛ as gatau and gatiprāpaṇa- motion/ movement and attainment of motion. Ṛta is derived from this by affixation or pratyaya- ṛ+kta (ऋ + क्त). This pratyaya denotes a sense of the passive past tense. Ṛta thus means “was put into motion” or “has been done,” (where done refers to the action denoted by the verb, in this case movement/motion.) Not only is this cosmogony at play, it is the birth of the..." Tag: Visual edit
• 01:1101:11, 15 July 2024 diff hist +23‎ Ontology, Epistemology and Teleology ‎No edit summary current
• 01:1101:11, 15 July 2024 diff hist +9,856‎ N Ontology, Epistemology and Teleology ‎ Created page with "There is a fair bit of cognitive fatigue around these words¹, but they denote things of root importance to how we make sense of the world. They act upon us even without our knowledge or conscious perception, and it can be said that they contain the ‘metadata’ to reality. Simply put, they refer to What Exists, How we Know it Exists, and Why it Exists (or What For). These aren’t things most of us spend our time worrying too much about. After all, things do..." Tag: Visual edit
• 01:0001:00, 15 July 2024 diff hist +23‎ Design Principles of Indian Civilization ‎No edit summary current
• 00:5900:59, 15 July 2024 diff hist +28,055‎ N Design Principles of Indian Civilization ‎ Created page with " Sūtras represent an essential unit of Bhāratīya cognition. They are aspects of ṛta encoded in aphorisms or principles in concise, computational forms. Using sūtras we can generate objects- or ontical forms- representing the same truth a given sūtra contains. Bhāratīya consciousness displays multi-level coherence precisely because it is encoded with sūtras- fundamental elements that represent a universal or essential aspect of ṛta and/or sat (ऋत, सत..." Tag: Visual edit
• 00:5100:51, 15 July 2024 diff hist +23‎ History is Ontic but Itihasa is Ontologic ‎No edit summary current
• 00:5100:51, 15 July 2024 diff hist +24,020‎ N History is Ontic but Itihasa is Ontologic ‎ Created page with " Though often used interchangeably, the words ontic and ontologic have a distinction based primarily on the formulation of Heidegger, a German philosopher of recent vintage, and a mind that a modern Indian ontology must eventually converse with. A simple if reductive way to describe this is- ontic gives factual, physical, material descriptions of something, while ontologic describes what that thing is for itself- its being-ness. This was Heidegger’s way of separating e..." Tag: Visual edit
• 00:4200:42, 15 July 2024 diff hist +23‎ Ratha as a Beej of Civilizational DNA ‎No edit summary current
• 00:4200:42, 15 July 2024 diff hist +14,091‎ N Ratha as a Beej of Civilizational DNA ‎ Created page with "==== Visions of the Maṇḍala ==== A maṇḍala has no beginning and no end- like the ouroboros snake that eats its own tail. This is why Dharma is qualified as Sanātana, and why ancient ṛṣis spoke of the greats before them, forming a line that went back to the very origin of consciousness and Mind- to Brahmā. Intuitions behind a “fractal maṇḍala” framing have come to many before. In his profound and must-read article at Prāgyatā, Kiran Varanasi descri..." Tag: Visual edit
• 00:3800:38, 15 July 2024 diff hist +23‎ Rama’s Journey – the Avatara in You ‎No edit summary current
• 00:3700:37, 15 July 2024 diff hist +11,968‎ N Rama’s Journey – the Avatara in You ‎ Created page with " The Dhārmika worldview has at its core the Mind, or Consciousness. The affixation of -man to √bṛh and √at to make brahman and ātman respectively may be an uncanny phonetic coincidence, but brahman and ātman mean the ‘expansion of Mind’ and ‘descent of Mind’ just the same. It is Mind that expands and pervades the universe, which we call brahmāṇḍa for this reason. And it is this pervading Mind that descends into matter, where it creates the experienc..." Tag: Visual edit
• 00:2900:29, 15 July 2024 diff hist +28‎ Celebrating Andaḷ - the Eternal Bride ‎No edit summary current
• 00:2900:29, 15 July 2024 diff hist +7,176‎ N Celebrating Andaḷ - the Eternal Bride ‎ Created page with " In the auspicious month of Mārgaśīrṣa, known as Mārgazhi in the Tamizh calendar, a profound celebration venerates Āṇḍāḷ (alternatively, Āṇṭāḷ), or Godā Devī, the Eternal Bride, across the southern regions of Bhārat. This period, marking the transition from Dakṣiṇāyana to Uttarāyaṇa, witnesses the Sun’s apparent northward journey, symbolizing a shift from a phase of rest to one of vibrant activity. This transition follows the Cāturmās..." Tag: Visual edit
• 00:2700:27, 15 July 2024 diff hist +41‎ Yoga Beyond Asana: A Practitioner’s Quest ‎No edit summary current
• 00:2700:27, 15 July 2024 diff hist +7,979‎ N Yoga Beyond Asana: A Practitioner’s Quest ‎ Created page with " What is the first thing that comes to mind when I say ‘Yoga’? Someone standing in Bhagīrathāsana on a mountain or under a huge tree? Or someone who is skimpily clad in ‘modern Yoga-attire’, doing some form of gymnastic exercise - most likely a young woman? The tragedy of our times is exactly this - Yoga has been limited to being either of these grossly misrepresented ideas. Either it is thought of as being an esoteric, other-worldly journey, having little or..." Tag: Visual edit

14 July 2024

• 23:4923:49, 14 July 2024 diff hist +28‎ Chhath - a Living Tradition and Cultural Homecoming ‎No edit summary current
• 23:4823:48, 14 July 2024 diff hist +10,448‎ N Chhath - a Living Tradition and Cultural Homecoming ‎ Created page with " Chaṭh is a very colourful and arduous vrata. It is not just songs and celebration, there is rigorous fasting of not even sipping water before the feasting, and it is performed in the early morning hours of winter, standing waist deep in water throughout the day. The anticipation of Chaṭh starts by the end of Deepavali, and kids save crackers from Diwali for Chaṭh! Entire eastern Gangetic plains experience this euphoria of one their biggest festivals. All native..." Tag: Visual edit
• 23:4523:45, 14 July 2024 diff hist +28‎ The root of Indic Environmentalism ‎No edit summary current
• 23:4523:45, 14 July 2024 diff hist +10,965‎ N The root of Indic Environmentalism ‎ Created page with "==== What Makes Humans Unique? ==== Is it our capacity for thought and emotions? While complex thought on this planet is indeed a human phenomenon developed through social contact, nearly every animal is capable of at least certain rudimentary emotions and intelligence in line with evolution. Is it our industrious nature and dexterous attitude? Ants, bees and termites amongst others are far more industrious than humans relatively in their own lives. Is it because we ar..." Tag: Visual edit
• 23:3723:37, 14 July 2024 diff hist +28‎ Indic Environmentalism: A Balance between Tradition and Innovation ‎No edit summary current
• 23:3623:36, 14 July 2024 diff hist +8,904‎ N Indic Environmentalism: A Balance between Tradition and Innovation ‎ Created page with " '''Beauty and architecture have seldom been apart in the Indian aesthetic sense.''' But it has been changing at a rapid pace. Take a stroll down the urban street and one would notice the rows of identical houses all around. The same shape, size, and design repeated over and over again, with no hint of individuality.  An unchanging world that offers little stimulation. It would have been a saving grace if these designs were at least pleasing. But, alas, many of these ar..." Tag: Visual edit