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The episode delves into the profound teachings of Vedanta, exploring the root cause of suffering as ignorance of the true self. It highlights the crucial role of detachment, introspection, and exploration in discovering genuine happiness and purpose. The discussion weaves in personal stories of transformation guided by Vedantic principles, emphasizing Adi Shankaracharya's significant contributions to revitalizing Sanatan Dharma. Key concepts such as the nature of the self, the cycle of desires, and the practice of detachment are illuminated, offering practical wisdom for leading a meaningful life.About the guest
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कामाख्या शक्ति पीठ के रहस्य, तंत्र साधना और मोक्ष | एपिसोड 3 | सनातन संस्कृती In this episode, we dive into the ancient and powerful secrets of Kamakhya Shaktipeeth, one of the most revered sites for Tantra Sadhna. We will uncover how Lord Shiva, through deep penance, prayed to Goddess Durga to reunite with her as his wife at Kamakhya. This sacred place, renowned for its mystical energies, holds the key to profound spiritual practices. Additionally, we explore the Goddess's divine teachings, including the origins of Ganga and Parvati, the wisdom of Brahmavidya, and the transformative path of Anasakti Yoga. From the powerful mantra and rituals of Tantra to the spiritual journey of attaining Moksha, this episode offers an insightful look into the spiritual sciences of Sanatan Dharma. Learn how the Goddess's divine knowledge guides us through life's most profound mysteries—whether it's understanding the nature of the soul, the concept of selflessness in Anasakti Yoga, or the powerful transformative impact of the Ten Mahavidyas. If you are drawn to the world of Tantra and its mystical practices, this episode is a must-listen. In this episode, discover: The profound secrets of Kamakhya Shaktipeeth and Tantra Sadhna How Lord Shiva prayed to Goddess Durga at Kamakhya for reunion The mystical origins of Ganga and Parvati The spiritual wisdom of Brahmavidya and Anasakti Yoga The transformative power of the Ten Mahavidyas How Tantra practices lead to Moksha Catch us on Spotify, Gaana, Amazon Audible, Google Podcasts, and Pocket FM. Join the growing community of Sanatan Sanskriti and immerse yourself in the divine wisdom of Sanatan Dharma, including the mysticism and secrets of Tantra. #kamakhya #tantrasadhana #sanatansanskriti #sanatansanskritipodcast #lifelessons #wellness #navratri2025 #durgastories #devibhagwat #devipuran #durgasaptshati #guptnavratriinstagram https://www.instagram.com/ashishpmishra/ Youtube Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/@sanatansudha
Discover the profound wisdom of Tantra, Chakras, and Dharma in this enlightening podcast featuring Dr. Sthaneshwor Timalsina, an expert in Tantric practices and spirituality. Delve deep into the true meaning of Tantra as we explore its purpose, scientific foundations, and its influence on Sanatan Dharma. Dr. Timalsina breaks down the effects of mantras on chakras, the concept of Tantric sex, and the misuse of Tantra in modern society. This conversation takes you through the fascinating world of Aghoris and Tantra, uncovering their spiritual practices and misunderstood lifestyles. Learn about the rationality behind religion, the true meaning of Dharma, and how questioning religion and reasoning can lead to spiritual growth. The podcast also touches on the role of psychedelics in meditation, offering unique insights into consciousness and emotional reality. Dr. Timalsina addresses topics like Western perspectives on Tantric sex, scientific and mathematical aspects of Tantra, and the correct technique of chanting mantras. Whether you're new to Tantra or seeking to deepen your knowledge, this podcast provides free Tantra courses online to help you start your journey. Join us as we unravel the mysteries of Tantric meditation, Dharma, and spirituality in a way that blends ancient traditions with modern understanding. Perfect for seekers and learners of all levels, this podcast is your gateway to spiritual awakening and the power of Tantra. GET CONNECTED WITH Dr. Sthaneshwor Timalsina: Youtube: https://youtube.com/@VimarshaFoundation?feature=shared Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1DzNQ5WFeY/?mibextid=wwXIfr Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sthaneshwartimalsina?igsh=Z2cyaW51OGlkZDB2
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In Episode 178 of PG Radio, we sit down with Gauranga Das Prabhu to explore the profound teachings of Sanatan Dharma and its relevance in the modern world. The conversation delves into the essence of "Seva" or selfless service, the fluidity of one's "varna" or social role, and the nature of "Ishwar" or the Supreme Soul. Gauranga Das Prabhu further sheds light on the differences between Shri Krishna and other deities, the unique attributes of Shri Krishna and Shri Rama, and the life of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, a spiritual luminary who spread the teachings of bhakti yoga. Gauranga Das Prabhu is a renowned spiritual leader, monk, and inspirational speaker, known for his deep understanding of ancient Indian scriptures and the philosophy of Sanatan Dharma. Gauranga Das Prabhu has dedicated his life to spreading the message of bhakti (devotional service) and conscious living. He is actively involved in various initiatives promoting spirituality, environmental sustainability, and social welfare through the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). This is what we talked about: 00:00 - What is Sanatan Dharma? 03:36 - What is Seva? 10:21 - Is a person's "varna" permanent? 14:37 - What is "Ishwar/Parmatma"? 26:19 - Difference between Shri Krishna and other Deities 35:55 - How are Shri Krishna and Shri Rama different? 43:03 - Who was Chaitanya Mahaprabhu?
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Welcome to the latest episode of RawTalksWithVK, where we dive deep into profound topics exploring insights into spirituality, culture, and human existence. In this enriching episode, we unravel the layers of religious beliefs, societal changes, and spiritual practices that shape our world today. We begin with a staggering statistic from a 2024 survey that highlights a significant rise in atheism. An astonishing 70 crore individuals now identify as atheists, a trend that prompts us to examine the underlying reasons. What societal shifts, cultural influences, and impacts of scientific rationalism have led to this growing disconnection from traditional religious beliefs? This conversation reveals how modernity, education, and critical thinking have contributed to this paradigm shift. We explore the role of the internet and social media in spreading atheist viewpoints, enabling individuals to question long-held religious dogmas. Our discussion then turns to the troubling prevalence of fake spiritual leaders across various religions. These individuals, often exploiting faith for personal gain, have significantly contributed to widespread skepticism about traditional religious institutions. Through in-depth analysis, we uncover numerous scandals and fraudulent practices that have eroded public trust. We question the impact these leaders have on shaping public perception of spirituality and religion, highlighting the consequences of their actions on genuine seekers of faith. Central to our discourse is the concept of Sanatan Dharma, often misunderstood yet deeply embedded in India's cultural fabric. We elucidate its meaning, exploring its significance and relevance in contemporary society. Sanatan Dharma, with its emphasis on eternal truths and ethical living, offers a framework for understanding the interconnectedness of all life. We delve into its oral tradition, which has preserved ancient wisdom across generations, and discuss how these teachings can be applied to modern-day challenges. This segment underscores the enduring values of Sanatan Dharma and its potential to foster a more harmonious and ethical world. Defining 'God' becomes a pivotal point of inquiry in our conversation. We explore diverse interpretations and philosophical perspectives on the divine, seeking to unravel the essence of spirituality. From theological debates to personal reflections, we consider how different cultures and individuals perceive the concept of God. Is God an omnipotent being, an abstract principle, or a manifestation of inner consciousness? These questions lead us to a deeper understanding of how spirituality manifests in the lives of individuals and communities worldwide. Addressing significant societal incidents and cultural touchpoints, we revisit the 2018 Dalit case and its implications. This case, highlighting the systemic discrimination and social injustice faced by Dalit communities, serves as a catalyst for broader discussions on human rights and social equity. We also draw insights from the teachings of the Dalai Lama, whose philosophy of compassion and non-violence provides a moral framework for addressing these issues. How can religious and philosophical teachings guide us in the pursuit of social justice and human dignity? The teachings of the Bhagavad Gita provide a philosophical anchor throughout our conversation. This ancient scripture offers timeless wisdom on duty, righteousness, and the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment. We delve into its relevance in today's world, drawing parallels between the ethical dilemmas faced by Arjuna and contemporary challenges. The Bhagavad Gita's emphasis on selfless action, inner peace, and devotion provides valuable lessons for navigating the complexities of modern life. We discuss how these teachings can inspire individuals to lead a life of purpose and integrity.
In this video, join Bhavesh Yuj as he discusses how spirituality can help you change your life by addressing ego, pain, and finding your purpose. Explore the transformative power of spirituality in this enlightening conversation!Is everything in life truly spiritual, and how can ancient wisdom guide us today? Join us as we delve into these profound questions with Bhavesh Bhimanathani, also known as Bhavesh Yuj, the founder of Adiveda, a spiritual organization dedicated to reviving Sanatan Dharma and spreading the knowledge of the Rishis. Here are some key highlights from our enlightening conversation:✅ Unity in Existence: Bhavesh shares the profound idea that "We all come from the same source, that we all are one." Discover how this unity impacts our view of the world and our interactions with even the tiniest creatures.✅ Non-Attachment and Joy: He emphasizes the importance of letting go: "Don't get attached to anything because everything has an expiry date." Learn how this awareness can transform life into a beautiful, joyous play.✅ Self-Aware Leadership: According to Bhavesh, true leadership starts with self-awareness. "A leader should understand their own behavior and qualities. They should have the right intention to serve and uplift the team." Find out how this approach can elevate any team to new heights.✅ Breath Awareness Meditation: Bhavesh advises on simple yet powerful practices: "If you can't, every day for 5 minutes or 10 minutes... sit, disconnect and just be aware of your breath." Discover how these practices can bring about significant changes in awareness and stress management.More about Bhavesh:Website: https://adiveda.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhavesh_yuj/?hl=enLinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/bhavesh-bhimanathaniMore about Rodrigo and Something Bigger:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodrigocanelasInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rodrigocanelasTiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@rodrigo_canelasWeb: https://www.somethingbigger.com
Join me for a soulful episode on navigating relationships within Sanatan Dharma with our guest, Ragini Jha, founder of Cardamom Community, a creative therapist-led space for South Asians. In this episode, Ragini shares her profound insights and personal experiences on navigating the balance between self-love and love for others within the framework of Sanatan Dharma. In this episode, we talk all about: Healing from Relationships Balancing Different Types of Relationships in your Life The Stories of Kaikeyi & Draupadi Platonic Friendships 6 tips to Cultivate Self Love for Healthier Relationships And much more! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Mentions Ragini's Linktree Ragini's Instagram Ragini's TikTok Ragini's Podcast How to fix a broken heart by Guy Winch TED Talk The Ultimatum Queer Love on Netflix Currently reading: The Essential Rumi ---------------------------------------------------------------- Join the conversations and follow me on: IG TikTok
In this podcast, Swami Ji elaborates on the 4 Purusharthas of life - Dharma, Artha, Kama, and Moksha - in simple language. He explains our true purpose, the futility of life without meaning, and how to attain liberation. Swami Ji also shares how spirituality can simplify life and alleviate anxiety. If you want to make your life easier and free yourself from distress, this podcast is for you. Watch it till the end and share your feedback in the comment box.
In episode 142 of PG Radio, we get into a conversation with Ankit Shah,A passionate analyst deeply influenced by the principles of Sanatan Dharma explores its economic facets while comparing them with Western economic paradigms. Through this exploration, we aim to discern the strengths and weaknesses of Sanatan Economics vis-à-vis its Western counterpart. Ultimately, our goal is to forecast the trajectory of the global economy, including potential shifts, and to examine the implications for the future of America as a leading nation.
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The discourse delves into the intricate history and sociopolitical dynamics surrounding the India-Pakistan partition and its aftermath, particularly in the region of Multan. It explores the demographic shifts, contrasting receptions of leaders, sentiments against partition, and the role of organizations like the RSS in aiding Hindus during the tumultuous period. The narrative also highlights the struggles faced by Hindu and Jain communities post-partition, the decline of Sanatan Dharma's prominence, and the plight of Hindu temples in Pakistan. Furthermore, it addresses contemporary issues such as discrimination against Hindus in Pakistan, the cultural significance of places like Multan, and the ongoing challenges concerning Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and the rights of Hindus. Through these discussions, the narrative underscores the complexities of religious and cultural identity, historical preservation, and the imperative for inclusive societies in the region. Snakes in the Ganga - http://www.snakesintheganga.com Varna Jati Caste - http://www.varnajaticaste.com The Battle For IIT's - http://www.battleforiits.com Power of future Machines - http://www.poweroffuturemachines.com 10 heads of Ravana - http://www.tenheadsofravana.com To support Infinity Foundation's projects including the continuation of such episodes and the research we do: इनफिनिटी फ़ौंडेशन की परियोजनाओं को अनुदान देने के लिए व इस प्रकार के एपिसोड और हमारे द्वारा किये जाने वाले शोध को जारी रखने के लिए: http://infinityfoundation.com/donate-2/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rajivmalhotrapodcast/support
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Visit: http://propodcaster.co and get access to Pro Podcaster Tools and start your podcasting journey right now.Ami Ganatra is an Indian author, management professional, and certified yoga instructor with a strong background in business strategy and consulting. She has an impressive career history, having worked across four continents in various roles, including as a software engineer at Infosys Technologies Limited and in leadership positions at Bain & Company, BASF, and The Bridgespan Group. In addition to her professional achievements, Ganatra is deeply invested in the study and dissemination of Sanskrit and Indian knowledge systems. She is known for her two bestselling books on Itihasa (Indian epics), titled "Mahabharata Unravelled: Lesser Known Facets of a Well-known History" and "Ramayana Unravelled: Lesser Known Facets of Rishi Valmiki's Epic". - Discuss Shanti Parva from Mahabharata and character dissections are provided for key figures like Bhishma, Gandhari, Shakuni, and Duryodhana, exploring their roles, actions, and motivations within the narrative of the Mahabharata. - The ancient stories of contemporary leadership and governance, discussing the importance of communication, approachability, responsibility, and self-regulation in leadership, drawing parallels with the concept of Raj Dharma. - Various philosophical aspects like the four pursuits of Sanatan Dharma are explored. Practical administrative learnings from the Mahabharata are also highlighted, emphasizing the importance of wealth creators in society and lessons on taxation from Sanatan Dharma. A must-watch for new-age founders and entrepreneurs — they will find a wealth of insights to broaden their wisdom through the powerful stories of Mahabharata. Certainly, here are the adjusted timestamps without leading zeros:2:38 - Ami's success and the viral reel4:52 - Did Hanuman ji really had a gada with him?5:24 - Was Shakuni limping in Mahabharat?6:38 - Was Gandhaari manglik?7:26 - Was Shakuni conspire the Mahabharata in reality?8:03 - The role of Bhishm in Mahabharata9:00 - Why Gandhaari blindfolded herself for life10:15 - Was Shakuni really and evil person?11:20 - Duryodhana was blind with jealousy13:15 - What is Shanti Parva14:49 - What are the Pandav brothers always so inconsolable?14:58 - Did Pandava really wanted the war?17:10 - Duryodhan was a bully17:58 - The war was imposed on Pandavas19:05 - War was the right thing here - Bhishm Pitamah21:22 - Vibhishan stood for Dharma in Ramayana23:00 - Bhishm Pitamah was a competent administrator26:40 - Kya aaj ke samay me aap Raj Dharma nibha payenge?28:50 - Why communication should be a skill in Raj Dharma31:20 - Be approachable yet keep the grace of your position32:00 - A king is held responsible for their position and actions32:58 - What it means to be a king?38:45 - Does the concept of penalty assures better administration?40:12 - A king or a leader must take care of its people like a pregnant mother42:33 - A king must go through the penance of controlling his senses44:06 - The only way you can be objective and rational45:28 - The short term gratifications leads to long term decision failures46:32 - Why honey-trapping is very prominent49:15 - What is the limit to extreme discipline49:55 - Why you should also enjoy the worldly pleasures - Geeta verse51:47 - If everybody is self-regulated then why do you need a leader?52:32 - The four pursuits of Sanatan Dharma1:00:05 - The scripts don't really cover entrepreneurial nature of kings1:03:00 - We need wealth creators in our society - Sanatan Dharma1:04:00 - The learnings of taxation from Sanatan Dharma1:05:54 - Why have we ignored the simple things from Mahabharat so far?1:11:00 - Very practical administrative learnings from Mahabharat
In this fascinating episode of The Arun Pandit Show, dive into the ancient wisdom of Sanatan Dharma with renowned astrologer and tantric scholar Arun Pandit and his inquisitive guest, Hyper Quest. Unravel the true meaning of this revered tradition, explore its age-old mysteries, and get answers to burning questions like the multiverse connection of Kakbhushundi and Garuda, the time traveler concept, the link between Saraswati and quantum physics, and the validity of alien existence. Delve into intriguing mythology, challenge popular beliefs about Brahma's creation, Garud's stature, and caste origins, and discover the truth behind Kalyug's arrival, reincarnation, the concept of Moksha, and the true nature of heaven and hell in Sanatan Dharma. Don't miss this enlightening conversation that unveils the secrets of this profound spiritual path.
Ever wondered how an atheist turns into a believer? In today's edition of stories with Rusty, join Vedant as he shares a deep conversation with Aditya Nath Jha about faith, Hinduism, and the significance of the Ram Mandir for modern Hindus. Tune in for an insightful conversation on: - From atheism to bhakti: Aditya's personal journey of finding faith and the challenges he faced along the way. - The true meaning of Ram Mandir: Explore the cultural and spiritual significance of this historic temple. - The perception of Hinduism and much more. This conversation will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about religion and spirituality. So, don't miss out on a single minute and listen to this till the end! #rammandir #hinduism #storieswithrusty __ In this episode: 0:00 - Intro 1:40 - Chaupai on everything is predestined 2:40 - Vedant's perspective on religion and bhakti bhaw 3:20 - Context behind the conversation - the magnificence of Ram Mandir 5:41 - Upbringing of Aditya 6:31 - Transition from an Atheist to a Believer 13:30 - Objective vs understanding reality clash 14:14 - Hinduism difference from other religions 16:10 - Atheist relation to cognitive dissonance 17:25 - Ram Mandir Pran Pratistha's significance 19:02 - 2D universe example with Bhog concept 24:00 - What drives modern Hindus away from faith? 25:03 - Cultural significance of the event 26:27 - What lies beyond materialistic life? 29:30 - Except for Tulsidas's life; what led to him translating Ramcharitmanas 31:03 - Difference between the Western narrative on Hindu granth vs Indian mindset 35:31 - Learning from source and its depiction in modern media 37:40 - Sanatan Dharma on Universe creation 38:25 - Concept of Hiranyagarbh 40:52 - Aditya's thought on non-vegetarians eating veg on Tuesday & Saturday 41:50 - Rituals categorizations in Upanishad and Naam Jaap 44:18 - Modern thought process on Hinduism and Maya Jaal 48:05 - Final state of bhakti 49:10 - Need of a proper guide 50:50 - Spiritual learning for busy people 52:32 - Applying mortal laws on a supreme being 56:22 - Different facets of life 59:43 - Bringing discipline in spiritual journey 1:00:05 - Wrapping up and takeaways __ // Let's Connect If you're the Instagram type, https://instagram.com/storieswithrusty If you're the Twitter type, https://twitter.com/rustystories
Astro Arun Pandit & Om Dhumatkar as they discuss the mystical world of Hanuman, mantras, tantras, & Sanatan Dharma! Discover Hanuman's path to Siddhi & unlock your own potential.Demystify mantras, yantras, & tantras for daily life. Unveil the hidden stories of Mahakali, Kal Bhairav, & 10 secret Goddess avatars. Explore the Aghori way & Shri Vidya's path to awakening. Conquer fear with Hanuman's chants & learn the truth behind the myths. अरुण पंडित के साथ जुड़ें ओम धुमात्कर के साथ एक ज्ञानवर्धक बातचीत में, जहाँ वे आध्यात्मिकता के रहस्यमय क्षेत्रों में गहराई तक जाते हैं। इस आकर्षक पॉडकास्ट में, वे मंत्रों, यंत्रों, तंत्रों और भी बहुत कुछ के रहस्यों का पर्दाफाश करते हैं, जिससे आध्यात्मिक प्रथाओं के कम जाने-पहचाने पहलुओं की झलक मिलती है।
Episode 18 of The Arun Pandit Show welcomes the distinguished Gautam Khattar as we embark on an enlightening journey to unravel the most significant conspiracy against Sanatan Dharma. Join us for a deep dive into the challenges faced by Vedic principles, Gurukuls, and the essence of Hinduism. Together, we'll uncover the veiled truths, offering profound insights and revelations surrounding the threats to this timeless spiritual heritage. Prepare for a thought-provoking discussion as we decode the realities and contemplate the preservation of Sanatan Dharma. Biggest Conspiracy Against Sanatan Dharma|सनातन के खिलाफ षड़यंत्र Ft. Gautam Khattar | ArunPanditShow
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Hare Krishna , In this video we explore the recent incident involving Amogh Lila Prabhu , a prominent preacher from Iskcon who has faced a 1-month ban from the very organization he is serving for his remarks against Vivekananda's meat eating habits. Vivekananda himself has cited several various verses to defend his meat-eating habits claiming it's allowed in Sanatan Dharma but such claims are refuted by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita join us as we seek Clarity on the context of these verses and how Vivekananda's interpretation May differ from the essence of Hinduism. Let's dive deep into this topic and uncover the truth together. Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ07MECHtsk
Ritu LeBouef is a native of India. Under the guidance of her Guru Swami Mohandasji Maharaj she has received spiritually profound experiences and insights and understood the essence of Sanatan Dharma. She shares her pre-birth memory as well as her spiritual experiences including her encounter with the tangible presence of pure unconditional love. In her words, “ this love wants to experience its own uniqueness through its mini-self.” You can learn more about her and her work at About me – Spiritual Route www.spiritualroute.com YouTube: (17) spiritualroute - YouTube To connect with Pooja and find out more about her STE and journey of religious deconstruction visit www.poojachilukuri.com ; https://bit.ly/PoojaChilukuriAuthor YouTube: (2) Pooja Chilukuri - YouTube Apple: The After Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts Spotify: https://bit.ly/TheAfterlifePodcast Instagram: Pooja Chilukuri (@chilukuripooja) • Instagram photos and videos
Ancient man was taught by the snake people, the Nagas, who created man and came to guide mankind to enlightenment. Shivas mala and Vishnu's lounge are Nagas, the symbol of sacred wisdom. The sadhu's and siddhas are Naga Babas, the ones who bring forth the wisdom of the ages the Sanatan Dharma or eternal truths, just ask Vethathiri Maharishi or Sri Sri Sri Shivabalayogi Maharaj. Sign up for live class at Enlightenment Television
"Join us on a captivating journey through India's rich heritage as Lalli Multani delves into the tapestry of early Indian life, the timeless wisdom of Sanatan Dharma, and the profound history of Sikhism. In this enlightening episode of the AK Talk Show, Lalli Multani's insights and expertise shed light on the fascinating cultural and spiritual landscape of ancient India, providing a deeper understanding of its enduring traditions. Discover the essence of India's diverse history and spiritual evolution in this thought-provoking conversation."
Worship holds paramount significance in the lives of those who follow Sanatan Dharma. The daily routine of Hindu practitioners typically commences with worship, an essential practice that follows bathing. Furthermore, within the Hindu calendar, there are specific dates in every month deemed imperative for performing puja. Just as worship is held in high regard, adherence to the rules of puja is equally significant. Today, we will share with you these essential rules that should be observed during Puja. Tune in to this captivating episode and unlock a world of knowledge, exclusively on the auditory treasure trove that is “Audio Pitara.” Stay Updated on our shows at audiopitara.com and follow us on Instagram and YouTube @audiopitara. Credits - Audio Pitara Team
Did Udhayanidhi do the right thing by launching an 'attack' on Sanatan Dharma? In ThePrint #SharpEdge, Vir Sanghvi says, 'it is a disastrous tactical error', adds that if DMK really want to defeat the BJP at the next general election, it might be a good idea to tell Udhayanidhi to pipe down.
First, Indian Express' Liz Mathew tells us about the agenda of the special session of the parliament and why the opposition has raised concerns over it. Second, Indian Express' Kiran Parashar tells us how a right-wing activist allegedly cheated a Karnataka businessman of 5 crore rupees after assuring him of a BJP ticket. (09:04)And lastly, we give an update about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's comments on the Sanatan Dharma row. (15:28)Hosted by Rahel PhiliposeWritten and produced by Utsa Sarmin, Rahel Philipose, and Shashank BhargavaEdited and mixed by Suresh Pawar
What was AAP leader Raghav Chadha's big statement on Udhayanidhi Stalin's comment on Sanatan Dharma? #politicsarca #raghavchadha #sanatandharma --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/politicsarca/message
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India and Saudi Arabia agree to expand economic and security ties after the G20 summit, BJP Leader Anurag Thakur criticizes Rahul Gandhi, Uddhav Thackeray for their silence on ‘Disrespect' towards Sanatan Dharma, North Korea's Kim boards train bound for Russia and summit with Putin and other top news bulletin here.
Welcome to Episode 2 of "The Arun Pandit Show," where we delve deep into the enigmatic world of Sanatan Dharma. Our distinguished guest, author Akshat Gupta, sheds light on the fascinating and often misunderstood aspects of Hinduism.
Stalin defends Son Udhayanidhi's remarks on ‘Sanatan Dharma', Aditya-L1 takes selfie, captures stunning images of Sun and Moon en route to L1, Australia and China to restart Dialogue after Three-Year hiatus and other top news bulletin here.
First, we give you an update on the political slugfest that ensued as a result of Udhayanidhi Stalin's remarks on 'Sanatan Dharma'. Second, Indian Express' Shubhangi Khapre tells us about a protest in Jalna which turned violent when a group of Maratha reservation activists clashed with the police. (05:26)And lastly, Indian Express' Divya A talks about how smaller cities across India witnessed infrastructural development ahead of the G20 summit. (18:21)Hosted by Rahel PhiliposeWritten and produced by Utsa Sarmin and Rahel PhiliposeEdited and mixed by Suresh Pawar
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The treasures of Sanatan Dharma is so rich and huge one may not even touch its periphery in one's Lifetime If one were to give up linguistic and regional bias, one may unearth these treasures. I have in many of my posts written on the myth of Tamil and Sanatana Dharma being inimical to each other They complement each other. If one were to read the Vedic texts and ancient Tamil Texts one may notice the following points 1.Shiva is not directly mentioned in the Vedas nor do we find any sukthas ascribed/devoted to Him.His name appears in Sri Rudram, Rudra being an amsa of Shiva and not Shiva in His full Glory 2.Other Gods,Narayna, Vishnu,Varuna, Indra,Agni,Vaayu,Durga, Lakshmi and a Host of others are mentioned in the Vedas 3.Ancient Tamil Spiritual texts mention the following Deities and the earliest Grammar work Tholkaapiyam assigns the territories in which they are the Chief Gods. A).Kurinji,mountainous terrain, Chief Deity is, Cheyon(means The son) called Murugan , that is Subrahmanya . Interestingly Vedas do not mention Subrahmanya directly. B)Mullai, Pastoral lands, the Chief Deity is Maayaon, Vishnu.Maayon means Illusionist, one who creates the Yoga maaya .This is in keeping with the. description of Vishnu in Vedas and the Puranas. C).Marutham, Paddy fields/arable lands, Chief Deity is Indra.. D)Neydhal, Sea and adjoining areas , Chief Deity is Varuna and E)Paalai, Desert Region, Chief Deity is Durga, called Kotravai in Tamil. Even in Tamil, which is believed to have been founded by Lord Shiva,He is not assigned a Region in the manner described above 4.The Yoga system of the Vedic system is by Patanjali. 5.Patanjali is a disciple of Shiva along with Sage Agastya and Bhogar according to Tamil Classics 6.The Yoga developed Thirumoolar, meaning The auspicious first in his Thirumandiram is different from Patanjali's Yoga Sutra. 7.Yoga developed by Agastya follows Thirumoolar and is different from Patanjali's. The meaning Shiva in Sanskrit is Auspiciousness. Mangalam. No other meaning is assigned to this word. In Tamil the etymology is slightly different.. Shiva is from Vaa Si. Vaasi when repeated in quick succession. The treasures of Sanatan Dharma is so rich and huge one may not even touch its periphery in one's Lifetime If one were to give up linguistic and regional bias, one may unearth these treasures. I have in many of my posts written on the myth of Tamil and Sanatana Dharma being inimical to each other They complement each other. If one were to read the Vedic texts and ancient Tamil Texts one may notice the following points 1.Shiva is not directly mentioned in the Vedas nor do we find any sukthas ascribed/devoted to Him.His name appears in Sri Rudram, Rudra being an amsa of Shiva and not Shiva in His full Glory 2.Other Gods,Narayna, Vishnu,Varuna, Indra,Agni,Vaayu,Durga, Lakshmi and a Host of others are mentioned in the Vedas 3.Ancient Tamil Spiritual texts mention the following Deities and the earliest Grammar work Tholkaapiyam assigns the territories in which they are the Chief Gods. A).Kurinji,mountainous terrain, Chief Deity is, Cheyon(means The son) called Murugan , that is Subrahmanya . Interestingly Vedas do not mention Subrahmanya directly. B)Mullai, Pastoral lands, the Chief Deity is Maayaon, Vishnu.Maayon means Illusionist, one who creates the Yoga maaya .This is in keeping with the. description of Vishnu in Vedas and the Puranas. C).Marutham, Paddy fields/arable lands, Chief Deity is Indra.. D)Neydhal, Sea and adjoining areas , Chief Deity is Varuna and E)Paalai, Desert Region, Chief Deity is Durga, called Kotravai in Tamil. Even in Tamil, which is believed to have been founded by Lord Shiva,He is not assigned a Region in the manner described above 4.The Yoga system of the Vedic system is by Patanjali. 5.Patanjali is a disciple of Shiva along with Sage Agastya and Bhogar .. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ramanispodcast/message
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"Banasura Hill in Wayanad is one of the tallest mountains and is named after Banasura, son of the great demon king Mahabali and himself a legendary king with a thousand arms. But what could he have to do with the fact that Malaria is endemic in Wayanad? Meanwhile, the entire district is known to have leeches, with the exception of the town of Pulpally, which is Leech free? And what could it have to do with the famed Hindu epic Ramayan? This week, we travel to Wayanad in Kerala and discover the connections between Malaria, blood-sucking leeches and the lessons for us in the Wayanad Ramayanas." Till then Check out the other episodes, Anne Frank, Lootera and Endless Life of Trees Anne Frank, Lootera and Endless Life of TreesThe Trees that built Venice The Trees that built VeniceElm Trees, National Revolutions and Modern Paper Elm Trees, National Revolutions and Modern PaperEuropean Impressionism, Japanese Nationalism and Cherry Blossom Trees European Impressionism, Japanese Nationalism and Cherry Blossom TreesThe tree that built New Zealand The tree that built New ZealandLiving Fossils, National Identities and 200 Mn year old trees Living Fossils, National Identities and 200 MM year old trees You can check previous episodes of 'Podcasts from Nowhere' on IVM Podcasts websitehttps://ivm.today/3xuayw9You can reach out to our host Utsav on Instagram: @whywetravel42(https://www.instagram.com/whywetravel42 )You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: IVM Podcasts - Apps on Google Play or all other major audio platforms.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
India Policy Watch #1: What Do Successive Defence Budgets Reveal?Insights on burning policy issues in India— Pranay Kotasthane(An edited version of this article was published in Hindustan Times on 13th Feb)Another defence budget zoomed past us on Feb 1. Since then, analyses have focused on how the defence spending for the coming year departs from the last year. Some have waved a red flag as defence spending has fallen below 2 per cent of GDP for the first time in many years. On the other hand, the defence ministry's post-budget press release emphasised a 44 per cent increase in operational spending, which is expected to “close critical gaps in the combat capabilities and equip the Forces in terms of ammunition, sustenance of weapons & assets, military reserves etc.” The ministry also highlighted that the capital outlay for modernisation and infrastructure development has risen by a seemingly handsome 57 per cent over the last five years. How, then, do we make sense of these conflicting narratives?Comparing allocations with those in the previous year gives us a confusing picture. Every interest group can pull up a number from the budget to suit their pre-formed narrative. Taking a step back from these narratives, this article will show that this was another run-of-the-mill defence budget, just like the previous one was. Nothing in it indicates any significant change in the defence posture. Unlike Japan, which has announced a doubling of its military spending in the next five years, India's approach is about gradually improving the operational efficiency of the armed forces.Looking under the hoodThis article looks at the defence expenditure over the last six budgets to make sense of the numbers. To put numbers into context, let's use an earlier year (FY16). FY16 is a useful reference point as it predates two major developments: China's visibly aggressive posture on the border and the budgetary commitments arising from the One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme. Three observations follow from such an analysis.One, not only has defence spending fallen as a proportion of GDP, but it has also fallen as a percentage of government expenditure. In other words, defence has slipped in priority relative to non-defence functions (Figure 1). Two, the China challenge hasn't led to any spectacular change in the composition of defence expenditure. Defence spending can be divided into four major components: salaries, pensions, capital outlay, and others. As Figure 2 shows, capital outlay was being squeezed by rising pension expenditure over the last few years. For two consecutive years (FY19 and FY20), more money was spent on pensions than on capital acquisition and modernisation. The balance has now been marginally restored since FY21, after the Galwan crisis flared up.Crucially, the rises in pension and capital expenditures have come at the cost of operational and maintenance expenditures, including ammunition stores (under the Others category). It is hence not surprising that the latest budget is trying to arrest this decline in combat capabilities.Three, this period has been relatively better for the Indian Navy in terms of capital expenditure. Since the procurement of new platforms happens over multiple years, a temporal view is useful in analysing how capital outlay is split between the three armed forces. Figure 3 suggests that the big change in the last four years is in the capital outlay for the Indian Navy, with the FY24 figure having doubled in absolute terms since FY20.The Big PictureBy connecting these dots over the last five years, the picture that emerges is this: the government seems confident that China can be handled without a substantial rise in defence expenditure. The latest budget serves as a bellwether indicator for this claim. It was the first budget of the post-pandemic period, at a time when the economic prospects for India had improved considerably. The government achieved better-than-expected buoyancy in income taxes and GST in the current financial year, while the cooling of global fertilizer prices has led to a decline in the projected subsidy bill. Consequently, the government, for the first time in many years, had some fiscal room to play with. It has used that space to increase the overall capital outlay to Rs 10 lakh crore, almost three times the outlay in 2019-20. Despite this increase in the overall capital outlay, the defence budget resembles the middle overs of a one-day cricket match.From a financial savings perspective, there have been just two important changes over this period in the defence domain. The first was the announcement of the Agnipath scheme. It might reduce the pension burden, but these savings will reflect only after a decade-and-a-half. Other proposals, such as theatre commands, haven't come to fruition yet. The proposal to create a non-lapsable fund for modernisation — a proposal the union government gave an in-principle agreement way back in Feb 2021, still hasn't found a mention in the latest budget.Probably, the defence budget is the wrong place to infer India's strategic posture against China. Perhaps, the government considers other tools of statecraft—diplomatic, economic, or non-conventional—more suitable for the purpose. This point needs deeper reflection. The discussions over the roles of these tools of statecraft currently operate under mistaken assumptions. Attempts at getting India into an anti-China alliance are spurned at the altar of “strategic autonomy”. The opponents seem to assume that India only needs to equip its armed forces with greater firepower. For too long, many parliamentary standing committees and defence organisations have gone hoarse trying to convince the government that defence expenditure should be raised to 3 per cent of GDP. If anything, the change is in the opposite direction.The defence budget trends are a reminder that the government does not prefer using the military instrument to outflank China. At best, it wants to equip the armed forces such that China's incursions can be matched or repulsed. Given that there's no significant increase in allocations for the Navy and the Air Force, it also means that the government is not considering an increased presence in the South China Sea. So, the military is being equipped to plug a vulnerability and not to gain an asymmetric political advantage over China. This line of thinking probably makes sense. There's no point in matching China's defence spending dollar-for-dollar. After all, the Indian armed forces are more adept at fighting at high altitudes. But this line of thinking should also make it apparent that India must develop capabilities in domains other than those involving force to inflict pain on China. The government should build a political consensus that closer relations with China's adversaries are not a matter of choice but an imperative. That we need to double down on economic growth and technological upgrading if we are to constrain China's hand in other domains. It also means that we shouldn't be indiscriminately banning China's investments in India; a better approach would be to make their companies in non-strategic domains more dependent on the Indian market. We will then have more tools in our kit to deploy if the situation on the border worsens. Each of these posture changes needs an updating of our priors and payoffs. For that to happen, it is necessary that the government comes clean about China's incursions. Pretending that all's well might give us false comfort, but they will also dissuade the strategic establishment from confronting the tough trade-offs in non-military domains. Without this pivot, we would merely rely on hope as a strategy. India Policy Watch #2: Through The Looking GlassInsights on burning policy issues in India— RSJWe talk about the arbitrary powers of the state on these pages often. Now, we cannot grudge the state's sovereignty because we have voluntarily handed it that power. One argument that follows from this is that such power is often prone to be used arbitrarily. And that's a problem for the citizens. The typical solution we have offered on these pages over time is to restrict the domain of the state to a narrow set where it can make the maximum impact or to design its incentives in a way that makes the state act with accountability. Now, these are good design principles. We could use them to create structures and institutions that are strong and independent that could hold their own against any arbitrary use of power. But are these enough? A natural question that should follow is how do we know things are working in practice like they were meant to? How do we get authentic information about how the state is conducting itself? How do we confirm that it is not subverting the institutional design that is in place to control its powers? These questions lead us to the other pillar of a well-functioning democracy - transparency. It is a topic we haven't discussed enough on these pages. Transparency is a moral good, and it is vital for a healthy democracy. Darkness stunts democracy. It needs light to thrive. In the early part of the 20th century, the US Supreme Court judge Louis Brandeis famously remarked, “sunlight is the best disinfectant” while making a case for a transparency imperative. Or, if we were to go further back, Bentham, often credited to have done the most original thinking on transparency, summed it up with - the more strictly we are watched, the better we behave - a principle he put at the heart of his advocacy for an open government. So, what has triggered my early morning ruminations on transparency? Well, there are two reasons. Here's one. The Indian Express reports:“The Supreme Court said it did not want to accept in a “sealed cover” the Centre's suggestions on who could be the members of a committee the court had proposed to assess the market regulatory framework and recommend measures, if any, to strengthen it in the wake of the Adani-Hindenburg affair. It refused to accept any suggestions on names from the petitioners as well.Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, who headed a three-judge bench hearing a clutch of petitions on the Hindenburg Research report and its aftermath, told Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, the court wanted to maintain “full transparency”. The court would appoint a committee of its own that will promote a sense of confidence in the process, he said.”CJI Chandrachud said, “We would rather not accept the sealed cover suggestions from you for this reason; in constituting a committee which we want to do, we want to maintain full transparency. The moment we accept a set of suggestions from you in a sealed cover, it means the other side is not seeing them. Even if we don't accept your suggestions, they will not know which of your suggestions we have accepted and which we have not. Then there may be an impression that well, this is a government-appointed committee which the Supreme Court has accepted even if we have not accepted your suggestions. So, we want to maintain the fullest transparency in the interest of protecting the investors.”Bravo. The Chief Justice was almost channelling Bentham there, who famously wrote, “secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.” I mean, what even is a sealed cover in a matter that concerns millions of ordinary investors? Why should there be secrecy in the name of experts and their recommendations? A sealed cover is a strange invention. It gives the sheen of a fair and independent process to what is essentially a subversion of a democratic principle. It ranks up there among one of the great Indian coinages. The top spot, of course, is forever occupied by ‘mild lathicharge'. And now, onto the other reason for all this talk on transparency. This was the headline-grabbing news of this week in India - “Weeks after its documentary taken off, BBC gets I-T knock”. Here's the Indian Express reporting on this with many quotes from “unnamed government sources”:“The Income-Tax Department surveys at the premises of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in Delhi and Mumbai on Tuesday (February 14) were conducted in view of the BBC's “deliberate non-compliance with the transfer pricing rules” and its “vast diversion of profits”, government sources said.The surveys were looking into “manipulation of prices for unauthorized benefits, including tax advantages”, sources said.The BBC has been “persistently and deliberately violative of transfer pricing rules, it has “deliberately diverted a significant amount of the profits”, and has not followed the “arm's length arrangement” in the allocation of profit, the sources said.”A very garrulous source there with a lot of information. I don't want to ascribe motives to the tax raids yet. There's enough in the timing of these ‘surveys' to raise suspicions. The I-T department has been used to settle political and other scores for decades. It speaks poorly of our institutional strength and independence. But that's not the issue we are discussing today. The question is about transparency. Does anyone know why the surveys were carried out? The sources have cleverly given some reasons, but what stops the department from giving an official reason for them? Is it because it is likely that if they give the official reason, there will be further questions on the arbitrary nature of the actions? So, it is best to share nothing officially, selectively leak information to the media to paint the BBC in poor light and get away with harassment that then sends a message across to other foreign media outlets. Because even based on the merits of what the sources have said, it is difficult to justify a two-day survey. To quote the same news report:“Transfer pricing issues are very common for foreign companies but survey/search actions against them are not common. Assessment is usually opted for but is not the only route through which such cases can be approached. If tax officers want to do a survey/search, then transfer pricing issues can get covered.However, it is an approval-driven process with prior approvals required within the tax department before carrying out survey action. They would be having some information against the company and there might be a history of non-compliance too,” a Delhi-based tax expert said. A notice preferably is issued to a company in an assessment exercise by the tax authorities flouting transfer pricing rules before undertaking any such action, experts said."It shouldn't surprise anyone that political actors don't like transparency. It adds to their burden of accountability and increases the political costs of any missteps, deliberate or otherwise. So, how should the citizens keep up the demand for transparency in a democratic setup? After all, for the citizens to be involved in the governance process, they must have access to the government's information, plans and intentions. Also, there is a line beyond which too much transparency could be counterproductive. Too much information, too early in the process, could mean stalling the plan as interest groups jump in and skew the decision-making process. I have outlined three frames that one could use to think about transparency in a democracy.First, it is in the long-term interest of political parties to seek transparency in a democratic setup. For those in the opposition, it is about making the incumbent party in power more accountable. For the incumbent, too, there's always the uncertainty about the future when they might not be in power. In such a scenario, it is better for them to have stronger laws on transparency for their own access to government information, which they can use to hold others accountable. A lack of certainty about future electoral prospects for any party is a feature of a good democracy. It is in this environment most transparency laws are made. In India, too, the RTI came about because of grassroots activism and a broad consensus among the political class led by the party in power then. However, it is important to note that the Overton window was right during that time when getting re-elected was an exception. It meant the political actors were keen to have access to information in future. In that sense, any period when transparency is suppressed in a democracy is a good surrogate for the power of the party in power. In India, the RTI laws allow for access to a significant amount of government information. The problem is that there is a gradual erosion of its ambit as the dominant political class comes to view it as an irritant. The only way to counter this is for the citizenry to continue using the RTI tool to its fullest extent. The more people know the tool's power, the harder it will be to blunt it. Second, it is important to devolve transparency to state and local governments. This is where the political uncertainty is still high in India, which means there's an incentive for political actors to support transparency moves to guarantee their own access to information in future. This is also the space where petty corruption is still rampant. One of the challenges of RTI in India is that most of the activism here is focused on big-ticket issues. The opportunity to bring sunlight as a disinfectant and its payoffs are the highest at the local level of governance. Separately, there are also specific areas in the private sector that could do with improved transparency. This is tricky territory, and let me be very specific about this. There's a significant amount of information that's collected, often without explicit consent, from the citizens by the private sector, which is then monetised in various ways. The mechanism by which their information is used and the extent to which the private sector, especially the social media platforms, benefits from it are not transparent to the citizens who are the customers. If your attention is being monetised through multiple trackers and personalised ads, it is only fair you must know the rules of the game and agree to play it. This is still a white space of policymaking in India. Lastly, the oft-cited risk of policy waters being muddied because of transparency, where various interest groups will lobby for their positions and slow down the decision-making process, is a bit misplaced. Those in favour of transparency do not argue for the innards of policymaking being put out for display. That process requires stakeholder mapping and seeking inputs in a way that's been documented by various policy thinkers. We have written about the eight-step process of policymaking on these pages on multiple occasions. The issue of transparency is important in two areas. First, the implementation and measurement of a policy proposal. How did a policy fare compared to its promise? Were the public resources and efforts prudently used? Was there a clear understanding of why something failed? Access to this information is important for the public and experts outside the government to hold the government accountable and improve future decisions. Second, the size of the state in India often means it is the biggest, often the sole, customer in multiple sectors and its decision on setting the rules of games in these sectors, awarding contracts and its performance in managing its budget should be available for public scrutiny. Again, this doesn't mean the government should vet its decisions at each stage with prevailing public opinion. Rather it must be able to explain its process and the rationale for decisions openly and transparently. The practice of sealed covers or I-T surveys and raids without a clear reason isn't new to India. What's new is the somewhat strange support for these actions by the mainstream media that are being fed by the ever-bizarre theories cooked by the partisans on social media. BBC isn't doing a documentary on Gujarat because China is now funding it. Nor is there a leftist cabal that's busy bringing Adani down one week and using BBC the next to show the government in a bad light. This playbook is reminiscent of the Indira era of the mid-70s, where in the name of national interest, we buried transparency and accountability. It took us decades to get out of that mire. Learning from history is free, but most of us fail the eventual test.PolicyWTF: Casually Banning Films Committee, RepriseThis section looks at egregious public policies. Policies that make you go: WTF, Did that really happen?— Pranay Kotasthane Last week, I came across an excellent report by Aroon Deep in The Hindu that explains how the Central Board for Film Certification (CBFC) is going way beyond its usual stance of “demanding” cuts of scenes showing sexual content, violence, or abusive language. Instead, the CBFC now also has a perspective on dietary preferences (demanding that mention of “beef” be struck off), foreign policy (demanding that references to ex-KGB officers, China, and Pakistan be removed), and even corruption (how can a filmmaker dare depict a police officer accepting a bribe?). Seriously, what an omniscient body.Despite its activism, the Censor Board hasn't impressed the extremists. One Hindu group leader has called for creating a ‘Dharma Censor Board' “to review Bollywood films and keep a check on any anti-religious content or distortion of facts about Sanatan Dharma.” In his words:“Our experts will see a film when it is released and if we find it suitable for people belonging to Sanatan Dharma, we will issue a certificate. At present, films passed by the censor board set up by the government have been found carrying scenes that hurt the sentiments of people. We have repeatedly asked for a religious person to be included in the censor board but this demand has not been accepted. This is why we had to constitute our own board.”While it sounds absolutely absurd at face value, there is a liberal way out to assimilate this conservative critique. We covered it in edition #122, and I want to re-emphasise those points.In 2016, my former colleagues Madhav, Adhip, Shikha, Siddarth, Devika and Guru wrote an interesting paper in which they recommended that film certification should be privatised.Deploying the Banishing Bureaucracy framework, they wrote:The CBFC be renamed the Indian Movie Authority (IMA) and that the primary purpose of the IMA would be to license and regulate private organisations called Independent Certifying Authorities (ICAs) which will then certify films.So, the Hindu group can very well have its own ICA, which will rate the movie on its Sanatana Dharma compliance score. But…The certificate granted by ICA will only restrict what age groups the film is appropriate for. This is the only form of pre-censorship that is necessary in today's age as all other restrictions on film exhibition should be applied retrospectively. The choice of ICAs available for producers to approach will render the question of subjectivity moot as the producer can switch to another ICA if unsatisfied with the certificate. The IMA will set the guidelines for the ICAs to follow and will be the first point of appeal.In other words, this solution reimagines the CBFC as a body that grants licenses to independent and private certification organisations called ICAs. These ICAs must adhere to certain threshold criteria set by the CBFC. Beyond these criteria, some ICAs may specialise themselves as being the sanskaari ones trigger-happy to award an “A” certification, while others may adopt a more liberal approach. In the authors' words:This will allow the marketplace of ideas to draw the lines of what kind of content is fit for what kind of audience with the government still being capable of stepping in to curb prurient sensibilities.This solution has the added benefit of levelling the playing field between OTT content and films. Currently, the CBFC has no capacity to certify the content being churned out on tens of streaming services. By delegating this function to private ICAs, the government can ensure adherence to certification norms.In essence, just as governments can often plug market failures, markets too can sometimes plug government failures. Reforming our ‘Censor Board' requires giving markets a chance.There's much more detail in the paper about grievance redressal, certification guidelines, and appeals procedure. Read it here.HomeWorkReading and listening recommendations on public policy matters* [Podcast] Over at Puliyabaazi, we discuss technology geopolitics with Anirudh Suri, author of The Great Tech Game.* [Paper] Laxman Kumar Behera's take on the defence budget.* [Paper] This paper has a fantastic framework for understanding policy failures and successes. This is a public episode. 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Check out my Meditation app: Level SuperMind https://levelsupermind.onelink.me/CsSR/youtube Join the Level Community Here: https://linktr.ee/levelsupermindcommunity नमस्ते दोस्तों! The Ranveer Show हिंदी के 140th Episode में आप सभी का स्वागत है. आज के Podcast में हमारे साथ जुड़ चुके हैं The Ranveer Show के Star Guest Rajarshi Nandy जी जिन्होंने हमें 3 Blockbuster English Podcasts दिए है। वे एक Author, Columnist और Speaker है। Tantra और Sanatan Dharma पर इनकी जानकारी निसंदेह सराहनीय है। इस Podcast में हम बात करेंगे ढ़ेर सारी बातें Maa Tara कौन है, Maa Durga, Maa Kali, Maa Chinnamasta, Maa Adi Shakti, Shiva और Shakti, Kamakhya Devi Temple की खासियत, Tantra कहाँ से आया, Ved और Upanishads, Hindu Grantha, Sanatan Dharma, और Aghor Culture के बारे में। साथ ही साथ हम बात करेंगे Aghor Culture में Tantra का Use, Tantra सीखना और Exams, Mata की परीक्षा, Tantra के Different Levels, अघोरियों की Lifestyle, Aghori से Meeting, West Bengal, Respect For Women और Dharma बड़ा या Karma के बारे में और भी ढ़ेर सारी बातें। मैं आशा करता हूँ कि ये Video आप सभी Viewers को पसंद आएगा। खास तौर पर उन सभी को जिन्हें Tantra और Aghor Culture के बारे में जानने में Interest है। Datura फल का Tantra में Importance, Janwar की बली और Mata को चढ़ावा जैसी चीज़ों के बारे में हम Discuss करेंगे इस Hindi Podcast में सिर्फ और सिर्फ आपके Favourite BeerBiceps Hindi Channel Ranveer Allahbadia पर। (00:00) : Episode की शुरुआत (02:22) : Maa Tara की शक्ति (10:39) : Tantra का Origin (13:22) : Sad Songs सब क्यूँ सुनते है? (15:23) : Aghori की ज़िन्दगी (21:20) : Tantra में Guru की ज़रूरत (39:36) : Aghori से पहली मुलाक़ात (52:12) : Aghori और Shiv Ji का रिश्ता (01:02:17) : Datura फल क्या है? (01:05:46) : Dharma और Karma में Difference (01:14:14) : क्यूँ Mata को बली चढ़ाया जाता है? (01:32:15) : Episode की समाप्ति
In this episode, Barbara takes us on a trip down memory lane. She gives us a glimpse into her childhood, sharing many of the ups and downs that she faced along the way. She talks about how when she entered adulthood she felt like the rug was pulled up from under her and how she had to hustle to stay afloat. And then she shares the quest she pursued in search of a feeling of home and where she ended up landing. This episode highlights Barbara's road of healing and so much more.Barbara Heller is an award winning songwriter, podcaster, filmmaker, and educator. She is also a published author, playwright, and voice over artist. Subscribe to her award winning podcast See One Beautiful Soul. Barbra leads "Meditate & Create” Workshops that Ignite Great Healing and Wonderful Creations from the hearts of her students and colleagues. She is committed to making this world more mentally well, safe, and comfortable for all ages!You can grab some of Barb's original guided mindful meditations here. Email her at info@BarbHeller.com for more information on her Classes, Coaching and Workshops!
Amish Tripathi is a bestelling author and Director of The Nehru Centre, London. His bestelling Shiva trilogy and Ram Chandra Series have made him a household name. In this podcast, ▸ Vinamre and Amish talk about the importance of Indic storytelling ▸ Making Indian mythology accessible to the youth ▸ The fundamental stories that define Indian storytelling You can follow Amish on Twitter: https://twitter.com/authoramish?t=f6XIrmdEdig-6aMknfOJ5Q&s=09 Instagram: https://instagram.com/authoramish?igshid=MDM4ZDc5MmU= His Website: https://www.authoramish.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 01:24 The philosophical interpretation of Lord Ganesha 06:58 Amish's process of blending mythology with fiction 15:36 What were Ravana's true intentions behind abducting Maa Sita? 19:27 Why most religions perish with time? 25:28 How the West has misinterpreted Maa Sita 29:54 The many forms of Lord Shiva 37:13 Non-linear narrative tools help you understand stories deeply 42:12 Does today's youth has zero attention span? 44:20 How writing the Ram trilogy changed Amish's perspective towards religion? 48:37 The current projects Amish is working on 51:27 Conclusion
Forced religious equality under the garb of secularism has been done with a deliberate intention to disintegrate the Hindu Society and Sanatani beliefs. Abrahamic religions are basically cults with forced ideology as a sect with strict codes to adhere to. Whereas, Sanatan Dharma propagates freedom of practice, choices and beliefs, hence, it's more of a way of life to achieve spiritual nirvana. Abrahamic religions promote fanaticism whereas, Sanatan promotes equality and peace amongst all. Therefore, equating Sanatan Dharma with other religions, is nothing but a fallacy.
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Watch this engaging video of an Arangetram taking place in the Silicon Valley, a loose description of cities along the 400-mile Bay Area. A typical summer weekend is spent in a deep dive into Sanatan Dharma, Bhakti, and Grace in this must-watch video. #bharatanatyam #Arangetram #JayendraKalakendra #SFBayPhotoAndVideo
Koushiki Dasgupta's Sadhus in Indian Politics: Dynamics of Hindutva (Sage, 2021) maps the changing face of contemporary Hindu politics, evaluating the influence of sadhus (ascetics) on the course of politics in India. This book explores the anxieties around ascetic engagement with public affairs, understanding politics as janaseva and polities as rajniti, and the authority exercised by these sadhus. It investigates the spirit of ‘individualism' reflected by the sadhus in the organized and unorganized domains of politics, and traces the dialectics of ‘Hindutva' reflected through selected case studies, exposing the patterns of how the sadhus got involved in the muddled world of politics. This book also demonstrates the uneasy conflict between the modern Hindu right wing and Hindu traditionalists with their advocacy of Sanatan Dharma. It turns towards sadhus and gurus to explore the ‘Hindu-ness' of the Hindus and confronts the metanarrative of Hindutva offered by various institutions. Raj Balkaran is a scholar, online educator, and life coach. For information see rajbalkaran.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
Koushiki Dasgupta's Sadhus in Indian Politics: Dynamics of Hindutva (Sage, 2021) maps the changing face of contemporary Hindu politics, evaluating the influence of sadhus (ascetics) on the course of politics in India. This book explores the anxieties around ascetic engagement with public affairs, understanding politics as janaseva and polities as rajniti, and the authority exercised by these sadhus. It investigates the spirit of ‘individualism' reflected by the sadhus in the organized and unorganized domains of politics, and traces the dialectics of ‘Hindutva' reflected through selected case studies, exposing the patterns of how the sadhus got involved in the muddled world of politics. This book also demonstrates the uneasy conflict between the modern Hindu right wing and Hindu traditionalists with their advocacy of Sanatan Dharma. It turns towards sadhus and gurus to explore the ‘Hindu-ness' of the Hindus and confronts the metanarrative of Hindutva offered by various institutions. Raj Balkaran is a scholar, online educator, and life coach. For information see rajbalkaran.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science
Koushiki Dasgupta's Sadhus in Indian Politics: Dynamics of Hindutva (Sage, 2021) maps the changing face of contemporary Hindu politics, evaluating the influence of sadhus (ascetics) on the course of politics in India. This book explores the anxieties around ascetic engagement with public affairs, understanding politics as janaseva and polities as rajniti, and the authority exercised by these sadhus. It investigates the spirit of ‘individualism' reflected by the sadhus in the organized and unorganized domains of politics, and traces the dialectics of ‘Hindutva' reflected through selected case studies, exposing the patterns of how the sadhus got involved in the muddled world of politics. This book also demonstrates the uneasy conflict between the modern Hindu right wing and Hindu traditionalists with their advocacy of Sanatan Dharma. It turns towards sadhus and gurus to explore the ‘Hindu-ness' of the Hindus and confronts the metanarrative of Hindutva offered by various institutions. Raj Balkaran is a scholar, online educator, and life coach. For information see rajbalkaran.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies
Koushiki Dasgupta's Sadhus in Indian Politics: Dynamics of Hindutva (Sage, 2021) maps the changing face of contemporary Hindu politics, evaluating the influence of sadhus (ascetics) on the course of politics in India. This book explores the anxieties around ascetic engagement with public affairs, understanding politics as janaseva and polities as rajniti, and the authority exercised by these sadhus. It investigates the spirit of ‘individualism' reflected by the sadhus in the organized and unorganized domains of politics, and traces the dialectics of ‘Hindutva' reflected through selected case studies, exposing the patterns of how the sadhus got involved in the muddled world of politics. This book also demonstrates the uneasy conflict between the modern Hindu right wing and Hindu traditionalists with their advocacy of Sanatan Dharma. It turns towards sadhus and gurus to explore the ‘Hindu-ness' of the Hindus and confronts the metanarrative of Hindutva offered by various institutions. Raj Balkaran is a scholar, online educator, and life coach. For information see rajbalkaran.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/indian-religions
Koushiki Dasgupta's Sadhus in Indian Politics: Dynamics of Hindutva (Sage, 2021) maps the changing face of contemporary Hindu politics, evaluating the influence of sadhus (ascetics) on the course of politics in India. This book explores the anxieties around ascetic engagement with public affairs, understanding politics as janaseva and polities as rajniti, and the authority exercised by these sadhus. It investigates the spirit of ‘individualism' reflected by the sadhus in the organized and unorganized domains of politics, and traces the dialectics of ‘Hindutva' reflected through selected case studies, exposing the patterns of how the sadhus got involved in the muddled world of politics. This book also demonstrates the uneasy conflict between the modern Hindu right wing and Hindu traditionalists with their advocacy of Sanatan Dharma. It turns towards sadhus and gurus to explore the ‘Hindu-ness' of the Hindus and confronts the metanarrative of Hindutva offered by various institutions. Raj Balkaran is a scholar, online educator, and life coach. For information see rajbalkaran.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion
Vidushi K. Vrinda Acharya is a Carnatic vocalist, scholar, researcher, writer, Sanskritist and teacher. In this episode, we talk about Carnatic music, Sanskrit language and its depth, Hinduism & Sanatan Dharma, problems with Modern India, spiritual upliftment through music, purpose of life and more. Recorded June 14, 2022 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thelabyrinth.podcast/ Podcaster: Pratham Padav | Twitter: @whoispadav Guest: Vrinda Acharya | Website: https://www.vrindaacharya.com/ | YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/KVACarnaticMusicchannel Donate to The Labyrinth podcast on YouTube Super Thanks or Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thelabyrinth Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:45 Vrinda's Musical Journey & Upbringing 4:00 Carnatic Music 7:07 Mental Impact Of Music & Art 11:55 The Beauty Of Sanskrit 20:04 Modernity Vs Traditionalism 25:58 Spiritual Experience Through Music 27:14 Intention Behind Prabodha Series 30:08 Hinduism & Santana Dharma 40:08 Purpose Of Life
One of the most amazing facts about Hinduism is that traditional Hindus don't call themselves Hindus and they don't call their religion Hinduism! The word Hindu is not found in any of the Hindu scriptures. The word Hindu was actually used by those who had come from outside India to refer to the people living in the Indus Valley, on the banks of the Sindhu River. So the word Hindu referred to the place that we lived, rather than to the religion that we practiced. To Hindus, our religion is called Sanatan Dharma. In this teaching, Sadhviji shares that it is Sanatan Dharma, not Hinduism, that forms the foundation of our traditions. Watch and listen as Sadhviji beautifully explains!
There is so much conflict and confusion around the world. Do the principles of Sanatan offer a real chance to peace and harmony? Let's hear from the ‘Western master of Sanatan wisdom' Mr Jeffrey Armstrong in conversation with Vibhuti Jha.
Pt Satish K Sharma digs into Vedas and other texts to unearth how India vaccinated its population, what does Sanatan Dharma say about Mandatory Vaccination, Informed Consent, and Vaccine Passports? Are we moving towards a "Digital Concentration Camp" or already there? How many know that India was the first country to vaccinate its people?
Aaiye hum sunte h khud Tyagiji ki zubani unki Islam ko chod Sanatan Dharma ko apanane ki kahani --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bharatpodcast/message
नमस्ते दोस्तों! The Ranveer Show हिंदी के 61st Episode में आप सभी का स्वागत है। आज के Podcast में हमारे साथ जुड़ चुके हैं IIT Delhi के Engineer और IPS Officer यानि Vineet Aggarwal जो "Hinduism Beyond Ritualism" के Author होने के साथ-साथ Hindu Philosophies, Indian Culture और Spirituality जैसे Topics के Expert भी हैं। इस पॉडकास्ट में हम बात करेंगे ढ़ेर सारी बातें Indian Culture, Sanatan Dharma, Hinduism, Maa Kaali, Black Magic, Vedas, Vama Marga और Ashta Siddhi जैसे कई सारे Topics के बारे में। साथ ही साथ हम Discuss करेंगे Vineet Aggarwal के Occult Experiences के बारे में, Charvaka Philosophy क्या है, Black Magic और Maa Kaali का क्या Relation है, Dark Side Of Hindu Dharma क्या है, Pitri Paksha का राज़ क्या है, China में 'Hungry Ghost Festival क्यूं मनाते हैं और भगवान तक पहुंचने का Shortest Route क्या है के बारे में और भी ढ़ेर सारी बातें। मैं आशा करता हूँ कि ये Video आप सभी Viewers को पसंद आएगा। खास तौर पर उन सभी लोगों को जिन्हें Hinduism, Indian Culture और Spirituality जैसे Topics का शौक है। Occult, Spirituality, Hinduism, Indian Culture, Tantra, Black Magic और Power Of Goddess जैसी चीज़ों के बारे में हम Discuss करेंगे इस Hindi Podcast में सिर्फ और सिर्फ आपके Favourite BeerBiceps Hindi Channel Ranveer Allahbadia पर.
India Policy Watch: Countering Wokeism Insights on burning policy issues in India— RSJYou know a term has entered the zeitgeist when it reaches your family WhatsApp group that’s kept alive by aunts and uncles forwarding every dubious message that confirms their biases. So, when I received a message on the group that urged us to celebrate this Diwali with firecrackers to show the ‘wokes’ their place, I realised the word has crossed some kind of a threshold. And then I noticed social media was full of similar assertion of Sanatan Dharma against wokes (and Christians too). Some kind of international conspiracy of the wokes had to be thwarted, our religion and tradition had to be reclaimed and, apparently, lighting a firecracker was the place to start. Another day, another assault on our dharma and another lightening response by us because we are ever vigilant now. And that set me thinking about wokeism. Is it a nihilistic, virtue signaling, leftist movement that imagines victimhood, rejects tradition and reduces everything to identity? Or, is it an easy catch-all pejorative that serves as a convenient fig leaf for bigots of every shade to run down any progressive, liberal idea without engaging with their merit? Are all anti-woke responses the same? Or, is there a right and a wrong cause to protest wokeism? Blooming Of The Conservative MindI thought it will be useful to go back to the original text that questioned ‘openness’ and relativism to search for answers. Allan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind (1987) was the earliest and remains perhaps the most intellectually stimulating challenge to the dogma of liberalism that had take over the academic and media bastions in America. Bloom, a professor of Philosophy at University of Chicago, wrote the book based on the ‘sample’ of students he taught over a couple of decades starting from the 60s. Bloom took a counterintuitive view to the liberal consensus that keeping an open mind that’s free of prejudice is the way for a society to progress. He countered:“Prejudices, strong prejudices, are visions about the way things are. They are divinations of the order of the whole of things, and hence the road to a knowledge of that whole is by way of erroneous opinions about it. Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment. The mind that has no prejudices at the outset is empty. It can only have been constituted by a method that is unaware of how difficult it is to recognize that a prejudice is a prejudice.”While woke as a term and cultural phenomenon was still a few decades away, Bloom had anticipated its origin and its pathologies quite accurately. For Bloom, the moral goal of every education system and, therefore, of the society, was to produce a human being who is in accord with its fundamental principle. As he wrote:“Aristocracies want gentlemen, oligarchies men who respect and pursue money, and democracies lovers of equality. Democratic education, whether it admits it or not, wants and needs to produce men and women who have the tastes, knowledge, and character supportive of a democratic regime.”So, what did this mean for the US? For Bloom, the moral imperative of a US citizen was quite clear:“Above all he was to know the rights doctrine; the Constitution, which embodied it; and American history, which presented and celebrated the founding of a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."“A powerful attachment to the letter and the spirit of the Declaration of Independence gently conveyed, appealing to each man's reason, was the goal of the education of democratic man.”This starting position is important to appreciate when anyone is looking to imitate or transplant anti-woke rhetoric into their societies. If you live in a democracy and value its moral principles, your argument against the liberal project will have to be founded on this truth. The Three MovesFrom this starting position, Bloom makes three key moves in his dissection of where liberalism or wokeism, as we might call it today, loses its way.First, he argues that allegiance to the natural rights of man should supersede all other allegiances or identities. The folksy way of saying this is you should do no favour to your first cousin that you will deny a fellow citizen. In his scepticism of what is called progressive thought, Bloom didn’t hark back to an ancient way of life or a religious code. Instead, he stuck to the first principles of liberty:“This called for something very different from the kinds of attachment required for traditional communities where myth and passion as well as severe discipline, authority, and the extended family produced an instinctive, unqualified, even fanatic patriotism, unlike the reflected, rational, calm, even self-interested loyalty—not so much to the country but to the form of government and its rational principles—required in the United States.”“The palpable difference between these two can easily be found in the changed understanding of what it means to be an American. The old view was that, by recognizing and accepting man's natural rights, men found a fundamental basis of unity and sameness. Class, race, religion, national origin or culture all disappear or become dim when bathed in the light of natural rights, which give men common interests and make them truly brothers. The immigrant had to put behind him the claims of the Old World in favor of a new and easily acquired education. This did not necessarily mean abandoning old daily habits or religions, but it did mean subordinating them to new principles. There was a tendency, if not a necessity, to homogenize nature itself.”So far, so good. The liberals would grudgingly and partially agree to this too. It is the second move of Bloom, both dazzlingly insightful and contentious, that made the book a bestseller and launched a vigorous conservative intellectual movement against what passed as liberalism in the late 20th century. Bloom made a strong case against openness and relativism, two notions dear to the liberal hearts. What’s the basis for deeming these as lofty ideals? The pursuit of being open to every thought and ideology without rigorously questioning it. Or, the belief that every culture and its way of life hold virtues that might be different from ours but are virtues nevertheless. Bloom eviscerated the liberal platform that dominated (and still dominates) the US academic and intellectual environs. On openness, Bloom wrote:“Thus there are two kinds of openness, the openness of indifference —promoted with the twin purposes of humbling our intellectual pride and letting us be whatever we want to be, just as long as we don't want to be knowers—and the openness that invites us to the quest for knowledge and certitude, for which history and the various cultures provide a brilliant array of examples for examination. This second kind of openness encourages the desire that animates and makes interesting every serious student—"I want to know what is good for me, what will make me happy" —while the former stunts that desire.Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled.”Then Bloom laid into cultural relativism:“Men cannot remain content with what is given to them by their culture if they are to be fully human. This is what Plato meant to show by the image of the cave in the Republic and by representing us as prisoners in it. A culture is a cave. He did not suggest going around to other cultures as a solution to the limitations of the cave. Nature should be the standard by which we judge our own lives and the lives of peoples. That is why philosophy, not history or anthropology, is the most important human, science.”And his bold claim that there is reason to believe in superiority of Western culture because it is moored in the natural rights of man and on the primacy of reason.“Cultural relativism succeeds in destroying the West's universal or intellectually imperialistic claims, leaving it to be just another culture. So there is equality in the republic of cultures. Unfortunately the West is defined by its need for justification of its ways or values, by its need for discovery of nature, by its need for philosophy and science. This is its cultural imperative. Deprived of that, it will collapse.”This second move of Bloom is interesting when viewed from an Indian conservative perspective. Let’s consider democracy and its central premise of equality are moral imperatives that are subscribed to by the conservatives. Then when they make a case against woke or liberal ideas, what’s their alternative moral position? That which is rooted in principles of natural rights like it is laid out in our constitution? If it is this, then they have Bloom on their side. Or, is it some principles strewn across multiple ancient texts of the Sanatan Dharma? If it is this, then they will have to prove how these principles will hold good in a modern democracy. Because this was the exact debate on the Hindu Code Bill right after independence. That was an attempt to reconcile the long-running practices of Hinduism to the democratic code we had adapted. It wasn’t easy because, on multiple issues, no reconciliation was possible. The past had to be reformed. I suspect the alternative that most anti-woke voices in India will stand for today will be this harking back to some mythical past where social order was “equal” only in some kind of a twisted way that would justify caste and gender discrimination. This is a subversion of true conservatism as Bloom would point out.The third move of Bloom in his book was how he makes a case for majoritarianism as a virtue. Again, this is interesting from an Indian conservative perspective. For Bloom, liberal democracy was designed in a way where minority interests that are often driven by passion, prejudice or spite cancel each other out for the rational and temperate instincts of the majority to thrive. Pandering to factions and minorities while blaming the majority was antithetical to the democratic project. Here’s Bloom:“Much of the intellectual machinery of twentieth-century American political thought and social science was constructed for the purposes of making an assault on that majority. It treated the founding principles as impediments and tried to overcome the other strand of our political heritage, majoritarianism, in favor of a nation of minorities and groups each following its own beliefs and inclinations. In particular, the intellectual minority expected to enhance its status, presenting itself as the defender and spokesman of all the others.This reversal of the founding intention with respect to minorities is most striking. For the Founders, minorities are in general bad things, mostly identical to factions, selfish groups who have no concern as such for the common good. Unlike older political thinkers, they entertained no hopes of suppressing factions and educating a united or homogeneous citizenry. Instead they constructed an elaborate machinery to contain factions in such a way that they would cancel one another and allow for the pursuit of the common good. The good is still the guiding consideration in their thought, although it is arrived at, less directly than in classical political thought, by tolerating faction. The Founders wished to achieve a national majority concerning the fundamental rights and then prevent that majority from using its power to overturn those fundamental rights. In twentieth-century social science, however, the common good disappears and along with it the negative view of minorities. The very idea of majority—now understood to be selfish interest—is done away with in order to protect the minorities. This breaks the delicate balance between majority and minority in Constitutional thought. In such a perspective, where there is no common good, minorities are no longer problematic, and the protection of them emerges as the central function of government.”This is where Bloom’s words find an echo in the past half a century in India. Read that passage again. The Indian “liberal” fell prey to this cleavage between majority and minority. And they are now buckling under a majoritarian backlash that doesn’t want to restore just the democratic meaning of majority like Bloom would’ve wanted. Rather they want the absolutist kind of majority. This is a problem then in India. Any criticism of wokeism can be used to shove this notion of majority down our collective throats. Any argument against it is considered woke! This then is the closing of the Indian mind. A Framework a Week: No More COP-outs Tools for thinking public policy— Pranay KotasthaneI co-teach a course on Fundamentals of Public Policy. One of the exercises in the course involves developing a policy proposal based on Eugene Bardach’s Eightfold Path to Policy Analysis. One of these eight steps involves coming up with evaluation criteria to compare and judge possible solutions. The four most common criteria, applicable across a wide variety of policy problems, are effectiveness (how well do the proposed solutions solve the stated problem?), efficiency (do the benefits of solutions outweigh their costs), equity (do the proposed solutions account for distributional consequences?), and feasibility (can the administrative and political systems bear the load of implementing the proposed solutions?).Confronting trade-offs across these four criteria is really difficult. No perfect solutions exist. As objective as you can make it appear, it finally comes down to a subjective assessment of deciding the relative importance of these four criteria. Some policy solutions might do well on effectiveness and efficiency but not on equity while many others might be brilliantly equitable and yet ineffective at tackling the policy problem at hand. And now, to this already challenging endeavour has been added another parameter: Emissions Impact.A couple of years ago, I would have argued that given the moral imperative for raising incomes in India, emissions impact shouldn’t be a high voltage concern. I have now updated my Bayesian priors. Whether we like it or not, the emissions reduction commitments made by the Indian PM at COP26 mean that emissions impact will translate into a fifth criterion for evaluating policy options. The weightage to be given for this criterion might well be on the lower side but it must be considered nevertheless. Instead of being a vertical issue with some polluting sectors alone, emissions impact is now a horizontal concern across many unrelated policy sectors.Confronting the trade-offs between raising incomes on one hand and emissions impact on the other will not be easy. There are two wrong directions this evaluation can take. One, analysts may unthinkingly transplant problems and solutions from the West to the Indian context. Ideas such as ‘enforced degrowth’ or Malthusian tirades against the mere existence of people might find more currency. Two, analysts will have to confront the cynical narrative which goes along the lines — “it’s futile to do anything about climate change now; we’re all doomed anyway”. This view can become a self-fulfilling prophecy and inhibit all action on emissions reduction. Policymakers and thinkers need to avoid both these pitfalls and instead think of emissions reduction as another important criterion for evaluating policy options. No more cop-outs.Money Quote: Bertrand Russell on a ‘Kindly’ Philosophy— Pranay KotasthaneIf you curate your YouTube subscriptions well, the recommendation algorithm can be quite rewarding. I realised this, yet again, when my feed threw up this 1952 interview with well-known mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell (30 minutes). If you can, go through the entire interview yourself. I’ll talk about just two ideas that I found most intriguing. One, Russell’s reply to interviewer Romney Wheeler’s question on a philosophy that can counter Marx applies quite well to the identitarian politics of the information age. “Q: For those of us who reject Marx, can you offer us a more positive philosophy to help us towards a more hopeful future?A: One of the problems has been that of dogmatically believing in something or the other. And I think all these matters are full of doubt, and the rational man will not be too sure he's right. I think we ought always entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine, not even mine. No! We should accept our philosophies with a measure of doubt. What I do think is this, if a philosophy is to bring happiness, it should be inspired by kindly feeling. Now, Marx is not inspired by a kindly feeling. Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat, what he really wanted was the unhappiness of the Bourgeois. And it was because of that negative element, because of that hate element, that his philosophy produced disaster. A philosophy which aims to go good must be one inspired by kindly feeling, and not by unkindly feeling (emphasis mine).The lodestar philosophical ideas of today on all sides of politics, unfortunately, appear similar in intent if not content, to the Marxian thought. They are interested more in demeaning and then defeating the ‘other’ than winning them over. Secondly, when you reflect on Russell’s lines, the political genius of Gandhi becomes crystal clear. It was a philosophy that was inspired more by ‘kindly’ feeling than ‘hatred’. For a political philosophy to have this character is rare. The other idea that struck me was Russell’s response to the question: what are the things the world needs to be happier? Russell gives a three-fold answer: a world government, approximate economic equality among different parts of the world, and a stable population. The first part is well-understood given Russell’s views against the first world war and his tireless advocacy of pacifism. What interests me is his answer about population. He expands that since “food produce cannot rise appreciably, there must not be many more people than we have now”. Several towering intellectuals of that age, from Russell to Ambedkar, believed that population was a problem because we will run out of food. Technological advances proved them all wrong on this count. The world population is nearly 7.7 billion today, thrice of what it was in 1950. The rates of increase in population have fallen appreciably in the last thirty years but it was prosperity and not famines that led to this social change. No wonder then that Russell is believed to have said “I Would Never Die for My Beliefs Because I Might Be Wrong”.HomeWorkReading and listening recommendations on public policy matters[Podcast] Know Your Enemy: Unraveling Allan Bloom and Saul Bellow. A deep-dive into Ravelstein, Saul Bellow’s roman à clef about the Straussian political philosopher Allan Bloom, who achieved late-in-life wealth and fame after publishing his controversial best-seller, The Closing of the American Mind.[Report] IEA on Implementing Effective Emissions Trading Systems: Lessons from international experiences.[Podcast] A Puliyabaazi on institutional public policy change in India. Subscribe at publicpolicy.substack.com
नमस्ते दोस्तों! The Ranveer Show हिंदी के 57th Episode में आप सभी का स्वागत है. आज के Podcast में हमारे साथ जुड़ चुके हैं Mayur Kalbag जो International Transformational Trainer, Leadership Coach होने के साथ-साथ 'Adventures Of POORNA' और 'Aghori An Untold Story' जैसे Amazing Books के Author भी हैं। इस पॉडकास्ट में हम बात करेंगे ढ़ेर सारी बातें Aghori, Tantra, Tantric Practices, Indian Culture और Black Magic जैसे कई सारे Topics के बारे में। साथ ही साथ हम Discuss करेंगे कि क्या सच में Black Magic होता है, कैसे बनते हैं अघोरी Powerful, क्या अघोरी सच में Cannibals होते हैं और Naga Sadhu कैसे Aghori Sadhu से अलग होते हैं के बारे में और भी ढ़ेर सारी बातें। मैं आशा करता हूँ कि ये Video आप सभी Viewers को पसंद आएगा। खास तौर पर उन सभी लोगों को जो Spirituality, Black Magic और Spiritual Evolution में विश्वास रखते हैं और इस बारे में ज़्यादा से ज़्यादा जानना चाहते हैं। Aghori, Black Magic, Naga Sadhus, Tantric Practice, Aghori Lifestyle, Supernatural Powers और Spirituality जैसी चीज़ों के बारे में हम Discuss करेंगे इस Hindi Podcast में सिर्फ और सिर्फ आपके Favourite BeerBiceps Hindi Channel Ranveer Allahbadia पर.
This talk explores similarities in the teachings of Christ and Buddha. You'll learn about the principle of ‘Sanatan Dharma,” or Eternal Truth, parallel teachings on inner guidance, guidance for relationships and how to be awake in the world.
What is the meaning of Sanatan Dharma or what is the Vedic philosophy depicted in Ved, Upanishads and Geeta call Dharma? How Bhishma answers the question of Yudhisthir about the Dharma or what Mahabharat has to tell us about Sanatan Dharma? In this episode ( second part of the first verse of the first chapter of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta ), I am going to talk about Sanatan Dharma. Also I will discuss the importance of Shree Vishnusahastranam ( 1000 names of Lord Vishnu ).
Manish Vyas: India, its Paths, Traditions, Yoga, Music, Mantra, Spirituality
For every person in India, Shiva means a lot — and Manish is not an exception. That is why he has worked on a very special album exclusively for Lord Shiva, which will be his 2021 yearly release. Powerful yet meditative vibrations: ADIYOGI, publishing worldwide on December 11, 2021. A ten track CD of almost seventy minutes.The album in the praise of Shiva features beautiful texts, verses and poetries praising His presence, His raw beauty, His wisdom, His amazing being. “As far as Sanatan Dharma is concerned there are thousands of mantras and other prayers and texts written in Sanskrit dedicated to Shiva,” explains Manish.The music composed for these amazing ancient texts displays different ragas carefully chosen to fulfill the energy required; as well as the singing which must be presented with perfect application of the Sanskrit language.Shiva also represents various dimensions of energy, so this project also had to contemplate how to bring or reflect all those multi-dimensional aspects of Shiva in the music, and this was somewhat challenging: “Somewhere the energy of Shiva kept on guiding me and giving me the right path along the creative process of this project…” says Manish.“Shiva is joy, celebration, bliss… and at the same time Shiva is the destroyer of the false and the unnecessary. Shiva has contributed so much to the spiritual life of any seeker, that no matter how much we may offer our gratitude, it's never enough.”The intention behind this work is to express that gratitude and at the same time connect the listener to the energy of Shiva and its enlightening and eternal essence of truth.Om Namah Shivaywww.manishvyas.com/shiva
In this discourse, Om Swami says that a person can hide their misdeeds from others surely, but cannot hide it from their own inner mind. For, our mind is our constant companion and one cannot run away from it. Only a very elevated person can look into the mirror, observe their flaws and say that they have to work on them. While leading their lives, the more a person is truthful with their conduct, the faster will their progress be on the spiritual path. Listen to the full discourse to get the proper perspective on this beautiful topic. Timeline: 00:00 Start 00:26 Can a person hide anything from their own mind? 00:56 What were the main practices advised by Shankaracharya for the Sanatan Dharma? 03:02 How did Shankaracharya get his mother's approval to leave her and go to spread his teachings? 03:59 How did Mandan Mishra's wife declare Shankaracharya as the winner in the debate between him and Mandan Mishra? Thumbnail, Intro and outro animation: Sushree Svadha Om Piano music: Adi Sharma BREATHE / MEDITATE/ SMILE / LET GO ----------------------- SUBSCRIBE to Om Swami channel for a weekly dose of positive and practical thoughts on life, meditation, spirituality, relationships & more! - https://www.youtube.com/user/omswamitv ----------------------- Want to connect & explore more. You can connect with Om Swami on https://os.me. ----------------------- If you enjoy the talks and would like to try courses by Om Swami, please visit: https://os.me/courses/ ----------------------- Need a companion in your self-discovery. You can find Om Swami's books here: https://os.me/books/ -----------------------
Speaking about Sri Krishna is like introducing one to one's self,” Amma told the thousands of people gathered in Amritapuri to celebrate Krishna Jayanti. The day had been filled with festivities—Go Puja1 in the morning, a procession of young gopis, gopas, Radhas and Krishnas in the afternoon, uriyadi2 until the sun went down, and then Bala Gopala Puja to the recitation of the Srimad Bhagavatam4 until the midnight hour. Once the midnight hour arrived, Amma began leading everyone is bhajans celebrating the Lord: “Agatanayi Agatanayi Vishnu Devan.” In Amma's satsang, which followed the bhajans, Amma stressed the infinite potential dormant in human beings and the power of their free will. “We can become like Sri Krishna; we can become like Kamsa,” Amma said. “We can become like Rama; we can also become like Ravana.” Amma then spoke about the glory that was Sri Krishna. “Life is not mathematics, science, logic or philosophy,” Amma said. “It is a continuous flow of experience. We can transform our lives into an experience of spreading happiness to one and all. Sri Krishna's life was the perfect example of this. If all our infinite, innate auspicious qualities were to take the form of a human being, the beautiful result would be Lord Krishna. He expressed the infinite power inherent in humankind to its fullness. It is for this reason that he is glorified as the Purnavatar—the complete incarnation of God. Sri Krishna was both ordinary and extraordinary at the same time. He was human and yet not human. He was complete in all ways.” Amma concluded her talk by stressing the importance of innocent love and faith, saying that their birth in the heart of the gopis was in fact a greater miracle than Krishna's lifting of Govardhana Hill. “We need to transcend logic and firmly establish ourselves in innocent love and faith. We need to look at life through such eyes. Then all experiences will become blissful, like amrita [nectar]. That is the message of Lord Krishna's life. … Sri Krishna's words and actions demonstrated the different facets of life, the secrets of para-dharma and apara-dharma4 , and the subtleties of action, inaction and enlightened action. To understand Sri Krishna's message, we need unwavering love, devotion and faith.” Bhagavan Krishn's unparalleled influence on the world has prevailed for thousands of years, pervading every aspect of life, including devotion, literature, the arts and even political strategy. The Bhagwad Gita is the core text of Sanatan Dharma, which Krishn gave to us by teaching Arjun. It is a scripture that transcends all religious boundaries. The Bhagavatam defines Krishn as a purna avatar – a complete incarnation. The word ‘avatar' means ‘to descend'. It signifies the totality of consciousness assuming a human form. Krishn was a purna avatar in that he always abided in the True Self – ever perfect, with no ups and downs or mental disturbances. However, just as a policeman goes undercover dressing as a thief to catch a thief, so did Krishn; he went down to the level of man. When we see how some people live – devoid of dharma, with no sense of charity, just greedily grabbing and accumulating what is not theirs, hurting others, wasting this precious gift of human birth just eating and drinking – we can understand Krishn's avatar as descent; going down to each one's level in order to show them how to live life in a way that would bring peace to themselves and to others. Through his life and teachings, Krishn awoke bhakti, jnana and the true spirit of karma in us. Bhakti is love for the imperishable. From an objective point of view, it is the love towards one's goal. Without it, one cannot move forward on any path. In any area of action, it is love that elevates a person. Whether a book is about science or history, the words in it are comprised of letters; they are its foundation. In the same way, the foundation of any path is bhakti. Bhakti is nothing but constant and continuous remembrance of God.
They are a team of IITians who are working very hard to spread the teachings of the Sanatan Dharma, countering the narratives of the Leftists ,Liberals and Marxists. They are providing Free Bhagavad Gita Course for one and all, and they have registered 20,000 youth till date. Shivam Verma, an NIT graduate and IIT post-graduate will be with Sanjay Dixit
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Episode 7 of the #AskAbhijit show: India's Historical Influence Abroad - China, Tibet, Japan, Korea, South-East Asia, Africa, Australia and more - Your Best Questions Answered. Questions for this episode: ► If Indian culture (Sanatan Dharma) is so old, why has it not spread far from the Indian subcontinent? ► Is there an ancient Indian influence in Australia? ► How did India influence ancient Africa? ► Why did Indians (except Cholas) never expand outwards (invade foreign lands)? ► Did India have any influence on Egyptian culture? ► Is Zeus the Greek version of Indra? Did the Greeks copy Indian Devas and make them their gods? ► What are the connections between pre-Christian Euro-America and the Vedic civilization? ► Is Kalaripayattu the ancestor of all martial arts? ► Is there an ancient 2000-year-old connection between India and Korea? ► Was there an ancient migration from India to Japan? Many Japanese gods have Hindu origins. ► Did the Cholas conduct military campaigns in South-East Asia? ► Did the Panchatantra influence fables around the world? ► How should India's history guide India's foreign policy and global outreach? ► Connect with me online here: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/AbhijitChavda YouTube Short Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkN2BjlRAMnUyll8CmN1yhw Twitter: http://twitter.com/AbhijitChavda Facebook: http://facebook.com/AbhijitLChavda Instagram: http://instagram.com/Abhijit.Chavda Website: http://AbhijitChavda.com
Essence of Life with Advait Danke | Wellness Vibe | BodhMarga Foundation
Honored to be featured on the Episode 24 of the Thiiird Eye View Podcast with Kishan! In this entire Episode, we converse about the Spiritual Awakening Journey, Sound Therapy & Nada Yoga as a Tool for Inner Well-Being and much more! Tune in for this interesting discussion and discover various Q&As, Ideas, Practical Tips & Thought Processes around Spiritual Growth, Success & Well-Being. After studying, Advait became a DJ, but he found the noise of music unfulfilling. Through meeting his master his life transformed, and he now teaches Nada Yoga, Ayurveda as well as being a Life Coach. The conversation is very insightful, and we touch on topics such as: the profoundness of silence, how to introduce yoga to the western world, how we define spirituality and the immensity of having a Guru in one's life and much more. I hope you enjoy the conversation! Questions answered in this Podcast - 00:00 Introduction about me and how I started my journey of Spirituality, Nada Yoga & Sound Therapy 04:30 How to seek the Silence Within & how to Initiate our Spiritual Journey? 06:56 Should the knowledge of Scriptures like Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, Yoga etc be taught in Schools & Colleges? 12:00 What is the purpose of Spirituality? What is Seeking in Spirituality? 16:50 How do we get beyond the Doership? How do we get beyond the limitations of Body-Mind-Ego & Attachments? 21:50 What is Nada Yoga? How does Sound Therapy work? 25:45 Can Sound Therapy be practiced by anyone? 28:00 How do we translate the Teachings of Sanatan Dharma to the Modern Generation and create more ways for Ecological Sustainability? 33:43 What the steps for Self Love? 44:40 What are the steps for Self Realization? Why is it so important to have a Guru in one's Life? 52:00 How to get Enlightened? An example from Ramana Maharshi Discourse Know more about Kishan, ThiirdEyeView Podcast & his endeavors here - https://www.spokenthiiird.co.uk/ --- About Advait Danke - Advait Danke is an internationally certified Sound Therapist, Music Therapist (Raga-Chikitsa) & a Nada Yoga Teacher with Ayurveda as his major subject. He is the Project Director at BodhMarga Foundation & Wellness Vibe. He is on a mission to catalyze Spiritual Awakening & Expansion of Consciousness thru Sound, Devotion & Nada Yoga. He has impacted 3000+ people as a Spiritual & Happiness Coach. His hobbies include Composing Electronic Music, Video Games etc. About Me -
vedagyan2020@gmail.comThe Shanti Mantras or "Peace Mantras" are Sanatan Dharma prayers for Peace (Shanti) found in the Upanishads. Generally they are recited at the beginning and end of spiritual discourses.Shanti Mantras are invoked in the beginning of Upanishads. They are supposed to calm the mind of the reciter and the environment around him. Reciting them is believed to remove obstacles that are AdhiDaivik, AdhiBhautik and Adhyatmic ie AdhiDaivik obstacles are those that are beyond our control, AdhiBhautik obstacles are those that arise from our environment and Adhyatmic are those obstacles that arise from our body and mind.
vedagyan2020@gmail.comVedanta/ is a roadmap of the journey of/ “Atma-Vichaar” /or the journey of Self Enquiry/. The purpose of this journey is realization of the ultimate reality – the truth. The truth about your self, the truth about the Universe and the truth about happiness. Vedanta contains knowledge about Atma. Atma means Consciousness
Manish Vyas: India, its Paths, Traditions, Yoga, Music, Mantra, Spirituality
With roots along the ancient path of Sanatan Dharma, many different roads have been used amid thousands of years to arrive to the same ultimate destination, realize the God within. One of these paths is mantra, the science of sound, by which one can invoke a particular energy through the use of certain sounds. One of the most famous texts has been known as Gayatri Mantra, which is in Sanskrit and comes from the Rig Veda.In the occasion of his recent 8-minute Gayatri Mantra release and his upcoming release of 108-chanting, Manish Vyas presents the subject of Gayatri in a half hour podcast, with very interesting stories and information which may help any person from any background interested in the subject know more about the incredible science of sound from India, and moreover, understand how to approach it.What is the best way to use this mantra, what is its origin, who was the author and the history behind it, what kind of music should be used with it, what are its essential elements, what is Gayatri Sadhana, how to use it for listening meditation or pranayam practice...? These are some of the points covered in this pleasant interview."Important is that the purpose of each mantra is served; the reason why mantras are there, has never been to use them for entertainment, but firstly to be aware of what we are dealing with when we talk about 'mantra' in general and each mantra in particular; and second, use them adequately and if possible keeping in sight their full potential. Then their purpose is served with grace and respect to this ancient practice discovered by enlightened sages, wise ancestors of humanity." ManishGayatri Mantra link : www.manishvyas.com/gayatriYoutube video : https://youtu.be/YDKNkIYgWT8
In this episode, we'll learn about some important texts and gain an understanding of Sanatan Dharma. We will learn what it means when Shri Krsna Guru teaches that “YOU ARE NOT THE BODY.” We'll talk about Bhati Yoga, the path of love and devotion. And finally, we will learn why disciples and devotees say “Jai Shri KrsnaGuru.” Ref Links: KrsnaKnows - https://krsnaknows.com OneGraceAshram - https://onegraceashram.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/onegrace/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/onegrace/support
A small glimpse from the Pravachana by Sri Samsthana on the life of Adi Shankaracharya - the one who revived Sanatan Dharma.
हम जिस स्वतंत्र भारत में रहते है , वो आजभी स्वतंत्र नहीं है , यहां कई जयचंद है , कई औरंगजेब है , और कई फिरंगी भी है। जबतक ये मानस इस धर्म भूमि पर है , तबतक नाही हिन्दू राष्ट्र , वैदिक, अथवा सनातन धर्म की कोरी कल्पना साकार हो पायेगी । जागरण आवश्यक है , आज ही हमे उठना होगा और कुचलनि होगी मुग़ल सोच को , अंग्रजी सोच को, घर घर से सरदार पटेल , भगत सिंह , शिवजी , सुभाष चंद्र बॉस को जागना होगा। आज नहीं कल कभी नहीं आएगा। The independent India that we live in is still not independent, there are many Jaychand, many Aurangzeb, and many Firangi. As long as this psyche is on this land of religion, only the imagination of Hindu nation, Vedic, or Sanatan Dharma will be realized. Awakening is necessary, today we will have to get up and crush Mughal thinking, English thinking, Sardar Patel, Bhagat Singh, Shivji, Subhash Chandra Boss will have to wake up from house to house. Not today, tomorrow will never come. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kumar-abhishek/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kumar-abhishek/support
Varna System is one of the most famous and controversial topics in Hinduism. Today, I will be resolving a few of the misconceptions about it with more in-depth information on it. This video gives answers to a few essential questions: 0:34 What is Varna System? 1:23 Purpose of the Varna System 3:00 Classifications of the Varna System You can find the article for the same with references at medium.com/thehinduhub/what-is…0%A4%BE-a34e37a88b1 Support us by donating at our website: www.thehinduhub.org ————————————————————————— Subscribe our Youtube Channel - http://bit.ly/thhyt Follow us on: Facebook: facebook.com/thehinduhub Twitter: twitter.com/thehinduhub Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thehinduhub Medium: medium.com/thehinduhub Instagram: instagram.com/thehinduhub —————————————————————————
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हम समय देखते हैं अंको के अनुसार परंतु इनके अलावा भी हमारे पास एक और घड़ी है वह है वैदिक घड़ी तो आइए जानतें हैं वैदिक घड़ी में इन अंकों की जगह पर क्या लिखा हुआ रहता है
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Bhaj Govindam Scenario: It is very essential to remember who this is being addressed to. Shankracharyaji is addressing the seekers/Sadhak, who are on the path of Self-Realisation/God-Realisation. (I chose to believe we all are journeying towards the self.) As we all know Sanatan Dharma says that Human Birth is very precious and it can help us cross the ocean of mundane existence, free us from the cycle of birth and death. To be able to make this leap, the Vedas say - Manur Bhav - Manusya tu Manusya Banja. Simply put, ‘it is a journey between Human being and being Human'. The words used in Bhaj Govindam are not sugar quoted and again they mean exactly what they say, hard hitting as they might be, it is best to take them the way they are intended by the Great Guru. Verse 3 naariistanabhara naabhiidesham drishhtvaa maagaamohaavesham etanmaamsaavasaadi vikaaram manasi vichintaya vaaram vaaram The third verse said to me - Sruti says
In this episode Dr. Satyavani discusses the Yogic concept of Sanatan Dharma - we are the Soul and not the body and the Ayurvedic concept of Sattvavijaya Chikitsa. In a world where there is constant dis-ease what is the path toward health? Do we do what we have always done or can we break the pattern and see things in a different way and get back on the path of health?
In this episode Dr. Satyavani discusses the Yogic concept of Sanatan Dharma - we are the Soul and not the body and the Ayurvedic concept of Sattvavijaya Chikitsa. In a world where there is constant dis-ease what is the path toward health? Do we do what we have always done or can we break the pattern and see things in a different way and get back on the path of health?
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