THE PEERLESS HANUMAN 1. Rama was once talking to Agastya and the discussion went into the topic of who were the greatest warriors that Rama had faced. Rama immediately named two – Vali and Ravana and then smiled while adding
2. “…but neither was a patch on Hanuman, nor could they do any of the incredible things that Hanuman could… Hanuman is the greatest warrior” – In this assessment, Rama included himself as well.
3. Agastya responded to Rama saying “No one in the entire Universe is as patient, intelligent, brave, wise, strong and brilliant as Hanuman…”
Once Sage Narada declared that the greatest devotee of Vishnu was Baktha Prahalada.
Kashi corridor was the experimental balloon. Few of us protested at the desecration that was being institutionalized on the back of a lopsided view of what constitutes development and strangely "ease of doing business"
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because pilgrimages are also now businesses that need to be exploited for the benefit of the elite and the wealthy. Many people who should have stood up on the principle that development that destroys culture is not really development
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and uprooting vigrahas, cutting down ancient vrikshas and running a swathe over an ancient place is not really desecration, refused to stand up because it did not cut too close to their heart. The problem with that is,
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THE STORY OF THE VISHNU SAHASRANAMA - BISHMA'S REFLECTIONS - short excerpt from the prologue of the book:
The stench of death still rose to the high sky and hung there like an angry cloud that blinds the sun and covers the earth in darkness, a stark reminder of the slaughter
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that had lasted eighteen days and drenched the soil of Kurukshetra with the blood, sweat and fluids of innumerable men, horses, and elephants.
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Little heaps of fire and mounds of ash told the story of bodies that had been burned and souls sent on their last journey of this cycle – a few attaining the state of Mukti or liberation, their Karma burnt up by the fire of the great battle of life that had taken place here.
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I am co-authoring a paper for an international conference titled "Governance of Hindu temples – Issues & Frameworks; Ownership versus Trusteeship – A dharmic conundrum."
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The case being made through this paper is the need and rationale to free temples for government control - EXCERPTS from a section of the preliminary abstract that was approved:
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There is no denying that a strong linkage has always existed between the state and temples from the time temples were first setup by Kings in India. Religious grants, endowments, and royal patronage were very common and formed the primary source of temple revenue,
Everybody uses mobiles. They use them all the time, just constantly. It's a phenomenon of the modern age. Everybody's talk, talk, talking all the time, little black telephones pressed to their faces. Where does all the conversation come from?
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What happened to all that conversation before mobiles were invented? Was it all bottled up? Burning ulcers in people's guts? Or did it just develop spontaneously because technology made it possible?
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It's a subject you are interested in. Human impulses. Your guess is a small percentage of calls represents useful exchange of information. But the vast majority must fall into one of two categories,
Interesting. @dhume is right in saying that India is not a liberal democracy. But, was it ever? Furthermore, he makes the same errors that others make - this government is far from being Hindu, in fact it's appeasement of minorities thru social entitlements is far higher
The impunity with which the temples in Kashi were broken down to build that corridor or the disdain for Dharma gurus speaks of anti-hindu tendencies but what explains the constant harping on Hindu nationalism of the BJP? It's a trope that has been successfully sold & bought
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Statehood in Kashmir may have been revoked but not one pandit has been resettled. The revoking of article 370 has meant nothing & CAA has been put into deep freeze.
Modi keeps making appeals to minorities & tells his party cadres to not make any comments against minorities