I really wish to have an audiobook of vālmiki rāmāyaNa, vyāsa bhārata and 18 purāNas and bhāgwata. Not kīrtana. Just reading of these as it is

Preferably in Marathi. Second option Hindi

Just finished Mythos and Heroes by @stephenfry. What a pleasure to listen. My complements
It is not possible to treat Hindu scriptures similarly the way Stephen has very nicely treated Greek myths. Partly because unlike Greeks, Hindus still is a living tradition.

Devdutt Pattanaik tries and miserably fails at getting the crux because he disregards apaurushèyatva
Problem is these “Indologist” people is that they try to do a Doniger and indulge in too much of allegorical slugfest. They simply won’t tell the story as it is. Just read the damn thing as it is

For most part, @stephenfry tiptoed from being allegorical and told the stories.
The story of birth of Athena from Zeus’s head and punishment of Prometheus by Zeus is so brilliantly narrated. Gave me goosebumps.

In his preface to the audiobook “Study in Scarlet”, Stephen described Sherlock Holmes emerging as a “fully formed character” at birth - like Athena

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15 Nov
A (probably Turkish) soldier affiliated to to Azerbaijani army gives a call to Azaan from top of a captured Armenian Church.

This happened today on 14/11/2020.

More things change, more they stay the same. Image
In the year of us reclaiming Shri Rāmajanmabhūmī after 500 years, this picture is sobering one. This is what our ancestors endured. NaMo’s victories should not put us at ease

And this is what awaits Somnath, Ayodhya, Thanjavur and Kāmākhyā again if Hindus fail in their vigilance
Just imagine the vigraha of rāmlalla and linga of Somnath and brihadīshwara being desecrated and broken by hammers (or bulldozer).

Imagine cows being slaughtered in the garbhagruha of these temples.
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12 Nov
The chaffing of the YOLO type people under sobering responsibility that varNāshrama forces people to own-up has its root in one more deeper question.

kriyamāNa karma Vs prārabdha/Sanchita karma.

Or as Abrahmics like to put it - question of free-will.
YOLO emphasises, prima-facie, on importance of kriyamāNa karma over Sanchita.

Which is absolutely true. KriyamāNa is the only thing we have in our hand, since Sanchita is already done and awaiting to bear fruits.

But YOLO (includes Abrahmics) tries to wipe-out Sanchita.
The argument looks very “sexy” when it hits you. The patron hero of YOLO is karNa who proudly claims :

सुतोवा सुतपुत्रोवा योवाकोवा भवाम्यहम्
दैवायत्तं कुले जन्म: मदायत्तं तु पौरुषम्

(Whether a suta or sutaputra, whoever I am. My Birth is up to fate, but my valor is up to me)
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2 Nov
I dream of all six darshans and all five dèvatā sampradāyas (Sūrya, vishNu, shiva, dèvī, gaNapati) flourishing in India

We need Sānkhya-nyāya-vaishéshika-mimāmsā to find guru-shishya tradition again.

We need a strong resurrection of independent saura and gāNapatya sampradāyas
Sūrya = hiraNyagarbha = brahmadèva = creator

viShNu = investor = sustenance

shiva = destruction

dèvī = māyā

gaNapati = anugraha

Sūrya upāsanā is upāsanā of hiraNyagarbha brahmā

All five are important. We have focussed a lot on sustenance and destruction in past 1000 years
Times were such. Sustenance and destruction were key traits needed to Hindus. Hence vishNu and shiva are the most prevalent dèvatās in last 1000 years.

Dèvī is extremely prevalent too. Māyā needed to maintain the dvaita and do required puruShārtha and parākrama to defend dharma
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11 Sep
Ashtabala analysis of Sonia Gandhi under Sānkhya framework - long ago by your’s truly: kalchiron.blogspot.com/2015/03/analys…

1. tapobala तपोबल
2. gnāna bala ज्ञानबल
3. artha bala अर्थबल
4. shastra bala शस्त्रबल
5. Jana bala जनबल
6. sthāna bala स्थानबल
7. ātma bala आत्मबल
8. mitra bala मित्रबल
1. Tapobala - power owing to long struggle and accumulated experience and gained goodwill

2. Gnyana bala - power of sharp intellect

3. 3. Artha Bala - Power of resources, finances, acquaintances.
4. Shastra bala - Power of weapons - muscle power

5. Jana Bala - Power of public support and popularity

6. Sthaana Bala - Power owing to position
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9 Sep
Bhai @harshmadhusudan - nirishwarvaadi is different from atheist. It is also different from not following any rituals (which Savarkar stopped in his later life).

But his death itself was an elaborate and difficult Yogic and Hindu ritual

@vikramsampath
Atheist deals with disbelief in God. Dharmik traditions do not deal in "belief". They deal in knowing.

lastly, Savarkar famously wrote - अनादि मी अनंत मी अवध्य मी भला (I am timeless, I am boundless, I am immortal) - A definitive aastika position

@harshmadhusudan @vikramsampath
Here "I" is aatma. The transcendance of Aatma beyond time, space and matter - it being immortal (amruta) etc is fundamental vaidik position. It arises out of the principle of apaurusheyatva of vedas.
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1 Sep
Even many Marathi ppl did not know that this ārati is composed by Samarth Rāmadāsa svāmī

Interesting thing is to know when & why he invoked gaNapati in this ārati

This was composed by svāmī when Afzal Khan invaded Hindavi swarājya. Fate of Hindus was at stake in that meeting 🙏
Now read this entire ārati in this light. Samartha invoking gaNapati in these words

सुख-कर्ता दुख-हर्ता
वार्ता विघ्नाची नुरवी (remove the news of calamity)
पुरवी प्रेम कृपा “जयाची” (grant victory)

सर्वांग सुंदर उटी शेंदुराची
कंठी झळके माळ मुक्ताफळांची
Now last stanza where one asks for varadāna after Stuti of dèvatā

लंबोदर पीतांबर
फणीवर बंधना
सरळ सोंड
वक्रतुण्ड त्रिनयना

दास रामाचा वाट पाहे सदना

(rāmadāsa is eagerly waiting for good news at his home of victory mentioned in first stanza)
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