As a living force Devi is called Jiva. As this creation is her manifestation, she is known as Prakriti. She who is the cause of all seen & experienced, is known as Kriya or Action.Since she manifests great anger towards evil, she is known as Chandika.
Colored like a blue-lotus, she is Utpala. Ever victorious she is called Jaya. She is known as Siddha because perfection rests in her. She is known as Durga as her real form of nature is beyond our grasp. She is known as Uma as the very essence of sacred mantra OM.
She is Gayatri because her names are sung by all & Savitri as she is the creatrix of all. She is the expansion of one's vision of all things to manifest and hence known as Sarasvati. Her nectarine form is like a ray of calming light, so she is known as Indukala (ray of the moon).
Though the eternal Mother has many names & forms, she is beyond all material attributes, eternal and ever omniscient. She is without any change, immutable and unattainable but by yoga. She is the refuge of the universe and the very nature of pure consciousness.
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1/n In 2014, a group of 9 Indus copper plates ( 2600 BCE), discovered in a private collection in Pakistan, revealed an incredible secret. The plates proved that printing was first invented in India more than 1500 years before the first known printing, in China around 700 BCE.
2/n Authors Vasant Shinde & Rick J Willis wrote a detailed scientific paper discussing the discovery & its implications. The plates are larger and stronger than known copper plates or tablets, but the most significant detail is that they are inscribed with mirrored characters.
3/n One of the plates bears 34 characters, which is the longest known single Indus script inscription. A thorough examination revealed the copper plates were not used as seal but as templates for copper plate printing. This makes them the earliest known printing devices, by far.
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Pandit Madho Sarup Vats was an Indian archaeologist & Sanskrit scholar who served as Director of ASI from 1950 - 54. In 1925, Vats supervised excavations at Harappa till 1934-35. In 1928 he discovered a rare red jasper sculpture of a man’s torso, south of the Great Granary.
2/n What was shocking and exciting about the discovery is that its realism & advanced modeling techniques could only be compared to the best of Greek sculpture which developed thousands of years later. Vats dated the the statue to the Mature Harappan period.
3/n It was excavated at the same level where several famous Harappan artifacts were found and dated to 2300 BCE. Moreover, it was nowhere near the area where more recent artifacts were found, so there was no chance of the site being contaminated by objects from a later date.
1/n Pakistan’s genocide of Hindus in Bangladesh over 10 months resulted in slaughter of over 2.5 million Hindus, besides 1000s raped & 10 million Hindus forced to flee. Does this qualify as a Holocaust ? Let’s look at some evidence proving this was a planned genocide of Hindus.
2/n In 1971 Senator Ed Kennedy wrote in his official report to the US govt. that Hindus were marked like prey and slaughtered. Their homes were marked with big yellow “H”s to differentiate between them & Muslims so that Hindus could be specifically targeted for murder & torture.
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In 1972, Sydney Schanberg, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist from NYT who witnessed the war, wrote in his column describing the atrocities that it was observed that Muslim soldiers painted Yellow “H”s on Hindu homes to ensure they were specifically targeted for execution.
1/n In 2000, a Coiled copper-alloy wire necklace & steatite beads with traces of silk fibers inside were discovered at Harappa & Chanhi-Daro. These artifacts dated to 2600 BCE proved that Indians were producing silk at least a 100 years before China.
2/n Silk was considered the exclusive cultural heritage of China, since 1600 BC. Archaeologists puzzled over presence of silk in prehistoric sites in Europe, Mediterranean, Egypt & Central Asia. These findings were considered evidence of early contact between China & the West.
3/n But now we know it was probably India which was the source of that silk. In 2009, an Oxford University study found silk from 2 types of silk moth was utilized in these artifacts. Based on SEM image analysis they are from Antheraea sp. & Philosamia spp. (Eri silk).
1/n An insidiously dangerous, false claim made by the anti-Hindu brigade is that Holi is a casteist festival, because it celebrates burning of Holika - who they claim was a Dalit woman & thus Holi is an upper caste conspiracy against Dalits. Nothing can be further from truth.
2/n The argument to prove Holika is a Dalit woman & Holi a “Brahmanical” conspiracy, is rooted in claim that all “Asuras” were Daasyus from the entirely debunked Aryan Invasion Theory. The agenda is to divide Hindu society by keeping Aryan/Dravidian & caste myths alive.
3/n In fact “Brahminism”, Yagna, Vedic mantras, etc. are absent in Holi celebrations. The Dahan fire ritual is rooted in the agricultural origin of the festival which heralds the new harvest. It is a festival where traditionally all castes mingled together to celebrate.
1/n Samarangana Sutradhara by the brilliant Bhojadeva (10th c. CE) is an invaluable reference on Hindu engineering. Bhojadeva defeated the 1st wave of Turkish Islamic invaders, built massive civic projects, was an outstanding architect, poet, scientist - the list is endless.
2/n We know of only 84 Sanskrit books written by him but many more have been lost. The Samarangana Sutradhara in particular is fascinating because he has written in detail about a fascinating topic- Yantras. The variety of machinery he describes is mind-boggling.
3/n Interestingly automated mechanized Yantras were known to exist from earlier times as in the case of Ajatashatru who employed mechanical guards to defend Buddha’s remains. Chandragupta Maurya also solved the puzzle of a robotic lion in a cage with no doors.