Hearty Congratulations to Swarajya. The importance of Swarajya can never be understated.

The word, the magazine, the history.

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I distinctly remember the time when there was buzz in the nation about the restarting of Swarajya, even before Shri. Jaggi joined. Bharateeya-s had gained enough clarity that we needed an exclusive magazine/media institution that served the civilization from within.

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We, of course, had also gained enough confidence that there were enough readers and that there was a need to scale.

Kudo-s to the founders for seeing that opportunity and confidence in the society.

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Swarajya Magazine has played a key role in the following.

1. Mainstreamed an aspect of the Civilizational Thought.
2. Established with an line of our History that was nearly erased.
3. Made us confidently look back at the past and think of the future differently.

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4. Has instilled a sense of Community among all those who disagreed with Secularism Machine run by the State

5. Has indirectly contributed towards the proliferation of Bharateeya expression in both formal and semi-formal manner.

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6. Has surfaced so many writers, thinkers who otherwise we would have never known.

7. Has created other movements like Swarajya Heritage, Swarajya Travel and made us think of the movement. It is more than a Magazine.

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8. Has helped reclaim the word Swarajya from being merely self-rule in the literal sense.

It is more about the State, Nation & the Society thinking of itself on its own terms & establishing a Saatatya with the Flow of the Civilization. Swarajya has played a key role in this.

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9. Its a great thing getting up in the morning checking what has Shri. Jaggi tweeted.

Its a bigger joy to see the young Arihant, Swati emerge as impactful, influential and right voices who are heard and read by the old and the young alike. Genuine Thinker Activists.

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10. Of course, it always a pleasure to see what is the next body of thought that Shri. Aravindan Neelakandan is developing that the next generation can continue.

The Journey is Long. We expect a lot but then we are always there with the Swarajya Magazine.

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11. Lastly, the Founders deserve a big Namaskara for getting this Journey started. Amar and everybody else.

The Journey is the Destination. It must be a Never-Ending One. There will just be Milestones.

🙏🏼

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21 Sep
#Purana #Epic

The Question is how do we read our Itihasa-Puranas? The two are not exactly the same. They are used together because they are a Twin. There are overlaps and parameters ought to be different.

For the purpose of this thread, we will talk about them together.

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1. Are they Histories? Absolutely No. Reading them as History results in 2 problems.

A. Severely reduce the overall Scope of Itihasa-Puranas. We will cheat ourselves by losing the primary purpose they have served.

B. Will result in an endless loop iof Proof/Evidence search.

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2. In which case, dont have have anything to offer in the dimension of History?

They do. Just that it requires a different kind of discipline which we have not fully evolved. The Historical information in the Itihasa-Puranas have suffered 3 kinds of assault.

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14 Sep
The Seven Levels in which Life is organised in Bharateeya Parampara.

1. The Philosophy (The Tatva and the Siddhanta)
2. The Principles (The Sutra)
3. The Social Organizations – (Kula, Jati, Varna)
4. The Tradition – (The Sampradaya)
5. The Practices – (The Shastra Paddhati)

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6. The Customs (The Achara and Reeti)
7. The Rituals (The Karma)

Level-1 is the Philosophical Top

Level-3 to 7 is the Life Organised at the bottom

Level-2 that connects the two is the Confluence you are referred to. That is anchored by the Paradigm of Sutra.

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Level-3-7 if they are truly Bottom-Up ie., with absolute control to the individual and the community, it is because of the Conceptualization of Sutra and the ease with which Community/Individual can indulge in its operation and instrumentation.

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Adding the #Kula #Jati #Varna Paper into this thread, which I wrote a few months back.

indictoday.com/research/varna…
The Paper establishes the KJT-Complex from the first principles of Purushartha and Srishti-Sthiti-Laya.

It proposes a change and reconstruction of the same for the Modern World to face the Triad of Modernity, Industrial Revolution and Monotheistic Assault.

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In order to make a meaningful change in the Bharateeya Samudaya, we ought to understand how the Kula-Jati-Varna Complex (KJV Complex) has emerged from the Srishti-Sthiti-Laya perspective and the Purushartha.

The KJV Complex are instruments and enablers of the Purushartha.

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#Thread - slightly longer one on #Kula, #Jati, #Varna and the Traditional View covering history and traditional thought.

And some musings on the #Smriti -s

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Among the three

- Kula was the most real and coherent entity
- Jati was an aggregate of Kula-s
- Varna was the characteristic of an aggregate of Jati-s. It was more a perspective or View.

Will elaborate on Varna later in the thread.

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The organization of Kula was around a “Profession” and a custom designed Tradition/Sampradaya from the larger Hindu Philosophy.

A Kula always moved together because it was minimally self-contained for the “Purushartha Practice” in that Profession

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13 Sep
That is a good question. “On what basis do people disagree?”

There are 3 basis.

1. Explicit historical references
2. Different explanations to any verses that deny space for ICM
3. Different philosophical basis to the whole thing

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1. Itihasa is full of ICM references including the Smritis.

- One can constantly see new “Jati-s” emerging at different points in time in history. A few Kulas begin to endorse ICM with “specific” jAti-s only. Over a period of time they become different jAti-s.

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- itihAsa puranam itself has such references. Eg., the Soota Jati. It is a constant marriage between brAhmana women & kShatriya men that resulted in the Soota-jAti. Some have gone onto become Kings, most Ministers/ Advisors and some Bards.

Soota-s were the the greatest Bards

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