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Nīlakaṇṭha Dhāraṇī (chant) of Shiva (+Vishnu) by bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara is most popular in China, Korea,Japan, Vietnam, and so on.

".. Nīlakaṇṭhāya svāhā varāha-mukhāya svāhā narasiṃha-mukhāya svāhā
Gada-hastāya svāhā cakra-hastāya svāhā padma-hastāya svāhā"

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Dhāraṇīs in Sanskrit (written phonetically in Chinese characters) have been inscribed on pillars and rocks for over a thousand years in Asia (including on the Great Wall)

Here's one installed in Taiwan in 2005

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Hymn praising Shiva and Vishnu (Harihara) for their compassion through the yugas :



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Hymn to Harihara

Maha-Narasimha-mukhaya, Padmahastaya, Narayana, Varaha-mukhaya (Vishnu), Nilakantha, Shankara, Mahayogeshwaraya (Shiva)
"Hey Nilakantha, hey Mahakala, halahala visa nirjita lokeshya" - Shiva's great compassion in saving the world from the halahala poison

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22 Sep 20
Direct experience alone is the basis for all proofs...

That substratum is the experiencing intelligence which itself becomes the experiencer, the act of experiencing, and the experience. [Yoga-Vasistha 2.19-20]

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Everyone has two bodies, the one physical and the other mental.

The physical body is insentient and seeks its own destruction; the mind is finite but orderly. [YV 4.10]

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I have carefully investigated, I have observed everything from the tips of my toes to the top of my head, and I have not found anything of which I could say, ‘This I am.’

Who is ‘I’? I am the all-pervading consciousness which is itself not an object of knowledge ...

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7 Aug 20
Japan remained true to its spirit and chose the path of the Samurai, while India did not. Sri Aurobindo: “In India, the bourgeois, in Japan, the Samurai; in this single difference is comprised the whole contrasted histories of the two nations during the nineteenth century.”

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"The belief that a subject nation can acquiesce in subjection and yet make .. progress, growing to strength in its chains, is a lie. The idea that mitigations of subjection constitute freedom or that anything but the exercise of liberty fits man for liberty, is another lie. "

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"The teaching that peace and security are more important and vital to man than liberty is a third lie.

The doctrine that social and commercial progress must precede or will of themselves bring about political strength and liberty, is a fourth and very dangerous lie;

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2 Apr 20
For uncertain times (छान्दोग्य उपनिषद ७.१४):

"Hope, undoubtedly, is greater than memory. For only when it is kindled with hope does memory recite Vedic formulas, do rites, seek to obtain children and wealth, and aspire to winning this world and the next.

So venerate hope.

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"If someone venerates brahman as hope --well, by mere hope, all his desires are fulfilled and his prayers are answered; he obtains complete agency in every place reached by hope, if he venerates brahman as hope."

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आशा वाव स्मराद्भूयस्याशेद्धो वै स्मरो मन्त्रानधीते कर्माणि कुरुते पुत्रांश्च पशूंश्चेच्छत इमं च लोकममुं चेच्छत आशामुपास्स्वेति ॥ ७.१४.१ ॥

स य आशां ब्रह्मेत्युपास्त आशयास्य सर्वे कामाः समृध्यन्त्यमोघा हास्याशिषो भवन्ति यावदाशाया गतं तत्रास्य यथाकामचारो भवति ...

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The (Two) Golden Fishes, suvarnamatsya, symbolize happiness, fertility and abundance & conjugal unity and fidelity.

They relate to two rivers the Yumuna and Ganga.

When shown swimming upstream they indicate attraction to the jewel of knowledge.
Treasure Vase, kalaśa, with a short neck with jewel (three jewels) in its opening. Denotes satisfaction of material desires.The sacred vase is filled with amṛta, elixir from heaven.

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BBC News - Bhoot Vidya: India university to teach doctors Ghost Studies.

Sorry BBC, Bhuta Vidya भूत विद्या in आयुर्वेद means "Psychotherapy" and not "Ghost Studies".

Is UK so financially strapped that BBC can't even hire competent journalists?
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Charaka (Vi, 7.11), Sushruta (Utta, 54.19-20) and Vagbhata (Ni, 14.51) state that the pathogens growing in the blood are invisible.

Certainly the most advanced medicine of its times! And it has stuff related to mind-body that remains relevant for our times.
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Spent two marvelous days in Kolkata. It is a beautiful city with wide avenues in Salt Lake and New Town, and the old City connected with the names of great writers and scientists.

Delivered the 81st Acharya J.C. Bose Memorial Lecture at the Bose Institute yesterday.
Title of my lecture was "Computers, Indian Scientific Tradition, and AI."

Bose Institute is a great place, a beautiful campus associated with several world renowned scientists in addition to Jagadis Chandra Bose and visionaries like Swami Vivekananda & Rabindra Nath Tagore.
The ceiling of the Lecture Hall at the Bose Institute was done by the famous artist Nandalal Bose. Image
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