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Devamritasya Putra - देवामृतस्य पुत्र: 🇮🇳

@whiffofreshair

Aug 18

Literary evidence of Sri Krishna:

1. Chandogya 3.17: Krishna Devakiputra.
2. Ashtadhyayi of Panini: Mentions Krishna.
3. Nirukti of Yaska: Krishna and his wives Jambavati and Satyabhama.
4. Baudhayana-dharma-sutra: Three names of Krishna are mentioned - Kesava, 1/n

Govinda and Damodara but there are more in this quote: “Madhva, Madhusudana, Hrshikesha, Padmanabha and Vishnu”, usually describing Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita as well as in Srimad Bhagavatam; and the book makes reference to “the servants of Vishnu”. 2/n

5. Indika of Megasthenes: Surasena, the Yadus’s King, Mathura, the birth city of Krishna, Krishnapura or Kampura, Yamuna River, Krishna like Hari.
6. Quintus Curtius, who mentioned “Poros” (Purus) with an image of Krishna Hari before the battle with Alexander the Great. 3/n

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Devamritasya Putra - देवामृतस्य पुत्र: 🇮🇳

@whiffofreshair

Jul 15

“Who are you ?”

“Courage”, came response from the right. 1/n

“Who are you ?”

“Confidence”, came reply from the left. 2/n

Who are you ?”

“Pride”, came response from the back. 3/n

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Devamritasya Putra - देवामृतस्य पुत्र: 🇮🇳

@whiffofreshair

Jul 10

।। যুগান্ত ।।

শেষ কেমন ছিল ? শেষ কেমন হয় ?

যুদ্ধমৃতদের চিতা নিভে গেছে অনেক বছর ;
রাজ্যপাটে কেটে গেছে অনেক গ্রীষ্ম-শীত ।
তারপর এল সেই দিন : তাঁর জানা ছিল ,
জন্মের মত অমোঘ সে কাল খণ্ড... 1/n

প্রথমে দেখলেন অগ্রজের মৃত্যু,
শেষনাগবেশে প্রাণত্যাগ !
যুগসন্ধির প্রবাদপুরুষের হৃদয়েও
কি জেগেছিল একটু উচাটন !?!

বসলেন ধ্যানে, ভাবলেশহীন;
শুধু প্রতীক্ষা...
চাতক পাখির মতন,
মন কি তখন খুঁজেছিল
পরিত্রাণের উপায় ? …2/n

নিমেষে হয় অপেক্ষার শেষ,
বাণ এসে লক্ষ ভেদে :
তৃকালদর্শীর স্মৃতিতে
কি জেগে ওঠে
ত্রেতা যুগের সেই
বকেয়া হিসেব :
কর্মের শোধবোধ !?!
তারপর ...ভ্রু মধ্যে
একীকৃত প্রাণশক্তি,
মিশে যায় অনন্ত ইথারে ...3/n

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Devamritasya Putra - देवामृतस्य पुत्र: 🇮🇳

@whiffofreshair

Jul 4

Passing of Swami Vivekananda - a *thread*

1

In his youth, while as a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, Narendranath had got a taste of Nirvikalpa Samadhi. When it was over, his Master had said, "This is your mango, Look! I lock it in my box.

2

You shall taste it once more, when your work in finished." Sri Ramakrishna had made one more prophecy about Naren - that when he should know who and what he was, he would refuse to remain a moment longer in the body.

3

Years had passed. It was the summer of 1898. Vivekananda was well renowned in the world by then. He happened to visit the Amarnath Cave with his disciples. On returning from the cave of Amarnath, he had told that he had received the grace of Amar Nath -

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Devamritasya Putra - देवामृतस्य पुत्र: 🇮🇳

@whiffofreshair

Jun 14

Inside the cave in which Adi Shankaracharya met his Guru Govindapada, in Omakreshwar (two hours drive from Indore) there is an idol of Kali, the Mother Goddess in a tantric depiction. …1/n

The body is draped in a red sari, the face bereft of definitive features except a fiery red tilak on the forehead. The most compelling feature of this depiction is the eyes of the Goddess, piercingly black, that follow one almost hauntingly in any direction one moves. …2/n

As per the chief pujari of the temple the idol has a fascinating history : it was made and put in the cave following Shankara’s visit to Bengal. There he met with a great number of tantrics, …3/n

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Devamritasya Putra - देवामृतस्य पुत्र: 🇮🇳

@whiffofreshair

Jun 3

Before the dawn of Common Era right down to middle ages, wars were fought with weapons having a particular choice of steel (even the Damascus swords fell in this category). But how many of us know that the steel for Damascus swords was imported from Bharat? #thread ...1/n

“Wootz was the first high-quality steel made anywhere in the world. ...the Damascus swords were made by forging small cakes of steel that were manufactured in Southern India. This steel was called wootz steel. ...2/n

It was more than a thousand years before steel as good was made in the West.” -J. D. Verhoeven and A. Pendray, Muse, 1998
The term for Indian steel, wootz, is an anglicization of the word ‘ukku’ in Tamil which was the word for crucible steel encountered by ...3/n

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