The greatness of Sri Adi Shankaracharya is best expressed in the following quote by Bhagini Nivedita: "Western people can hardly imagine a personality like that of Shankar Acharya… 1/5
In the course of a few years to have nominated the founder of no less than ten great religious orders.. of which four have fully retained their prestige to the present day, to have acquired such a mass of Sanskrit learning as to create a distinct philosophy and..
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impress himself on the Scholarly imagination of India, is a pre-eminence that 1200 years have not sufficed to shake; to have written poems whose grandeur makes them unmistakable, even to foreign & unlearned ears, & at the same time to have lived with his disciples in all…
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the radiant love & simple pathos of the saints, this is the greatness that we must appreciate but cannot understand.We contemplate with wonder and delight the devotion of Francis of Assissi, the intellect of Abelard the virile force and freedom of Martin Luther…
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and the political efficiency of Ignatius Loyola; but who could imagine all these united in one person?”
Ref: J. Sarkar, History of Dasnami Naga Sanyasis, pp. 29-30.
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It is celebrated to honor King Mahabali who visits his kingdom (Kerala) every year during Onam celebrations.
As per the Puranas, when Mahabali was performing a yagna, sri Vishnu arrived in the form of a young Vamana.
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Mahabali welcomed him & asked what he wanted. The Vamana requested for a portion of the land that he could cover in 3 steps. Vamana, an avtar of Vishnu, then takes the Trivikrama ruup when Maha Bali agreed to grant him the land right wish.
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Mahabali is a descendant of Rishi Kashyap, & was said to have been a judicious ruler.
Ignorant people like Swain should refrain from making comments on Hindu festivals.
She is most commonly portrayed as an old, ugly widow, toothless with sagging breasts, pale with unkempt hair, and wearing faded white clothing and no ornaments. Her skin is wrinkled and her complexion is dark like the black clouds that form at the time of cosmic dissolution.
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16 Aug 1946 was the day which the Muslim League chose as a ‘Direct Action Day,’ & was said to be a day of protest. The resolution was taken on 29th July, & Jinnah said “Today we bid goodbye to constitutional methods. We hv also forged a pistol & are in a position to use it.” 1/5
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Bengal being the under Muslim League’s control was chosen by the ML council for “demonstrating” Direct Action. On one leaflet, just prior to the DA, was a picture of Jinnah with sword in hand & it said: “O Kafer!... your doom is not far and the general massacre will come!”
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Another leaflet with a special prayer for the Direct Action Day said “ten crores of Indian Muzlims who through bad luck had become slaves of Hindus and the British, would be starting a j!had in the very month of Ramzan”.
Partition: Bengal
In the Great Calcutta killings, the Mayor of Calcutta, Syed Mohammed Usman wrote in a pamphlet, “We Muslims have had the crown and have ruled. Do not lose hearts, be ready and take swords. Oh kafir! Your doom is not far.”
This was supported by Husseyn Shahid Suhrawardy, the then Bengal chief minister, who in his speech indirectly promised no actions to be taken against the armed Muslims should they decide to unleash their activities in the city. #PartitionHorrorsRemembranceDay
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DN Panigrahi, the author of India’s Partition: The Story of Imperialism in Retreat, also confirmed the inaction of police & army on that ghastly day when unabated killings and rapes went on for 48 hours, after speaking to a foreign journalist present in Calcutta on that day.
Izlamists never forget. A fatwa once given, is a permanent j!had against that person.
It’s a constant state of war, and if any Indic thinks the Indian form of secularism will eventually bring in peaceful coexistence, then one is living in fools paradise !
In 2012, a Mus!im religious foundation in Iran raised the de@th bounty on Rushdie from $2.8m to $3m. He is accused by Mus!ims of blasphemy