Om Namah Shivaya! 🧵describing The Divine Experience of a devotee at #KailashMansarovar. See video👇. My brother & co-author Prof. K Vaidyanathan has himself gone & shared similar experience. Humble🙏to All to respect sacredness of this experience. 1/13
Following is translation into English of devotee's own words in Tamil:
What I’m showing in this video may be hard to believe for a lot of people. But, this is an actual incident – very miraculous – that happened during our visit to low to Kailash Mansarovar. I am going to 2/13
describe it exactly the way it actually happened. Pls listen and judge for yourself.
First, see this picture where you can see a form of Bhagwan Shiva in the Kailash Hill Aghora West Face. When I saw this form, I showed it to Hari, who was accompanying me on the yatra. 3/13
I say: “Hey Hari, see above the hill. It looks like a person.” Hari says: “What is it? I say: Shiva Bhagwan sitting on top of the hill and meditating. Doesn’t it look like that? Am I correct?” Shocked at the sight, Hari immediately prostrates before the form by doing 4/13
Shashtanga Namaskaram then and there. Chanting “Shambo Mahadeva”, “Om Namah Shivaya”, “Bhasmangaragaya”, he started singing seeped in devotion. (I, Subramanian, get tears rolling as I hear it to translate!)
Like the black rock, we were able to see the form in same colour as 5/13
the black rock of the hill amidst the white clouds with Ganges water emerging from the Jata and the crescent moon adorning the head. We can see it absolutely clearly. We see it for about 15 minutes. And we didn’t feel like moving at all from that place as we kept beholding 6/13
the Divine sight. We kept saying Shlokas that we knew and just sat there soaked in devotion. We just did not feel like moving from that place.
I immediately told Hari “let us take a video of this sight.” Hari says “No Sir, we should not take videos or photos of such 7/13
experiences of The Divine. No Sir, Shiva Bhagwan has given us Sakshat Darshan to our human eyes. We should not ‘corrupt’ it by taking a video of this Divine experience.” Saying that, we again started prostrating before the form of Shiva that we were seeing. Not knowing what 8/13
to say to Hari, I didn’t argue with him on this.
At that time, another member of our group came – Sur Singh, a Marwari gentleman. I tell him “Hey, Sur Singh, please see this.” He initially found it hard to locate the form on top of the hill. As soon as he was able to locate 9/13
the form, he said “The form is totally like Shiva Bhagwan sitting on the top of Kailash parvat and doing Tapasya.” Saying this, he immediately took the video. After that, none of us felt like leaving the place. Slowly clouds came & covered the form of Shiva that we saw. 10/13
After that, we could not see the form of Shiva. So, all of us we said Sholkas, prostrated at that place and came back.
It was about 6PM and we had to walk about 5-6 Kms. When we came to the group, we described this experience to our group leader, Anand. He said that he has 11/13
been coming to Kailash Mansarovar for 34 years. Every year, one group or another of 2-3 people have such a Divine experience where they find in a different place a different form of Shiva Bhagwan.
Seeing trains,🧵on Appa whom I owe my ALL... he worked w/ Indian Railways. My best childhood memories r w/ trains. Holidays meant train travel. Crucially, Appa cudn't tell us to study😀Train travel & not being told to study by Appa correlated. Maybe, that's why I love trains. 1/n
Must relate some (now, not then) fond memories of the "terror" that Appa was w/ studies & his leniency with everything else. Neither me nor my brother Prof. K Vaidyanathan (2 yrs my younger) wud've achieved what we did but for that "terror" that he was on our studies. 2/n
Bcos of his "terror" on studies, both my bro & I went to study @IITKanpur Electrical Engg as top-rankers in IIT-JEE. In fact, Appa was known in South-Eastern Railway as "The Krishnamurthy whose both sons are IIT top rankers." He used to feel soo chuffed at that description! 3/n
(1/16) 🧵on MUDRA loans. As a founding board member of Bandhan Bank till 2018, I've seen +ve impact of loans even of ₹25K on the poor. I’m quite surprised by @PChidambaram_IN questioning impact of loans of ₹3.73lakhs.🧵shows clearly +ve impact of MUDRA.
(1a/16) MUDRA Growth
The Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY), completed 7 years of its operations, extending a cumulative amount of 18.83 lakh crore to 34.93 crore loan accounts, primarily benefitting the borrowers of weaker sections of the society.
(1b/16) MUDRA Growth
In the last 7 years, the total amount sanctioned and disbursed recorded an enormous growth of about 150%. The number of loan accounts grew by 54%. In 2021-22, the average loan size has grown by 62% since 2015-16.
A🧵on ₹ depreciation. See chart below. where ALL currencies have depreciated more year-to-date against the USD than ₹. While ₹ has depreciated 8% year-to-date, $ index has appreciated 18.8% over the same period. 1/n
Two key questions arise: 1) Why is $ appreciating? 2) How should we see ₹ performance vis-à-vis other currencies? 2/n
Q1: Why is $ appreciating? Combination of i) "flight to safety" where U.S. is considered safe destination by investors; ii) "home bias" with U.S. being home for majority of investors; & iii) $ yields ↑ & expected to ↑ more bcos of monetary tightening by the Fed. 3/n
Be careful interpreting predictions of economists like Nouriel Roubini, who always makes doomsday predictions. If one predicts doomsday 10 times & once it fructifies, 9 incorrect predictions never gather attention. Confirmation bias + attention bias! 1/5 ndtv.com/world-news/he-…
Quite possible that he or some entity connected to him takes bearish positions after such doomsday predictions. Even if 9 are wrong, he doesn't lose as much as he makes when the 1 doomsday prediction hits the jackpot. 2/5
To be clear, I'm not saying that US economy will not witness a recession. But the GFC prediction is subject to confirmation bias + attention bias. So, I will take his doomsday of "long and ugly" recession in the US with a pinch of salt. 3/5
Imp🧵using high-quality research by Prof. Babones shows international rankings of India's democracy r BIASED. He is author of "Methods for Quantitative Macro-Comparative Research", std. source for statistical analysis of international comparisons. So, he is a QUALIFIED EXPERT 1/n
Dear scholars & experts pathologically criticizing India, Prof. Babones's research focuses on political sociology of authoritarianism. I'm sharing relevant parts from his timely article "Indian Democracy at 75: Who Are the Barbarians at the Gate?" quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/20… 2/n
"If, however, the academics, intellectuals, and think-tankers who staff the major rankings providers are themselves the barbarians at the gate, maligning a poor but proud country in a bid to impose their own parochial political positions, then a moral reckoning is in order." 3/n
Ur comment prompted me to write a 5-page note, which is on LinkedIn & images here. India's Covid policy response was based on a deep analysis of policy response to GFC & Asian Fin Crisis. The note makes clear why the GFC response was myopic & flawed. linkedin.com/posts/prof-k-v… 1/5