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The objects, plots and linguistic terms of our scriptural stories carry multiple layers of meanings.

In this article, @AbhiSeeker uses a psycho-spiritual lens to decode the Nachiketā story of Kaṭhopaniṣad.

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This demystifies and makes it easy to read an otherwise difficult Upaniṣad.

Embark on the journey to understand the allegories of theatre, chariot, necklace, Agni, Sūrya, Yama, and many more.

This would help reflect on our body-mind complex and several layers of our being.

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Jul 11
Settled comfortably in our penchant for English, it is easy to miss the essential role language plays in creating our world.

"The design principles of a civilization" become simple enough to understand, but the "saṃskāra of a saṃskṛti" sound obscure, even old-fashioned.
A civilizationist can speculate on "civilizations being similar to organisms,"

but to speak of the civilization that is Bhārata possessing a consciousness that is Dharma- this acquires nationalist/ fundamentalist/ communal colors.
And yet when the truth of a civilization is expressed in its own words, honest minds can find a moment of clarity, one that fundamentally recalibrates the inner mindmap.

Ṛta, Kṛta, Dhṛta, Bhṛta, Ghṛta - suddenly become clear.
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Jul 10
The civilizationist Matthew Melko contends that-

"Civilizations are distinct from primitive cultures, exercise greater control of the environment," and are characterized by agriculture, animal domestication, monumental architecture and complex political institutions.
In sharp contrast is the definition by Prof. Yasuda Yoshinory-

"Civilization begins to appear when a workable system for living, that is a proper relationship between man and nature, is established in accord with the features of a given region."
These throw into relief 2 crucial questions:

1. What, if any, is the difference between civilization and culture?

2. Does the "civilized" in civilization imply a greater control of nature, or an increased harmony with it?

Study into such matters reveals 2 further queries:
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Mar 30
Marā..Marā..Marā...Rāma..Rāma..Rāma

We are all familiar with the kathā of how Ratnākara was given the mantra of Rāma's name by Ṛṣi Nārada, which transformed him into the Ādi Kavi Ṛṣi Vālmīki.

Such is the transformative power of Rāmāyaṇa, whose tej still lights up our path.
We recently had the soubhāgya to offer a session on Śrīmad Vālmīki's Rāmāyaṇa in collaboration with @6amiji. Śrī Rāma's persona presents such an amalgam of dharma and karma, that the ideal itself elevates the cetanā.

Here are some thoughts our learners shared post the course.
"My biggest learning is that Rāma is the epitome of 'SthithaPragyanta'. He and his morality or actions are not bound by the situation. No matter the hardships, he faced them all with the same Dharmic lens and composure. That is the true 'Maryada Purushottam' for me "
-Kartick
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Dec 12, 2022
An unexpected metaphor from ancient India that throws light on the nature of reality 👇🏻

Neil deGrasse Tyson says the universe is an uncaring materialist accident.

Elon Musk says the universe is a simulation.

Atharva Veda says the universe is Indra’s Net.
Indra’s Net paints the world to be an infinite web spreading in all directions.

At each intersection: a pearl that represents all individual action.

Every pearl reflects every other pearl - and the whole net!
Further, the light of each pearl touches the whole network via a feedback loop that is alive, dynamic, and unpredictable

Is this not a perfect metaphor for our interconnected ecology?
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Oct 14, 2022
Bauddhika Ātmanirbharatā, with reference to Science and Technology.

An initiative by the CoE-IKS @IITKgp and @ugc_india
to dispel the misleading belief about India's knowledge being divorced from the observational sciences.

@EduMinOfIndia
It will also communicate and explain why India is fast becoming ātmanirbhara in civil, urban, peace and war technologies.

The FDP 2022 will support and strengthen the Government's resolve to create ātmanirbhara Bhārata. Image
It presents fifty-six sessions spread over fourteen viṣayas (themes) across consecutive fourteen days.

The NEP 2020 envisions an educational system patterned on the lines of a “scientific temper and evidence-based thinking to a sense of aesthetics and arts”. Image
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Oct 4, 2022
A major update on the Bṛhat Open Library:

Purāṇa.

Colloquially, a fair translation of it is 'the old,' or 'from the ancient times.'

It works, but it evades a critical emic truth.

As we maintain at Bṛhat- history is to civilization, as memory is to consciousness.
Not only did our ancestors possess history, they cared about it deeply.

Not the material, 'factual' history.

But as Prof. Adluri calls it, the "history that transcends historicism."

History that a civilization could converse with and learn from.

As we do from memory.
Purāṇa.

Purā navam.

The old, renewed. Made relevant in the present.

History to learn from. History in conversation with itself.

18 Great Conversations are recorded by our history.

18 Mahāpurāṇas.

All now at the Bṛhat Open Library:

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