What is Dharma?

Top 10 Characters of Mahabharat that teach us about Dharma.

#10 Dhritrashtra

One doesn't need eyes to see Dharma or Adharma. Loving your own son & thinking of his future is fine but he can't be placed before Dharma. #9 Shakuni

Justice is Dharma, Revenge is Adharma.

What's Dharma?

Dharma can't be translated by any single English word so a number of definitions are given in order to understand Dharma.

1/8 Dharma are the duties & responsibilities that one has to negotiate in any of the various roles one takes on in the course of life & is conducive to the highest common good.

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Distorted/Funny Versions of Ramayana

1. Mappila

Ramayana was popular with both communities (isn't it obvious?). There are several versions of Ramayana but this gives it a humorous (read mocking) tone.

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"This is the song the old bearded Saint sang a long time ago, the song that we saw as depicting the Lamayana story. We wait to hear it every monsoon."

All R's converted to L's. Rama becomes Lama & Ramayan becomes Lamayana.

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One of the oldest trick in the field of propaganda & disinformation is to lavish praise on the person/thing who you really want to vilify.

This is what #AnimalTheMovie does. It pretends to portray a Hindu Hero who does most despicable things that Hindus absolutely abhor.

1/6 He indulges in brutality whch's associated only with 1 cult. He philanders the way cultists indulge in multigamy. He impregnates women just to spread his religion, again a well knwn cultist practice. In shrt, he does everything that Hindus find reprehensible abt the cultists

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How movies send messages to the subconscious mind?

Why "what you watch" is so important?

Movies/OTT Series find their way into the silent-most corners of our sub-conscious mind, nudging sleeping emotions into often dangerously awake territories.

#AnimalTheMovie

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https://twitter.com/Lucifer_Bhai/status/1731677157754102181

Imagery is a powerful form of communication, creating emotion, evoking memories, nudging or directing behavior. People can appreciate imagery's influence through at least seven levels of language. Through imagery, films convey powerful messages.

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#Thread

Let's deal with root cause. Why girls and why not boys?

Generally (not for wokes) we are made like this naturally:

Purush: Steady, constant, tough, hard to adapt or change
Stree: Easily Adjustable, caring, flexible and calm

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https://twitter.com/RichaaaaSingh/status/1714680760177947100

Hence we refer to nature, Earth, country as a mother.

Also, a girl is considered equivalent to the Lakshmi Maa. She brings prosperity and happiness to the family.

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#MondayMotivation

Thread on those Sanatanis who were spiritually awakened 🙇🏽‍♀️ (random order)

1. Adi Shankaracharya (800 AD)

Wrote several granthas, bhashyas, hymns on several Devi - Devtas in a lifespan of ~32 years.

Created Char Dhams, re-established Hinduism and what not! 2. Sant Dynaneshwar (Mauli - 1275 AD)

Made Bhagavad-gita available to commoners.

Wrote several books in a life span of 20 years)

He and his family were boycotted by villagers.

Know the Sufis of India:

1. Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti of Ajmer accompanied the army of Shihabuddin Ghori & finally settled down at Ajmer. Moinuddin Chishti, slaughtered a cow and cooked a beef kebab at the sacred place surrounded by many temples.

This was near the Annasagar Lake at Ajmer where a number of holy Mandirs of Hindus were located.

Some days back a Hindu couple performed श्राद्ध of their daughter, who married an M after converting.

They did MORAL GRANDSTANDING to impress the Society.

Ms have a mission/goal to achieve, strategy to achieve it & a constant flow of resources to support their strategy.

1/4 As against that, we Hindus, just run around like headless chickens blaming our girls for falling for Ms.

In the immediate terms, what parents should be telling their daughters who've fallen victims of #lovejihaad is something like this:

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Love Jihad - Why Hindu girls fall into this trap?

1. Diazepam, Barbiturates, LSD are used to counsel people systematically & brainwash them. Drugs are just being used to bring the brain waves to a desired state. Later a well structured discussion makes them believe in M ways. 2. These men in groups. A certain M female friend introduces these men to several Hindu female friends of hers. This builds peer pressure on the H girls.

(In any case, there's a lot of peer pressure these days on school girls/boys to have a partner.)

Brahman is all, & the Self is Brahman.

This Self has four states of consciousness.

Which state are you in?

The first is called Vaishvanara/Jagrut, in which
one lives with all the senses turned outward, & aware only of the external world.

(विश्व + नर = Vaishvanara)

1/5 Taijasa (तैजस) is the name of the second,
The dreaming state in which,
the senses turn inwards,
one enacts the impressions
Of past deeds and present desires.

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Thank you for the question 🙏🏽. The answer given in the main tweet is incorrect.

Adi Shankaracharya and Shudras:

Here is a beautiful story of Chandala and Adi Shankaracharya in Kashi.

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https://twitter.com/Dheer_Sameer/status/1630466922092560384

When Adi Shankaracharya was at Ganga in Kashi, a Chandala & his four dogs came in his way. Shankara asked the Chandala to move away from him since Chandalas were considered untouchables & dealt with the disposal of dead bodies.

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Shri Krishna never went back to Vrindavan while Nand & Yashoda continued living there.

There are a few incidents mentioned in Puranas when he sent his friend, Uddhav to meet people in Vraj. People of Vraj saw Krishna in Uddhav.

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https://twitter.com/amiurluv1/status/1597800231848271872

Another mention in Bhagavat Puran says that Yashoda & Nand went to a holy place in Kurukshetra, where they saw Krishna.

Krishna never went back to meet Yashoda.

Krishna, being Bhagwan himself, was above Maya of this world. He had no mother & no father.

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#VivahPanchami thread. Why did Shri Ram marry Mata Sita & what does it signify?

Tulsidas describes it as:

देखि सीय सोभा सुखु पावा। ह्रदयं सराहत बचनु न आवा।।
जनु बिरंचि जब निज निपुनाई। बिरचि बिस्व कहं प्रगटि देखाई।।

1/6 It means, seeing Sita, Ram was delighted. He was all praise for her in his heart; but said nothing. Her beauty seemed to him as if Brahma had presented the whole world’s beauty before his eyes.

Sita on the other hand kept praying to Paravati & wished Ram to be her husband.

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An Interesting #Thread on today's Gurukuls.

While my ultimate destination was #Badrinath , one of my halts were at Rudraprayag. When I was making my way to Sangam, where Alaknanda meets Mandakini, I was surprised to see a Gurukul here.

1/6 This Gurukul has the capacity of 40 children. It not only teaches children free of cost but also gives them accommodation and meals at no charge.

At the moment, it covers the primary section. For further studies, they go to Kashi.

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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗦𝗵𝗿𝗶 𝗔𝗱𝗶 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘆𝗮

I've been on a pilgrimage to Badrinath. Like everyone else on a pilgrimage, I've had various kinds of experiences: some pleasant, some unpleasant & some behind which one can discern a divine hand. However, something that has struck me the most is the amazing work of Adi Shankaracharya aimed at rejuvenation of Sanatan Dharma & unification of its different traditions.

The pilgrimage begins at the holy city of Rishikesh. There's an ancient 🛕 of Tryambakeshwar i.e of Shivji.

There is an ancient temple in #Kerala, India made famous by thieves.

Four times in recent history, thieves stole the temple idol but returned it as they could not go far with it.

The reasons they gave, makes the story even more intriguing. Mridanga Saileswari 🛕 is a temple at Muzhakunnu, Kannur district in the southern state of Kerala.

The 🛕 is among the 108 temples believed to have been established by Sage Parashuram. There is a story behind the temple getting the name “Mridanga Saileswari”.

#keralatourism

1. #LoveJihad Cases in India (#Thread )
For those who feel that this is just a myth, please watch the video giving details of how it started.

Check out what the courts said in the same matter.

Some cases in this matter are as follows:

2. The Haridwar police arrested Sadiq who posed as a Hindu to befriend a minor girl & raped her. Acc. to the FIR filed in the case on April 10, 2022, Sadiq had introduced himself as Ratan Tyagi to lure the Hindu girl. He threatened her with her intimate pics.

1. Were #KashmiriPandits the first Hindus to face the Genocide?

Do you recollect the Genocide that took place immediately after Gandhiji’s death?

Please watch this video to understand the details.

2. One Nachiket Paranjpe, a resident of Mumbai writes, that he remembers this day specifically. He must be barely 8 years old.

Every evening, Kaka would ask us all children to come home from the playground around 5.30 pm.

It was 6.30 pm that day but Kaka didn't call us.

1. When Ms perceive a threat, they find a viable physical solution for it. When the partition of India was on the horizon, they feared possible resistance from Hindus & Sikhs.

https://twitter.com/ARanganathan72/status/1507948902582222849

2. So, what they did was to militarise an organisation called the Muslim National Guard that they had created as an answer to the RSS.

1. A Long but very important #Thread if you wish to understand "The Ecosystem"

Why do you think is the Left Ecosystem in India in Successful?

What is this Ecosystem? And how is it built? Why is it successful?

Let's analyze it together. 2. What do people like you & me do? We do our regular office job, earn, spend time with family, watch TV/OTT/YT for entertainment & have occasional trips.

You might think that we all do the same. What's the difference?

Let's take a small example (a hypothetical one).