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Sep 27, 2021 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
It does not matter whether India matters or not...for others. Question one must ask, whether it matters to us as Indians! Do we still define our success on what others say about us?
For someone sermonizing #freedom and #Democracy, let me put simple facts and numbers out there...
1. USA has a two-party #Democracy, so all diverging opinions must be bucketed in one of those two parties. So much for political pluralism.
Sep 11, 2021 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
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Swami Vivakanand's PAPER ON HINDUSIM presented on Sep 19, 1983 at the World's Parliament of Religion, Chicago is highly recommended reading on Hindusim.
If you can read only one article on Hinduism, then this is it! The paper is available at... belurmath.org/swami-vivekana…
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Paper explains genesis of the Hindu thought process about "the God", emerging out of Vedic literature. It approaches the topic in as scientific manner as possible in those days.
Beyond, Aatman-Brahman unity in duality that is preached in the Bhagvad Gita, it tells more...
Sep 11, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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Why We Disagree? - Swami Vivekanand in World's Parliament of Religion, Chicago on Sep 15, 1983
Swami ji, thru a story of a frog of the well, explains why people of different religions disagree. Just as the frog from a small dwelling cannot imagine the expanse of an ocean...
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...so a mind following only one religion cannot understand perspective of other religions.
"I am a Hindu.
I am sitting in my own little well and thinking that the whole world is my little well..."
Sep 11, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
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Today, more than ever, we must remember what Swami Vivekanand said and wrote in World's Parliament of Religions of 1893 in Chicago, USA.
Most know a thunderous applause he got for his opening of "Sisters and Brother of America", but like others I did not know much.
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Follow other threads to know my take on other contributions of Swami Vivekanand in this Religious Parliament.
This 1st thread on his response to the welcome received. It's only 459 words, but this is what made it so famous...
Sep 3, 2021 • 10 tweets • 8 min read
1/9: Government of India (GoI) targeted to vaccinate everyone by end of 2021.
