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Halley
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Interested in topics related to Modernity-Tradition-Continuity ; Dharma/Religion-Ecology-Economics; Technology-society; Hindu. Male.
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Nov 6, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
There is a Buddhist Ramayana version where Rama and Sita are brother and sister. Eventually they marry ofcourse.

+ Liberal commentators write about this and say - this may sound repulsive to you but keep in mind incestous marriages existed in some cultures.

+
Jun 19, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Excellent 👌

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A privatized Christianity, de Lubac explained, offers weak resistance to such developments, and in fact leaves man prone to seek “substitute faiths” in the form of secular (often political) religions.

+ He argued that Christians are primarily to blame for their compliance with the reduction of the faith to the merely personal, “private” sphere.

+
Jun 19, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
From Scruton's Oikophobia (1993)

"The advocate of multiculturalism is in a state of rebellion against the established order; he is suffering from a pathological oikophobia, a hatred of home, which has been a frequent disease among intellectuals since Enlightenment"

+ "He sees that which is his ‘own’, his inheritance, as an alien; he has fallen out of communication with it and feels tainted by its claims on him"

+
Jun 19, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Sure.

Free country. You can have your opinion. I can have mine.
Copy pasting my fb note from 2015 when I read this book. I shared it here sometime back.

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I finished reading Akshay Mukul's book "Gita Press and the making of hindu India".

+ The book has strong praises from Ramachandra Guha and Arundhati Roy. Going by the past writings of both Guha and Roy on such topics, i knew what to expect in this one.

+
May 22, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Many folk versions of Ramayana and Mahabharata exist that pre-date Vyasa and Valmiki. It is incorrect to see Vyasa and Valmiki as first authors of those epics.

+ There is a good chance that they got inspired by pre-existing folk works with anonymous authors. Valmiki and Vyasa have nothing to do with the timeframe when Ramayana and Mahabharata actually happened.

+
May 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"While most ancient polytheistic religions died out under the impact of monotheism, Hinduism stands out as a lively exception"

+ "Why was the Indian variety of polytheism more resilient than the Greek and Roman variety?

This paper the first to subject classical Hinduism to modem economic analysis-"

+
May 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Till lab generated babies is not a reality at scale it is better to not stop procreation as it happens today. Afterall without consumers how will we get GDP? So giving birth is okay.

+ But as a parent you have no right to teach anything to your children. Because the child didn't give consent ofcourse.

So send him to school university etc. State and free market will take care on what to teach. They know better even if consent isn't given.

+
May 19, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
One pro nastikavaad guy wrote an opinion piece in Telugu newspaper today.

This line caught my attention

నిజానికి విద్య స్థాయి పెరుగుతున్నపుడు భక్తి తగ్గాలి. కానీ పెరుగుతోంది.

He says that with increase in literacy and education level, bhakti quotient should come down.

+ But per his assessment Bhakti amongst elite and masses alike isn't coming down and instead increasing. He is upset.

+
Apr 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
These efforts have to go on in present continuous tense..

हमारे इस लम्बे रोने धोने का तात्पर्य यह है कि इस समय पुराणों को पददलित करने का जो प्रबल प्रयत्न किया जा रहा है

+ वह इतना भयंकर एवं इतना विनाशकारी है कि जिसके कुछ दिन तक इसी तरह जारी रहने से हिन्दू संस्कृति हिन्दू धर्म तथा हिन्दू जाति का अस्तित्व भी सुरक्षित रखना महा कठिन हो जाएगा।

+
Apr 2, 2023 • 9 tweets • 1 min read
"<insert random western scholar> considers the origin of the name Vishnu as obscure and possibly non-Aryan"

+ "Number of deities and their cults got assimilated in the Vedic religion of Vishnu. Narayana is one among them"

+
Oct 28, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Raja Kalasya Karanam

The dictum that the king is the cause of the complexion of his age is a picturesque way of saying that on the king rests the responsibility for good and bad government,

+ through which, according to ancient Indian belief, the complexion (or, as we would say the atmosphere) of the yuga in which he lives will be changed for better or worse.

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Oct 28, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The way of the Mahajana the path of Dharma

The famous sloka on the subject occurs in the Yaksa-pras'na (Mahabharata, Vanaparva, ch. 314, sl. 119, Kumbakonam edn.).

+ It runs thus:

Tarko apratisthaḥ srutayo vibhinna
Naiko munir yasya matam pramāṇam | Dharmasya tatvam nihitam guhāyām Mahajano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ ||

+
Oct 27, 2022 • 23 tweets • 3 min read
Some very important lines from this book - K V Rangaswami Iyengar's Raja Dharma (1941)

Long thread alert.
Full of excerpts. I am not innovating anything here.

+ In the Hindu view of life, aims, ideals and activities were not divided up and considered as independent of one another. There was no distinction
between things secular and things religious the distinction would have been unintelligible to the ancient
Hindu.

+
Oct 26, 2022 • 23 tweets • 3 min read
More.
This part also is available on Google books.
Fascinating parallels with Indian intelligentsia's attitude towards Hinduism (left and non-Left included)

+ Although the dismissal of traditional Chinese religiosities originated among Westerners, the new Chinese intelligentsia exerted full agency and creatively adapted Western Orientalist discourse to their nationalist discourse.

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Oct 25, 2022 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
Excellent.
Great lines from the introduction.
Preview available on Google books.
Matches with the Indian elite's disdain for Hinduism and Religion in general.

Chinese Religiosities
Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation
2008

+ Worth a read for Hindus of my times. Particularly those who don't want to let go of that identity and see value in it despite all the glories of modernity.

+
Oct 25, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
One of the things i learnt in this book is about Lineages in China

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_k…

+ This part of the book may be of particular interest for "traditionalist" Hindus. I use that word on the same sense as it is used in Chinese discourse.

From the book:
Anti traditionalist discourses on lineage: Wenzhou and Los Angeles

+
Oct 19, 2022 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Why would Hindu polytheists have a problem adapting to Bhuta worship bro!
Atheist Marxists and their ilk and Militant Monotheism will have challenges. Not us Hindus!

+ Even the so called Brahminical Hinduism sees
God in Earth - Bhudevi.. in Fire - Agni Deva..
Panchabhutas are Gods for us..

+
Oct 18, 2022 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Whether or not one agrees with such views in full is immaterial. I like the fact that they are thinking out loud.

'New Right' academics argue for biblical lawmaking

ncronline.org/news/new-right…

+ "..Overt biblically grounded lawmaking, a concomitant biblically informed constitutional jurisprudence.."

Hmm...

+
Oct 17, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Yeah this binary opposite view won't help in understanding Hinduism.

Yesterday I saw this temple near Tirupathi airport- కట్ట పూట్టాలమ్మ / Katta Puttalamma. Had no clue about that form of diety. It appears she is a local diety worshipped as a part of Shakti goddesses.

+ As a rule Sanatana Dharma doesn't have a tendency to appropriate or annihilate. The tendency is to let it be. Let it live. On its own terms.

This Katta Puttalamma Goddess as I learn now gets a సారె / gift from Lord Shiva from Sri Kalahasthi temple.

telugu.getlokalapp.com/andhra-news/ch…

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Sep 8, 2022 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
2019 reading - Prof. Arvind Sharma's book "Hinduism as a missionary religion".

Very interesting discussion on "conversion" between an American tourist and the Swami from Sringeri Peetha

Not everyone may like this approach though.

+ Book excerpt starts

On the question of conversion, he (T.M.P.Mahadevan) cites the following conversation between the late Chandrasekhara Bharati Swami of Sringeri Peetha and an American tourist as setting forth the correct Hindu attitude towards conversion.

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Sep 8, 2022 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Hindu tradition has a bunch of context sensitive rules. It does expect a lot from its followers. If you have an interest in tradition and/or if your immediate family, community is not deracinated you will know that much.

+ Now you as a follower of that tradition may not be able to hit 100% compliance on every occasion. But you may aim to pass with 35-40%.

+