Kashi corridor was the experimental balloon. Few of us protested at the desecration that was being institutionalized on the back of a lopsided view of what constitutes development and strangely "ease of doing business"

1/5 because pilgrimages are also now businesses that need to be exploited for the benefit of the elite and the wealthy. Many people who should have stood up on the principle that development that destroys culture is not really development

2/5

THE STORY OF THE VISHNU SAHASRANAMA - BISHMA'S REFLECTIONS - short excerpt from the prologue of the book:
The stench of death still rose to the high sky and hung there like an angry cloud that blinds the sun and covers the earth in darkness, a stark reminder of the slaughter

++ that had lasted eighteen days and drenched the soil of Kurukshetra with the blood, sweat and fluids of innumerable men, horses, and elephants.

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I am co-authoring a paper for an international conference titled "Governance of Hindu temples – Issues & Frameworks; Ownership versus Trusteeship – A dharmic conundrum."

++ The case being made through this paper is the need and rationale to free temples for government control - EXCERPTS from a section of the preliminary abstract that was approved:

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Everybody uses mobiles. They use them all the time, just constantly. It's a phenomenon of the modern age. Everybody's talk, talk, talking all the time, little black telephones pressed to their faces. Where does all the conversation come from?

++ What happened to all that conversation before mobiles were invented? Was it all bottled up? Burning ulcers in people's guts? Or did it just develop spontaneously because technology made it possible?

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Interesting. @dhume is right in saying that India is not a liberal democracy. But, was it ever? Furthermore, he makes the same errors that others make - this government is far from being Hindu, in fact it's appeasement of minorities thru social entitlements is far higher

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https://twitter.com/dhume/status/1616244255143378944

The impunity with which the temples in Kashi were broken down to build that corridor or the disdain for Dharma gurus speaks of anti-hindu tendencies but what explains the constant harping on Hindu nationalism of the BJP? It's a trope that has been successfully sold & bought

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DHARMIC CRITICAL MASS
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One of things that everyone needs to do is to sit down with the oldest member in the family and have a conversation. We must have the names of 4 generations at a minimum, if that is not possible, 3 on both maternal and paternal side

++ - both the pitru-varga / matru varga on the paternal side and similarly on the maternal side (Father / Grandfather / Great Grandfather / Great-great grandfather / Mother / Grand mother / Great-grandmother / Great-great-grandmother)

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APOTHEOSIS AND PERSONALITY CULTS
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The Greeks had a word for it “apotheosis” – the deification, glorification and raising of an individual to the level of a god or godlike stature.

++ Many of the Greek heroes and several of their kings were accorded this status.

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SRI AUROBINDO’S UTTARPARA SPEECH AND THE DREAM OF A HINDU RASHTRA
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Soon after Sri Aurobindo was released from his one-year incarceration he gave what was at that time and still remains an epochal speech – famous as the Utarrpara speech.

++ In that speech, Sri Aurobindo laid out his plan both the spiritual and the political. The impact of the words he uttered on that day had an extraordinary effect on all those who heard him.

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F#SK YOU MONEY
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This is a phrase I first heard Scott Adams use and then I saw that this was a fairly common phrase that some economists used as well to refer to a particular threshold of money after which it ceases to matter so much.

++ When you don’t have to report to a boss, when you don’t have to depend on someone for your daily needs, when you have income streams that are independent of someone or something, then you can say this.

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While conducting some research for writing a paper on governance of Hindu temples and the need to free them from government control, I chanced upon a paper published by the Archaeological survey of India.

++ This is a paper published in 1984 in Epigraphia India by one KV Subrahmanya Ayyar who seems to have first published it 1931-32 and then submitted to the Epigraphical department of the (then) Madras presidency.

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#mymandalapractice DAY-02 / Jan-02, 2023

If technology is the engine that drives businesses, then economics is that which fuels it. One of the great barriers to career progression in the corporate sector is the lack of economics knowledge.

++ I have seen managers and people in leadership positions who have had their careers derailed because of their economic illiteracy. Of course, there are always those who sail through on luck and/or the gift of the gab but as the old adage goes – Exceptions do not make the rule.
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Have been reading this book (in Tamizh) – Vedamum Panpaadum by Shri Sharma Shastry. The format is in the form of a Q&A. Questions pertain to the shastras and anushtanas and Shri Sharma Shastry answers each one within the framework of the Shastras

++ it is this that makes this book an important guide for all those who consider the Dharma Shastras as Pramana. Come to think of it, there is no other pramana and/or guide for Hindus other than the shastras,

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Listening to Sandeep Balakrishna on Jaipur dialogues on secularism and the issues around it and because of it.
I have a lot of regard for his scholarship and also the work that Dharma dispatch does. ++ However, he goes on and on about how Nehru institutionalised secularism, the Gandhi family has done this, that and so on... ++

SAHASRANAMA OF VISHNU: 478 of 1,000
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Dharmiī {धर्मी}
(1) He who supports Dharma. (2) He who upholds Dharma. (3) He who is the very seat and essence of Dharma. ++ (4) He who supports and upholds Dharma by himself following, practicing and propounding it while also encouraging, exhorting, and supporting those who follow Dharma.(Śaṅkara) ++

@joerogan
has made a fundamental mistake. He was doing very well till this apology... Even Scott Adams was praising his persuasion skills but now he has goofed up - The following fundamental rules are crucial: (Thread) + (1) (1) Never apologize to a mob or a large group of people
(2) Never apologize at a time when the mob is coming after you
(3) Never apologize when you know deep within, that whatever you said or did was NOT WRONG + (2)

SAHASRANAMA OF VISHNU: 398 of 1,000
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MĀRGAḤ {मार्ग:}
(1) He who is the path on which liberation-seeking Yogis (ascetics) travel to attain to the state of immortality. (2) ‘Knowing him‘ is the path to the attainment of “mokṣa”. + (3) He is the ‘path’ – there is no other way of “knowing him” and realizing that Nārāyaṇa except in the depths of one’s own “Self”.(Śaṅkara)+

Unpopular Opinion but needs to be said
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Yesterday's debate between @jsaideepak and Dr. @ShashiTharoor was a singular example of how a civil debate needs to be conducted. (1) That you can disagree, and strongly at that, but still retain civility, decorum and keep options open and be willing to engage. This is how debates need to be looked at. Kudos to both of them. (2)

SAHASRANAMA OF VISHNU: 397 of 1,000
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VIRATAḤ {विरत:} or VIRAJAḤ {विरज:}
(1) He in whom the attachment to sense-pleasures has vanished. (2) All desires have been sublimated in the knowledge of the Self and hence Virataḥ.(Śaṅkara)+ (1)He who is unattached. (2)Bhagavān is Virataḥ because in him all desires have vanished and the spirit of detachment is natural to him.(3)Neither loss of kingdom nor exile to the forest can take away the splendor, equanimity, and equipoise of his personality. Parāsara Battar+

It is a losers argument to say that you start an org. An org that claims all that these people claim should have the intellectual nous to be able to make an informed defense of any criticism & be willing to accept it as well+

https://twitter.com/vinirish/status/1435577481163993094

If your only argument to any criticism is "go start you own argument" then you validate all the criticism that comes your way and particularly the one about a lack of intellectual ability+

SAHASRANAMA OF VISHNU: 396 of 1,000: VIRĀMAḤ
(1) He in whom the Virāma or end of all beings takes place. (2) On attaining him, there is cessation of the travails of Saṃsāra – + the never-ending cycle of birth-death-birth–because in attaining him they have reached their end goal.(Śaṅkara) (1) He, in whose presence everyone becomes powerless. (2) There is none, no Deva who can save that person who Rāma has marked for death/annihilation.(Parāsara Battar)+

SAHASRANAMA OF VISHNU: 395 of 1,000
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RĀMAḤ {राम:}

(1) He who is the eternally blissful one, i.e., he who is always in the state of Saccidānanda. (2) He in whom all Yogis find delight. + (3) The one person all Yogis and Sādhakas contemplate upon and receive the supreme joy of Nityānanda because he is the very epitome of the state of Nityānanda. (4) The word Rāma indicates (and is synonymous with) Brahman. +