Harshal Subhash

@NeelamFoT Yes. But this looks scary to the beginners and even intermediaries, so just as Adi Shankara said 'Bhaj Govindam', Ramana Maharshi also stated the path of devotion or surrender which starts with duality first and then transcends it to become the divine truth.

“There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement.” — Ramana Maharshi.

@aravind Even Ramana Maharshi believed in Ajatavada for absolute reality. He also believed in determinism for body-mind actions. The block universe theory states the same determinism. Though we live all our life pretending to have free will but that illusion itself is part of the script.

"Nothing ever happens" was proposed by the Ajivikas of ancient India. And I came to realize it first at a hospital when a life slipped away from the medical team's hands in-spite of best efforts. Yet it didn't slip away, when everyone thought it was over, and the patient went back to normal as if there was nothing wrong at all in the first place. In Ajivika philosophy, Niyati (extreme fatalism) per-determines all events. Anyway, I don't believe it is entirely true.

@aravind Everything is predetermined. It's just a divine play.

How does it matter, Elon? Reality seen by both, an illusion. We live in our own delusion. Born from what grows on earth. Consumed by it in death. Ultimately, the earth wins. So it thinks, until it too ruins. Trump or Khamenei, fight for a lie. Nothing matters after they die.

@ashish_jadhao It's 0.07.

Hopefully, 0.7% comes from postal ballots cast by North Koreans living abroad. 😎

@aravind Does this mean Naam Jap is the way for 'the liberation' as professed by our ancestors from time to time?

Let me try to explain the attached post by Rohan in an easier way to those who may be interested. So, in India, philosophers and linguists have always discussed and debated about sound, words, and meaning. We had this theory called Sphuta (from around Panini times / 2000 years ago) which argued that whole sentences gave rise to instant meanings in our head. For example, "The cow standing there is white in color" instantly creates meaning in our mind of a white cow. Sphuta theory says we do not add the meaning of individual words to make sense. For example, we are not first seeing a random cow, then seeing it standing, then making it white in color as we hear the sentence. Now, this attached post by Rohan is referring to a work by the Vaishanavite saint Ramanuja (1000 years later / ago). Ramanuja argues that words have inherent, timeless meaning. For example, we imagine words to be a social construct. That is, we think a group of people decided to call 'that grass eating animal with four legs of a particular form and giving us milk' as "cow." And then everyone from their community calls it a cow henceforth. But Ramanuja says that's not true. Just like a wood fire gives rise to smoke, which nobody decided (it just occurs naturally), that milk giving animal is just called a "cow" and nobody decided it. He says the word relationship exists naturally without a beginning (at least it only begins with the beginning of your own consciousness). You may think this is ridiculous. But if you take the word cow, it is actually a derivative of word Gau from Sanskrit. And some may say Gau comes from some Indo-European root word Go or something like that. But when did this word originate? Did a group of people sit down and decide that grazing animal is called Go? Ramanuja's theory says, no, none decided. He says the first word (or sound) for that animal we call cow arose in our consciousness by itself and got agreed upon by everyone over time. It doesn't matter it got changed to cow or gau or gai or kho in various languages later. The relationship between the original word and the object always existed. Why is Ramanuja's theory important? This solves for the "divine revelation" of Sanskrit and vedas. Since vedas are supposed to have been heard and not composed by humans, Ramanuja's theory explains how the words / sounds in vedas existed naturally before anyone invented or created them. If you get what I have written above, you will also understand - Why a vedic chant is important to be uttered exactly as heard and passed on for generations - Why it is useless to write down the vedas (as the utterances and complex sounds are impossible to be represented by text) - And why chanting a vedic mantra (like say Gayatri) can "reveal" the meaning of itself and a lot more about the universe to you

Intention matters more than 'identity'.

To change the ground reality, set the narrative first. Applies to everything.

'The Future' is a collective influence of the elites of the 'leading power' of that time. As the power changes so will 'the future'.

Pakistan will backstab Iran and U.S. both.