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@labstamil From D Venkat Rao's book on Sanskrit

Ironically, all 3 words used by this handle - Dravida, Kula, Kaala(n) are Sanskrit 😂😂

How even the 'realist' philosophies of Hindu tradition like Vaisesika have a distinctive ethical core and integral unity. The core element of 'adrsta' (beyond sensory perception). The unseen causal principle often identified with the moral residue of past actions (karma, papa, punya, punarjanma). All of current H debates on varna, dharma shastra, hierarchies etc will be resolved if we understand that the intelligence that asks for proof here and now cannot fathom the wisdom of adrsta. "Unlike the atomism of Democritus, however, Kaṇāda’s theory is not mechanistic but teleological and ethical in structure. The combination and separation of atoms occur not merely through physical contact but also under the influence of adṛṣṭa, an unseen causal principle often identified with the moral residue of past actions (karma). Thus, cosmological order and moral law are unified within a single explanatory framework." thecollector.com/vaisesika-indi…

@jamvasu @vishwavidalaya Awesome sir. Way to go andi🙏🙏

1/ At @vishwavidalaya, Ramtek today. Two sessions with PG & research scholars on a question we in the IKS space must ask more honestly — Why does Indian Knowledge Systems matter today, and where are we falling short? 🧵

@DawnlitBird Brahmins 3% of the total population for thousands of years. 97% of people allowed themselves to be led by rules set by Brahminism. Logical to the core.

"Brahminism" is a term used only by the British colonialists and their successor, the Indian Left.

@jamvasu Absolutely brilliant. Please continue, sir, with more such issues. 🙏🙏

1/ If Īśvara created this world, why is there such staggering inequality? Why are some born to joy, others to suffering? Vyāsa Maharṣi raised it in the Brahmasūtras — and answered it with philosophical precision. A thread on the वैषम्यनैर्घृण्याधिकरणम् 🧵

@darab_farooqui Our intellectuals and political leaders are converting traditions into religions like the colonials did from their understanding of Indian traditions. That is the reason we are seeing the rise of Hindu fundamentalism, an oxymoron in fact.

@darab_farooqui Indian solution to multiculturalism across centuries was traditionalistion of religions that came from alien lands carrying intolerance of the other. Secularism is inherently a violence to Indian culture. It was a solution specific for European Christendom at one point of history

The real problem with this court order is not just one priest’s words. It is much bigger. Many religions, like Judaism, Christianity and Islam teach that theirs is the only true religion. This is not a rare opinion. It is the very heart of their faith. The Bible says Jesus is “the way, the truth, and the life” and no one reaches God except through Him. That belief is what makes the religion what it is. But the Allahabad High Court has now said: “It is wrong for any religion to claim that it is the only true religion.” The court called such a claim “disparaging” to other faiths and refused to protect the priest. Think about what this really means: The court is telling believers: “You can follow your religion… but only if you stop saying out loud what your own scriptures teach.” It is asking them to change the fundamentals of their faith just to live peacefully in India. In simple words: “We will accept your religion only if you first accept that your religion is wrong (or at least keep quiet about it).” This is not fair. The Constitution gives every Indian the right to practise and preach their religion freely. The court’s job is to protect that right and keep peace, not to decide what is “correct” belief and what is “wrong” belief. By saying “claiming only one true religion is wrong,” the court is quietly pushing a Hindu-style idea that all religions are equally true (what people call “all paths are the same”). That idea may be beautiful for some, but it is not part of Christianity or Islam. Forcing it on them is like the court rewriting their religion from the judge’s chair and enforcing polytheism on the people who follow monotheism. Courts should stop crimes that actually hurt people or create riots. They should not tell any religion, “Change your basic teachings or stay silent.” That is not protecting harmony, that is changing the faith itself. In short: You cannot protect someone’s right to follow a religion by first forcing the religion to stop being what it is. That is not justice. That is the state deciding what people are allowed to believe in public.

@garvit_sethii Sick.

The villians in the distorted & bigoted narratives of Indian history are not just Colonial scholars, missionaries, Socialists & Marxists. They include today's historians, museum curators, art-collectors & more. See this for a Rogue's Gallery: youtube.com/watch?v=lr7Bb9…

@carlwheless India's multiculturalism is based on traditions and rituals where one is indifferent to differences. Proselytisation is simply the biggest violence to the social fabric. Hence, Hindu traditions have always accepted any religion but have been extremely wary of conversions.

Serious question for my Indian friends: Is it this particular person, or is there an aversion to Christianity in Indian culture? I am neither advocating nor criticizing. I am genuinely curious. Teach me! 🙂

How German Indoligists distorted and poisoned Hindu history & knowledge - a short deep analysis by @upword_ youtu.be/E0-_qc56nSQ?si…

@MakrandParanspe True. Western Indology is a huge distortion of the Vedas. It has to be rejected and condemned outright without further ado. When the basic metaphysical ideas of consciousness, liberation, and so on are different, a different paradigm can only cause violence in interpretation.

Absolutely. But they have not even cited, let alone engaged with, Sri Aurobindo's astonishingly erudite & pathbreaking interpretation of the Veda. Why this conspiracy of silence? Western Indology is deeply flawed. Worse, it seems to be in no mood to correct itself.

Did Christianity originate from a group of Mahayana Buddhist monks? This oft-repeated hypothesis came to Swami Vivekananda in a dream and he was impressed by it. [1] @JoeAgneya's The Will of the Tathagatha is a superlative book on this theme. This book integrates deep scholarly understanding of the author with his superb investigation to make an unmissable work. The book is so rich that even a university-level course is insufficient to comprehend it fully. The claim is that some Buddhist monks at Alexandria and versed in Greek created the core of Christianity. a. Why was NT written in Greek leaving aside Aramaic (the language of Jesus and his disciples) and Latin (the official language of the Roman empire)? b. The manuscripts of NT borrowed from an unknown source Q that cannot be anything but the Buddhist cannons. c. Each of the significant things of NT has a parallel from the life of the Buddha and the Jataka tales, such as, The Virgin Birth, The Great Star, Wild animals adoring Jesus, Giving life back to sparrows, The Parables of Jesus, Multiplication of Food by Jesus. d. The tales of Jesus and Buddha are identical too: Fasting/ penance => Temptation by the Devil/ Mara => Wandering within kingdom =>Visitation by followers =>Arrival at Galille Lake/ Ganga river => Gathering early disciples => Sermon on a "Mount". e. The complete reversal of the ethics of the Old Testament and the monastic tradition came from Buddhism, brick by brick, drop by drop. Could all these be a coincidence? After reading the book, it would seem that they are as much coincidence as it is possible for a monkey to randomly hit the keys of a typewriter and produce a Shakespearean sonnet as the output! I am too overwhelmed by the book even after reading it twice to even point out any weakness. The book could be purchased at amazon.in/WILL-TATH%C4%8… #BookReview #24 Last time, I discussed Termites: How the Left is Destroying the World through Subversion by Abhijit Joag. References 1. grok.com/share/c2hhcmQt…

The MyIND Book is more than just a compilation of events. It's a treasure trove of events, news, & nuggets of general knowledge you can dig into any time you want. (yes, that's the Tirupati laddoo on the cover!) padhegaindia.in/product/myindb… Thank you, @myindmakers, for the copy!

Medicine , Law , Art, and what not ??? Real adventure spirit. Am glad to know such intensely well rounded and passionate people. There are few people to whom I can say “Your life is my dream”. And @priya_27_ is one of them. Keep rocking 😀😀

@indumathi37 Very nice post. Kausik Gangopadhyay's The Majoritarian Myth deals with some of these issues brilliantly. Data should ideally shut people up, but the definition of a left-liberal would be one who ignores data for making claims.

In light of the hate currently directed at Priyanka Chopra for “not speaking about atrocities against minorities in India,” I’m resharing this investigative essay I wrote a few months ago. A long excerpt below, but this one really is worth the full read. I came with receipts. “Whenever I hear about this mass-scale persecution of religious minorities in India (I even hear claims that there is a genocide of Muslims taking place in India right now), I find myself asking, repeatedly, where is this data actually coming from? Surely, if people are claiming that the world’s second largest population of Muslims is experiencing genocide, there is irrefutable evidence of this. At the same time I know, from having chased or read about other demography-based data about India (e.g., the aforementioned article on atrocities in India), that data collection methods in the region can be very weak, even though the alarming stories wrapped around “the facts” sound confident. As a researcher and educator, I don’t want to jump to conclusions based on what seems plausible. I don’t want to presume these claims are or aren’t true based on stereotypes or narratives, and certainly not based on the media. I simply want to understand what is actually happening and how and why people “know” what they think they know. So I started digging. What began as a regional curiosity quickly evolved into a deeper project: I decided to compare hate crimes by religion in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh versus the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany. This also involved a deeper understanding of how this data was being collected. I was open to all possible discoveries, including finding confirmation of those troubling media claims. What I found, instead, were gaping holes and massive (and questionable) assumptions in how religious hate crimes are defined, tracked, politicized, and narrated.” induv.medium.com/when-rhetoric-…

Modern Computing and Ancient India (Part I): Rules, Interactions, and Declarative Systems In this opening article in a series, @maa_bhaishiiH illustrates how contemporary linguistic theory draws directly from the Pāṇinian tradition of Sanskrit grammar, even for readers with no prior background in either domain. api.omarshehata.me/substack-proxy…