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Sanatana Pages: 8/1/13
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Sunday, August 4, 2013. What is 'Jaya' in the Itihasa Mahabharatam? I recently finished reading Amish Tripathi's Shiva Trilogy. He has been of good service to the cause of re-establishing the greatness of Bharat and its culture. We need to be assertive when such immature claims are made. I believe , Amish will not prove another of those cut and paste kind of historical and maythological fiction writers. All my readers will be eager to know what, then, does the word 'Jaya' mean. Read on. This "Jaya" shoul...
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Sanatana Pages: What is 'Jaya' in the Itihasa Mahabharatam ?
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Sunday, August 4, 2013. What is 'Jaya' in the Itihasa Mahabharatam? I recently finished reading Amish Tripathi's Shiva Trilogy. He has been of good service to the cause of re-establishing the greatness of Bharat and its culture. We need to be assertive when such immature claims are made. I believe , Amish will not prove another of those cut and paste kind of historical and maythological fiction writers. All my readers will be eager to know what, then, does the word 'Jaya' mean. Read on. This "Jaya" shoul...
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Sanatana Pages: 3/1/14
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Sunday, March 23, 2014. So, you want to meditate? That was a lesson to me. Meditation or Dhyanam has become a sure catch phrase in today's India. Being Macaulay's programmed children, the whole of India sees value in anything that is endorsed by the white man and Meditation is on top of the list. Does Meditation play a crucial role in a Hindu's everyday life? I immediately rejected Vedathiri and Brahma kumaris for their absurd philosophies and also because their meditation sessions were just eye closing ...
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Sanatana Pages: 9/1/14
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Friday, September 19, 2014. How his "Raghu Vamsa Sudha" changed my life. The Mandolin Samrat Passes Away. The period was the mid 80's. . We owned a panasonic cassette player and some of the earliest cassettes were devotional and movie songs like sankarabharanam which were a smash hit of that period. Here is U Srinivas's rendering of the song on youtube. My joy was immeasurable when I first played Raghuvamsa Sudha in my Veena. Every time I play that, I keep telling that Srinivas's rendering should be ...
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Sanatana Pages: 6/1/10
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Friday, June 11, 2010. Significance of Arghyam in Sandhyavandanam. I have known through many readings that the sandhyAvandanam , though done by the brAhmaNa, is in fact for the welfare of the humanity at large. This kriya, Arghyam, is no different. The sAdhaka's chanting of the gAyatri while holding the water in the palm is a selfless kriya and aimed at the world. The agent to which it is given is Surya (sun). I will try to give the traditional, philosophical as well as scientific background for Arghyam.
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Sanatana Pages: James Hilton's Tyrst with Tibet and Mount Kailash
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Thursday, June 28, 2012. James Hilton's Tyrst with Tibet and Mount Kailash. When I was still in my late teens, I took a coverless, battered book which my sister had studied for her pre university course as a supplementary reader. That book was " Lost Horizon' - a novel by the pre war English writer James Hilton. A strange feeling enveloped me as I went through the book. The initial curiosity gave way to awe and admiration. Then finally they also vanished when I was into the core of the novel. I reread th...
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Sanatana Pages: What Sri Modi should have done in the Linguistic issue ?
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Monday, June 23, 2014. What Sri Modi should have done in the Linguistic issue? Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha , organises Hindi courses in a proper manner and conducts exams here. To top it, almost all the matriculation schools in Tamilnadu has Hindi as an option in their curriculum not to speak of the CBSE pattern public schools where Hindi is normal. What Modiji wanted to achieve in the end? Was it the acceptance of Hindi in Social media? Once, Hindi starts to kindle our interests, side by side it...
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Sanatana Pages: So, you want to meditate ?
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Sunday, March 23, 2014. So, you want to meditate? That was a lesson to me. Meditation or Dhyanam has become a sure catch phrase in today's India. Being Macaulay's programmed children, the whole of India sees value in anything that is endorsed by the white man and Meditation is on top of the list. Does Meditation play a crucial role in a Hindu's everyday life? I immediately rejected Vedathiri and Brahma kumaris for their absurd philosophies and also because their meditation sessions were just eye closing ...
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Sanatana Pages: What Dan Brown did not know
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Monday, June 7, 2010. What Dan Brown did not know. What were the facts left out of the "Da Vinci Code"? Many of you might be aware that the book " Da Vinci Code" is the severest yet indictment of Christianity by a Christian himself. The author Dan Brown has compiled an excellently researched book and 80 million copies. For those who haven't read it, I will recommend reading this book online or download it from this site. Are clear pointers to the practices of that society. From the snow clad Kashmir to t...
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Sanatana Pages: 5/1/10
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Dayananda- A fearless son of a great Tradition. Maharishi Dayananda Saraswati's name evokes a great deal of awe and admiration in me. He is a hero of Modern spiritual Hinduism who achieved much more than Swami Vivekananda but acknowledged much much lesser. What I liked most about him was his understanding of the Vedas which he had learnt from the blind guru Vrajananda. Dayananda differed from the classical understanding that the Samhitas along with Brahmanas and the Aranyakas f...