Today, Thursday 27 February 2025 … is Amaavasya day (New Moon day)… a day when I must perform the “pitru tarpanam” rite mandated by Vedic “sastra” in remembrance and obeisance of my parents, grandparents and great grandparents, both paternal and maternal. ***** ***************** ****** These days youngsters in even Tambrahm families and homes demand “rational,Continue reading “Sans “jargon monoxide”, how to explain my personal understanding of “Pitru-Tarpanam” and “Paarvana Shraddham””
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O Ye Young educated Indians … ! Please hold on to your self-respect ! Don’t be called imported “slaves of America”!
“Birthright citizenship was, if you look back when this was passed and made, that was meant for the children of slaves. This was not meant for the whole world to come in and pile into the United States of America. “Everybody coming in, and totally unqualified people with perhaps unqualified children. This wasn’t meant forContinue reading “O Ye Young educated Indians … ! Please hold on to your self-respect ! Don’t be called imported “slaves of America”!”
Devdutt Patnaik ( À la Vairamuthu) unable to discern the Esotericism in Mystic Eroticism – Part- 3.2 (Concluded)
To truly understand Eroticism in Hindu mythology — explained earlier in Part 3.2 above with reference to the Brihadaaranyka Upanishad — one has to got open up one’s mind to the fact that it is the Esotericism of the Vedic motif of Universal Creation that has been woven into the human microsom of Procreation. Therefore,Continue reading “Devdutt Patnaik ( À la Vairamuthu) unable to discern the Esotericism in Mystic Eroticism – Part- 3.2 (Concluded)”
Devdutt Patnaik ( À la Vairamuthu) unable to discern the Esotericism in Mystic Eroticism – Part- 3.1 of 3.2
Finally, signing off on his rather prurient essay titled “The Parrot’s Erotic Secret” published in The Hindu dt. 19 January 2025, Devdutt Pattnaik urges his readers, especially womenfolk, to go and read an obscure and most probably a Jainist literary work in Sanskrit called “shukasaptati”… He wholeheartedly endorses the 70 lewd tales in that ancientContinue reading “Devdutt Patnaik ( À la Vairamuthu) unable to discern the Esotericism in Mystic Eroticism – Part- 3.1 of 3.2”
Devdutt Patnaik ( À la Vairamuthu) unable to discern the Esotericism in Mystic Eroticism – Part-2 of 3
In his article, “The Parrot’s (Andal’s) Erotic Secret”, published in THE HINDU dt. 19 January 2025, Devdutt Pattnaik, in my view, erred on two principal counts. He failed to fully understand what the word Eroticism means. And secondly, he erred in conflating Andal’s religious feelings of Bhakthi towards her beloved deity with feelings of Eroticism.Continue reading “Devdutt Patnaik ( À la Vairamuthu) unable to discern the Esotericism in Mystic Eroticism – Part-2 of 3”
The Chimamanda Ngozi theory and Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman : “The Danger of a Single Story”
Scroll down below ⬇️ to read an interesting commentary written by Manisha Gupta on a speech made by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently at a graduation ceremony of a young women’s university … a speech in which she said that anti-patriarchy theory imported from the West should not be allowed to become a self-imposed impedimentContinue reading “The Chimamanda Ngozi theory and Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman : “The Danger of a Single Story””
Pandava “agnyaatavaasa” in the Mahabharatha: An experiment with truth of the Gandhian kind
A week ago a good friend of mine who is a Parsi but who knows my deep interest in Hindu scriptures, philosophy, history and religion, forwarded to me a very interesting essay written by one Mr.Raghu Ananthanarayan. The title of the article is “The Last year of exile of the Pandav Brothers – An elaboration”.Continue reading “Pandava “agnyaatavaasa” in the Mahabharatha: An experiment with truth of the Gandhian kind”
The IIM Professor of Finance and Vedic “shaanthi paattam”
Being “Prof”… is the title of a lively , humorous blogpost penned on the blogosphere by an academic Professor, Mr. G. Sabarinathan just a few hours ago. It’s a delightful read and I was so inspired to respond to it with my own blogpost which you can read if you scroll right all the wayContinue reading “The IIM Professor of Finance and Vedic “shaanthi paattam””
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Bhagavath Gita 2.7 , “kaarpannya dosham” and Swami Ranganathananda
The above video-clip of a brief excerpted talk by Swami Ranganathananda-ji is an excellent summary of the Upanishad ideal of living conveyed to us in the Swamiji’s inimitable style. Swami ji conveys the important message that adhyatma Vidya —- i.e. the cultivation of the Knowledge of the inner spirit — is also very much aContinue reading “Bhagavath Gita 2.7 , “kaarpannya dosham” and Swami Ranganathananda”