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In my eyes Swami Shivananda is the most tragic figure regarding commercialized Yoga and other gimmickry in the West, a Yoga that is reduced to physical exercises only.

Swami Shivananda...

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This is just a rhetorical question … if you know the Bhagavad Gita by Raphael, why are you looking for another one? Esp. Swami Shivananda has become a Guru for the masses he is...

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Since you are from beautiful Italy I recommend the Italian Bhagavad Gita by Raphael. He definitely is non-sectarian, he is an Advaitin, living as a hermit near Rome. Raphael is a...

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On the worldly level, my opinion is she is a woman.

I didn't know about this party internal quarrel, just came across it through an article and immediately thought of the...

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We have a party whose preamble defines that the genders in parliament are to be distributed fairly. Now they have the following challenge:

A party member was born as a man, felt...

Thanks for the interesting link Vijaya.

I kept searching and found five (marked red) of the eight - Nr. 21 in this link...

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Chapter 27, verse 28 mentions eight associates of whom I have never heard and cannot find an explanation anywhere.

[He also honors] Garuda, Nanda, Sunanda, Pracanda and Canda, Mahâbala,...

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I am sure, everyone in this forum knows, that the Trimurti is One, but
how would Bhakti poetry have been possible without the separation of the three?
How could Arjuna receive a weapon...

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You made me curious about the Kolaru Pathigam. I found two translations, none contains the sentence quoted by Viraja. That both Shiva and Vishnu devotees place their God above...

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You weren't wrong at all! You were sensitive, sensing that the term Demi-God is a questionable style.

Regarding Sivaya Subramuniyaswami: I read four of his books. Loving Ganesha...

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With the links I wanted to show two translations without the term Demigod, since it is NOT used in the original texts. Demigod is an ideology driven translation to downgrade other Gods and...

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There is an ideology free translation of the Bhagavatam on archive.org. The translator uses Demigod for Guhyakas, Yakshas, Apsaras, Gandharvas, Vidyadharas … but not for Shiva, Brahma,...

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What’s wrong with the US government? I thought Donald Trump was the problem. Does Joe Biden not fulfill the expectations? Vice president is Kamala Harris, her mother is of Indian origin....

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You write
I'm just an instrument within that process. I do what I'm supposed to do.

I agree with you 100 %!

But why do you exclude that Bill Gates (or any other image of...

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These are your words Viraja:
Acharyas, even if they had profound exposure to god/godliness and had direct revelations, they are still bound to personal bias on certain fronts, pertaining...

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My post was not a criticism of ISKCON/Gaudiya, Viraja, but an illustration that the word Demigod does not appear in the original. Vyasa did not use this term when composing the...

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I am also bothered by the term Demigod, which cannot come from the mouth of a spiritually high developed person. ISKCON/Gaudiya have their unique style of speaking and writing, Demigod is...

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No Indian has to justify the wrongly so called caste system. The term caste was brought by the Portugueses to India, it derives from their word casta.

The source of varna is Purusha...

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In Judaism it's like in Hinduism. One cannot convert. As you need a Gotra to be a Hindu, you need a Jewish mother to be a Jew. Converts are accepted, but they will never be a Jew. Thus...

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This is an interview with an ex-Christian Hindu lady.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNdgGttyvyA

Interesting are the differences mentioned from minute 7.35 to 9.30

A Hindu...

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Vishnu to Shiva in Madhva’s Mahabharata Tatparya Nirnaya, Chapter 22, Verses 158 – 160

“O Shiva, the powerful one! I shall create scriptures that will cause illusion to those who are...

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Continuation

Although meanwhile everyone knows

The President of the EU Council (Charles Michel (m)) ranks ahead of the President of the Commission (Ursula von der Leyen (f))....

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Reading Madhva's Mahabharata Tatparya Nirnaya I am deeply impressed how he interprets the scriptures, how he shows entanglements and why they have to be, to make the cosmic will come...

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Just to hold you up to date - the scandal is still going on, becoming a burlesque and showing so clearly the condition of the EU. Meanwhile Sofagate is even to be found on wikipedia....

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Turkish President banished a women to the sofa.

https://www.politico.eu/article/sofagate-ursula-von-der-leyen-turkey-sofa-charles-michel-recep-tayyip-erdogan/
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As Believer said: As with many other things, Christians translated our words into English and the Indian 'inteligensia/intellectuals' - meaning those who are not necessarily intelligent...

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I found something new to me about the Puranas in connection with a work of Madhva. I am posting it here to point out the depth of the scriptures and that anyone who is not a member of...

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Dr. Tapesh Mathur is credited with making the ‘Krishna Limb’, India’s first prosthetic limb for animals.

http://www.pashudhanpraharee.com/dr-tapesh-mathur-the-legend-vet-of-india/
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I ponder about the term sectarian.

Asking google about ‚sect‘

A group of people with somewhat different religious beliefs (typically regarded as heretical) from those of a larger...

Namaste SanatanDharmYogi

You mix a lot together … I read it with interest and try the attempt to untangle it a little according to my knowledge. Be aware that the Indian scriptures are so vast and...

Dear Viraja,

When I read Rameshvaram and Kedarnath I immediately thought that this is the flight route of Hanuman to the Himalayas.

Due to the large number of temples in India I think there are...

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It is customary for inappropriate statements made by a person in the spotlight to be relativized by one or more speakers.

Prabhupada's despising words about women cannot be...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJFUuE4zEKc

No, Believer I did not and will never do. In my long experience with so called spiritual groups I had to realize that the Guru is a sensitive matter. The head of the (100 % serious) Kriya Yoga...

Dear Believer

Let me talk about a Guru’s business model that succeeds without borrowing or stealing any knowledge from any scripture. It is an experience from 2010 - I made some similar but this...

Dear Believer

Your post reminds me of Yajnavalkya, he insulted the teacher, Vaishampayana, who demanded Yajnavalkya to return the knowledge he had acquired. Yajnavalkya vomited the Yajur Veda. The...

Dear puffthebest

If you feel well with the bracelet wear it and enjoy it, do not care what others say or think about it. In all cultures people wear a talisman or an amulet to feel protected …...

Namaste BhaktiSevak

God is a Christian term that is far too shallow for the depth of Vedic thoughts, but Indians seem to love it.

You can talk about Brahman nirguna and Brahman saguna, Brahman...

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I would say both and neither nor - Hanuman is neutral. If you are a Shiva devotee you worship Him as His appearance. If you are Vishnu devotee you worship Him because he...

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The verses are specified in the first paragraph.

The terms sun and moon are metaphors. Whoever does not get beyond the sphere of the moon has to make empirical experiences...

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Chandogya Upanishad talks about Panchagnividya in the 5th Prapathaka. It mentions Uttarayana and Dakshinayana in X.1 – 10, similar does Bhagavad Gita in VIII.23 – 28. In the Mahabharata...

Dear Viraja,

the Veda talk about the cosmic hologram as Indrajala - Indra‘s net.

Pranam

The creation of Harikatha

https://www.adibhatlanarayanadas.org/2013/04/the-creation-of-harikatha.html

Dear Viraja,

interesting from which side you take up the topic - from the result. I take it up from the side of the acting person, Indradyumna.

Impatience is one of my character traits. I...

I had already wondered that this post didn’t annoy you, Markandeya 108 dasa. I only overflew the effusion.

I read the ancient scriptures of India and of the Greek scriptures those of the stoics....

Namaste Viraja,

there is nothing to add to your last entry!

I always say ‚we got a brain to use it‘. But the brain is only one thing. With the brain you can grasp the intellectual part, with...

The Thiruvasagam Symphony
https://ganpy.com/2005/07/14/the-thiruvasagam-symphony-2/

Appetizer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxC6gnP8w80

Complete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVG08cJ0FOE...

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Your thoughts, Believer, will match with the thoughts of the 71 million souls who voted for Donald Trump, just the other way round. They will have lots of arguments why he was a great...

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I am about the hybris of mankind on the one hand and the means of influencing the individual on the other. To transplant an organ was a noble idea at its beginning, no doubt.

In the...

Congratulation USA!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydYxocpZ0kM