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Namaste ameyAtmA

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...

Namaste

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...

Namaste

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

Namaste

Some days ago I found a video on youtube whose title made me curious, 'When the end is a beginning'. I was surprised when it was about organ transplants. A young man had a motorcycle...

As you know, Viraja, my lessons for daily life come from Mahabharata and the Puranas. Therefore I recommend the story of King Somakanta from Ganesha Purana, it deals with all the three Karmas – in...

Namaste Viraja,

You (and we all) can pray and wish whatever you want, you will get always what karma has foreseen. A prayer precedes what would have happened anyway.

To have the mindset, that...

Namaste Viraja,

you use two terms ‚ajapa japa‘ and ‚prayer‘ in one line of thought.

… in the past I have seriously done some ajapa japa (with some materialistic goals). I can say that towards...

Osho about hate

https://www.osho.com/osho-online-library/osho-talks/alertness-ancient-hate-050c6111-f32?p=cc19106507f6aac37d03ae8ec8649ed6

Namaste and Vanakkam

I read Nalayira Divya Prabhandam and available parts of Tirumurai for the past few years and provide the links where I found the scattered English translations as a starterkit...

Dear amarkaur,

I feel with you too and I wish you the strength not to do it.

It‘s common to put pets down, it’s said it’s done so that they don't have to suffer. This not only justifies...

Namaste Samsarabuda,

the story is from Bhagavatam https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/2/2/

and from Devi Bhagavatam, first book, chapter XIX verses 46 – 59....

How Krishna spends His time at Guruvayur during lockdown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWEflNTl3tI&feature=youtu.be

Namaste Ametyst

All you wrote could have been written by me! I also had this confusion. But it was a confusion because I thought only one path can be the right one, that there is a must for...

https://www.boloji.com/articles/1387/jabali--freethinker-par-excellence

Namaste Soul of Light

If ones karma is good.. and without attaching himself to the action or pleasure if he is enjoying all the worldly pleasures then it is good or bad?

Why should it be bad?...

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How can Hindus fear a punishing God? Why do they forget the law of Karma, the law of cause and effect - action and reaction?
We throw a ball against a wall with great force, it comes back...

Namaste Shantanu

I think the main problem is the transliteration … b and v … always confusing.

atmabat paradaresu, paradabyesu lostrobat; atmabat sarbabhutesu (...) sansthita.
matrvat...

Namaste Kallol

It’s the first time I heared about this … the first thought that came into my mind was Narnarayana.

There are two stories in Sarala Mahabharata about Krishna and Arjuna, the...

Namaste jopmala

Arjuna is a Kshatriya, his dharma is to fight.

Shishupala was Jaya, one of Vishnu’s doorkeepers. Both were cursed and had the choice to have seven births as His bhaktas or three...

Namaste Markadeya 108 dasa

… they are all traced back to rishis whose origins are beyond linear timelines.

Definitely, but we cannot rule out subjective and ideological adjustments over the...

... that the verse you mentioned says “ kali kale nama rupe krishna avatara”. I think this nama does not necessarily mean hare Krishna mahamantra . I reiterate that hare Krishna maha mantra does not...

Namaste rv2789

Feb21, 12.38 you wrote I understood your answer except for the first line.
I explained what I ment with this first line.
Yesterday 03.25 You wrote: I understood your answer....

My focus, rv2789, regarding the Vinata story was on patience only. I wanted to point out, that patience leads to the goal, that you and your friend should be patient with the healing process and...

Namaste rv2789

There is no difference between your vow and that of your friend, so what I have written so far also applies to him. Let's look at it from a worldly perspective.

You both made a...

Sadhguru on Coronavirus Outbreak in China

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP-mCfo4-f8

Namaste rv2789

You wrote … will be considered fulfilment of my vow which i made to God, or not?

You asked a clear question what made me assume, you await a clear answer … yes or no.

I am not...

Namaste Jopmala

According to my knowledge, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu recommended the chanting of the name of Krishna (the mantra you mentioned contains Hari and Krishna - hari haraye namah krishna...

Namaste rv2789

You await a ‚yes‘ or a ‚no‘. That‘s impossible because God is not a trading partner who published terms and conditions. Don't haggle whether He fulfilled your request 100% or less....

From Narada Purana

There are different types of devotion to Vishnu according to the three basic gunas. Sattvika guna is superior, rajasika guna is medium and tamasika guna is inferior. Different...

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I have been thinking about rv2789's situation for a long time. I feel with him (supposing he is male), who took over such a burden.

I wonder, that he always writes about what he...

Namaste rv2789

I wish you to come out of your dilemma. You asked God to cure your father, you saw improvement and fulfilled your vow. What should be wrong if one, out of joy, fulfills a plan in...

Namaste Nataraj Das

I confirm all you wrote, it is exactly what I experienced the last years and I decided more or less for the same solution. I attend whenever there is something interesting for...

Namaste divyanka2111

I also stumbled accross these ‚lesser known facts about‘ websites and had to realize, that they tell stories which are not from the original Epic.

The source is just...

My question referred to Purushottama only, Believer.

I thought when Rama ist Maryada Purushottama, Krishna could be ??? Purushottama.
But seems not to be …

This is for you...

Namaste Believer

Regarding the oddities

They travel with their animals, but do not call it peacock or turkey Yoga.

Pranam

Namaste

Some time ago I came across the advertisement of a Yoga seller, who invited to a seminar called ‚Blindfold Yoga‘. I learned, Blindfold Yoga is an extreme intensive Yoga. And as this is not...

Namaste Believer,

you call Rama 'maryada purushottama' and give me the chance to expand my knowledge.

I know these types of avatar: Purusha, Lila, Guna, Manvantara, Yuga. Furtheron Amsha and...

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Yes, Manthara is the one who made Kaikeyi remember Dasharatha’s two boons he had promised her years ago.

We see, destiny started weaving long before.

Why didn’t Kaikeyi express the...

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There was a curse on Dasharatha. Once he accidentally killed Shravan Kumar, the only son of a couple.
His father cursed Dasharatha to too experience grief due to the loss of a son and...

Namaste Porpoise

Regarding Bhagavatam, herein you will find another Gita – the Uddhava Gita, spoken by Krishna to His friend Uddhava....

Namaste Porpoise

I've also heard it said that this is about the relationship between Atman and Brahman (same v. different), is this correct?
Yes, that‘s what Lokavidu said.

Is there anything...

Namaste ameyAtmA

The verse could be a free interpretation of II.8

The wise man should hold his body steady, with the three upper parts erect, turn his senses, with the help of the mind, toward...