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Culture

Who is Mahalakshmi?

Mahalakshmi represents the Divine Power and Godhead of true prosperity, nay opulence, that comes only when all the conditions for her descent are fulfilled. For even if she appears where there may be squalor of thought or feeling, she will move on swiftly, leaving a nation or region far poorer and desolate than before she manifested.

by Pariksith Singh
Culture

Mahakali

To invoke her and prepare for her descent, rid yourself of all ego and fear, all lethargy and slovenliness of thought and feeling. For though she loves deeply, she is also the mother who brings her errant children back to her fold with one smite. For she hates imperfections, most of all any insincerity in one’s nature that hides the flaws she needs to eliminate. An utter openness to her without any attempt at concealment, even of one’s greatest deficiencies or weaknesses, prepares for her aagaman and establishes her presence firmly within oneself.

by Pariksith Singh
Culture

Who is Mahasarasvati?

Mahasarasvati is perfection in action, at the most granular level.. Maa Sarasvati is here, working out with immeasurable patience, with the surgical precision of a surgeon, with the plier of a mechanic building a satellite, with the brush of a painter creating works of great art, with the pen of a student elaborating what he has learnt with years of labor. Those who love detail and particular attention adore her and emulate the poornta that she sets up in everything she does.

by Pariksith Singh
Culture

Maa Maheshvari

Of all the emanations of the Mother, Maheshvari is the wisest, most patient, grand, noble and august. For she deals with vast scales and tracks of infinite universes. Eons and ages in her vision are a blink of time. And light-years but laggards to her speed of thought. She can see beyond time for she is time. And no space bars her view for she holds it in her compass. And it with her unrelenting patience of eternity the galaxies and supernovae move, and the Milky Way flows, and the Universe evolves. The Sun is barely a point in her sight and the darkness of space and matter her playground.

by Pariksith Singh
History

Sri Krishna Deva Raya or Prithviraj Chauhan – Whom should india follow today?

If you are asked to choose between Krishna Deva Raya and Prithviraj Chauhan as a role model for India, whom would you choose? Both were products of their generations and acted as is the expectation. For one, Dharma is to follow the rule book, for the other Dharma is perseverance and safety of his people. What lessons can they teach us, and what can India learn from the way the both handled the things?

by cbkwgl
Stories

The Mother

And it is not as unique to the Hindus as it might seem to the Western mind. For the maternal principle has existed since the earliest preoccupations of mankind with divinity. Even in Christianity (at least some denominations), the Virgin Mother, who gave birth to the divine child is honored and worshipped. This principle is expressed in various depictions in our archetypes such as the Earth Mother, our nation as Motherland, our own language or alma mater, or the entire Universe as a nurturing and pervading Might.

by Pariksith Singh
Analysis

The Tanishq ad and #LoveJihad

It is a recurring trend in ads and bollywood movies to show Brahmins and baniyas as manipulative cheats (in contrast to muslim imams and guys being the pious fatherly figures), a proper Hindi or Sanskrit speaking guy as a clown (in contrast to the deep profundity of Urdu speaking muslim guys), narrow-minded Hindu guys refusing services from a muslim (in contrast to the open-minded muslims). This ad just continues a trend, and hence the Hindu community has decided to object to these persistently one-sided depictions.

by krishnagarg
Politics

Marxists are Anti-Science-P1

The Marxists once in power at Soviet, had all sorts of problem with Einstein. The ideas and theories of Einstein appeared anti-Marxism to them for non confirmatory to dialectic-materialism (Einstein and Soviet Ideology, p. 18-19). Lenin's "Materialism and empirio-criticism" had become tool to judge science and pass censorship regarding what is "Science". A.K.Timiriazev & A.A.Maksimov Timiriazev were the most influential scientist in the Communist Academy of the Social Sciences. They were most active member of the editorial board of the Marxist theoretical journal, "Under the Banner of Marxism." Timiriazev, found Einstein’s theories falling “far below the norm” and required "strict verification". Lenin goes on to write in "On the Significance of Militant Materialism" that Timiriazev’s article on Einstein made Lenin hopeful that the modern natural scientists will defend and preach against the idealism and skepticism.

by Aabhas