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Vedic Dhyana: Indra
Why did Indra diminish in importance in post-Vedic India? It is one of the mysteries of the evolution of the Indic civilization
I offer my hypothesis here. Indra’s decline in importance in post-Vedic India may partly reflect a shift in the Indic approach to spirituality. We moved away from a spirituality concerned with illumination and enlargement of mind towards traditions that emphasized transcendence of mind. Sri Aurobindo did not accept mind as an enemy, nor as destination. According to him the mind has to be transformed and used as an instrument
Indra may have fallen because he succeeded. Vedic India said break the enclosure of ordinary consciousness. Later spirituality tried to break the enclosure of Indra himself and bypass him at times. This is only a theory. Feel free to disagree
https://x.com/AmazingVedas/status/2090621516492788036
What if the meaning we give our experiences shapes our consciousness? @PariksithSingh explores Semantic Positive Feedback Loops through Vedic wisdom—language, intention, & thought as pathways to clarity, purpose, and growth. @MakrandParanspe @AmazingVedas youtu.be/xuq5crfsqXE?si…
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What does the night reveal that daylight hides? Discover Ratri, the Vedic Goddess of Night—guardian of stillness, reflection and renewal—and the deeper wisdom of darkness with @PariksithSingh @MakrandParanspe @AmazingVedas youtu.be/fPN4zKtxXoE?si…
https://x.com/sriaurobindochr/status/2090545659434955042
Aditi: the Infinite Mother. Boundless, free, and the source of divine order. Explore the Vedic mystery of Aditi—and what her infinite nature reveals about consciousness, creation, and existence. @PariksithSingh @MakrandParanspe @AmazingVedas youtu.be/DfO3ggEuEnI?si…
https://x.com/sriaurobindochr/status/2089821386667630805
Professor Murali Shivaranakrishnan receiving Sri Aurobindo Puraskar on 15th August 2026 from the Governor of West Bengal in Kolkata. I missed the program because I was in Auroville. Congratulations to Murali, who is also an environmentalist.
Two pioneering books by Dr Sarani will formally be released by Prof. Swapan Datta , ex-Vice-Chancellor, Visva-Bharati, from Oxford Book Store, Kol, on 25 Aug at 5 PM. Prof. Siddhartha Biswas(CU), Prof. Indrani Sanyal n Professor Aparajita Mukherjee (JU) will grace d occasion.
Sarvodaya—the classic Indian idea of universal welfare—reimagines global environmental politics through a sociopolitical-legal nexus of justice & normativity. This article traces how this moral norm spread via India’s environmental movements and gained legal force through ESCR in the ICESCR. Situated in constructivism, norms research & critical legal studies.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #Sarvodaya #EnvironmentalJustice #HumanRights #ICE SCR
https://x.com/ASR_Metta/status/2090652559023169613
"Affect theory has become, Downing says, the dominant episteme of our time, which is not to the collective good." New in review, Laura Kipnis on Lisa Downing's Against Affect: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/laura_kipnis_r…
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Asko Parpola, Professor Emeritus of Indology at the University of Helsinki, is the leading scholar of the ancient Indus script. He came to it as a Sanskritist — his doctorate was on the Sāmaveda, and he has spent a lifetime editing Vedic ritual text. In the mid-1960s he turned...
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Hatred Towards the Mughals Is a Colonial Construct
As India celebrates 80 years of Independence, we must ask whether we are celebrating an India that values diversity, or one that selectively rejects parts of it. Lubna Irfan writes
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One century. Ten organizations. The same destination reached from different directions – through culture, education, finance, regulation, and the formation of the people who would run everything.
And on the other side? Nothing comparable. No institution with a long term mandate. No formation pipeline for the next generation of civilizational builders. No coordinated funding of the alternative. No Davos for those who believe in Western civilization rather than its managed dissolution. We need a Council of Western Civilization.
https://x.com/Kristof_Poland/status/2090143270093373932
1. Klaus Schwab founded the World Economic Forum in 1971 – a German professor who decided that the solution to the world’s problems was to get the people who ran the world’s largest corporations into a room with the people who ran the world’s governments, and have them agree on things before anyone elected them to agree on things. If you control the conversation before the democratic process begins, you control the outcome without being subject to it. Davos is where the agenda is set. Everything after is implementation.
https://x.com/Kristof_Poland/status/2090436888276385892
The cultural layer is the most insidious. The network funds literary prizes that go to authors advancing the agenda. They fund film festivals, journalism awards, university chairs. None of this requires explicit editorial control. You don’t tell the prize committee who to select. You fund the prize committee. Over time the selection reflects the values of the funder.
5. In America, Soros-backed political groups have funded progressive prosecutors and district-attorney campaigns. The money is visible in campaign-finance records; the resulting policies are visible in the cities where they were implemented.
https://x.com/Kristof_Poland/status/2090554004023738706
1. You can, certainly, be unhappy. That is real, and it is the natural mechanism whose entire job is to drive you into action. We are organisms wired by evolution with a long list of needs, and with the mechanisms built in to satisfy them – that is how we function. Otherwise, we would not exist at all…
2. Leave one of the deep needs of our nature unmet, and it will chafe at you without rest – that is the whole point of the mechanism, that is how we are built. That is unhappiness: a state we want to escape, by satisfying whatever chafes hardest. Satisfy one, and another always rises to take its place...
5. But above all, there is life – which means action. And what drives that action is wanting something: a need the organism signals through some kind of chafing, a form of pain – which, when it’s your whole life situation doing the chafing, we call unhappiness…
https://x.com/i/status/2076272047286575548
https://feelphilosophy.blogspot.com/2026/08/there-is-no-such-thing-as-happiness.html
The Architecture of the Self
Chapter 5 (The Digestive Tract) probes the layered nature of human consciousness. Blood, Dr. Anand reminds us, is not merely a biological liquid; it is a repository of ancestral memories, reflexes, and cosmic continuity. Within our minds, a destructive division exists between the upper, formal layer (the social self that play-acts, fakes emotions, and satisfies societal norms) and the underpass (the real self that inwardly protests against these fabrications). The “Digestive Tract” is that deep, internal sanctuary where formal pretense and personal truth meet in raw nakedness. Here, before leaving the world, man sits in judgment of his own lifework, incinerating hypocrisy in ordealic fires and passing the ashes into the Ganges of consciousness. Unlike nature, which possesses serene, unpartitioned wisdom, man’s divided self generates internal turmoil and external destruction.
https://sindhcourier.com/conversing-across-the-threshold-of-eternity/
https://feelphilosophy.blogspot.com/2026/08/world-union-day.html
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The term “imposter phenomenon” was coined in 1978 by psychologists Pauline Rose Clance and Suzanne Imes, who studied 150 high-achieving women in the United States. Each had been formally recognised for her professional and academic success. And yet, despite the external validation, nearly all struggled to internalise their accomplishments, attributing their achievements to luck, timing, or the inability of others to see through them. What Clance and Imes identified was not simply low self-esteem. It was something more specific: a persistent disconnect between objective achievement and subjective self-perception. Success, no matter how documented, failed to silence the internal voice insisting it was undeserved. Decades later, this phenomenon remains stubbornly persistent, and its roots, research suggests, run earlier and deeper than the workplace.
... a person’s value can never be reduced to their achievements, productivity, or moments of failure. The way we perceive ourselves should not fluctuate entirely according to success or inadequacy, because human worth exists independently from performance. In many ways, the very existence of doubt can also reflect awareness. The more we grow, learn, and understand ourselves, the more questions naturally emerge. Perhaps insecurity is not always a sign of weakness, but sometimes the consequence of complexity, sensitivity, and intelligence itself. What truly matters is ensuring that these doubts do not turn into self-destruction, but instead become the starting point for building a stronger and more conscious sense of self-worth.
And while research often highlights differences in the way confidence manifests across genders, these reflections ultimately speak to something deeply human and universal. People are inherently different from one another, in personality, experience, emotion, and perception, and it is precisely this diversity that gives richness both to human relationships and to collective environments. The goal, then, is not uniformity, but the creation of spaces where vulnerability does not diminish value, and where uncertainty can coexist with growth. Perhaps true confidence is not the absence of fragility, but the ability to carry it without allowing it to define our worth.
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