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Jain System of Moral Education: Why to learn?
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Jain system of Moral Education
Ralph Waldo Emerson, a famous educationist of the 19th century had said, “The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.” From ancient times it has been considered that education without a solid base of morals is meaningless. Our present education syst
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Agonies of the Kashmir!
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Mystery of Fourth Varna…Shudra!
Still, however Varna system of Vedic religion remains an enigma to the scholars as even Vedic literatures too gives conflicting explanations to its origin. As we have seen in the last chapter, except of Purushasukta Varna system doesn’t occur...
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What really our needs are?
Dr. Raghuram Rajan, RBI governor, recently tried to warn the global economies of the looming Great Depression. He was and is right in his assessment, though, may be because of the internal pressures he had to clarify that he didn’t mean that....
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Everything is Yoga!
Led by Shri. Narendra Modi, 21st June 2015 was enthusiastically celebrated as first International Yoga Day. There already is craze, created by commercial enterprises to dedicate and celebrate certain days to pay respect to father, mother, lover and...
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Was Saint Tukaram murdered?
Saint Tukaram is most revered saint in Varkari sect (devotees of Lord Vitthala) in Maharashtra. His devotional poetry encompasses the humanity and great affection towards suffering masses. It is believed that he didn’t die, but was flown to...
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Origins of the Vedic Religion and Indus-Ghaggar Civilisation
“Origins of the Vedic Religion and Indus-Ghaggar Civilisation” is my latest book that throws light on the most heatedly fought debate over homeland issue and whether progenitors of the Indus-Ghaggar culture were the Vedic people or other...
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Origin of Seer Agastya!
Probably Agastya is the most enigmatic seer of Rig Veda whose character alone sets him apart from the early Rig Vedic seers. First of all we have no certain etymology of his name. The forced etymology probably developed in later times to explain his...
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Identity Crisis of the Vedics!
People those adhered to Vedic faith in India, before British empire had tightened its final rule, were living a kind of normal life. They did not have to encounter any psychological dilemmas as to who were they. They never needed to find their own...
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Odyssey
Almost everybody on the earth knows about the annihilating Trojan War its purpose. The war continued over a decade without conclusion. In the last it was great Odysseus whose wit came to the rescue of Spartans in the form of Trojan Horse. Not only...
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How Vedic Culture was Introduced to India?
Vedic culture is not the starting point of Indian cultural history as is assumed by the Vedic scholars to shower undeserved praises upon it. It is evidenced from Rig Veda that the Vedic religion did not originate in present day India. Moreover...
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Origin of the Varna system
Social stratification based on the birth is the fundamental element of the caste system. The various Indian and European scholars have attempted to find the origin of the caste system. What are their viewpoints? Invariably most of the scholars...
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Entry of Kanvas in Vedic Tradition!
The predominance of Bharata Tribe was waning when Rig Veda was still being composed by various Rig Vedic seer families, generations after generations. We have no conclusive records available to know exactly when Sudasa clan lost its glory and what...
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Out of Africa?
While discussing on Indo-European migration theories, we had raised a vital question that the very concept that the certain race, language and culture emerged at some place and then spread elsewhere with their migrations, is fundamentally wrong....
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History of Bhrigu clan!
In the last chapter we have discussed over the history of Rig Vedic Bhrigus, once enemy of King Sudasa, later joining the Vedic stream as composers of last part of Rig Veda. Vedic history of Bhrigus however is not complete. We need to reassemble it...
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Origin of the Indian Caste System
Inequality based caste system is an unique feature of Indian society. The assumption of the various scholars, normally, is that the caste system is ancient and always was rigid, immobile and unjust as it is now. The very assumption has to be...
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ATHARVA VEDA AND ATHRAVAN’S OF AVESTA
In Indian tradition Atharva Veda is considered to be fourth and last Veda. The mainstream Vedic cult did not admit this book as Veda in their fold till very late times. Only three Veda’s, i.e. Rig, Sam and Yajur Veda’s were recognized by them...
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Indo-Aryan Migration Theory: A Hoax
Original homeland of the Vedic people has been a matter of great controversy since nineteenth century. Various theories have been vehemently proposed to prove Vedic homeland either being in India or outside of India. First of all what is the special...
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Zoroastrian religion predates Rig Veda?
Expanse of Asura culture in ancient times was astounding. The spread of Asura culture can be traced right from India, Iran like so called Indic language speaking regions to the Semitic language speaking Assyrian empire. The Asura culture shaped in...
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When exactly did the Ghaggar River dry?
Ghaggar River at present in monsoons. Ghaggar-Hakra River has become a center of prime attraction and fascination for many reasons. Over a thousand Indus civilization settlements found on the banks of this river led to the hypothesis that the...
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Rudra & Shiva
Though in the present Hinduism a tradition is to think Rudra and Shiva as one and the same Gods, the fact is otherwise. From religious history of Hinduism, we can easily note that both the Gods are different and each representing the opposite...
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Shrikant Talageri and his dubious Theory!
While “Aryan Invasion Theory” (AIT) is being widely disputed, Mr. Shrikant G. Talageri has proposed “Out of India Theory” to add to the further dispute. Though Talageri, often dubbed as Hindu nationalist scholar, have heavily been criticized...
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Why Smriti Irani is Hell-bent on "Hindutva" in Education?
One must understand what HRD Minister Smriti Irani is proposing is not Hindutva based education but Vedic oriented education! Indians must be aware of this culturally dangerous move!
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Helmand is Saraswati!
Ghaggar at present. We have to understand that why some Indian scholars are hell bent to prove Ghaggar-Hakra being the lost River Saraswati? Saraswati is lavishly praised as being a mighty and deity-like river in Rig Veda. On the banks of this...
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Myth of the lost river Saraswati....
Aryan Invasion Theory v/s Out of India theory is a controversial issue that has been fiercely discussed among Indologists. Both the theories find strong supporters utilizing almost the same data available to them, using it conveniently, thus making...
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What is the oldest…Ramayana or Mahabharata?
It has been thought by the scholars that period of Ramayana precedes the period of Mahabharata. The main reason that has prompted scholars to believe Ramayana being older is that the story of Rama appears in the Mahabharata. Also the argument is...
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Vedic and Indus civilization!
Since the times of Indus civilization era, since last about 5000 years, the religious concepts have remained almost the same till this date in India. Indus people, as evident from the finds, worshiped mother Goddess and also conducted phallic...
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Myth of the Aryans and Their Language!
When we discuss on Proto-Indo-European (PIE) group of languages from which, as per linguists, modern Indo-European languages emerged, let us begin from the word “Arya” to prove falsity of the PIE group of languages. Though Aryan Invasion Theory...
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Vedic Sanskrit tradition: A False Story!
Sanskrit, I have proved with ample of the proofs that the language didn’t exist prior to first century Ad, how it could be claimed by the linguists being mother of all languages? What proof they had? Only a myth of Rig Veda that is believed to have been preserved by oral tradition? Did anyone try...
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Myth of Lord Vishnu!
It’s fascinating to see how a minor Vedic God like Vishnu was elevated to a supreme God Lord Vishnu! A mere companion of Indra in Rig Veda, Vishnu was adorned with entirely new character to make him a preserver of the universe who incarnates from...
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About the truth…an inquiry!
We speak about the truth, we expect the truth and we revere the truth as a highest principle of the human life. “Only Truth Shall win!” is an authentic slogan of Indian Republic. Most of the philosophies are centered on the principle of the...
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So ungrateful are the Indians!
There are many Indians those are still ungrateful to Mahatma. RSS being one of them, there are former untouchables too those love to abuse Mahatma with every breath. They have self invented justifications why Mahatma had to be assassinated. They...
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Buddhism and Dr. Ambedkar
In an introduction to his scholarly written book, “The Buddha and His Dhamma”, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar had raised interesting questions on the fundamental tenets of Buddhism and had left them for probing to the coming generations. However it didn't...
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Hindu Religion: A bitter truth!
The present Hinduism is a kind of association of two different alien religions. Deliberate attempts to hide this fact, for the social benefits, by the Vedic priestly class have created many socio-cultural problems promoting ongoing conflict within...
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Capitalist Traits in Human Being!
Just imagine of the time when our forefathers were hunter and food-gatherers, roaming on the earth in bands in search of the game and food. The social order of the tribes of ancient times must have been far less complicated and too simple than of...
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Slaves of the society!
Every person is a product of his society. A person living without any society is almost impossible to find. We can see from birth, child starts getting various instructions on “How to?” from parents. Of course there are many innate things those...
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Transition of Sindhui to Rig Vedic Sanskrit!
We have discussed in earlier parts about original language of Rig Veda being Sindhui, ancient Prakrit form of the presently spoken language of Sindh region. In this article let us examine how Sindhi Language of Rig Veda was transformed to the Vedic...
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Islam and terrorism!
Islam is one of the major Monotheist religion in the world, originally having its roots in Judaism. Islam in modern world has become a subject of aggressive criticism for its involvement in various kinds of terrorism. Surprisingly, the main...
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Ramayana: A story behind story!
Mystery of Lord Rama! Rama is hero of ancient epic Ramayana and is worshipped by the masses as seventh incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Valmiki is credited with authorship of Ramayana. The Ramayana suggests Valmiki being contemporary of Rama. Seeta,...
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Lord Krishna: Was he real?
Can one imagine the famous epic "Mahabharata" without Krishna? In fact he is the central character of the great epic. He has played the vital role from beginning to end in the great war. He had been chief counsel of Pandava's. Without his strategic...
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Sustainable life:Sustainable economy
Human mind is always in a quest to attain more and more. Unquenchable thirst for materialistic prosperity and happiness has started showing its evil effects on human society since the wake of industrialization and now in globalization era. What...
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It’s all about fear dear!
Every person is born with the essential component that is called fear! Fear plays important role in shaping human psychology. Many psychological problems are an outcome of innate fear for something or other. Most of human actions are directed...
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Who corrupted Hindu religion? Why?
When some group of the people does not have any history to boast of, they tend to corrupt the history to get credits of the great events of the past as soon they get the opportunity in course of the time. We find such instances in Nationalist...
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Indus civilization: Scholarly blunders!
In the Nineteenth and beginning of twentieth century scholars were too hyped by the Aryan Invasion Theory and kept themselves busy in constructing cultural and linguistic history of Europe and Indian subcontinent based on the hypothesis of...
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Religion of the Indus culture
Religion of the Indus culture was Shaivait. It had non-Vedic roots and is still widely practiced in India. Still some Vedic scholars want to credit the Indus-Ghaggar civilization to Vedic people, a blunder!
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Where is the History?
Our tragedy is mostly we want to live in the history, breath the history and think of future of the history. We are obsessed about our roots. We want to create great things, using our imaginations, about the roots. We think we are direct ancestors...
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On writing Novels!
Being novelist, most of my novels written in Marathi language, my mother tongue, fairly successful they have been with multiple editions, I am often asked by the readers what is my writing process. I had replied at length to my Marathi readers, but...
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Was the caste a reason to kill Mahatma Gandhi?
Why Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated? Let us look at the true reasons that led fanatics to shoot in the chest of Mahatma!
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Why Indian History needs re-examination?
History needs re-examination when History seeds communal hatred, may be unknowingly. Accusing a society for all the evil rest of the communities are suffering from, that too based on the false accounts, is not at all that India should be led to. History should be looked upon through new and...
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One Nation Theory for better tomorrow!
Since primordial times till date mankind has gone through various transformations with the growing knowledge, intellect, inventions and thus changing political systems to suite the demand of the time. From nomadic Tribal social order to City-States,...
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Origin of the languages...
Language is an innate need of human being. Language not only helps communication but enables one to express infinite feelings those emerges in the mind. The image of the objects, whether real, surreal or imaginary, keeps creating certain sounds to...
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Was Duryodhana a villain?
The history is always written in the favor of winning side. Those who are acquainted with India’s great epic Mahabharata, surely knows that the Pandava’s were ill-treated by Kaurava’s and that though Pandava’s were virtuous, evil spirited...
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Ancient ideas on creation of the universe
Some or other time in the life we confront a fundamental question that how and why the universe was created? Was there any creator who fashioned this universe out of his whims or did he have any definite purpose? Or was the universe as it is since...