Jayant Kalawar

Life guide, Strategizer, Writer II Advaita Vedanta, Yoga Sutras, Sri Vidya II Systems Thinking. Antifragile Strategies.

[Jayant Kalawar @jayantkalawar]

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oscillating from non-dual to dual and back, over and over...

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"My claim is narrower: the grammar of evaluation already codes Hindu agency as deficient—first the idolater who fails true faith, now the illiberal who fails true progressivism."

[Vishal Ganesan @vjgtweets]

"Hinduism" entered the lexicon of world religions marked by its deficiencies vis-a-vis Protestant Christianity, which represented the evolutionary zenith of religions in the emergent schema of religion. While the religious idiom has faded, the structure of this discourse remains the same, with Progressivism now occupying the place that Protestant Christianity once held. "Hinduphobia" names this underlying epistemic structure:

"By being named a 'religion,' the complex world of Indian spiritual traditions and philosophies was inserted into a schema in which it could only ever appear as deficient. In this sense, what we identify as 'Hinduphobia' was and is not a psychological reaction to an objective study of Indic spiritual traditions; it was inherent in the very conceptual framework that made those traditions intelligible to the West. 'Hinduism' entered global consciousness already marked as a failure, its alleged pathologies serving to confirm the West’s own self-image as spiritually and morally advanced.

Although the specific idiom of Protestant Christianity has faded, the underlying structure has endured. In the secular age, progressivism now occupies the place once held by Protestantism as the measure against which all cultures and political forms are judged. Here, 'Hindutva' or 'Hindu Nationalism' has come to perform the same role that 'the religion of the Hindoo' once did. It stands as the deviant other of progressive theology, the figure through which the liberal anglophone elite, a group that increasingly includes Hindus themselves, reaffirms its moral superiority.

None of this denies that chauvinism or harmful practices exist or that they warrant critique. My claim is narrower: the grammar of evaluation already codes Hindu agency as deficient—first the idolater who fails true faith, now the illiberal who fails true progressivism.

The forms of language have changed, but the hierarchy of evaluation remains intact, and in each case, the conception of the Hindu as the “other” serves a domestic political and ideological function. The category of Hinduphobia therefore names not just prejudice but a deeper epistemic structure that continually reproduces Hindu inferiority, whether in the register of religion or of politics. But by focusing on 'Hinduphobia,' we avoid engagement with these deeper epistemic structures, and reinforce the idea of 'Hinduism' as a “religion” that can be compared to other religions against which it will always fall short."

[keerthik śaśidharan @KS1729]

On the occasion of India's Independence Day, thoughts on a being which appears in my mind as freedom itself ~ a slender river in Tamil Nadu & Kerala called by many names, of which the most popular is Bhāratha-puzha. A river that nourishes body and mind. https://t.co/ZF4U3kGq63

[Bṛhat | बृहत् | Brhat @brhat_in]

Presenting the Aucitya Workshop - Crafting Content with Saundarya and Satya

Digital creators, influencers and artistes are not just entertainers. Crafting content with conscience is a moral responsibility in the age of exponential tech, fleeting trends and problems of plenty.

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@AmitMajmudar ...core disconnect is from time: both inner bio rhythms and outer celestial rhythms. We are then reduced to dis-associated anchorless mental beings.

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@AmitMajmudar We make our information and communications tech and devices to mirror our sensory and mental capacities in a reductive way. And then as we adapt to those technologies and devices we may begin to behave like their de-racinated clones. Core disconnect is...

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@AmitMajmudar Interesting. What role does language and its grammar play? What would it be like to compose in anushtubh chanda in English?

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@AmitMajmudar @KS1729 @vjgtweets There are two living examples of such cultural cross pollinators I am briefly describing today. I have never met them or communicated with them. I do enjoy their musical arts on the internet.

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There are some remarkable examples of how Americans of Indian heritage are navigating the complex map of evolving American identity. The ones I resonate with live through creative expression: the artists. Artists do not see boundaries which make up identities.

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https://t.co/0w0ws8x1Eu

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Or is it the non-duality principle of biology?!

[Vagheesh Narasimhan @vagheesh]

The duality principle in biology: A single human zygote contains all the information you need to develop into an adult human and at the same time contains within it, the evolutionary history of our species.
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@AmitMajmudar @EPButler Its not theory, but practice that drives cognitive shifts. Its not pandits, it is the tapasvins. Its not theories of physics, its the bicycle riders who may not know anything about theory.

[Vishal Ganesan @vjgtweets]

Thanks to @jayantkalawar for the thoughtful reply to my essay!

"I recently read Vishal Ganesan’s Frontier Dharma on Substack and listened to the follow-up discussion on the Brown Pundits podcast. The topic resonated with me—not for my own experience, but because my children are American-born Hindus of Indian origin. Our family often finds itself discussing the very themes Vishal explores.

The central challenge is this: How do American-born Hindus balance assimilation into American culture while holding onto their Indian and Hindu heritage? How do they engage with their heritage selectively, distancing themselves from aspects of contemporary Indian politics and society while still valuing the wisdom and traditions of their roots? And how do they navigate being both distinct and fully American at the same time?:

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[Jayant Kalawar @jayantkalawar]

@KS1729 @vjgtweets In the process of such discovery, one may find some relevant maps for the questions vjgtweets is raising.

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@KS1729 @vjgtweets And now, please apply this to the Sanskritization of all of India and south east Asia. The population and geography of south and south east Asia may be seen to be complex. And how did this Sanskritization process with apparently minimal hegemonic violence?

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@MitoPsychoBio Does this have any implications for multigenerational epigenetic transmissions?

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@8teAPi aka "wisdom of crowds"?

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"The circumstances vary, but there is a single, unifying principle that underlies global Hindu hatred. Hinduism is the universal exception. Hindus, simply by existing, disprove the stories various people tell themselves around the world."

[keerthik śaśidharan @KS1729]

Thought of this sculpture below, and this microfable by O.V.Vijayan, while working on a long essay on + translations of OVV.

(thanks to Ravi DC/Madhu Vijayan for their permisssions)

[Jayant Kalawar @jayantkalawar]

@charliebilello Yes!! through focus on a few intentions, canceling the noise out. Low frequency, high amplitude.