Viṣṇuvṛddha | विष्णुवृद्ध

Curious about everything quintessentially Bhāratīya :)

[Viṣṇuvṛddha | विष्णुवृद्ध @jignasu_in]

ತಾಳುವಿಕೆಗಿಂತ ತಾಪವು ಇಲ್ಲ 🙏🏽

[Bastien Fachan @BastienFachan]

18 years ago today:

Rafael Nadal defeats Roger Federer in the greatest, most cinematic tennis match of all time

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just put a price tag on obedience. It costs $200,000.

Musk: “You don’t need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free.”

Every lecture. Every textbook. Every framework ever written. Free on any screen in any country right now. The entire knowledge monopoly collapsed in a decade. Nobody updated the price tag.

Musk: “Colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores. But they’re not for learning.”

Strip the ivy and the branding. What’s underneath is a four-year obedience trial. Can this person follow instructions on a schedule without asking why.

Musk: “There is a value that colleges have, which is seeing whether somebody can work hard at something, including a bunch of annoying homework assignments, and still do their homework assignments.”

That is the entire six-figure value proposition. Not what you know. Not what you can build. Whether you can be managed. The establishment doesn’t need you educated. It needs you domesticated.

Musk: “If you’re trying to do something exceptional, you must have evidence of exceptional ability. I don’t consider going to college evidence of exceptional ability.”

The system doesn’t produce exceptional. It produces manageable. It takes the most creative years of your life and teaches you to wait for instructions. That is not education. That is containment.

Musk: “Gates is a pretty smart guy, he dropped out. Jobs is pretty smart, he dropped out. Larry Ellison, smart guy, he dropped out.”

They didn’t leave because they couldn’t keep up. They left because the ceiling was underground.

8 billion people now carry the same library in their pocket. The one these institutions charged a lifetime of debt to access.

The only product the university still sells is the belief that you need one.

[Viṣṇuvṛddha | विष्णुवृद्ध @jignasu_in]

Solid piece that is rightly getting the attention it deserves.

Do read!

[The Long Memory @TheLongMemory]

The same dynasty that built the architectural wonders of Belur and Halebidu couldn't save its last king from a tragic fate.

Read this essay by our chief Editor, Pushkar Chaudhary on the fall of Hoysalas and how they stilll survives in our long memory.

[Viṣṇuvṛddha | विष्णुवृद्ध @jignasu_in]

@cvkrishnan @tirumuru_87 Case with every govt office! As someone who has to deal with the govt frequently, we've found it easier to deal with poorly developed neighbouring countries than with the govts in India!

Dealing with systemic mess, hubris and incompetence is more frustrating than corruption!

[Mouna @kw841]

Many Purohitas don't beleive in shastras today they are just working as tape recorders.

marriages b/w beep eaters & dwija varna happening with full scale ritual is deployed. Just previous they consume beep next day Indra/varuna/agni is invoked while it's still in tummy.

[Viṣṇuvṛddha | विष्णुवृद्ध @jignasu_in]

Self loathing wannabe is perfect CEO material for a demonic American corporation.

Striking parallels to Indian Babus who served the British crown & benefited at the expense of Indians. Their purpose - being the face of admin as they leech off Indian resources for their masters.

[Nityānanda Miśra (मिश्रोपाख्यो नित्यानन्दः) @MisraNityanand]

WhatsApp CEO Kunal Shah recently claimed that there is no word for efficiency and productivity in any Indian language because Indians do not value time as much. Is the claim true? Watch the video to find out.

[Viṣṇuvṛddha | विष्णुवृद्ध @jignasu_in]

@bhatnaturally Held off upgrading to M5 a month ago thinking my M1 is good enough for another year! 😅

[Viṣṇuvṛddha | विष्णुवृद्ध @jignasu_in]

A good observation!

[Frontier Indica @frontierindica]

A lot of what gets called introversion now is not a fixed personality, it is deconditioning. Social ease is a skill that decays without use, and an entire generation stopped doing the reps as technology and economic growth made it increasingly unnecessary to go out and talk to family, friends or even strangers.

Think about how many small social negotiations an ordinary day used to contain, even just 20 years ago when smartphones weren't around. You haggled at the market, asked a stranger for directions, asked your neighbour for spare sugar/oil etc , talked your way through a queue, sat in a crowded place where you couldn't control who spoke to you.

Every one of those was a low stakes encounter but with at least some perceptible level of friction and ambiguity, and low stakes friction is exactly the sort of thing which builds tolerance for the high stakes kind of stress normal social situations demand.

Now the market has become an app, directions are a blue line on Google Maps, the shop is a search bar on Amazon, the queue is a token on your phone, and the crowded place has become a room with a door you can use to shut out the world. The average person under thirty in an Indian city runs a fraction of the daily social reps their parents did, then concludes from the resulting discomfort that they are simply wired to avoid people.

[Viṣṇuvṛddha | विष्णुवृद्ध @jignasu_in]

@JanhaviNilekani @hvg108 Yes! Full support. Its a very important topic that decides our future and I am glad someone of your calibre is on it. You should not be affected by the jibes and continue the good work! :)

[Viṣṇuvṛddha | विष्णुवृद्ध @jignasu_in]

Great to see someone in India talking sense on both fertility rates and C-section epidemic!

Its unfortunate she had to endure crass, ill informed jibes for making simple common sense points based on data.

Looking forward to more literature on both topics Shri @JanhaviNilekani

[Janhavi Nilekani @JanhaviNilekani]

Yup. I speak about the c-section epidemic a lot! The most detail was in my podcasts with @amitvarma and @srajagopalan

[Viṣṇuvṛddha | विष्णुवृद्ध @jignasu_in]

@DineshDrushya In the south - KabbaLadurga.
In the north - MakaLidurga.

Plenty of other options but wouldn't recommend for a group of only girls.

[Viṣṇuvṛddha | विष्णुवृद्ध @jignasu_in]

@matkashbakihai @Goutham29R This is a position of Islam. That there can be no idols/symbols of God since he cannot be limited to form. You are doing the same linguistically, by saying he cannot be limited by adjectives.

Vishnu Sahasranama is full of objectives. Your position is ashāstriya by all metrics!

[Viṣṇuvṛddha | विष्णुवृद्ध @jignasu_in]

@Aprameyah_ I don't know if he is taking a Mādhva position. Mādhvas absolutely recognise Gurutva in paramātma. He is the jñāna prada, acknowledged by Madhvāchārya in many of his mangaLācharaNas.

The Vishnu Sahasranama calls him 'Guru' multiple times.

Poor take not in line with Madhva POV!

[Viṣṇuvṛddha | विष्णुवृद्ध @jignasu_in]

@bhatnaturally Yes! Ideal time for Arattai to come into the market as an alternative to a bloated WhatsApp.

[Viṣṇuvṛddha | विष्णुवृद्ध @jignasu_in]

@kw841 That is because its more transactional with Church, they can see returns both short and long term. Converting gives education + free meals at Christian edu institutions to their children. No hefty upfront donation like other pvt schools, all that vasooli is done from H students.

[Viṣṇuvṛddha | विष्णुवृद्ध @jignasu_in]

Abhaya is a result of samyak jñāna of who we are & why we are here.

Solid philosophical grounding through Shāstra adhyayana during the growing up years is absolutely non-negotiable going ahead.

Unlike what people think, the importance of ancient knowledge only grows with time!

[Sandhya Ravishankar @sandhyaravishan]

Might be an unpopular opinion. But we really need to raise children to be resilient and not crumble in the face of adversity or setbacks. Coddling them is not going to help.

[Viṣṇuvṛddha | विष्णुवृद्ध @jignasu_in]

@ThinkersPad Stupas found in petroglyphs across Indus Valley in Ladakh clearly show it predated Buddhism by many a millennia.

[Viṣṇuvṛddha | विष्णुवृद्ध @jignasu_in]

@wisssppp Howdu!

The problem is that 99% of these people will reject Rāyaru if they read his works and his takes on anushThāna, āchara, VarNa āshrama dharma etc.

I console myself thinking that its better that they come to Rāyaru instead of frauds like Ba ba saayi!

[Viṣṇuvṛddha | विष्णुवृद्ध @jignasu_in]

The last time I visited Mantrālaya, I decided the next time I feel like going, I will open Gīta Vivruti and read.

This crass commercialisation is an unfortunate consequence of highlighting his pavaadas without passing on the jñāna bhandāra he has given us.

May that change soon!

[Abhiಜ್ಞಾ @wisssppp]

Is there anything around Rayaru and Mantralaya that hasn't been commercialized?
Too much business has crept into what should be a purely spiritual experience.

[Viṣṇuvṛddha | विष्णुवृद्ध @jignasu_in]

Same can be said about the decline in our scholastic tradition.

ಭಿನ್ನಾಭಿಪ್ರಾಯ ಮನಸ್ತಾಪಕ್ಕೆ ಕಾರಣವಾಯಿತು!

Difference of opinion ending up in enmity has created a vaccum in an important medium of passing traditional knowledge - Vāda - constructive debate in search of truth/ideal.

[Shivakumar GV INDICA @SaamaanyaJ]

What makes a movement successful?

Two critical parameters.
- Generating discourse of diverse ideas, differences of opinion, and constructive conflict
- Collaborating together even in the midst of such high powered discourse

Kannada author Shrinivasa Havanoor wrote a beautiful essay on this. He compared the higher order success achieved by the stalwarts of Old Mysore State over the Northern Karnataka.

Havanoor attributed the relative success of the former to their ability to actively and productively collaborate in the midst of enormous differences. That ability to retain mutual respect and seek mutual presence in the midst of pulling conflicts.

Havanoor was lamenting his own region's propensity to pick a fight over nothing as a reason for lesser outcomes. He gave some rock solid examples to make his point.

He did not attribute this to British colonialism, neither to the absence of a King like 4th Krishnarajendra Wodeyar. He straight placed it at the feet of cultural leaders on the ground. He was in particular referring to thinkers and writers as they had a huge influence over the rest in that period. His hypothesis was also about their net impact on the society.

That people like Havanoor could view the stalwarts with such an emotional distance and dispassion is the reason why a culture retains its ability to continuously redraw its course. He placed his own personal heroes under the microscope and performed a harmless dissection only to extract an insight. Not to vilify.

That was Indian Knowledge Systems (#IKS) without saying so in as many words. True embodiment.