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Isha Vasyam Idam Sarvam Yat Kincha Jagatyam Jagat. -- Governor of the universe permeates whatever there is, animate or inanimate.

[korgaons @korgaons]

Baseball is optimized for speed and power hitting,

Cricket is optimized for adaptability, endurance, and decision-making under variable condition.

Both have their moments and boredom too!

[korgaons @korgaons]

The cricket vs baseball debate on X has been loud for days.

A lot of the louder takes come from people with almost no exposure to competitive baseball.

Seeing cricket players hit soft tosses and concluding “anyone can do this” is not a real comparison.

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[korgaons @korgaons]

Both baseball and cricket are difficult at the top.

The viral videos are mostly noise.

The real differences are in speeds, delivery rules, and what each game prioritizes.

[Prof. P.A.Varghese @profpaVarghese]

I was born a #Catholic but no more. I found out on my own that Jesus is a myth and the religion mythical. Hinduism has been here for eons and its Advaitha philosophy is appealing even to scientifically minded ppl like me.

[Leon Josh @trueone88]

Portuguese Christian Missionaries erased your identity, your ancestors who were Hindus- their beliefs, culture,values and gave you the new last name D'Souza and you still not getting offended with that !

Christianity was forced unto Indians through violence, torture and forceful Conversions. Ofcourse they don't want you to know true history but here are the facts ;

In India, most idol-breaking atrocities were carried out by Muslims, obviously. But the Christians were not far behind. The most famous desecration by the Portuguese Christians was of the Elephanta caves, which they used for shooting practice on Shiva’s idol, completely oblivious or uncaring to the extreme blasphemy of the act. Taking their cue from Muslims, they also demolished many temples in Mumbai and especially in Goa and built churches over them. According to an estimate, about 1.5 million Hindus were murdered in Goa from 1516 until 1812 in a massacre now dubbed the Goa Inquisition by Christians.

The brutality of which would shame even the barbarian Turks. Conversing in Konkani attracted swift punishment, and Portuguese was made compulsory. Thousands of temples were demolished, and churches were built over them. The houses of Hindus were destroyed if they were found praying to Hindu gods, even in the privacy of their homes. The secret police were commissioned to spy on the natives. Even the infant babies were not spared and were thrown mercilessly into the fire alive. It was abolished in 1812, after which all the documents, buildings and other evidence were destroyed to conceal their crimes.

The Inquisition was spearheaded by a Jesuit missionary, Francis Xavier, a form of Satan, who oversaw all the brutal killings and took an energetic part in them with the active connivance of the Vatican. In a true hypocritical Indian tradition, his relics are stored in a church in Goa, and he is venerated with all the piety even by Hindus, what a joke.
They should get rid of that devil garbage.

Winston Churchill who was baptized in the church of England intentionally caused Bengal Famine which killed about 3 million Indians by transporting food to europe instead of keeping it in India.
It was also discussed in the British house of commons to make India economically poor first by looting and then offer some economic benefit to convert people into Christianity.

All the atrocities done by Christian Missionaries around the world killing, looting, colozing, enslaving and forcefully converting people confirms Christianity is not a peaceful religion but a barbaric violent cult which now has become a Brainwashing cult.

If you still don't wake up and cant see the Truth then probably you have been severely Brainwashed, i guess some people don't have conscious or maybe sub human.

Abandon Christianity false religion and Practice Hinduism, Become Vegetarian and Worship Lord Krishna if you truly wanna be Saved.

[Girish Bharadwaj @Girishbdwj]

Do you know about Jallianwala Bagh of South?
In 1948,Nizam’s police made 200 Hindus stand in a line & sh0t them dead.

Their crime? Refusal to pay Jizya tax.

This happened in Bhairanpally. While Jallianwala Bagh is taught in schools, Bhairanpally massacre is ignored.

[Sanatani Warrior ⚔️🚩 @Maratha_Ren]

If you are a Maharashtrian Marathi person and you admire Shahu, Phule, Ambedkar and Shivaji Maharaj

But not Bajirao, Tilak, Agarkar, Gokhale and Savarkar

Then you are not a Maharashtrian at all but a castiest asshole. And castiest have no place in Maharashtra.

Respect all 🙏

[Ravi Karkara @ravikarkara]

💰 Richest Economy by Century

1000–900 BC → India 🇮🇳
900–800 BC → India 🇮🇳
800–700 BC → India 🇮🇳
700–600 BC → India 🇮🇳

600–500 BC → India 🇮🇳
500–400 BC → India 🇮🇳
400–300 BC → India 🇮🇳
300–200 BC → India 🇮🇳
200–100 BC → India 🇮🇳
100–1 BC → India 🇮🇳

1–100 → India 🇮🇳
100–200 → India 🇮🇳
200–300 → India 🇮🇳
300–400 → India 🇮🇳
400–500 → India 🇮🇳
500–600 → India 🇮🇳
600–700 → India 🇮🇳
700–800 → India 🇮🇳
800–900 → India 🇮🇳
900–1000 → India 🇮🇳

1000–1100 → India 🇮🇳
1100–1200 → India 🇮🇳
1200–1300 → India 🇮🇳
1300–1400 → India 🇮🇳
1400–1500 → India 🇮🇳
1500–1600 → India 🇮🇳
1600–1700 → India 🇮🇳

1700–1800 → China 🇨🇳
1800–1900 → United Kingdom 🇬🇧
1900–2000 → United States 🇺🇸
2000–Present → United States 🇺🇸

🧠 Historical Note

This follows the popular interpretation of Angus Maddison's historical GDP estimates, where India was often the world's largest economy for much of ancient and medieval history, China overtook in the 18th century, Britain led during the Industrial Revolution, and the United States became dominant in the 20th century.

#History #Economy #GDP 💰🌍

[M. Nageswara Rao IPS (Retired) @MNageswarRaoIPS]

The following catechetical questions and answers, excerpted from my forthcoming book Boundaries of Belief: A Hindu Parichaya (Catechism), should clarify your doubts and concerns as to why BAPS falls outside the doctrinal boundaries of Hindutva (Sanātana Dharma).

Q22. What is meant by Bhagavān?

A. The word Bhagavān denotes the Supreme Divine Reality possessing in complete measure the six divine attributes (ṣaḍ-guṇas) that constitute bhaga. The Vishnu Purāṇa (6.5.47/74) describes bhaga as:

aiśvaryasya samagrasya vīryasya yaśasaḥ śriyaḥ;
jñāna-vairāgyayoś caiva ṣaṇṇāṁ bhaga itīṅganā.

“The complete possession of sovereignty, power, glory, prosperity and splendour, knowledge, and renunciation is called bhaga.”

The six divine attributes are:
•Aiśvarya — complete sovereignty and lordship;
•Vīrya — unlimited power and strength;
•Yaśas — supreme glory and renown;
•Śrī — perfect prosperity, splendour, and auspiciousness;
•Jñāna — complete knowledge;
•Vairāgya — perfect detachment and freedom from dependence.

Taken together, these six attributes establish that Bhagavān is not a generic title for an exalted human being. It denotes the Supreme Divine Reality possessing divine sovereignty, power, glory, splendour, knowledge, and renunciation in their complete measure.

The finite jīva, however spiritually advanced, does not thereby become Bhagavān. Human learning, virtue, spiritual attainment, miraculous abilities, fame, or power cannot by themselves confer that status.

Reverence for an exalted person is therefore distinct from elevating that person as Bhagavān. Where śāstra recognises an avatāra, however, the human form is understood as a manifestation of the Divine. Thus, Bhagavān is determined by the nature of the Supreme Reality as established by śāstra, not by human veneration or the conferment of an honorific title.
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Q178. Which modern cults fall outside Hindutva?

A. The following are modern syncretic or personality-centred cults that are patronised by some Hindus and often projected as Hindu, yet lie outside Hindutva. Each does so by retaining Hindu symbols, vocabulary, or social forms while replacing or overriding Hindu metaphysical first principles—such as Brahman as ultimate reality, karma-governed punarjanma, dharmic order (Ṛta), and plural but bounded soteriology—with incompatible theological assumptions or absolute charismatic authority. Their exclusion is therefore metaphysical and doctrinal, not social or cultural.

Brahma Kumaris cult: This cult replaces śāstra and guru-paramparā with ongoing revelatory trance messages (“Murlis”) attributed to Shiv Baba. It rejects karma-governed punarjanma and cyclical Hindu cosmology in favour of a fixed, apocalyptic world cycle, while presenting itself as Hindu through Sanskrit terminology (Shiva, yuga, karma), white renunciate aesthetics, and the label “Rāja Yoga.”

Ramakrishna Mission (institutionally): Institutionally, the Mission incorporates Christian and other incompatible theological claims into a universalist doctrine that all religions are equally true. This converts Hindu pluralism into doctrinal relativism, dissolving Hindu metaphysical boundaries while projecting itself as Hindu through Vedāntic language, monastic forms, and śāstra citation.

Theosophy and neo-Theosophical cults: These cults appropriate Hindu concepts such as karma, rebirth, avatāra, and yoga but reinterpret them through Western occult and esoteric cosmologies. Hindu vocabulary and imagery are retained for legitimacy, but Vedic metaphysics is displaced, not preserved.

Shirdi Sai Baba cult: Shirdi Sai Baba was an Urdu-speaking Muslim Sufi fakir, reportedly named Chand Miyan, who preached “Sabka Malik Allah,” affirming Allah as the supreme deity in accordance with Islamic belief. He lived in a mosque, dressed as a Sufi fakir in the characteristic kafni robe and cloth cap, and remained within an Islamic devotional milieu throughout his life. After his death, he was buried near the mosque, and the modern Shirdi religious complex developed around both the mosque and the tomb-shrine. Later Hindu followers sought to Hinduise the cult of this Muslim Sufi saint through the adoption of Hindu rituals, festivals, and iconography around an Islamic-style saint-veneration centred on his tomb. As such, neither Shirdi Sai Baba nor the cult associated with him bears any connection to Hindu metaphysics, dharmic soteriology, or Hindu modes of worship, and therefore stands entirely outside Hindutva.

Satya Sai Baba cult: Born in a Hindu family as Ratnakaram Satyanarayana Raju, Satya Sai Baba established a personality-centred cult. His institutional symbolism incorporated emblems of multiple religions rather than grounding itself in any Hindu sampradāya. Adopting the name “Sai Baba” after Shirdi Sai Baba and wearing a long kafni-style robe, he presented a universalist religious identity detached from Hindu theological foundations. The absence of any central role for Hindu deities, śāstra, or sampradāyas, together with teachings consisting largely of moral exhortation rather than Hindu metaphysics or dharmic soteriology, demonstrates that the cult lacks connection with established Hindu modes of worship. As such, it stands outside Hindutva.

Radhasoami and similar Sant cults: These cults replace shared Hindu cosmology and ritual continuity with exclusive guru-centred salvation doctrines. Hindu terms such as bhakti, nāda, and yoga are selectively retained, while the broader Hindu metaphysical order is denied.

Swaminarayan cult: In the Swaminarayan cult, which describes its theology as Navya-Vishishtadvaita, Sahajananda Swami (Swaminarayan), a nineteenth-century religious teacher, is identified as Parabrahman or Purushottama Himself and made the supreme and exclusive object of devotion. While retaining Hindu ritual forms, Vaishnava vocabulary, and scriptural language, this theology centres the attainment of moksha upon devotion to Swaminarayan. By making a historical religious teacher the supreme reality and primary object of salvation, it departs from the broader Hindu metaphysical framework and therefore stands outside Hindutva.

Modern “universal guru” cults: These cults present spirituality as religion-transcending or universally applicable, relativising or denying karma, punarjanma, and metaphysical discipline. Authority is centred in a living charismatic figure, while Hindu symbols and language are used to project continuity.

In all cases, what appears as tolerance or universality is in fact metaphysical replacement. Their exclusion from Hindutva rests on deviation from the Hindu metaphysical framework, not on questions of personal reverence, popularity, or cultural familiarity.
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Q279. Who is a Hindu (Dharmi), and who is a non-Hindu (Adharmi)?

A. A Hindu is a person who implicitly or explicitly affirms the core metaphysical framework of Sanātana Dharma and participates in its religious life.

A Hindu:
•affirms Brahman as the ultimate, all-pervasive reality;
•affirms the identity of the inner Ātman with that reality as experienced under individual embodiment (Jīva);
•accepts karma as the law of impersonal moral causation;
•accepts punarjanma as the continuity of embodied existence governed by karma;
•recognises ṛta as the objective cosmic order, together with its associated obligations (pancha-ṛṇa);
•accepts the purusharthas—dharma, artha, kāma, and moksha—as the integrated aims of human life;
•derives these metaphysical principles ultimately from the Vedas;
•follows any traditional sampradāya within Sanātana Dharma, including folk and nature-venerating traditions;
•does not deify or worship as Bhagavān any human being, except avatāras recognised by śāstra as manifestations of the Divine; gives due reverence to human exemplars such as a Jagadguru, Ṛṣi, Guru, Siddha, Avadhūta, Yogī, Tapasvī, Sant, Mahāpuruṣa, Mahātmā, or Mahāmanīṣī, while venerating one's parents and ancestors (Pitṛs), neither of which constitutes worship as Bhagavān; and
•rejects atheistic materialism, heterodox systems that reject Vedic authority, syncretism, and theologies that contradict this metaphysical framework.

Such affirmation need not always be intellectually formulated or consciously articulated. A person may lack philosophical knowledge, scriptural learning, or doctrinal vocabulary while nevertheless living within, practising, and transmitting a religious tradition whose underlying assumptions are those of Sanātana Dharma. Lack of doctrinal knowledge is therefore not, by itself, rejection of the Dharma.

Religious identity is therefore constituted by metaphysical assent and disciplined participation, not by ancestry, ethnicity, language, geography, political affiliation, cultural proximity, historical interaction, or social classification.

The terms Dharmi and Adharmi further express this distinction. Dharmi denotes one who stands within and participates in Sanātana Dharma, while Adharmi denotes one who rejects or stands outside Sanātana Dharma. Thus, a Hindu is a Dharmi, and a non-Hindu is an Adharmi.

The corresponding adjectives are Dharmik and Adharmik. Dharmik describes that which is religious, righteous, or in accordance with Sanātana Dharma; Adharmik describes that which is irreligious, unrighteous, or contrary to Sanātana Dharma. Thus, Dharmi and Adharmi identify persons or categories of religious belonging to Sanātana Dharma, whereas Dharmik and Adharmik describe qualities, conduct, or attributes in relation to Sanātana Dharma.

This principle is not unique to Hindu terminology. Religious and other systems of collective identity commonly employ terms to distinguish those who belong to a particular framework from those who stand outside it. Christianity calls its followers Christians and those outside the faith Heathens; Islam calls its believers Muslims and those outside the faith Kafirs; and Marxism uses the terms Proletariat and Bourgeoisie to designate distinct classes of society. In the national context, for instance, Indian citizens are Indians, while others are foreigners in the legal sense.

These comparisons illustrate the general principle that collective identities employ terms to distinguish categories of belonging. Likewise, when Dharmi and Adharmi are used in the religious sense, they denote the corresponding categories of Hindu and non-Hindu religious belonging, notwithstanding their other contextual meanings.

[Manu🇮🇳🇮🇳 @mshahi0024]

How BJP fooled the middle class.

1. They said there were ₹1.25 lakh crore oil bonds, so excise duty had to be increased. They raised the duty from ₹9 to ₹33 within just a couple of years.

2. In the name of those bonds, they extracted nearly ₹42 lakh crores from the public.

3. When crude oil prices fell to $30 to $40, they did not pass the benefit to the common people. Instead, they increased various taxes to keep boosting revenue.

4. When they got the opportunity to buy cheap oil from Russia, they allowed one rich businessman to buy that oil, bring it to India, and then sell it to richer nations. He earned around ₹45,000 crores, while the common people got nothing.

5. Then a minister introduced ethanol blending. Without public consent, petrol was mixed with ethanol from sugarcane. His children allegedly made profits in billions, while the common public not only got no relief, but also faced reduced mileage and damage to many vehicles.

6. Now, when a crisis is looming because of failed government policies, instead of making excise duty zero, they still want to burden the same common people.

7. They know that this time the public may not spare them, so now they have started appealing, begging, and blaming international markets.

For the last 12 years, it is the common public that has paid the heavy price for the sheer failures of this government.

Now they say other countries also increased fuel prices. Yes, because those countries did not loot the public when crude prices were at rock bottom.

Minimum wages and salaries in those countries are many times higher than ours, and they provide world class education, healthcare, transport, and multiple other benefits.

What do we have in India?🤔

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

Please don’t fall for the pandemic scam again. Moderna have been working on a Hanta virus ‘vaccine’ for 18 months and Hantavirus infection is a listed side effect of the Pfizer Covid shot.

[Dr. Ben Tapper @DrBenTapper1]

Maybe if NASA had posted this, I would’ve believed it. 😎🇺🇸🪕