Virochana

मथेर व्यर्थता पनि म अर्थ झिक्छु शाश्वत

[Virochana @thehiddenab]

@aryalaadi There is also Communism and Gita by Prof. H.S Sinha. That one is decent tbh.

[Virochana @thehiddenab]

Uff, the dialogue delivery.
https://t.co/0Y8pn3Sgdf

[Virochana @thehiddenab]

@quackingvoices Sure, let's start by plundering bihari Licchavi's monuments.

[Virochana @thehiddenab]

CULTURAL PURITY in BIG 2026? Then stop wearing bangles. Stop wearing tilhari. By that logic, both were introduced through historical trade and cultural exchange. Stop flying kites during Dashain. Remove Persian loanwords from Nepali. Purge every foreign influence from daily life.

[Harmlessduckobservinghumanity @quackingvoices]

Nepali cultures and traditions are slowly being wiped out of existence.
The increasing influence of the cultural elements associated with Hinduism of the gangetic plains causing dilution, erasure of Nepali cukture and Nepali flavor of sanatan is concerning.

[Virochana @thehiddenab]

@quackingvoices Levels.

[Virochana @thehiddenab]

@Konkanist Are the Nepali मादल and the Konkani म्हादळ the same instrument? If so, could you share their etymology?

[NiṣādaHermaphroditarchaṃśa (Mal'ta boy ka parivar) @real_mahalingam]

I honestly don't see the "Varuṇa -> Viṣṇu" connection. Vaiṣṇavism is fundamentally the culmination of "david vs goliath" type hero cults: the Vṛṣṇivīras, Rāma Bhārgava, Rāma Rāghava, and indeed the Vedic upstart Upendra/Vāmana himself.

Of these only Rāma Rāghava can be said to be a "Varuṇa-like" order-and-justice archetype. Otherwise Vaiṣṇava theology is fundamentally about how Viṣṇu is the store of *all* good qualities, and a moral ideal that regular men can only strive for or worship.

Kṛṣṇa's identity is famously as one who *breaks* deontological rules for the greater good. Unlike Rāma, he is not born into a celebrated lineage of unstained moral repute (one that even Rāma Bhārgava had spared during his rampage), but at the stroke of midnight during the kṛṣṇapakṣa in a prison cell, into a flawed pastoral clan, prone to petty infighting, that carried an ancestral curse from King Yayati that barred them from ever taking a central imperial throne. He is a trickster who operates via cunning and scheming rather than honor and chivalry (even famously fleeing a battlefield once), skirted social norms (whether in war, or in marrying 16,000 women who had been shunned by society for no personal fault, or in his various rākṣasa and gandharva vivāhas). And yet, he is not viewed as a flawed character or an anti-hero, but rather as the most "complete" form of god, and an infinite abode of all the puruṣārtha (wealth, pleasure and dharma) as though to say: those deontological rules are merely instrumental, and Dharma is beyond all of them.

As for the supposed Vaiṣṇava - Dharma - Bhṛgu triangle:

- I agree that there is a more axiological bent to Vaiṣṇavism i.e. the emphasis on Saguṇa Brahman as the infinite abode of all good qualities, and the Gītā's exemplarism (Kṛṣṇa is the best of each category rather than everyone and everything amorally being Brahman/Śiva) and the idea that it is specifically good/productive actions that are divine (rather than *all* human action as Paramādvaita and Tantra seem to suggest). However, like I explained, Vaiṣṇava axiology rejects/supercedes "Varuṇa-like"/deontological morality.

[I really like the Vaiṣṇava axiology and would describe my beliefs as "Paramādvaita metaphysics + Gīta axiology". My only gripe is that it posits all of this heroism and infinite moral virtue, and turns them into something out of human ability, telling humans: you can never aspire to *be* God, only worship and serve him. You also see the Vaiṣṇava point about the importance of morality made in the epics and Purāṇas in subtle ways: how even rākṣasas can get boons from Śiva requiring Viṣṇu to insert *moral* direction back into the system.]

- Moral order and such were the subject of the Dharmaśāstrikas (who are listed already by Yāska as a class of scholar), who of course belonged to all clans/gotras (as explicitly noted in the names of the Dharmasūtras and Dharmaśāstras/smṛtis themselves). There is perhaps a slight Bhārgava association here: the Manusmṛti claims that Manu expounded the Dharma to 10 ṛṣis (stated to be "Marīci and the other ṛṣis" in 1.58, or listed in detail in 1.35 as Marīci, Atri, Aṅgiras, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kratu, Pracetas, Vasiṣṭha, Bhṛgu, and Nārada), but Bhṛgu is specifically the one to recite the compiled text at the end. The association is very mild, and besides there are other Dharmaśāstra texts composed by the other ṛṣis.

- The association between the Bhārgavas and Vaiṣṇavas is probably happenstance of the former being dominant in Yadu country (the Yamuna-Narmada interfluve) rather than any ancient Varuṇa connection. As Mathura and the Yadu country grew in importance (due to the central location at the intersection of the two highways, and the growing Western sea trade), both the Bhṛgu clan and Vaiṣṇavism grew in influence. But:

- I certainly do not see any Bhṛgu *kanging*/aggrandizement in either epic (to the contrary, Rāma Bhārgava is depicted as past his prime in the epics, conceding to kṣatriyas such as Rāma Rāghava as well as to Bhīṣma). In general, I do not see a general narrative of the gotras engaging in petty kanging (after all, they intermarried).

[Virochana @thehiddenab]

@RBADHIKARINP @Drbishal8 @hamrorabi @narendramodi too much em-dashes (—) and the flow of language to convey something doesn't seem natural.

[Virochana @thehiddenab]

@Akshat151810566 @TradDeshastha Absolute bullshit. IBM quantum computers don't use "Vedic Math." The paper cited by that charlatan merely used IBM Qiskit, a free, open-source software available to anyone. Using an IBM tool to run a simulation doesn't imply IBM adopting it for their hardware.

[Virochana @thehiddenab]

Amidst the hype, Surendra Pandey offers a nuanced take on the budget in a way that even a layperson can understand.
https://t.co/Mz8cWYkq60

[Virochana @thehiddenab]

@marxistIroh

[Virochana @thehiddenab]

My Secret Crush on Twitter is @marxistIroh

➡️ https://t.co/vpT9c6937Y

[Virochana @thehiddenab]

@SulavKarki No credible evidence supports "middle class" will start increasing consumption as such. NMI is around ~180K Even if you take the (50–200)% bracket, the upper threshold is ~540K, exemption already existed up to 5 lakhs previously. Not sure which middle class is being benefited???

[Virochana @thehiddenab]

@left4nepal mentioned the other issue in this budget
https://t.co/B8ZhvNNsVL

[Virochana @thehiddenab]

Income tax now begins at ~500% of PCI. Instead of strengthening progressive direct taxes, the government has chosen to shield income taxes which increases indirect taxes, the most regressive form of taxation. In the end, lower-income groups will bear the greatest burden.

[Virochana @thehiddenab]

Income tax now begins at ~500% of PCI. Instead of strengthening progressive direct taxes, the government has chosen to shield income taxes which increases indirect taxes, the most regressive form of taxation. In the end, lower-income groups will bear the greatest burden.

[Virochana @thehiddenab]

@ekantipur_com Income tax now begins at ~500% of PCI. Instead of strengthening progressive direct taxes, the government has chosen to shield income taxes which increases indirect taxes, the most regressive form of taxation. In the end, lower-income groups will bear the greatest burden.

[Virochana @thehiddenab]

Income tax now begins at ~500% of PCI. Instead of strengthening progressive direct taxes, the government has chosen to shield income taxes which increases indirect taxes, the most regressive form of taxation. In the end, lower-income groups will bear the greatest burden.

[Kantipur @ekantipur_com]

व्यक्तिलाई वार्षिक १० लाख रुपैयाँसम्ममा आयकर छुट

[Virochana @thehiddenab]

@arjunsigdel94 @Rain___456 @ClamRespector पसल word is adapted from Nepal Bhasa. In Nepali (at least where I am from) is called दोकान.

[Priestlyclass Strongman @priestlyclass]

O Vishnu, like an untamed horse driven by thirst, our mind runs endlessly through the worlds of illusion in search of You, yearning only for the day when it may finally stop at Your feet.