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[Ayushphy Cosmological @ayushphy]

Prof. Sunil Mukhi talks about the tendency in Indian physics departments to treat materials science and condensed matter as the most important areas of research, while fundamental research is sometimes dismissed as “not real science.”

He argues that science needs room for every kind of curiosity: from materials science to black holes and that one field should never undermine another.

As he puts it: “There’s room for everybody. It’s a big country.”

[Adarsh Hegde @adarshahgd]

Wishing all Veda Anuyayis A Very Happy Hayagriva Jayanti 🙏🙏🙏

[SPY @Just__SP]

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జై శ్రీమన్నారాయణ 🙏

[prathosh A P @prathoshap]

On this auspicious day of Hayagreeva Jayanti, I am open-sourcing the data and models for Samskrutam-Chant Speech-to-Text (ASR), named सुश्रोता. ~ 18 h of utterance-level annotated Shastric text, 1,500 contributors. Powers वाग्बोधिनी. Links in the first reply.

[क्षितिजावीक्षित @tripadoddhara]

Bro was abused as a street sh!tter, etc etc and replied to cretins in their language. His sin was having a blue tick. Your sin is not granting him benefit of doubt. Probably because you don't want to be temporarily embarrassed, but that's a pathetic attitude.

[Apoorva Govind @Appyg99]

All the goodwill those baddies had built with the potluck video went down the drain this week

[Rabinarayan Swain @KritaNishchayah]

As Bhaiji SriHanuman Prasad Poddar tells in His 'StriDharma Prashnottari' it's more important to practice modesty when outside family.

Lajja is supposed to be a woman's ornament. As per देवी माहात्म्य Devi Herself resides as Lajja:

"लज्जारूपेण संस्थिता", "कुलजनप्रभवेषु लज्जा"

[Mimansaka Kulkarni @Kul_Mimansaka]

तत्सद्ब्रह्मस्वरूपा त्वं कञ्चित्सदसदात्मिका।
परात्परेशी गायत्री नमस्ते मातरम्बिके॥

[क्षितिजावीक्षित @tripadoddhara]

@VS_564 @KavyaUshanas Boomer mentality thaan. Boomer is a state of mind.

[क्षितिजावीक्षित @tripadoddhara]

@KavyaUshanas Many boomers think dharma is synonymous with self-flagellation. Unfortunate.

[क्षितिजावीक्षित @tripadoddhara]

An object becomes sanctified by association with gods, Rishis, Bhagavathas, etc.

Malibu is sacred.

Divine places/nations consecrated by ancient pagans and shamanists according to their rites are sacred.

The entirety of Indian geography is sacred for the same reason.

[𑘀𑘦𑘡 ��𑘨𑘢𑘹 @The_Equationist]

How essential is the motherland to the Hindu religion of the diaspora?

Consider a thought experiment:
Imagine 1000 years from now humanity has taken to the stars and is living on many planets, but the Earth has been destroyed by a meteor. Can you imagine Hindu religion still existing in this situation? If so would it be a complete religion or would it be missing something because of the loss of sacred geography?

As far as my own engagement with Hindu religion goes, the answer is unquestionably yes. India matters inasmuch as it's home to the vast majority of Hindus and has historical significance to the development of our heritage, but I don't feel any particular sense of sacredness towards the geography of India itself, particularly given the natural wonders that abound in my own homeland, America.

@vjgtweets @avatans @ShawnBinda @raghman36 @MRavinderReddi @dharmadecentral

[क्षितिजावीक्षित @tripadoddhara]

So many sagotrins nowadays

[Parimal @Fintech03]

The priest asks "gotra?" and there is that half-second pause, the sideways glance at a parent, sometimes a phone getting unlocked to check a family WhatsApp group.

I am Kauṇḍinya/Kauṇḍilya gotra, so let me actually walk you through what that name is carrying, because it is more than most of us were ever told.

Kauṇḍinya is not a standalone name floating on its own.

The full pravara, the declaration of the sages at the root of the lineage, is three names: Vāsiṣṭha, Maitrāvaruṇa, Kauṇḍinya.

This is the standard trayārṣeya listed in the Āśvalāyana Śrautasūtra and repeated across the classical genealogical literature.

In Āśvalāyana's own grouping, the Vasiṣṭha gaṇa splits into 4 branches: Upamanyu, Parāśara, Kuṇḍina (Kauṇḍinya/Kauṇḍilya), and the remaining Vāsiṣṭhas, each with its own pravara.

Kauṇḍinya is the named sub-line, not a separate root: it is a branch of the Vāsiṣṭha house, and reciting it correctly points back to Vāsiṣṭha, in the tradition that recites this pravara, the same sage as the Rāmāyaṇa's Vāsiṣṭha, guru to Rāma and one of the seven Brahmarṣis.

Our gotra name is a compressed pointer into a specific, named sage's lineage, kept alive purely by families choosing to keep saying it out loud, generation after generation.

Whether that chain traces back an unbroken, literal 1000s of years to a single household is a matter of faith and clan memory, not something that can be verified the way a paper record can, the sūtra lists themselves were being written down and copied by scholars across the mid to late first millennium BCE onward, alongside the oral recitation, not existing purely as an unbroken spoken chain with zero written trace.

That is still a genuinely long and unusual continuity. It just does not need the word "unbroken" / "genetic" to be impressive.

And the kids fumbling for the answer at a pūjā today are not the first generation where this thinned, recitation has been fading for a long time, well before smartphones existed.

What is actually different now is that it is easier than ever to relearn it properly, because it is written down in accessible form, not locked away in memory alone anymore.

Here is the pravara itself, worth learning once, properly, so it never has to be looked up again:

वासिष्ठ मैत्रावरुण कौण्डिन्य त्रयार्षेय प्रवरान्वितः

vāsiṣṭha maitrāvaruṇa kauṇḍinya trayārṣeya pravarānvitaḥ

"Endowed with the three-sage pravara of Vāsiṣṭha, Maitrāvaruṇa, and Kauṇḍinya."

[क्षितिजावीक्षित @tripadoddhara]

@VS_564 Wtf the first one worked

[क्षितिजावीक्षित @tripadoddhara]

@VS_564 Gonna try everything one by one

[Calcutta Coherer নভস্পন্দ @natanarayana]

To all the yajurvedīs śubha upākarma. May yajurveda mūrti and vedapuruṣa bless us all.

yajurvedamūrtaye namaḥ
vedapuruṣāya namaḥ

[क्षितिजावीक्षित @tripadoddhara]

@4point2KILOyear The youth are not chārvakan but parish Hindu. I just wrote a thread on this. It is much easier to re-establish traditional Hinduism than it is to reform it.

[क्षितिजावीक्षित @tripadoddhara]

@searoftruth The cohort that rests in between these extremes — nityakarma-doing, vrata-keeping — needs to be expanded. The impediment towards this is a lack of consciousness of this problem. But we have to start somewhere, I hope I have sown the seeds.

[क्षितिजावीक्षित @tripadoddhara]

@searoftruth The cohort that rests in between these extremes — nityakarma-doing, vrata-keeping — needs to be expanded. The impediment towards this is a lack of consciousness of this problem. But we have to start somewhere, I hope I have sown the seeds.

[क्षितिजावीक्षित @tripadoddhara]

I listened to your podcast with @searoftruth , particularly discussing the conflict of tradition with modernity. In contrast to the approach of SNB et al, your position was to assimilate to modernity, imbibe a quasi-abrahamic structure and let Hindu ideas diffuse.

[Vishal Ganesan @vjgtweets]

On my recent podcast with @searoftruth I drew a distinction that I think is worth reiterating here:

Hindu revivalism is a long-standing spiritual movement that predates Hindu Nationalism, with modern origins in the late 18th century with the emergence of figures like Ram Mohan Roy, Tagore, Vivekananda, and Aurobindo, Hindu revivalism was in its inception universalist in its outlook. Each of these thinkers saw a rejuvenated Hindu spirituality as offering something not just to India, but to the world at large. While many of these figures were also nationalists, they saw nationalism as a means to achieving universalist goals.

The Hindu Nationalism that emerged in the 20th century largely abandoned this universalist outlook in favor of more parochial political ends or "cultural nationalism," resulting in the contemporary tendency to equate Hindu revivalism with political control or Indian culture. This has IMO dramatically impoverished Hindu thinking in favor of a perfunctory assertion of all things Indian simply because they are Indian (a tendency, relatedly, that both Vivekananda an Aurobindo noticed and condemned).

I for one refuse to be trapped by this kind of reductive thinking. The Hindu civilizational heritage is universal in its outlook, and it's incumbent on those of us committed to Hindu revivalism to constantly assert this universalism in face of narrow mindedness.

[क्षितिजावीक्षित @tripadoddhara]

@searoftruth I believe the modern Hindu existence is rather an optimization problem, both in India and the US. In both these countries, there are a good number of practicing traditionalists (Vaidikas), and a good number of "parish Hindus" who basically show up for local events.