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Art and Meaning Making

Art and Meaning Making

There is a reason that as a culture we were more interested in ‘what happens’ than ‘what happened’. ‘What happened’ becomes dated. ‘What happened’ is limited. While ‘what happens’ is timeless and limitless. The great seers of this great land observed the world from a śuddha citta and created analogies capable of reflecting the timeless and divine principles and messages which are still relevant to us. And they did this through poetry, literature and art.

Pankaj Saxena 11 min read
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When Quantum Physicists Read the Upaniṣads

When Quantum Physicists Read the Upaniṣads

Western science, built on reason, made a shocking discovery in the 20th century that rocked it to its core. The discovery: Reality rests on a substrate of weird. The western mind needed a 'blood transfusion from eastern thought' - but those can be tricky.

Jash Dholani 6 min read
Dharma Today
History is Ontic but Itihāsa is Ontologic – a Fractal Maṇḍala Essay

History is Ontic but Itihāsa is Ontologic – a Fractal Maṇḍala Essay

In this essay we engage in emic freethinking, and look at some names from Indian itihāsa in a new light. How many such stories might we find in the Purāṇas, Epics and other texts? And if we did, would we not understand our past better?

Amritanshu Pandey 20 min read
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Towards Understanding the Aghorī Paramparā – Part 1

Towards Understanding the Aghorī Paramparā – Part 1

The first article in this three part series takes a comprehensive and detailed look at the Aghorī-s, drawing from personal experience and insider’s knowledge of this rare and much misunderstood tradition.

Kavita Krishna Meegama, Prabhav Paturi 17 min read
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Colonial Alienation and the Making of Docile Bodies

Colonial Alienation and the Making of Docile Bodies

Why do Indians display cultural and historical amnesia regarding their own past? What historical processes have led to the situation where we must constantly feel stunted by a deeply implanted sense of degradation and inferiority?

Anurag Shukla 8 min read
Bodhas
The Problem of Culture Transmission

The Problem of Culture Transmission

Tradition is the bedrock on which civilization stands and culture flourishes. And tradition is that which continues. But how exactly does it continue? How is it transferred to the next generation?

Pankaj Saxena 7 min read
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Towards Dharma-centric Polity - Lokmanya Tilak and the Universalization of Gaṇeśa Utsava

Towards Dharma-centric Polity - Lokmanya Tilak and the Universalization of Gaṇeśa Utsava

As dharma disappears from daily personal life, and from specific regions, universalized Hindu festivals are capable of bringing dharma back again at the center. As temples become the primary vehicle of Hindu regeneration all over Bhāratavarṣa, festivals can become the Hindu regenerators in the north.

Pankaj Saxena 11 min read
Dharma Today
T. S. Eliot’s Conception of Culture

T. S. Eliot’s Conception of Culture

Cultures across the world produce seekers and seers who bring home the truth. In India, this process is a living tradition. In other places, we have a rare T.S. Eliot who breaks the hold.

Sai Priya Chodavarapu 12 min read
Dharma Today
Cosmic Memory

Cosmic Memory

Fleetingly we sense it, that deeper connection. Like a microcosm that reflects the macrocosm. A cosmic mystery out there, of which we have intuition. Springing from seed, back to seed. Nivedita's poem here invokes this mystery.

Nivedita Tiwari 1 min read
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