Brutal truth about Aur@ngzeb!

1. He was a religious bigøt, cunning and cruel to H!ndus.

He was keen that the sh@ri@ or Isl@mic law be followed everywhere.

H!ndu religious fairs were outlawed in 1668, and an edict of the following year prohibited construction of Hindu temples as well as the repair of old ones. 

The duty (internal customs fees) paid on goods was 2.5%, double the amount was levied on H!ndu merchants from 1665 onwards

2. According to one historical source, elephants were deployed to crush the resistance in the area surrounding the Red Fort of H!ndus who refused to submit to jiziya collectors.

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3. Aurangzeb’s ultimate aim was conversion of non-Musl!ms to Isl@m. Whenever possible the emperor gave out robes of honor, cash gifts, and promotions to converts. It quickly became known that conversion was a sure way to the emperor’s favor.

4. Aurangzeb as a ferocious destroyer of H!ndu temples and idols.

He did not just build an isolated mosque on a destroyed temple, he ordered all temples to be destroyed, among them the Kashi Vishwanath temple, one of the most sacred places of H!nduism.

#SnanaJatra

Jagannath Bhagwan symbolises Bhagwan Krishna/Bhagwan Vishnu. He is the Ishtadevta/Kuldevta for many.

After all who's he? Jagannath is a combination of two words - Jagat (world) and nath (Bhagwan/master); in short Bhagwan of the Universe.

He's also known as "Sarbam Rahasyam Purusottamasya” which denotes the origin of Purusottama Jagannath is mysterious and enigmatic.

His black face represents the void and he dwells in Mahashunya.

He's a simple crude wooden idol with two wooden stumps as hands, conspicuous absence of legs with two big round eyes indicating sun and moon emerging from a big black face which symbolizes the Universe. He is worshiped as the Daru-Brahma.

The word Daru is derived from Da-Dukha or sorrow and Ru-to give.

During the #SNANAPURNIMA , 108 copper and gold pots are filled with water from suna kuan (golden well) and kept on the bhoga mandap. These vessels are brought to snana bedi on this day.

This ritual is called Jalad Hibasa. The dieties are first offered red powder, & then taken to #snana bedi, their bodies covered with silk clothes. Pouring of water is accompanied by chanting of Pavamana.

#Thread

A poet, philosopher, metaphysician, bhakti song writer, establishing 4 peethas and what not : all this in just 32 years.

He wrote Bhashyas on ten major Upanishads, the Brahman sutras and commented on Bhagavad Gita.

#ShankaraJayanti

To unite all kinds of people, he created two types:

1. Those who believed in 🌺Saguna Brahman🌺

When Brahman does the work of creation, preservation and destruction with the help of his maya (माया), Brahman (ब्रह्म) is called as saguna brahman.

People from different parts worshipped different deities. To create harmony between all, he created Panchayatan, in which only 5 main forms of dieties will be worshipped, that is, Ganpati, Shiva, Vishnu, Devi (Ambika), and Surya.

2. Those who believed in 💮Nirguna Brahman (निर्गुण ब्रह्म)💮

Nirguna brahman is a considered as formless, indivisible, unchanging, attributeless, beyond maya and peaceful. Brahman is Sat-Chit-Anand. And for those who believe this, all dieties combine into one Brahman.

🌼Advaita🌼

The word 'Advaita' ( अद्वैत ) means non-duality. It is a philosophy which describes that there is only one reality and one truth i.e. Brahman. All else is not real, not eternal and is of transient nature.

#Shankarajayanthi

MYTH AND MYTHOLOGY:

All religions and all ideologies (eg: communism, liberalism and so on) are a part history and a part myth.

As for religious myths, the academic types might want to read Joseph Campbell's book, "The Power of Myth".

I put down below some quotes of his :

1. Each myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

2. Myth is much more important & true than history. History is just journalism & you know how reliable it is.

As far as ideologies are concerned, their mythology lies in their tall claims about their success in the real world. As we all are aware, this whole ideology of communism has proved to be just a myth as it has failed everywhere.

Even Mother Russia has forsaken Communism and mobocracy rules there now! Liberalism's self-proclaimed victories are a pure myth too because there's no liberal state.

Even the liberal dreamlands such as the Scandinavian countries have had to adopt non-liberal policies to check jihadism and Islamism brought in by the migrants.

Besides the above, today's Mythology becomes tomorrow's history as

One of the five Maha-Vrats in Jainism is Non-attachment/Aparihraha.

Jainism believes that the more worldly wealth a person possesses, the more he is likely to commit sin to acquire and maintain the possession, and in a long run he may be unhappy.

#HappyMahavirJayanti

The worldly wealth creates attachments, which will continuously result in greed, jealousy, selfishness, ego, hatred, violence, etc.

Bhagwan Mahavir has said that wants and desires have no end, and only the sky is the limit for them.

An attachment to worldly objects results in the bondage to the cycle of birth and death. Therefore, one who desires of spiritual liberation should withdraw from all attachments to pleasing objects of all the five senses.

Monks observe this vow by giving up attachments to all things such as:

Material things:  Wealth, property, grains, house, books, clothes, etc

.Relationships:  Father, mother, spouse, children, friends, enemies, other monks, disciples, etc

Pleasure of Five Senses:  The five senses are touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing.

Feelings:  Pleasure and painful feelings towards any objects.

They have the equanimity towards music & noise, good & bad smells, soft & hard objects for touch, beautiful & dirty sights, etc

"When the Dalit Icon Came Out in Support of the Hindutva Icon"

Most Indians saw assassination of Gandhi as a national tragedy. But Nehru saw it as a stupendous opportunity to eliminate his arch political rival, Savarkar, the icon of Hindutva, who was revered by millions.

What Nehru feared most was resurgence of Hinduism. And the appeal of Savarkar’s Hindutva philosophy and his mass following was a sword hanging for ever on Nehru’s head. Nehru decided to have it removed, once and for all, by implicating Savarkar in Gandhi’s murder.

Accordingly, he got Savarkar arrested on Feb 6, 1948 , without any specific charge, under the Preventive Detention Act.

When Gandhi Murder trial started in Delhi, his lawyer, Bhopatkar was at a loss to know as to how to defend Savarkar against whom no specific charge was laid.

One fine morning, Bhopatkar got called to the phone at the place where he was staying. When he took the call, he discovered that the caller was Dr Ambedkar.

 ‘Please meet me this evening at the sixth milestone on the Mathura Road’ is all that Dr Ambedkar said.

Accordingly, Bhopatkar drove down the Mathura road that evening and found Ambedkar already waiting for him at Milestone 6. Ambedkar motioned Bhopatkar to get into the car which Ambedkar himself was driving.

Devi/Devtas at the spiritual level, are forms or manifestations of God or Ishvara, the Cosmic Lord and Creator, representing his powers, qualities or various ways of imagining him. They are the principles of Bhakti Yoga.

There exists a yet higher level of Consciousness, all Devis and Devtas are forms or aspects of Brahman, the impersonal Godhead (Cosmic Intelligence /Aakashik field) behind and beyond the manifest universe. They are powers of Gyana Yoga.

The divine trinity are the Creator (Brahma), Perserver (Vishnu) and Dissolver (Shiva) or the three aspects of Ishvara relative to the gunas of rajas, Sattva and tamas.

Yet of the three, it is Shiva that is the closest to Brahman.

In this regard, Shiva is Nirguna Brahman, beyond all manifestation, Vishnu is Ishvara, God or Saguna Brahman as the ruler of the universe, and Brahma is Mahat Tattva or cosmic mind.

Similar is for Sarasvati, Lakshmi and Kali, it is Kali that is the closest to Brahman and a personification of it.

Kali is Brahman’s supreme power or unlimited Shakti – the power of pure power of existence, which as the infinite and eternal exists behind space and time.

Why do people like .@MahuaMoitra have problems with Central Vista project?

She endorses an article of Anish Kapoor on 'The Guardian' where she seems obsessed with the word

Anish Kapoor starts the article with,

"At the heart of New Delhi, the capital of India, sits a Mughal-inspired monument that houses the seat of the Indian parliament."

This was built by Edwin Luytens.

"The parliament buildings and their grand roadways and water channels follow the form established by the Islamic rulers of Iran and elaborated by the Islamic sultanate of Samarkand and the Mughal rulers of India."

Why is Anish Kapoor so perturbed?

The crux of the matter : his mother was an Iraqi - Jewish daughter of a rabbi who immigrated from Baghdad to India with her family when she was an infant.

He was one of the signatories to banning Narendra Modi from Britain.

On BBC Newsnight on 16 May 2014 Kapoor said Modi was a man with “blood on his hands”.And again hes back in the news bashing Modi on his UK visit and bashing Hindus as the Hindu Taliban.

🌼Story of understanding the untold🌼

After discovering Sitamata, Hanuman and his army were travelling to Kishkinda. Madhuvana, Sugriva's private garden came in between. The complete garden was filled with beehives and several juicy fruits.

This was very well guarded by a monkey called Dadimukha. Dadhimukha was sitting in front of this garden at 4 doors. Only Sugriva was allowed in.

So the monkeys while returning, wanted some fun in Madhuvana and enjoy honey there. They expressed this to Hanuman.

Hanuman wasn't for this idea as it would indicate to Sugriva their victory.

But Jambavan and the other monkeys wanted to enjoy after so much hard work. So they entered Madhuvana.

All the monkeys started drinking honey and polishing off the juicy fruits in the garden.

Dadimukha immediately ran to Sugriva and complained that his uncle Jambavan and defence minister Hanuman both were useless. They have entered Madhuvana and are destroying all the fruits.

Not only that when Dadimukha tried to prevent them, they all attacked him and other guards.

Bhagwan Rama, Lakshman and Sugriva were all together in this hall.
Lakshman got annoyed and asked Sugriva about this.

Sugriva patiently responded by saying Dadimukha is complaining about Angad and his army of monkeys along with Jambavan.

As ICMR study proves high efficacy of made in India Covid vaccines, read how politicians and media had stoked vaccine hesitancy against Covaxin

Several people raised doubts on vaccine. Let's check their truth on this

Now he has tested positive.

If he didn't believe in vaccination, why did he vaccinate himself? Just FYI, his sister took Pfizer vaccine in California.

When the whole world is praising Bharat, why is he defaming our country.

AstraZeneca vaccine has 70% efficacy.

The developers of Covaxin, Bharat Biotech and ICMR, said that Covaxin has shown an overall interim clinical efficacy of 78% and a 100% efficacy against severe Covid-19 disease.

0.04% people tested Covid-19 positive after 2nd dose of Covaxin, 0.03% after Covishield: Govt

Jairam Ramesh slams govt over pricing of Covishield vaccine

Why give a subsidy to the rich class who can easily afford this?

All those who can't afford are already going to the Government hospitals.

Last year people were shouting for vaccine, when vaccine comes, they say it's a BJP vaccine.

He tested positive just last week.

Yuri Bezmenov was a Russian Spy, a KGB Agent who was sent to INDIA during Indira Gandhi’s tenure.

He revealed in his Interview given to American TV Channel that his team was instructed to create a Gang of Useful Indian Idiots by Brainwashing them into Communist Ideology.

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He said that, "This was my instruction. Try to get into large circulation established conservative media, filthy rich movie-makers, intellectuals in so called academic circles, cynical egocentric people who can look into your eyes with angelic expression and tell you a lie.

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These are the most recruited people, people who lack moral principles, who are either too greedy or suffer from self importance. These are the people who KGB much wanted to recruit. They serve their purpose on the stage of destabilization of a nation.”

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These intellectuals and academics were then invited to USSR and were fed all the propaganda about the utopia of the Soviet communist systems.

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“They were idealistic minded Leftists who made several visits to USSR. The useful idiots, the Leftist (of New Delhi) idealistically believed in the beauty of Soviet socialist or communist system.”

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#Thread on Shivkar Bapuji Talpade

How many of us have heard of this man?

Why did he die an unknown death despite being a genius?

Were we ever told about him in the school?

Check out this video for more

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Rishi Bharadwaj, one of the Saptarishis, dealt with “The Science of Aeronautics” in work called “Yantrasarvasva” in 8 chapters, 100 subject heads comprising of 500 Sutras and 3000 shlokas.

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Shivkar Bapuji Talpade got fascinated by the Vaimanika Shastra flew an unmanned aircraft successfully in 1885, 8 years before the Wright Brothers.

He named this aircraft as Marut Sakha. Marut = wind and Sakha = Friend. "The Friend of Winds".

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Around 3000 people witnessed this at Bombay Chowpatty and famous people like the Maharaja of Baroda was also present there.

His aircraft flew at a height of 1500 ft whereas the aircraft designed by Wright Brothers flew only to a height of 120 ft.

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The British were so disappointed with this that they stopped everyone from helping Talpade financially and had threatened to take the kingdom of Baroda if the Maharaja of Baroda did so.

While describing the Ultimate State of consciousness, *Shri Sant Dnyaneshwar Maharaj says this in his main labour of love, Dnyaneshwari* :

"जेथ हें संसारचित्र उमटे/तो मनोरूप पट फाटे/जैसें सरोवर आटे/मग प्रतिमा नाही// ५.२८.१५६

तैसें मनपण मुदल जाये । मग अहंभावादिक कें आहे ।म्हणोनि शरीरेंचि ब्रह्म होये । अनुभवी तो ॥ १५७ ॥

Here is a loose translation of these verses:

" The screen, in the form of mind, on which the image of the world arises, gets torn apart/

Just the way, there is no reflection to be seen when a lake completely dries up //" 5.28.156

"Thus, when the mind disappears altogether, where is the sense of a separate Self etc then/
Therefore, the body itself turns into Bramhan/(This) The person experiences//" 5.28.157

#Thread on #विजयदिवस

50 years ago, USA threatened India to stop the 1971 war. India, in the midst of the war, had to send an SOS to the Soviet Union.

A story of #1971War that has been erased from our #History books.

When 🇵🇰's defeat in the #1971War seemed imminent, Kissinger (NSA) spurred Nixon to send the US 7th Fleet’s Task Force, led by the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, to the Bay of Bengal.

The USS Enterprise, at 75,000 ton, was the world's largest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the 1970s with more than 70 fighter aircraft, a MONSTER.

The Indian Navy’s fleet was led by the 20,000-ton aircraft carrier, Vikrant, with 20 light fighter aircraft.

The USS Enterprise was being dispatched to secure American citizens in 🇧🇩 was the 'official' American statement.

Unofficially it was to threaten the Indian forces and prevent the liberation of East Pakistan.

🇮🇳 soon got an another bad news.

Soviet intelligence reported to 🇮🇳 that a powerful British naval group led by the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle with commando carrier HMS Albion, several destroyers and other ships were approaching India's territorial waters from the west, towards the Arabian Sea.

Andaman Cellular Jail and S@varkar

What Vinayak S@varkar faced?

1. Each cell measured 13'6" by 7'6" with a very small ventilator.

2. There was a distinction made between Hindu and non-Hindu prisoners.

3. The Janeu of the Hindu prisoners was cut off whereas M prisoners were allowed to sport their beards.

4. The prisoners were released only for some time in the morning, afternoon and evening (just three times a day) to answer their nature calls. Locked at 7 pm till 7 am.

5. For the 12 hours of night they were given a small clay pot to relieve themselves.

6. The food given in the jail often caused diarrhoea and hence many prisoners defecated on the floors of their cells. One had to sleep in the same cell with excreta floating.

7. The sweeper threw tantrums to clean the cell and agreed only if he were offered tobacco.

8. Each prisoner was given 3.5 gram of salt per day. Sometimes kerosene oil was mixed with the breakfast of rice kanji/ganji, which caused diarrhoea.

9. For torture, they were handcuffed and made to stand from 7 am to 11 am and thn from 12 pm to 5 pm. The feet were chained too. This punishment sometimes lasted for several months. If one couldn't control nature's call during this period, he was punished more.

🇮🇳 lost heroes

In Punjab, among those who are aware of the history of revolutionary movement against the British Empire, the names of 3 Maharashtrian men are taken with special respect.

Savarkar, Rajguru & the generally little-known martyr, Vishnu Ganesh Pingale.

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Actually, Pingale was one of those who had inspired Bhagat Singh, as Bhagat Singhji's diaries show.

Pingale was born on Jan 2, 1889 in Maharashtra & was hanged to death at Lahore on Nov 16, 1915.

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Along with Lala Hardayal, and Dr.  Khankhoje, he formed a revolutionary organization in the US, called the 'Ghadar Party'.

A man with great organisational skills, intelligence, & dynamism apart from his native Marathi, he had mastered Hindi, English, Urdu and Punjabi.

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While at school, dressed as a Sadhu, Pingale had traveled all over India. This art of disguise later became very useful to him as a revolutionary.

He earned a mechanical engineering degree while in the US.

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As the 1st World War raged,Pingale came to India with the aim of liberating the country through armed revolution

He traveled throughout the Punjab region & met various revolutionaries.
He further traveled to Calcutta, Benaras & other places inviting people to join the revolution

"Let us understand the Left Ecosystem"

*CIA says Soviets planted fake reports in Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Hindu, PTI, ABP, Statesman, National Herald, etc in its declassified documents titled as “The Soviets in India: Moscow’s Major Penetration Program”

This 32 page document prepared in the late 80s was declassified by CIA. As usual, Indian media reported only the first 14 pages which described how political parties and leaders from Congress, CPM and CPI were funded by the Soviets.

Yes you read it right, "Political Parties, Congress, CPM, and CPI were funded by the Soviets."

The remaining pages gave evidence of the funds to media houses, cultural & intellectual organisations by the Soviets.

The media houses were given funds to produce 'fake news' namely :

1. US was breeding killer mosquitoes in Pakistan border to attack Indian population

2. CIA was behind Indira Gandhi’s assassination.

3. The US Defence Intelligence Agency was funding the Sikh terrorists.

200 Indians (staff at Soviet embassy in Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai) entertained journalists to plant KGB agendas. They had a budget of 20 million dollars allocated for propaganda activities.