Source: - Rosehub YouTube Channel. The Belgian orientalist and indologist Koenraad Elst was with us, to tell his story. The writer of several books like, “The Saffron Swastika” and “Decolonizing Hindu Mind” talked about his childhood, his upbringing and his love for India, in this interview. He also answered several questions
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Twitter. https://twitter.com/subhashkak1/status/990747287252094976 https://twitter.com/subhashkak1/status/990750375778152448 https://twitter.com/subhashkak1/status/990788479868170240
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfsYksCadmY&t=38s Pythagoras who lived in this time frame, these gentlemen who are all westerns, Albert Burki and A. N. Marlow and G. R. S. Mead, each of them says that Pythagoras went to India where he learnt his philosophies, knowledge and other things. These are not Indic people saying this. These
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9xHoMorfzs We want to find out what caused poverty in India? I would like to point out 2 works, this is Angus Madison who is a historical economist in Netherlands. He studied the economies of the world from the turn of the current era. One all the way to 2003, he
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruB7DY2exhA Now coming to the other side which is also anti-state is the economic right. I don’t believe that libertarian economics is, you know their view point it against sustainable. I thinks that’s entering kind of a thing is absolute nonsense in my opinion. But right wing has started appearing to
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t01QNlsf4rA We believe that freedom liberty and freedom of expressions are absolutely important. What we do say, however, is that absolute freedom; absolute liberty is nothing but anarchy. If everyone is allowed to do as they please that is just chaos and anarchy. As conservatives we believe that periods of stability
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYkcqwKvxU0&t=49s There is a problem again in the right wing discourse if you see that you just don't discuss something which is extremely important, i.e., caste. The discussion of the caste only revolves in the right wing circle about what does caste meant in the Vedic period? Or what was the
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79YwxJ0Y9R8 A big flaw in the right wing thought which I am coming to is that we have forgotten the ‘where did you originated’. The Savarkar, I thought, which I see as a systematic political thought in the right wing, aimed not at a village utopia. It was not arguing for an
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyIBOkWYJr0 When the British came, they also did something. They started the systematic study of India. They started a systematic study of India, which we all understand as Indology and other things. And the British also started characterizing India from their own perspective, from their own, you know, prisms and other
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When we call ourselves conservative what do we actually mean? We mean four things in my understanding. First that we base to our opinions on the basis of facts and figures. We are not liberals to live in the fantasy world, we are not the left wing to believe in propaganda. As
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN-aVw1mCTw?cc_lang_pref=eng&cc_load_policy=1 Today, most of the, all our understanding is based on modern science. We say, we have a physical body and even our mind is denied an independent existence. They say the brain activity makes us think, but this is not how our Hindu tradition understands. This is not how our
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Courtesy: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine SNAPSHOT Besides their contribution to the sciences, Indians have been able to connect deeply with the ‘inner world’, or the spiritual realm. Many great scientists, like Schrodinger and Heisenberg, have taken inspiration from Indic ideas to develop sophisticated modern concepts. In the twenty-first century world, India’s unique
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Courtesy: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine How can conceptions that came up several thousand years ago in India be of relevance to modern physics? It is increasingly accepted that Indian ideas have played a crucial role in the development of modern science. We are not just talking about the symbol zero,
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine. SNAPSHOT This is the third part in a four-part series about the important contributions of Kashmir to Indian culture. Kashmir has made a unique imprint on the Hindu religion with its contributions of Shaivism, Vaishnavism and Tantric Shaiva traditions. Also an early centre of Buddhist scholarship,
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine. How did the ancient Indians view the cosmos, time and life? Subhash Kak tells us about the Indian cyclical model and ideas related to time. It is generally known that the Indians believed in a cyclic universe. This idea is related to three other beliefs:
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine SNAPSHOT Besides their contribution to the sciences, Indians have been able to connect deeply with the ‘inner world’, or the spiritual realm. Many great scientists, like Schrodinger and Heisenberg, have taken inspiration from Indic ideas to develop sophisticated modern concepts. In the twenty-first century world, India’s unique
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine SNAPSHOT Between the classical and the quantum worlds lies metaphysics, the domain of philosophers and religious adepts for centuries. This domain has shrunk as science has investigated new fields. Some scientists believe that all of metaphysics would eventually yield to scientific logic. This is a first of
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine SNAPSHOT The mind may be viewed to be constituted by five basic components: manas, ahamkara, citta, buddhi and atman. The Vedic theory of consciousness probably suggests a process of evolution, wherein there is an urge to evolve into higher forms, which have a better grasp of
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya magazine SNAPSHOT Academic advances in a scientific understanding of consciousness will lead to a better appreciation of the Indian literature on the subject. One hopes that a comprehensive chronology of the various developments in the structural models of consciousness will be eventually produced. The Vedic notion of consciousness
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine. Snapshot This is the first in a two-part series that presents a summary of the Vedic theory of consciousness within a framework of contemporary scientific concepts. Consciousness is described as the ultimate mystery in ancient Indian texts, and its study is lauded as the highest science.
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine. SNAPSHOT This is the second part in a four-part series about the important contributions of Kashmir to Indian culture. It describes at length the significant influence of a profound book from Kashmir, Yoga Vasishtha, over Indian philosophical and scientific thought. Another book from Kashmir which has
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Source: - Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine. SNAPSHOT This is the first essay in a four-part series about the important contributions of Kashmir to Indian culture. It throws light on the early history of the region and the expertise of the Kashmiris in the areas of grammar, music and dance. This is the
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Credit: Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine SNAPSHOT The deity of the Sri Chakra is known to us from the Brahmaṇḍa Puraṇa as Lalita Tripurasundari, the playful transcendent beauty of the three cities. The Sri Chakra is an iconic representation of the deepest intuitions of the Vedas. It represents both the recursive structure of
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Courtesy:- Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine SNAPSHOT The important role that logic has enjoyed in the Indian cultural area is due to belief in the overarching Vedic system that knowledge is of two kinds: objective and subjective. All objective knowledge is governed by logic, whereas the knowledge related to the experiencing subject is
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Credit:- Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine SNAPSHOT Logic is one of the six darsanas, which are the classical schools of Indian philosophy. This is the first of a two-part essay, which presents an overview of the Indian tradition of logic. The Indian tradition of logic reached its peak in the Navya Nyaya school of
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Credits:- Subhash Kak / Swarajya Magazine. Was the Greek scientific and philosophical tradition inspired by the Indian school of logic? Greek and Persian historians say that Alexander was the intermediary who brought Indian logic to the Greeks and it was under this influence that the Greek scientific and philosophical tradition emerged. Modern
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