https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgAT8WTSsaU&t=43s?cc_lang_pref=eng&cc_load_policy=1 The British were aware that whenever history will be reviewed they will be seen as villain because they have done so many loots, such like massacre made here that they will presented as a criminal. And Bristish also knew that what are the soure of Indian's ideology? From where they
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To understand the impact of Modinomics, it is imperative to first contextualize it. From a time when the Indian per capita income was higher than the British per capita income to the dubious distinction of being an extremely poor country down the millennium, the Indian economy has suffered a longstanding
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiRi-W4uM8g&t=580s Namaskaar to all of you in lieu of a prayer Mangalaacharan. I'll show you this a map of India within its neighborhood, within her neighborhood. This is a very interesting map so as you can see, this is this is our India, this area and if you look behind you have
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X84seX-D-CE There is a general misconception among Indians that janapadas existed only during the Bauddha period and not during the Vedic period as there is no reference to them in the Vedas. Shri Mrugendra Vinod refutes this misconception by presenting internal evidence mentioned in the Vedas themselves. Shri Mrugendra quotes many references
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Source: - Dr. Raj Vedam Facebook Profile. See this fascinating video interview conducted by Sudhee Sn, touching on a number of topics. My take-away from the talk: - (a) how difficult and disorganized the eco-system of learning Sanskrit was, even in the Professor's childhood; (b) Earthquakes from history, going back to 500 CE, with
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Source: - Prashant Parikh / YouTube. Pujya Swamiji talks about the issues related to conversion, which are breaking India from within and without. Please watch the entire talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4sEMVJuDCY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnAo65rcye4
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Source: - The Nomadic Professor / YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyhS6k3D0yE By 1800, the vast majority of what is today Indonesia professed Islam--and much of Indonesia's ancient Hindu and Buddhist history had been all but forgotten, its monumental architecture in ruins in the jungle.
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Source: - True Indology / Twitter. https://twitter.com/TrueIndology/status/1030291680220663808
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Source: - roseHub TV YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyrHHb0wshk 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
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Source: - roseHub TV 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
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Srijan Foundation organized a talk of Mrugendra Vinod, at INTACH, New Delhi. Here is the first part of the Talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfW4iLBgxg8&t=206s Namaskar, I am Mrugendra Vinod. From AnandavanSamudaya. We have been working as introduced. We have been studying Vedas in the traditional way. And, when we saw that the present-day scholarship which basically
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Srijan Foundation Organized a talk of Mrugendra Vinodh at INATCH, New Delhi. Here is the second part of the talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GA29oqlCko&t=655s So, now let us come to the internal evidence of geography. I will be I'm, if you can again the passages ultimately, you understand. I have limitation. I am basically dealing
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqKOtc2gKTs&t=62s Now, this is of a little different genre, title as you can see the identification of unicorn and cult object. Now those who are not familiar, I will be showing them, and now these are the seals. How many of them? Again, mount of evidence. Detailed speculation, big evidence. Ok?
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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: - rosehub TV 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
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3A_IRrECkg After Swami Ramanand returned from his pilgrimage, he decided that this dangerous problem needs to be addressed at a different level. We will have to wage a cultural and spiritual war. That is why he broke away from his Guru Brother and started a new order. The order founded by him
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KObhh12mrY0 People who criticize Ramanand, claim that Kabir was not his disciple, are unable to come up with any coherent arguments to support their arguments. They keep talking in a confused manner. However, Ramananad ji’s role in bringing back Hindus who had been forcibly converted to other religions is very big.
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Source: - rosehub TV 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
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Source: - rosehubTV 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 about religion,
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Courtesy: - rosehubTV / 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
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX1SQsXrW5g&t=10s The other feature of Krishna deva Raya’s court was Ashta Diggajas. Ashta Diggajas are 8 elephants. I mean there is belief that you know there are 8 elephants which actually hold the earth in different directions. Like I told you the names Pundareeka, Vamana, Anjana, and of course Airavat, the
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g0b4ukK7d8 The Bahmani rulers realised their constant fighting against each other was going to be beneficial to the Vijayanagara Empire. They realised the other thing also. On their own they could not defeat the Vijayanagara Empire. On their own, none of them could defeat the Vijayanagara Empire. So, they decided to
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqCQipG-MC0&t=8s Let’s come to the other part the architecture part. The Vijayanagara Empire, I told you, it was founded by different styles like you have the Hoysala style, the Pandya style and the Chola styles. What you call is, the Vijayanagara architecture was developed in its own distinct style. It was
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o09oID33Hw&t=9s The greatest achievements were in the field of irrigation and water supply. When everybody goes to Hampi they see it has great temples, great palaces and all but one achievement of Vijayanagara empire is not known to many. It was of irrigation and water supply network and this is I
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBySaPAfiJg&t=39s Understanding Bhagwan Shankaracharya is to understand the avatar parampara of Sanatana Dharma. Understanding Shankaracharya is to understand, ‘unity in diversity’. Understanding Shankaracharya is to understand, national integration, to understand social reform. Understanding Shankaracharya is to understand the revival of Sanatana Dharma. To Shankarachya parampara goes the credit of protecting Sanatana Dharma
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-pBRf9GU1g Bhagwan Shankaracharya was 8 years old when he left his house. He took sanyas at the age of 9 years. After that what he accomplished cannot even be conceived of today. Between the ages of 12 and 16 years, Bhagwan Shankaracharya wrote commentaries on Prasthanatrayi, 3 types of Prasthaan and
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2ko_RDhLFc Bhagwan Shankaracharya knew that after his demise, India will have to face a physical war, ideological war, cultural war. He knew this very well. That is why in order to protect the 4 Vedas he set up 4 Amnaya Mutts in the 4 corners of this country. Amnaya means the
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPjTtF4gp7Y What is the problem if everybody became Muslim or Christian? Truth be told, there is no clear answer to this problem, especially with the conscious and aware Hindu. Be as it may, since a question has been raised, an answer needs to be given. The answer is that the Indian
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsl6nqwFmoI?cc_lang_pref=eng&cc_load_policy=1 Sri Aurobindo had put his views on this in a very pithy and clear manner. Not just once, but many times, when he was a political leader, when he used to edit a newspaper. I found an article written by around 1909, “Swaraj and Musalmaans”. He explains in a very
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFzCcbKkbtY?cc_lang_pref=eng&cc_load_policy=1 Swami Vivekanand had said, when one Hindu converts to Christianity or Islam, then not just one Hindu reduces but one more enemy of Hinduism gets born. Just this one line explains the complete philosophy, our duties. It’s been a 117 years since his death, but what have we done about
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obVouUw1KIs While on a visit to London, Dharampal came across extremely significant archival material - a series of surveys commissioned by the British government in the 19th century to assess the level of indigenous education in India. These surveys were conducted meticulously in various parts of India by the British and
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12qJ2fOqe1w I'm often told that my, you know, it's a lot of people tell me, why do you study history, why do we need to know our pasts, you know, we need to concentrate on today, what can we do today, and look to the future, that's the thing, I get
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbcKs9dDxB8 Why did the British impose English education on India? There were many reasons, the foremost of which was convenience as it was difficult for them to learn so many Indian languages. It was far simpler to have English-speaking menials to help them govern the millions of unwashed masses. There was, however,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OCO41T_lHM Not many Indians are aware of the tremendous amount of knowledge transfer from India to China in ancient times. Not many know that a large number of Sanskrit manuscripts were carried to China by either Chinese scholars or by Indian scholars hired by Chinese kings. Translating ancient Sanskrit manuscripts into
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHu6EM_fu98 Now, I come to debating, which was an intrinsic part of Indian education. So, you can look I have chosen this picture of Adi Sankaradebating with MandanaMisra and look who is the judge it's a lady who is, who was a renowned scholar in her own right – Ubhaya Bharati
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_DdHPQqPpY&t=27s I also visited this place and then the only way we get to know what it looked like is when you read the autobiography of Huan-Tsang and I-Tsing, so what Huan-Tsang said is that, it was the most beautiful campus he had ever seen. It had a huge gate all
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osdQQhuICKs Here's a map, I have tried to map out the universities in the ancient times until the eleventh or twelfth century and you know it was, there are so many universities you can see that it's completely, it's every part of India is covered so far. The oldest one we
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqeTF_6oyRg Rishi Kanva’s ashrama was not a single ashrama, it was a collection, an assemblage of hermitages of which he was the presiding rishi. So, a student would go to one in ashrama and specialize in one subject underthe Guru, then go to another ashrama, adjoining ashram, and get specialization in another
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vviYeA4fIPM&t=2393s So in the years that I have been living outside India, I get a lot of questions like: how is it that you Indians are motivated to study so hard? What is it that makes you study so hard? And another question I get very often is that why despite
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Source: - India First youTube Channel. ऐतिहासिक भाषण : जब कांग्रेस ने की थी परमाणु परीक्षण का भी विरोध, अटल जी ने दिया करारा जवाब
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The Srijan Foundation organized a talk of Sri. Ratnakar Sadasyula at New Delhi. The topic of the talk was ‘Vijayanagara: The City of Victory”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QruuNq0w_g Transcript: - What I try to do is just bring a, give us, you know try to give us a summary and a overall idea about Vijayanagara, Fine. So the
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tsyzrDg2n4 Namaskar! So just talking about the mentoring on one of the forum, number of you might be aware of it. If not there is one forum called Bharat Rakshak Forum, some of you might know this, BRF. Of course you can have a handle there, it doesn't have to be your
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Source:- Sanskriti FB Page. The unique monolith sculpture of Khasa Matha monastery near Gurmitkal town, Yadgiri district, Karnataka. A shaft pillar with three cages; each of the cages holds a ball sculpted out of the same stone.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Kj89dL38g Charles Dellon has described that the palace of Inquisition was a dreaded, imposing building, that contained about 200 prison cells, many of which were dark and windowless. According to Dellon, the 2 inquisitors had their living quarters as well as their chapel in the palace. All inquisitors were nominated by
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2iYryABHbA How was the Court of Inquisition formed? The Court of Inquisition had 2 inquisitors, both were answerable only to the King. They were appointed only by the King of Portugal. They were not answerable to the Archbishops of Goa. They were not answerable even to the Viceroy of Goa who
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xA1iawkw2o So along with the systematic persecution of Hindus, the Portuguese embarked upon aggressive proselytization. But most people converted out of violence, avarice or fear. Richard Burton, the famous British traveler who had visited Goa during that time, had said that “fire and steel, dungeon and the rack, the rice pot
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