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What is the aura of India (read Hindus)

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One evening I asked him a question. “Dick, what is your impression of India?” “Peace,” he said thoughtfully. “The racial aura is peace.”

(Yogananda, Paramahansa. Autobiography of a Yogi (Complete Edition) (p. 513). Yogoda Satsanga Society of India. Kindle Edition.)

This conversation between Shri Yogananda and his American secretary Wright on their visit to India in 1935 says it all.

We need no further certification. I don’t care whether my country is poor or dirty or polluted or crowded or hot or dusty or whatever. In the man-eat-man world, Hindus come across as peaceful community (I mean the REAL peaceful!).

To have stamped your footprint in the sands of planet Earth for 10,000 years and NOT TO GO DOWN HISTORY as invaders, ethnic cleansers of natives, destroyers, land usurpers, marauders, barbarians, conversion mafia – this speaks a lot about Dharmic Hindus. I wouldn’t even say the same of Buddhists – as we have seen Myanmar/Burma and Sri Lanka.

There is in truth nothing to be proud of, to be thought of as ‘peaceful.’ Its just that your ancestors were HUMAN after all. Its okay not to be aggressive. Its okay to be complacent. Bravery and heroism lie in NOT DISTURBING OTHERS for our own personal gains. Not building a life out of others’.

Despite myself, I am proud of our forefathers who did not even bother to patent their inventions and discoveries, many of which are now touted as European. They couldn’t care less really. They lived well.

What Hindus have gone through for centuries, being hunted down, with their women taken away, with the men executed, with our temples ransacked and razed, with their wealth plundered, persecuted enmasse …. paying (Jiziya) taxes to foreign (Mugal) invaders for just being Hindus in NATIVE HINDU LAND INDIA/BHARAT, resisting conversion … its a miracle we are even here today. No violence, no bloodshed, no taking over others lands by invasions, no greed, SIMPLY NO BLOOD IN THE HINDU HANDS AND NO HEINOUS SIN IN THE HINDU CONSCIENCE. NO HINDU HOME OVER THE GRAVE OF THE VANQUISHED NATIVE/SON OF THE SOIL. Well done, dear ancestors. Such a clean world record.

Clicked this pic in my mobile from my desktop kindle. The respect and honour an enlightened Hindu commands.

This is why Paramahamsa Yogananda ji and Swami Vivekananda received red carpet welcome in the US in those days. Through out the world, our yogis are received with respect and awe. World listens to them when they speak. Presidents invite them to their official residences and governments have them address even their parliaments. This is the highest respect accorded to Hindu monks in the world stage today. And this pride belongs to all of us Hindus and our long departed ancestors who sowed the seeds for a peaceful, harmonious, humanitarian society based on values and consideration and compassion over anything. Powerful and wealthy men command fear, not necessarily respect.

Shri Yogananda Paramahamsa was preceded by Swami Vivekananda, also from Kolkata, Bengal, India in 1893 who introduced the eastern ideology to the west for the first time. Many followed him to India as his disciples and sister Nivedita from America, was notable among them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Nivedita

Such is the soft power of Hindus. Dominating the world as the real movers and shakers: medicos, engineers, scientists, yogis, teachers, nurses etc. Not as destroyers, bombers, terrorists, usurpers. World shall write our history thus: THE NATION THAT GAVE THE WORLD SHANTHI (PEACE) AND WISDOM.

So if such a peaceful nation as India wants to take on the evil demons head on, then the world must wake up to reality. The next time, the devils will at their doorstep, not India’s.

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And then one fine day…

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They ask me not to share my vibes, but I choose to. My intention is to make someone draw what is beneficial from this source, that’s all. Its not boasting. Plus I want a record of my vibes. I keep forgetting a lot.

For instance, I remembered after decades, the nightmare I had had as a six year old. In that, a huge demon comes and take away my mother. I never shared it with her then but it was in my mind for a few years. I don’t know why it popped up now after over 40+ years in my memory. It was forgotten in the intervening period. That nightmare did come true in my school years and my mother indeed was taken away forever.

Anyway, I am into meditation for a few years now.

Last week was special. As I was chanting Ganapathi’s nama, I found that I was involuntarily pulled into something within my closed eyes. Not bodily. My attention got pulled. I knew it was not a dream, I was not hallucinating, I was not imagining. Something was unfolding – in my mind’s eye perhaps. That much was clear even in those 30 to 45 sec it lasted. I saw a large eye and the eye dilated and drew me inside deeper. There in darkness strangely I saw a tv playing but not even the tv edges were visible. Cartoon characters were playing in the show. At that moment I forced myself to open my eyes and I lost it all.

But after talking to some spiritually elevated souls, I reckon now something indeed remarkable has happened that day. Over that, I don’t want to share anything in this space. Whether I shall get a repeat or whether I shall progress further – I have absolutely no idea about. Can aver this much: meditation is a powerful tool that can transport you to other realms. For a moment I had gotten a clue as to what wonders await you if you train your mind.

The purpose of my post is only to encourage those who chance upon this space, to take to meditation if you have not already.

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If you are Hindu by birth….

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If you are Hindu by birth, you have to definitely read ‘Garuda Purana’ before it is your time. If you are Hindu by birth, Karma binds you by 200%. In Skanda Shashti Kavacham, there is a line that goes as ‘ பெண்களை தொடரும் பிரம்மா ராக்ஷதரும்’ – and even if I have not yet read the Garuda Purana, I am kind of the same 200% sure that எண்ணெய் கொப்பரை that too one boiling at over 100 C awaits this category of lecherous men. Never mind even if a woman desired you once upon a time. Once she makes it clear SHE WANTS TO SEE ONLY THE BACK OF YOU, you have to respect her choices and vacate your spot. And if she never gave you any wrong signal, then its all the more reason for you to stay away, step back. There is one word for that: CONSENT. I think only incapable men who cannot compete with fellow men, who harbour inferiority complex in the company of competent self made men – target vulnerable women who they can harass online and derive sadistic pleasure from their discomfort. Hurting women’s dignity gives them a feeling of superiority that they cannot have in the all-man’s world. Anyway why waste time on this GARBAGE. Lets leave this to Karma on the lines of Garuda Purana.

Karma and Dharma are relative terms. Practise dharam to reduce your karma quotient. Afterlife is not going to be a SONG for indecent men.

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‘India leads the world in the metaphysical?’

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To understand the Hindu soul and India better, I recommend the book, ‘The autobiography of a Yogi’ by Shri Paramahamsa Yogananda – that I am still reading! A must for Americans, Europeans and Chinese. Unmissable. Its not of learning about India. Its to know WHO YOU ARE ACTUALLY!

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Read this comment in one of the You tube videos posted on India-China scholarly meet or whatever. I didn’t watch the video. Browsed the comments section. Thought of catching up later, but forgot. Now cannot trace it back.

Interesting to note that. We think they are our adversaries. But they clearly have understood India and what it means to be this ancient Hindu dharmic land. Probably it is because, we both are world’s oldest civilizations.

Frankly that is why I never compare India with America or China. America is the greatest country on earth – yet in last 300 years, not a single saint-philosopher has emerged from the States, who reportedly attained enlightenment. Same is true of entire middle east. Also China. India never ceases to produce Mahaan after Mahaan – string of enlightened beings who break the glass ceilings and traverse the cosmos, returning to their physical bodies by the end of the day. What is the point in going to the Mars and Jupiter when you cannot train your mind to achieve what Indian Yogis have been doing for centuries. Who says deities don’t exist. Even in this 21st century we have thousands in India who can manifest their Ishta Devta, deities, who can appear before their eyes. Having said that, it is for us to manifest God in whichever form we please. Of course formless as well. That kind of mental discipline and advanced spiritual training is attainable only through intense meditation or Japa that is the hallmark of Sanatana Dharm (Hinduism) and Buddhism, offshoot of Hindu Dharma. No hallucination, no dope, no mind tricks, no exaggeration, no lies. You attain your high ONLY through mental discipline when the Maya or the Illusion shall fade and you become God and God is you (Advaita). You look inward. You see yourself as god in the inner altar of your heart. That is when you break the birth cycle and attain liberation or Nirvana. You become god, you realize the god in you, you become a beam, a ray of the Light. For some people, this profound wisdom of Hindu Dharma may sound blasphemous. (Heard an online guru explain the difference between Hinduism and Buddhism – where we diverge: Hindus become part of the light. Buddhists dissolve without atma. Without a trace. Become nothingness on enlightenment, never to be reborn ever again. Up until the point of rebirth, Buddhism converges with the mother religion Sanatana (hinduism).

Hindus believe in reincarnations. You are living one of your 1000+ births right now that’s all. To get to this point, you must have been in 84000 wombs of lesser life – from the millipedes and centipedes to the avian, bovines and canines besides other wild life and even mosses and fungi. Whether you progress or regress with each birth depends on what you do with your freewill that is out of scope for even the deities when it comes to direction or control. Every birth is a correction until you evolve into the highest being. So where do massacres, brutality, rape, injustice leave one. This is why Hindu Dharma does not sanction any of these including religious conversion against one’s will. To evolve into the highest state of being, you have to LOVE and NOT KILL. Where violence is promoted, GOD CEASES TO DWELL. As simple as that. This is no rocket science.

Ritualistic worship (with idols) is symbolistic in Hindu Dharma, nothing more. Its like having national flag to salute at but the nation is not just the flag flying at the end of the pole. Idol worship is just that. The west dubbed what they could not understand as ‘paganistic.’ For one thing, they cannot believe that Hindu philosophy is so advanced and that no other single religion is scientific enough or comes a close second to ours (except perhaps Buddhism that inherited the core Hindu beliefs). By the way, even the cross and the statue of the virgin are paganistic, aren’t they.

The more materialist you become immersing yourself in the fathomless pit of Maya, the more distance you put between God and yourself. I have seen that when shopping is on my mind, even my Japa (meditation) suffers. Focus shifts. The vibes/experiences that would be rare occurances, stop forthwith. I have to tune myself mentally and focus with intention to gain my foothold back into the world of Mantras and Japas of the Divine. With just a foot inside (?) I reckon therefore what it takes to make even a little progress once you find your path. You have to be relentlessly non materialistic, developing a sense of detachment and selflessness at the same time. You become more neutral. You are still human so you may be prone to slight weaknesses of emotion and skewed sense of judgment. Its okay. With time, you iron out these wrinkles.

My homestate Tamil Nadu alone has produced so many enlightened beings even in last 100 years. Over centuries, there have been thousands literally and thanks to Sangam Tamil Literature, we have concrete evidences for how advanced Tamil Hindu society was even 1000-2000 years ago. Throughout India, the statistics is staggering. And many Yogis don’t even announce their existences. Some come to light that’s all. America is the land of the bhogis – the most materialistic people. India is the land of Yogis. Our prime minister himself is a yogi. And before him we had Atal ji who was also a bachelor. Our ex president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, even if muslim by birth, was ascetic by nature. Hindu by culture. India is blessed to have had this kind of leadership in last two decades. Even Hindu gods aver that, in order to DEFEAT ADHARMA, one can resort to adharmic means. Sama, beda, dhana, dhanda – the principle explained by Chanakya in the Arthashastra.

For me, achievement is this. Advancement is this. Of course , like any normal human being, I enjoy the materialistic comforts. In fact I cannot live without aircon and certain creature comforts. Yet, I know the purpose of my life is NOT this. I acknowledge, this is one of my thousand births. It is for us to discharge our duties entirely without omission in this birth of ours, following dharmic ways and means. And for some reason, I believe too that I could be in the last few cycles of my births . If it does not happen in this lifetime for me, I shall definitely attain Mukthi (liberation) in a few more,. That is my strongest belief.

Americans and Chinese want to build the tallest skyscrapers and nuke powered submarines and fly out to Jupiter and Uranus. Average Hindu aspires for his/her present birth to be the last and be free of the birth cycle, attaining Moksha (enlightenment) forever. NOT ANOTHER GARBHA VAASAL FOR ME PLEASE. Not another mother’s womb please Oh, Universal Mother.

We all strive for different motives. Part of the reason for poverty in India is this strong Hindu faith. May the Chinese and Americans witness the Ganga Aarthi at Varanasi and funeral pyres burning through 24 hours. May they step into our most ancient temples and attend our grand temple festivals from Puri to Kedharnath, from Tirupathi to Shringeri, from Guruvayur to Dakshineshwar. You will know what it is to be a Hindu, an Indian and why we just don’t bother what America is doing or China is doing or even middle east is doing.

Still we have a stomach to feed. Family to take care of. Materialism matters but materialism need not have to become excessive greed. Once the family is settled, it is time to focus on your next voyage – next birth, that’s all.

I find everything else empty sorry. Everything seems so fake – from branded accessories to the designer clothes to even jewelry and sedans. Only one thing keeps popping up in my mind: of the urge to become enlightened – even if I don’t have substance for it in this janam. Knowing, by how many leagues you fall short HURTS.

This is why the Hindu tribe has to keep up. For the sake of the world. For the sake of humanity. May we uphold the dharam and may we aspire over anything and everything – for only one thing, that is the upliftment/liberation of the soul.

From India, young men and women go to America seeking economic prosperity. From the same America, there are even Hollywood actors and others who come to India seeking spiritual gurus and their guidance for attaining enlightenment.

For even this profound truth to sink in your mind, you got to be on a different plane of reality that has got least to do with materialistic aspects of life. There is more to the soul than pandering to one’s whims and fancies. Pleasures vs Happiness or Pure Bliss. Temporary vs Permanent. Mirage vs Reality.

Once you are 50, you know you have covered over half of your journey already. What lies ahead is less, compared to the distance you covered in the first half of the century. Its time therefore to prepare your mind for the next jaunt – your reincarnation, rebirth. From the summit, you could plunge into the abyss. From the landlord and the commanding businessman, you could be reborn a pauper with his begging bowl out. Rebirths are humbling experiences for those who fail to learn their lessons in their current births. Compassion is for OUR OWN SAKE. Be gentle with others. Everyone is on their soul journey, with a specific assignment. The poorest and the most miserable are on their toughest assignments working through their karma, learning their life lessons. The high and the mighty are going to learn theirs in their rebirths.

Whatever you are today, whatever you have today, you must have craved for in a previous birth or many births. So never misuse the gift. You choose your looks, your geographical area of birth, your faith, your parents everything for specific lessons. Let us make the best use of our own choices in life. Doesn’t matter if you are a Hindu on non Hindu. Irrespective of whoever you are, rebirth awaits all of us. Cycle after cycle after cycle is what is to follow – unless otherwise we train our mind with intention and determination (yes shradhdha and saboori) to attain liberation from this vicious cycle of birth.

BE GOOD, DO GOOD. NOBODY IS GOING TO BE HERE FOREVER.

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Difference between Hindu Dharma and Islam.

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Why should religions evolve. If a religion is evolving, there will be enlightened beings after enlightened beings churned out of such a faithful following. That is what is happening in the case of Sanatan Dharam or Hindu Dharma. For millennia now, century after century, India never ceases to produce enlightened beings who forsake materialism and who transcend the cosmic lines or laws. Islam never saw another enlightened being after their prophet. I am not a follower of Osho but he sure seems to plainly lie down the difference between world’s oldest way of life Hindu dharam and the newest, Islam. This i share without disrespect or prejudice. See, even America that is supposedly No.1 country in the world and the most progressive and advanced scientifically, has FAILED TO PRODUCE A SINGLE ENLIGHTENED BEING IN LAST 3 CENTURIES. Everything about America is ACQUISITION, ACQUISITION AND MORE MATERIAL ACQUISITION. This is their national motto. What for? To what end? What is development really. I am proudly a sanatani, a Hindu. Ours is such an evolved culture and unbroken civilization of over 10,000 years. Deeply entrenched and unimaginable, unfathomable cultural base India has, deeply entrenched for eons. Not in a million years can America or Arabia ever evolve the way the Hindu society has evolved. Even today in India, Hinduism is way of life, 24 hours a day for us, all 365 days an year. It is this social cultural fabric of ours the Abrahamics/Mohammedans of the west want to tear apart. I am too late to be reading ‘the Autobiography of a Yogi’, but please all read this real life account to understand the essence of India, and why trying to contain India shall always fail or even destroy you. Bharathiya’s power and strength lies in our spirituality. Even today India boasts quietly of thousands of evolved yogis and siddhas who easily astro travel leaving their physical bodies, returning at their whim after their space voyages. This is why we can never become another China ever. Our life purpose/goal is different. Hindus are not the staple broiler chicken like the chinese. Finally every society must evolve into an enlightened one. Our goal/purpose in life is to attain Moksha/Nirvana, escaping the birth cycle and become the part of the light. Material aspects are for the first few decades of life. You never build your world destroying others.’ Buddhism is offshoot from Hindu Dharma. There were no demarcations between Bharat (India) and Nepal until a hundred years ago. Seetha is the daughter of Nepal. Pakistan/Af will never prosper as this territory is cursed. Unless and until this region reverts to Dharma, whatever you sink here will be wiped out.

Even Jesus Christ spent 18 years in Bharat (India) learning Hindu scriptures. For us Hindus, he is one more yogi or guru that’s all. Guru is an enlightened being but is not God Himself or Herself. Prophets or Gurus lead us to The Penultimate, the Para. They are the first step. But we should never stop with them. From Hindu ‘om’ came the ‘amen.’ From Hindu ‘Brahman’ came the word Abraham. Krishna was the first cow herder who thousands of gopikas (like nuns) married (out of bhakthi/faith). Jesus was conveniently a shepherd after that to who the christian nuns got betrothed to. Even Noah’s ark is lifted out of ancient Hindu history. Nothing told by abrahamics is new but already told in Hinduism many millennia earlier in history. Since religious conversion is never a Hindu’s agenda, nothing was popularized.

Unlike christianity or islam, you have to choose being a Hindu. Until a century ago, you needed to be born a Hindu. Hindu by blood only. Now many Hindus practise sanatanic ways around the world. That is their conscious choice, not forced or bribed. Hindu gods are discreet. You need to choose them consciously. We call our Divine Mother, Rahasiya Priya, Guhya priya. She hates being forced upon others or even being told about/talked about.

You don’t have to be born a Hindu to have rebirths. YOU WILL HAVE REBIRTH. YOUR NEXT BIRTH WILL BE A LESSON ALWAYS FROM YOUR PREVIOUS ONE. Its therefore important to be kind for our own sake. Save your soul.

Imagine the kind of conversion by the Christian missionary mafia happening in India and the love jehad by the muslims targeting Hindu girls. In many cases, the muslim boys pretended to be Hindu boys and revealed the truth to the girls after impregnating them. Wait till the last drop of oil evaporates in the middle east. A new world order we shall have after this because, economics too play a part in spreading religions. Earlier, conquests and payoffs from conquests spread some religions. Kind of economics too.

Rounding off this post with this: Do you know this temple history. Tamil Hindu history itself reveals innumerable evolved saints over centuries. If Gods are on your side, the first sign is that, they will make you kind and compassionate and reasonable and least judging. You don’t go out of the way damaging others. In Tamil we say, ‘avan arulaale avan thaal vanangi’ which means, even to believe in God, you have to be blessed. If you are evil personification or not wanted, you will be ruthless in nature and cruel and inconsiderate. Racist and religious bigot. Even Hindu gods say that to rout out adharam, it is fine to follow adharmic ways sometimes. Adharma has to be quelled with adharma if our dharma makes us hesitate. It takes millennia after millennia to evolve into such a fine and cultured society as Hindu. The Portuguese gauged out the Hindu eyes and nailed our ancestors to the cross to convert them to christianity. Some Hindus relented to save their children and save their lives. The islamic invaders razed our temples and took our women and tried to sever the very roots of Hindu culture. Tipu Sultan hung 300 hindu men on Diwali day in front of their families for refusing to embrace islam. This is just 0.00000001 percent of cruelty and barbarity inflicted upon by islamists on native Hindus. We even paid taxes to continue to live as Hindus for centuries to these muslim barbarians in Hindu India. That is the kind of sacrifice our ancestors made to save our ancient faith and dharm. This is what India has survived for 10 centuries at the hands of christians and muslims.

Dharma is the only balancing faith and factor on earth. Without Dharma, the world will crash in no time.

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Krishna’s Heart

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HARE RAMA HARE KRISHNA!

Jagannath temple, Puri

Shocked by the gunfire on ISCKON temple in the US. Krishna lived eons before Jesus when modern communication network was practically non existent on planet earth. Further Hindu history is believed to have happened in another plane of time before catastrophe struck. We Hindus believe, we are someone who picked up the shreds of the lost civilization and rebuilt our society from the banks of the Sindhu yet again. Krishna’s heart lives on for us.

Hindu Dharam never spread by the sword. We don’t bribe or coerce anyone into conversion. On the contrary, Hindu deities may want you to REALIZE them. My Ishta devata is Ma Lalitha. We call Her ‘guhyapriya or rahasyapriya.’ She does not even want ignoramus to talk about Her or think about Her, as per scriptures. The realization has to come to people on their own – if not by birth as in the case of the biologically/culturally born-Hindu. Mostly Krishna devotees around the world thus REALIZE KRISHNA on their own as roads may lead them to Krishna mandir.

Puri Jagannath Mahaprasadam is unique, satwik food.

Puri Jagannath Rath Yatra is also reenacted around the world by ISCKON temples. Its a massive event in Odisha that draws lakhs of Krishna devotees from all corners of the globe.

You simply cannot erase Krishna Consciousness. Hindu deities are very much realizable as more and more of non Hindus in America are realizing Lord Ganesha, Kali, Krishna, Shiva among others. (Deities come to us in the form we may manifest them in. In other words, deities are energy forms with names and images that YOU give them. Nobody can shake them off. Most of us seek deities manifested by our ancestors). Krishna is the most accessible and realizable deity who millions around the world find themselves in the same frequency with.

Dharmic Hindu faith, the Sanathana Dharma, is a conscious choice for millions around the world. Of the six schools of Hindu Philosophy, Vaishnavam (under which Krishna Consciousness falls) is more popular with Krishna as its supreme deity or Brahman. Before Jesus was a shepherd, Krishna was tending to cattle. Before the nuns were married to Jesus, thousands of Gopikas were married to Krishna very much in similar fashion. So tell me who copied who.

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When hate fills your heart overwhelmingly…

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When hate overwhelms your heart and being, listen to this: never fails to make my eyes moist. My bhakthi, my spirituality is this.

My mom who did not live for long, took us to chapels to light candles. When we fell sick, we got no allopathic medication. Only some herbs and a visit to a temple and a masjid. Remember vaguely an old man doing some tricks with a stick after which I got okay after running temperature for days. In Tamil we call it ‘mandhirikkaradhu.’ As my mother also taught the hearing and speech impaired middle school girls who she brought home for weekends or festivals sometimes, I was blessed to grow up without biases and with acceptance of everything. Even disability was not strange to me as visit to my mom’s school was very common during summer vacations, their school days, sports days etc.

Today I spend an year between three totally different countries. A couple of months in the US, rest of the time divided between Middle east and India. Living amid varied hues of people and different cultures has made me aware of our shortcomings as well as advantages. To me, this is what makes me a Hindu.

Om Shanthi.

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Justice for Sushant Singh Rajput

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Updated March 23rd: Shocked to note that closure report has been filed by the CBI in Mumbai High court on Sushant Singh Rajput case. A very sad day for justice in India. I for one DO NOT BELIEVE THAT SRI DEVI OR SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT OR JAYALALITHA died a natural death.

For some of us, afterlife is of most significance than the earthly life. Imagine having a brief celeb life on Planet earth and then suffering miserably to eternity in afterlife. People refuse to see through the Maya. They all think this is their permanent station in life. In the very next birth they could be born as serial rapist or a man in asylum or a homeless living under a river bridge begging for livelihood. The more you think the indispensable you are, the more humbling will be your next birth.

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Finally the Sushant Singh Rajput case is reopened along with Disha Salian’s. Why should a leading hero of Bollywood commit suicide. Hopefully Sri Devi’s suspicious death case also is reinvestigated. Some ten popular Maharashtrian suspicious deaths were reportedly during the covid period. Sunanda Pushkar, Jayalalitha Jayaram – the list is long. If this can happen to the most successful top people in this country, then where is safety or security for mere mortals like us. Someone mentioned about reopening even Divya Bharthi’s case. Actor Shoba of Tamil film industry too supposedly committed suicide. Prime suspect in this case or who we call as ‘person of interest’ is no more. This is a very old case from 1981. Its so sad that these women who were top stars and best of those times could be disposed off so easily and nobody is bothered. What about even our former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri who died in state. Marilyn Monroe! Sushant Singh Rajput is a tragedy. He was not cunning enough to perhaps conduct himself like the Khan mafia. Paid dearly with his life.

Was listening to this psychic, and yes I do believe in all that, where she said, among the lost souls still hanging around without making their way to the light of passage – there still remained Sri Devi, Sushant Singh and Divya Bharathi. As per Hindu Karma, only those who have unnatural death or death by accident linger, not knowing their way. The day I listened to this podcast, I wanted their poor atmas to get some shanthi that can finally enable them to get satgati. Imagine being a topstar of her lifetime like Sri Devi and then suffering miserable afterlife. I am sure anyone who reads me will think I am crazy, I don’t care. This is what I believe in.

The parents of this girl Sudikha Konanki in the US are asking the Dominican Republic police to declare their daughter as drowned. Why? Only Hindus can understand the logic behind this request. It means they can perform her last rites that can ensure that, if she is no more, she can PASS OVER. Does that make sense. My heart goes out to her poor parents. Its not my intention to sensationalize this post by mentioning her. This is to show why its necessary to have ABSOLUTE CLOSURE about an Atma, for Hindus. Please someone give the girl and her parents a definitely closure. Om Shanthi.

People talk about political reasons, political contexts. For me its always spiritual connection. People and governments talk about immigrants. To me they are souls or atmas. Just like transgenders. I don’t have political views. Its not my political standing. Its my spiritual take that’s all. Well, you may find that hard to believe in!

Please allow Sushant, Sri Devi, Divya and even Sudiksha passage to light by giving them closure. Om Shanthi.

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Karnataka becomes the first state in India to legalize Euthanasia

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Karnataka becomes the first Indian state to implement the Supreme Court’s “Right to Die with Dignity” order, allowing terminally ill patients to refuse life-sustaining treatment.

On March 9th 2018, a five-Judge Bench comprising Dipak Misra CJI, A K Sikri, A. M. Khanvilkar, D Y Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan JJ held that the right to die with dignity is a fundamental right. “An individual’s right to execute advance medical directives is an assertion of the right to bodily integrity and self-determination and does not depend on any recognition or legislation by a State,” as quoted by Supreme Court Observer.

Passive euthanasia is legal in India. On 7 March 2018 the Supreme Court of India legalised passive euthanasia by means of the withdrawal of life support to patients in a permanent vegetative state. Forms of active euthanasia, including the administration of lethal compounds, are illegal.

(Inputs from Google/Mint)

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I am truly undecided on this. Earlier I was all support for assisted passive euthanasia for terminally ill patients. Now I am not sure about it for entirely different reasons.

The normal/regular questions that perk up in this case are:

  • Who gets to decide about ending a patient’s life. Patient’s consent when in clear consciousness, or the physician’s will when the patient is unconscious and undecided or the family.
  • What timeframe to heed by when it comes to pull the switch off the life support when it comes to terminally ill patients.
  • What is the legal status of death in this case. Do we have to invent new terminology.
    • Besides ruling out any ground for foul play, is there a foolproof way to conclude that the patient’s condition cannot be reversed in a one-in-a-million off-chance.
    • To die with dignity is noble no doubt. We put down dying pets all the time to give them quick relief. But humankind is a different story.

    I have my reservations about euthanasia after my interests in spirituality started gaining momentum. Also in the past I have always seen unnatural death as something that cannot allow an ‘atma’ to pass on. The soul will be stuck in the earth. Now I am even more convinced that a natural death is the one and only way to pass over quickly to the other side. When we refuse to suffer our karma in this birth, our soul will suffer many more times in afterlife for embracing unnatural death. There is also the question of Karma attribution to different parties in the case of euthanasia. Who will bear the karma of ending the life. The patient or the physician or the attending nurse or the family that decides for the patient on the evidence of apre-drawn will. Of course this is my Hindu philosophical view.

    Personal choice: BIG NO TO EUTHANASIA. Earlier I have somewhere in the blog expressed my will to be put down if at all I would be in vegetative state. For a while I was an active supporter of passive euthanasia. Now as I learn more about Dharma and Karma, I don’t want to die a micro second earlier! I would fight tooth and nail to retain my life be it in vegetative or active state! Mortgage my house to keep me hooked to the machine if it needs to be! I don’t want to be hanging out there in the infinite space after all! Would rather be tied to the hospital bed with IV tubes running all over till my time is out !

    Faiths of the world disapprove of assisted death/euthanasia not without a reason.

    Why, there are so many many million other ways that India can show progress and development. A dharmic nation going against the law of nature is surprising.

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    Swastika of the Hindus: most misused religious symbol in the world.

    Posted on by veeskitchen

    A copy-paste job here from Google:

    The Nazi use of the swastika stems from the work of 19th Century German scholars translating old Indian texts, who noticed similarities between their own language and Sanskrit. They concluded that Indians and Germans must have had a shared ancestry and imagined a race of white god-like warriors they called Aryans…

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    The German airlines is called Lufthansa. ‘Hansa’ in ancient Hindu language Sanskrit means ‘swan.’ ‘Luft’ means air. The Hindu-German connection is very intriguing. In fact in the Heidelberg university in Germany, there is a full fledged Sanskrit department devoted to research. North Indians are of Aryan stock and the south Indians are Dravidians.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29644591#:~:text=The%20Nazi%20use%20of%20the,like%20warriors%20they%20called%20Aryans.

    But its very unfortunate that the sacred Hindu symbol Swastika got misused by Hitler for genocide purposes. Now swastika is misrecognized as symbol of hatred around the world. Because of this, people mistake us passive Hindus for fascists. Originally from ancient Hindu culture also used by Buddhists, the symbol captivated the west who started using it more freely in the 20th century.

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    Ironically, the two inverted triangles over one another which is a Jewish holy symbol is also a very ancient Hindu sacred symbol. In fact its the basis of much advanced Sri Yantra, a set of 9 (5 and 4) triangles overlapping each other representing Shiva and Shakthi.

    the Sri Yantra
    Om
    some sacred hindu symbols
    swastika, sacred hindu symbol
    swastika with Hindu temple in background

    The Swastika is symbol of lucky charm for Hindus even today. ‘Swasth’ in sanskrit means wellness, goodness. The swastika is a very sacred, holy symbol to us that we adorn our homes and temples with. It is important to spread awareness about Swastika so that the lost glory of the swastika is restored.