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Owing to the all-pervading purānic narrative that is in tune with ¬¬the above, by and large, the Hindu religiosity has come to be steeped in propitiating the gods through assorted rituals and fervent prayers to avert adversity or for self-aggrandizement and /or both. It’s another matter though that in our materialistic time, it has further descended into a religious barter with gods, or worse, of seeking to bribe them that too only after they second man’s bidding! Hence...
Long before the advent of the Torah, not to speak of the Bible and the Quran that followed it, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad had it that “.. since he (man) created gods who are better than he: and also because, being mortal, he created immortals, it is his higher creation. Whoever knows this, comes to be in this, his higher creation.” However, in the latter-day Nārāyana Upanishad, the ‘mortal man’ sought to control the ‘immortal god’ he himself had created thus: “daiva dē...
Akram Vignan is the result of the spiritual quest and endeavor of infinite lives of the One with such spiritual powers. It is the eleventh wonder of nature! The speech of the Akram Gnani, which is irrefutably in principle, is disseminated through the medium of Dadavani magazine, which will complete twenty-five years of publication this September. To partake in the joy of that celebration, a glimpse of the Akram Vignan of the Akram Vignani Dadashri has been compiled. We s...
Who are our enemies in this world? Kashay (anger, pride, deceit, and greed)! And whose support do these kashay have? It is of the ego. To believe oneself to be what he is not is ego (ahamkaar) and it is indeed because of this that the world perpetuates. The One whose ego and myness have become completely destroyed, through the grace of such a Gnani Purush, through the spiritual powers of the Gnan Vidhi on the Akram path, one can permanently become free from the living e...
The speech of absolutely revered Gnani Purush Dadashri has been compiled here so that the pillars of Gnan are strengthened and one may be able to remain in equanimity in face of the various difficulties that have arisen in daily life as a result of the current pandemic, such as tension, worries, fear, externally-induced problems, financial hardship, failure, mental suffering, broken ego, depression, suicidal thoughts, and so on. In such times, Dadashri teaches us to mai...
The New Video Game Idea Book is a book that gives game makers ideas for a great new video game. It does so by giving the game maker new and old ideas to work with. It also goes over the philosophy of what makes a good video game, helps the game maker's imagination, shows them their options, and goes over the best methods for making a new video game. This is a helpful public domain book for making good video games.
Do we complain when a sewer stinks? In the same manner people who are disagreeable and negative are like the sewers. Whatever smells unpleasant, we call it a sewer and whatever smells pleasant we call it a flower. Adjust to both. Both situations are telling you, 'Become Vitraag (beyond attachment and abhorrence or detached) with us.' We all have adjusted to disagreeable circumstances many times in our lives. For instance, we use an umbrella when it rains. We do not quest...
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The expanded 7th edition of Selected Poems by Canadian poet Andreas Gripp
Adolf Hitler had on his hands the blood of six million gas-chambered Jews besides fifty million soldiers, in the flower of their youth, and thirty million civilians of all ages, who perished in the World War II that he started, but yet he is among the most debated about worldwide. Moreover, Mein Kampf, his autobiography with an anti-Semitic slant is not ostracized either by the book world, but in a stark contrast, uttering the very name of Nathuram Godse, the man who ass...
Godse, in his own words, was “Born in a devotional Brahmin family, I instinctively came to revere Hindu religion, Hindu history and Hindu culture. I had, therefore, been intensely proud of Hinduism as a whole. As I grew up I developed a tendency to free thinking unfettered by any superstitious allegiance to any isms, political or religious. That is why I worked actively for the eradication of untouchability and the caste system based on birth alone,” and that should have...
Though the dalit tag affords political clout to its desperate classes as a whole, it had failed to buttress the self-worth of its disparate caste groups for in the Indian cultural calculus, caste is intrinsic to the social-worth of its members. Thus, it is imperative to cast a sense of caste-worth in the dalit fold in the ‘Black is Beautiful’ mould for the collective moral upliftment of its member castes. But self-belief being the by-product of the zeal to strive and no...
Though slavery was abolished in America way back in 1865, the undying discrimination against its ‘free’ Negroes remained such that even Jesse Owens, who having symbolized the U.S. sporting power in the Berlin Olympics of 1938, had to keep holding the bias end of its racial stick. Though the innate physical strength of Negro biology continued to yield sporting returns in their scores of Olympic medals that buttressed the American athletic glory, their racial plight remain...
In the current edition, while elucidating on the purity of the pudgal (non-Self complex of input and output), Dadashri says, “What is purity?” There is no attachment and abhorrence in the smallest particle of matter; anger, pride, deceit, and greed come to an end; that is why purity arises. The entire world rests on sexuality and anger, pride, deceit, and greed; when the state that is free from sexuality and anger, pride, deceit, and greed is attained, purity arises. Now...