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M.S.Dhoni

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India, What a Land : Swami Vivekananda

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  India, What a Land : Swami Vivekananda Not sure how many of you will read the full article below. We are becoming a generation whose attention span has come down to less than 5 min. The art of reading a few pages for a minimum of 20 minutes and converting a set of words into a language and in turn into a message; followed by visualizing scenes and contemplating deep into space and time – this is called chinthana. It is a form of power and so referred as chinthana shakthi. Here is a test for your chinthana shakthi. Swami Vivekananda says this about his Gurudev, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. Those whose eyes have been blinded by the glamour of material things, whose whole dedication of life is to eating and drinking and enjoying, whose ideal of possession is lands and gold, whose ideal of pleasure is that of the senses, whose God is money, and whose goal is a life of ease and comfort in this world and death after that, whose minds never look forward, and who rarely think of any...

Nara and Narayana, Urvasi and Prahlada

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  Nara and Narayana, Urvasi and Prahlada Maha Muni Dharma was born from Lord Brahma’s heart and was wedded to Prajapathi Daksha’s ten daughters. He had four sons Hari, Krishna, Nara and Narayana. The former two were practitioners of high system of Yoga and Nara and Narayana were always engaged in religious means. When Nara and Narayana were performing rigourous meditation at Gandhamadan Mountain for over one thousand years, Indra got alarmed at the safety of his throne and despatched Celestial Damsels like Rambha, Tilottama, Menaka totalling sixteen thousand and also requested Manmadha and Rati Devi to help divert the attention of the Sages. All the coquetisth approaches made by Heavenly Nymphs fell flat as these Sages were far above the aspects of lust and anger.  With a smile, the Sage brothers created one outstandingly beautiful woman from their thighs and hence named Urvasi! The Munis said that since there were so many Nymphs who came from Heavens to visit the place, they ...

Bharat Rendered UnBharat ( Dr.D.Arka Somayaji, M.A., PH.D)

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Pativrata

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Ayodhya & Kanchi – A Divine Connection

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Ayodhya & Kanchi – A Divine Connection   ‘Ayodhya & Kanchi – A Divine Connection ‘ – book was released by HH Pujyashri Shankara Vijayendra Saraswathi Swamiji at Ayodhya yesterday via videoconference to commemorate the Ram Janma Bhoomi Puja and the 86th Jayanti of HH Pujyashri Jayendra Saraswathi Shankaracharya Swamiji. The book was received at Ayodhya Shankara Matam by Sri Govindgiriji, Treasurer of Sri Ram Janmabhoomi Teertha Kshetra Nyas, Mahants, Sri Pankaj ji of VHP and various prominent citizens of Ayodhya. The e-version(pdf) of the book was released on the auspicious occasion of the 86th Jayanthi of HH Jagadguru Jayendra Saraswathi Shankaracharya Swamiji