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मननीय है कि श्रीरामचरितमानस में जो रामावतार की कथा है, वह कम से कम • २७ कल्प (११६ अरब वर्ष) • पूर्व हुए हैं।
It is worth meditating that ŚrīRāmacharitamānasa is about Rāmāvatāra that occurred more than • 27 Kalpa-s or 116 billion years • ago.
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क्षमा जैसा उत्तम बल, कीर्ति जैसा उत्तम धन, ज्ञान जैसा उत्तम लाभ और श्रीरामायण जैसा उत्तम ग्रन्थ कोई नहीं है।
There is no strength better than forgiveness, no wealth better than renown, no gain better than knowledge, and no text better than Śrī Rāmāyaṇa.
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Replying to @PunchTantrum @nickcollins1953
The location of Laṅkā is clearly known from jyotiṣa śāstra-s actually. hinduism.stackexchange.com/a…
गंगा जी जैसा तीर्थ, मॉं जैसा गुरु, भगवान विष्णु जी जैसे देवता और श्रीरामायण से बढ़कर उत्तम वस्तु कोई नहीं।
There is no place of pilgrimage like Gangā jī, no guru like one’s mother, no deity like Bhagwāna Viṣṇu ji, and nothing better than ŚrìRāmāyaṇa.
श्रीस्कन्दपुराण में रामायण के व्रती मनुष्यों को जिन लोगों से दूर रहने के लिए कहा है, आजकल वही लोग श्रीरामायण पर टीवी सीरियल और मूवी बना रहे हैं।
ŚrīSkanda Purāṇa asks Rāmāyaṇa devotees to avoid the kind of people who are currently producing TV serials & movies on ŚrīRāmāyaṇa.
This raises interesting possibilities about figuring out location of Rāvaṇa’s real Lankā, recorded as a big island ~800 miles off India’s southern coast. @nickcollins1953
The textbooks say civilisation began in the river valleys of Mesopotamia.
But the oldest coastlines on earth now lie under 120 metres of sea.
What if we have been digging in the wrong place?
Episode 1 of The True Cradle, by @nickcollins1953 🧵👇
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श्रीमद्वाल्मीकीय रामायण के प्रथम सर्ग में स्पष्ट लिखा है कि शूद्र भी इसके स्वतः पठन का अधिकारी है।
In the first chapter (sarga) of the Śrīmad Vālmīkī Rāmāyaṇa, it is explicitly stated that Śūdra are also entitled to read it on their own.
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इन नामों से स्तुति करने पर भगवान श्रीगणेश जी प्रसन्न होते हैं - पर यही किसी साधारण मनुष्य को कह दें तो झगड़ा हो जाए।
Praising Bhagwān Śri Gaṇeśa with these names pleases him immensely. But if you were to address an ordinary person with these, it would lead to a fist-fight.
इन नामों से स्तुति करने पर भगवान श्रीगणेश जी प्रसन्न होते हैं - पर यही किसी साधारण मनुष्य को कह दें तो झगड़ा हो जाए।
Praising Bhagwān Śri Gaṇeśa with these names pleases him immensely. But if you were to address an ordinary person with these, it would lead to a fist-fight.
क्षत्रियों के लिए ऐश्वर्य प्राप्ति का सुगम उपाय है प्रतिदिन श्रीमद्वाल्मीकीय रामायण को प्रतिदिन मस्तक झुकाकर प्रणाम कर ब्राह्मण के मुख से श्रवण करना।
Kṣatriyas wishing prosperity should listen to Śrimad Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa recited by a Brāhmaṇa daily with head bowed in reverence
श्रीमद्वाल्मीकीय रामायण को सुनने से, जिसके गृह में विघ्नकारी ग्रह हों, उसके वे सारे ग्रह शान्त हो जाते हैं।
Listening to recitation of Śrimad Vālmīkīya Rāmāyaṇa pacifies any troublesome planetary influences present in one's home.
श्रीमन्महर्षि वाल्मीकि जी ने योगधर्म के बल से भगवान श्रीराम के जीवन वृत्त का भलीभाँति साक्षात्कार करके श्रीरामायण की रचना करी।
Maharṣī Vālmīki composed Rāmāyaṇan after getting a clear, direct vision of life story of Bhagwāna Rāma using power of yogadharma (samādhi).
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Kushagra Aniket’s allegation of “ग्रन्थ-चौर्य” against Swami Karpatri Ji is NOT an honest error. It is a deliberate narrative.
One might charitably assume that he simply overlooked the prefaces of the various volumes of Sanatan Dharmalok and therefore failed to notice the close connection between Swami Karpatri Ji and Pandit Dinanath Shastri. That assumption does not hold. From the very outset, Kushagra advances the suggestion that Swami Karpatri Ji may have been intellectually dishonest and may have appropriated the works of other authors, presenting them as his own. He then expands this suggestion into a much broader claim: that such intellectual theft is not confined to Swami Karpatri Ji alone, but is practised by traditionalists in general, and has been practised historically in order to strip other Varnas of credit for their contributions.
This larger narrative is the real objective. The specific charge against Swami Karpatri Ji serves as the necessary first step. Without first casting doubt on the integrity of a major traditionalist figure, the wider accusation against the tradition itself cannot be sustained.
धार्मिक ग्रन्थों के पठन या श्रवण से पूर्व भावशुद्धि आवश्यक है। सिनेमाघरों में रामायण जैसी मूवी देखने में यह असंभव है।
Purification of bhāva is essential before reading or listening to dhārmik texts. This is impossible when watching a film like the Rāmāyaṇa in a cinema hall.
श्रीमद्वाल्मीकीय रामायण के प्रथम सर्ग में स्पष्ट लिखा है कि शूद्र भी इसके स्वतः पठन का अधिकारी है।
In the first chapter (sarga) of the Śrīmad Vālmīkī Rāmāyaṇa, it is explicitly stated that Śūdra are also entitled to read it on their own.
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Here is what Maneka Gandhi said about Sonia Gandhi in her interview with Simi Garewal.
The interview is from many years ago. Maneka looks much younger here, but somehow, she also comes across as much more innocent-looking than Sonia.
Interesting interview!
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FemLibbers vs. Rākṣasī-s
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जो महिलाएं “यौन स्वच्छंदता” को एक क्रांतिकारी विचार मानती हैं, उन्हें यह एहसास नहीं है कि राक्षसियां इस मामले में उनसे कहीं आगे थीं।
Women who think “sexual freedom” is a revolutionary idea don’t realise that Rākṣasī-s got there first.
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सालकटंकटा ने मंदराचल पर अपने नवजात शिशु को छोड़ दिया और अपने पति विद्युत्केशी के साथ रतिक्रीड़ा करने चली गई।
Sālakatankatā abandoned her newborn baby on Mandarāchala, and went off to have sex with her husband, Vidyutakeśī.
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हिडिम्बा भीम पर इतनी मोहित हो गई कि उसने पाण्डवों का शिकार करने के बजाय अपने भाई हिडिम्ब की पोल खोल दी, जो भीम के हाथों मारा गया।
Hidimbā was so enamoured of Bhīma, that instead of hunting Pāndava-s, she tattled on her brother Hidimba, who then died at hands of Bhīma.
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