Tag: Mahabharata
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Dharma Himsa Tathaiva Cha – Swami Chinmayananda
Ahimsa paramo dharmaha, dharma himsa tathaiva cha » Non-violence is the greatest dharma, so too is all righteous violence. – Mahabharata Personally, I am no advocate of violence. But violence, too, has its rightful place in life, life does not preclude death. The average Indian has been moulded into a particular national mentality of quixotic tolerance.…
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The Importance of Kshatriya Dharma
Where Brahma (spiritual power) and Kshatra (worldly power) move together, may I know that sacred world where the Gods move together with Agni (the sacred fire). Shukla Yajur Veda 20.25 The ancient Vedic seers provided different teachings for different levels and temperaments of human beings. They recognized an organic order to society, in which various…
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The lesson of warrior Arjuna
The third Pandava, as an impetuous warrior, the embodiment of the great indra on earth gave a powerful lesson to his brother Yudhishthira when urged by his wife Yajnaseni. The pith of this lesson is truly one for the kali age, especially the situation in which the rashtra(dominion) that founded by the kuru and the…
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Speed of Light discovery by Vedic Scholar Sayana
Imagine that archaeologists, digging a thousand year old virgin site in Antarctica, come across an inscription deep underground that shows the sun, and next to it the numbers 186,000 miles per second, the speed of light. What would the world do? More likely than not, this find will not be accepted by scholars. A fraud,…