Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The World UN- Day
“After the second world war in 1948 they founded the UN, the United Nations so that a crime like the mass-murder of the Jews could never happen again. Now the UN is a flourishing organization a honourable institution, the only thing is that it doesn’t do the thing they founded it for: prevention of mass-murder.”…
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Kid stuff
“baccha hai” is the excuse for all irresponsible acts in our culture. Yes baccha or kid could be irresponsible, sometimes we learn from there. When we were practising Navavidha bhakti for Ashada Ekadashi at Puttaparthi, there was this little girl, who was all of 6yrs. she was to perform atmanivedhana… this was a concept that…
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connecting with the earth
The burning of Narakasura is a big event in Goa, the legend has it that the only person who could kill him was his mother Bhumi devi. Goa also has the tradition of worshiping Satteri, a kind of anthill which indicates fertile lands, then we the Dolpods of Goa which begin with a dedication of…
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Deepavali-Campus and crackers.
Deepavali— https://www.gharwalidiwali.com/ This is my tribute to Dr.Venugopal who ensured that we had a great time during deepavali. Jyotsna, Aruna, Anand, Arvind, Anupa, Geeta isaac, Krishna,Sundar and Biju who were all part of the baccha brigade. Banditu deepavali,siri sobaganu pasarisi lokava belagatali. The lamps that light the kartika masa, the cool breeze of the oncoming winter there…
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Echo’s of power, the sacred vows,
Ecof power, the sacred vows, Tulasi Ramayan has a line about the illustrious Raghuvansha, Pranjaye par vachan nahi. How much of it was honoured by the Raghnuvanshi’s is another conversation. But actually a promise made , a sacred vow, once spoken becomes part of our existence for ever more. Speech is a vehicle for vows,…
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