There are two important prophecies related to Hinduism in Indonesia. 🕉️🇮🇩

The first was made by a royal head priest called Sabdapalon.

Upon conversion of the last Majapahit King Brawijaya V to Islam ing 1478, he prophecised that he would be born 500 years later during a time of corrupt politics and natural disasters.

He would sweep Islam off the island and restore the Hindu-Buddhist Javanese religion.

Interestingly in 1978, Mt Semeru erupted. It was also the time when the first new Hindu temples in Java like Pura Blambangan (Banyuwangi) were completed.

Another prophecy was made by the king of the Kediri Kingdom, Jayabaya (also known as Varmesvara) who ruled 1135 AD-1179 AD.

"The Javanese would be ruled by whites for 3 centuries and yellow dwarfs for the lifespan of maize plant (one year) prior to the return of a dharmic king"

It is was also said that Ratu Adil, the dharmic king would return “when iron wagons drive without horses and ships sail through the sky.”

The Dutch would rule Indonesia from 1610 upto the Japanese invasion which was followed by their independence.

Air India was started in 1932 by industrialist JRD Tata. Then its name was Tata Airlines. 1933 was the first commercial year for Tata Airlines. This year, Tata Airlines ships have flown about 160,000 miles. British royal 'Royal Air Force' pilot Homi Bharucha was the first

pilot of Tata Airlines, while JRD Tata and Vincent were the second and third pilots.
After the Second World War, on 29 July 1946, Tata Airlines became a 'Public Limited' company and its name was changed to 'Air India Limited'. After the independence of the country, the

Government of India first took 49 percent participation in Air India. Further in 1953, the Government of India passed the Air Corporation Act and then bought a majority stake in the company from the Tata group. Thus Tata Airlines became the official Air India.

This poster is from when India and Pakistan were not partitioned. You can see and understand the route of Air India in this poster.
Image source : 1946-47 network map of Air India Ltd (then Tata Airlines).

✨The philosophy of Charvakas✨

This thread:-
1:- Will give you the basic info about Charvaka philosophy.
2:- will show you similarities between the statements of Charvakas and so called Hindus who have no connection to their roots and still try to term themselves as Dharmic.

We have seen all short of arguments coming out of their mouth you will be amazed by seeing similar arguments dating back to thousands of years . No progress in the field of atheism is made . It is 21st century

Although no book of charvaka philosophy is completely available but there are bits and pieces . Also this philosophy is mentioned in various other books written by our acharyas so that is enough material for a general view .

Now the Philosophy:-

✨About Varna Vyavastha✨
नैव वर्णाश्रमादीनां क्रियाश्च फलदायिका :।
The Karmas related to वर्णाश्रम are not fruitful.

शुद्धिवेशद्वयीशुद्धी पित्रोः पित्रोर्य देकशः । तदानन्तकुलादोषाददोषा जातिरस्ति का ॥
There is no purity of castes , do as you wish instead of following jatidharma

Dr. BR Ambedkar says that the doctrine of equality is glaringly fallacious. Men can never be equal. They are born with different genetics, education etc. However, he says adopting the idea of equality is the only way a statesman can proceed in politics. (Realpolitik)

Dr. BR Ambedkar says he has wondered for long the SC/STs never rebelled, never spoke up or raised their voice for millenia. He says this question troubled him a lot. He says the lower castes were completely broken & accepted servitude as their only fate in life.

He says legislation or moral advice to "inter-dine" wont do anything to remove caste. The Hindus are a deeply religious people he says. Caste has divine sanction. To annihilate caste, you must annihilate the authority of the shāstra, the veda & destroy the Hindu religion.

Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar says "The wall built around caste is impregnable. Inside this wall stands the army of Brahmins, Brahmins who are there not as mercenaries but as an army fighting for its homeland. Breaching the wall of caste is well-nigh impossible."

Dr. Ambedkar says that secular Brahmins & priestly Brahmins are kith & kin. It is useless to make any distinction between them. Ideology of a Brahmin is irrelevant. They are joined by birth & will never fight against the existence of the other. They are two arms of the same body.

Navayana (The religion founded by BR Ambedkar) rejected all the core doctrines of Buddhism

- Rejected law of karma, rebirth in a new life, the concept of samsara, the 4 noble truths

How is this religion still called “Buddhism”? It rejects every core tenent Buddhism believes in.

To give an example - this is like a man who rejects the soul, rejects the law of karma, rejects transmigration of the soul, rejects the doctrine of mokṣa call himself a “Hindu”

It is an internal inconsistency that makes no sense.

Hinduism and Buddhism both believe in karma & rebirth. They also believe in liberation from samsara. The chief disagreement is whether the soul exists or not.

I’d say Hinduism & Buddhism are much closer to each other than Navayana is to any Buddhism.

#Alert: US Chargé d'Affaires Atul Keshap is under personal/professional attack after doing what diplomats from Germany, Australia, UK, Singapore & dozens of EU countries did before--visiting RSS headquarters as part of routine diplomatic outreach in India.

#Hindphobia? 1/

Amb. Keshap made no endorsement & met several other civil society leaders during his honorable service & tenure. But @johnsifton @hrw @MalikMujahid & Pieter Friedrich, an operative funded by an @IAMCouncil founder, are brutally singling out Keshap as no other diplomat before. 2/

This pattern of attacking #HinduAmericans public servants--appointed or elected--to deny them positions or have them fired/censured for being "too close" to the Indian govt. is a standard too frequently & exclusively applied to Indian/Hindu Americans in public service.

Many of the same actors targeting Amb. Keshap also maligned several Hindu candidates in 2020, elected reps & even staffers in the Biden campaign. Only Hindu Americans are targeted, alleging dual loyalty or "Hindutva" sympathies. Wrote about this

We stand with accomplished, committed public servants like @USAmbKeshap and condemn these ugly attacks and harassment. We stand with Amb. Keshap for carrying out his duties in exemplary fashion and doing what senior diplomats do every day.

Stop the bigotry. End #Hinduphobia.

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Next time you eat a favorite dessert, remember the story of Hindus who extracted sugar & refined it from sugarcane plants before 4000 BCE. The word sugar comes from Sanskrit शर्करा (śarkarā), meaning "ground  substance”.  It is mentioned as far back as the Valmiki Ramayana.

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Sugar’s uses are elaborated in Nalas’ Paka Darpana of pre-Mahabharat times. Chanakya’s Arthashastra (4th C. BCE) mentions sweets & wines made with sugar. By 350 CE, during Gupta Era, crystallized sugar was being manufactured. Lord Kamadeva is shown with sugarcane in temples.

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Traveling Buddhist monks took sugar to China where it became very popular. Chinese documents confirm 2 missions to India in 647 CE from Tang China after Emperor Taizong requested emperor Harsha of India for envoys to teach Chinese the technology for sugar manufacturing.

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Indian sailors, who ate Ghee & sugar on long trips also introduced sugar to many other countries through numerous naval trade routes. By the 6th C. CE, Indians took sugar cultivation and processing to Persia, and from there it was taken to the Mediterranean by Arab expansion.

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Greeks & Romans, used sugar as an exotic & powerful medicine imported from India not food.  Greek physician Dioscorides in the 1st century (AD) wrote: "There is a kind of coalesced honey called sakcharon (from Sanskrit śarkarā)  found in reeds in India”

Ancient Indian Chemists !!
🙏

पूर्व काल में भारत में अनेक रसायनज्ञ हुए

नागार्जुन-रसरत्नाकर ,कक्षपुटतंत्र, आरोग्य मंजरी, योग सार, योगाष्टक

वाग्भट्ट - रसरत्न समुच्चय

गोविंदाचार्य - रसार्णव

यशोधर - रस प्रकाश सुधाकर

रामचन्द्र - रसेन्द्र चिंतामणि

सोमदेव- रसेन्द्र चूड़ामणि

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Nagarjuna can be called wizard of Chemistry and Super Metallurgist

सनातन कालीन परिप्रेक्ष्य में रसायन एवं धातु कर्म विज्ञान के सन्दर्भ में नागार्जुन का नाम अमर है

इन्होने विभिन्न धातुओं को सोने में बदलने की विधि का वर्णन किया था. एवं इसका सफलतापूर्वक प्रदर्शन भी किया था

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नागार्जुन ने रसायन शास्त्र और धातु विज्ञान पर बहुत शोध कार्य किया

इन्होंने कई पुस्तकों की रचना की जिनमें ‘रस रत्नाकर’ और ‘रसेन्द्र मंगल’ बहुत प्रसिद्ध हैं

चिकित्सा विज्ञान के क्षेत्र में इनकी प्रसिद्ध पुस्तकें ‘कक्षपुटतंत्र’, ‘आरोग्य मंजरी’, ‘योग सार’ और ‘योगाष्टक’ हैं।

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रस रत्नाकर ग्रंथ में मुख्य रस

(१) महारस
(२) उपरस
(३) सामान्यरस
(४) रत्न
(५) धातु
(६) विष
(७) क्षार
(८) अम्ल
(९) लवण
(१०) भस्म

महारस
(१) अभ्रं
(२) वैक्रान्त
(३) भाषिक
(४) विमला
(५) शिलाजतु
(६) सास्यक
(७)चपला
(८) रसक

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उपरस
(१) गंधक
(२) गैरिक
(३) काशिस
(४) सुवरि
(५) लालक
(६) मन: शिला
(७) अंजन
(८) कंकुष्ठ

सामान्य रस
(१) कोयिला
(२) गौरीपाषाण
(३) नवसार
(४) वराटक
(५) अग्निजार
(६) लाजवर्त
(७) गिरि सिंदूर
(८) हिंगुल
(९) मुर्दाड श्रंगकम्‌

इसी प्रकार दस से अधिक प्रकार के विष हैं।

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Over the coming nine nights, NHSF (UK) will be celebrating Shakti through telling the stories of nine female intellectuals from Hindu history.

What can we, as Hindu students today, learn from the stalwart philosophers of the past?

And how many of us, as young Hindus, know that some of our most influential thinkers were women?

Each day we will be updating our website, where you will be able to read more about each figure 🙌

Written by @WarwickHinduSoc alumni 🙏

#navratri2021 #gargi #shakti #rishika #hinduphilospher #hinduwomen #hindurolemodels #nhsfnavratri

Plan of a fortified Capital city as described by Kautilya in Arthashastra. #Thread
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The king shall build his capital at the center of his kingdom near a water source and fortify it with moats, Rampart and high Parapet walls encircling the city. ++

Design of Ramparts, Parapets and towers on top of them is described in detail. ++

Inside of the fortification there will be roads, gates, aqueducts & drainages. The Royal residences and residential areas for different Varnas are also described in detail. See city plan image in first tweet of this this thread. ++

Temples to gods like Siva, Lakshmi, Vaishravana, Ashvins & Kali are built at city center. Tutelary deities are installed at different parts of the city and guardian deities at the gates. ++

‘You may be strip searched’: Pakistani cricketer shares boarding pass for USA flight with ‘SSSS’ stamped on it.'

The woes of an international traveller from the Land of the

Leave alone, USA, even the good folks of Tbilisi know what to do when they see a Packie passport, even if carried by a 'celebrity'!
🤣

Here's a 'Travelogue' of a Green Passport holder to Brazil - Mexico - Panama City - Brazil. Khoob 'khaatirdaari' hui!
Interestingly, she reports that Mexico had a RED ALERT ON PAKISTANI PASSPORTS!

Of course, there are people who vehemently cry that this supposedly photoshopped image is denting the 'image' of those that hold the Green Passport!

And why this 'paranoia' against 'innocent' Packie 'travellers', you asked?
Well, here's an example - the son of a V.E.R.Y senior Pakistan Air Force officer wanted to blow up the Times Square in New York not too long ago!
Of course, he was unrepentant for plotting to murder!

A social media trend #BoycottIndianProducts was pushed by #MuslimBrotherhood, a radical Islamist front using multiple fake news. It was supported by Qatar-Turkey-Pak nexus.

Objective was to hit India’s image. But the bigger target was Saudi.

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A trend #مقاطعة_المنتجات_الهندية started on Sept 23 protesting tragic event in Assam. It was also widely portrayed by many Arab media, claiming anger in Arab world about atrocities on Muslims in India.

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However what Arab media did not tell:

The trend was artificially pushed by MB influencers form Cairo, Doha, and Istanbul.

That the ‘news media’ were also affiliated with MB
And that the main target was Saudi Arabia.

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Key influencers all belonged to Muslim Brotherhood:

Al Sagheer of IUMS, a major MB front. Two former Al Jazeera journalist Muzaffar Zaidan & Abu Hilalah, both MB affiliates pushed the trend. Also, Sami Kamal El Din a designated terrorist by Egypt was a key influencer.

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Trend was orchestrated was also evident from data:

large number of newly created trolls retweeting a small set of posts to make it trending. 80% non-description handles were created recently, many just for the trend – and part of a close network.

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Heard of King James version of the Bible?
Know of its origins in this thread.

In 382 CE, Jerome was commissioned to translate the old and archaic Latin versions of the bibles into everyday Latin. This was the Vulgate. Even then only the educated elite & priests could read it.

They acted like mediators between believers and the Christian god, reading and interpreting it for the common people.

Now we know how and why so many interpretations arose out of each verse. This gave them scope to corruption within the church. This went on till the 1500s.

By the time King James came to the throne of England, 1603, the religious scene in England was volatile. Protestantism had been invented by this time.
50 yrs before that, Elizabeth I’s half-sister, Mary I, a treacherous Catholic, executed 250 Protestants during her short rule.

As the queen of England Elizabeth I, recognized only the Anglican Church of her father Henry VIII, as the only legitimate brand of Christianity. Everyone was required to attend the Church of England - and ONLY that church - every week.

If the ruler of England were Protestant all people in the kingdom were required to follow the Protestant beliefs and church services were to be conduced the Protestant way. If the ruler were Catholic, everyone in the kingdom was required to practice the Catholic faith and rituals

14 Reasons for Sadness According to Mahabharata

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A Long Thread

After the Kuru war, in the moment of a victory that has come at a great cost, Yudhishthira goes to meet Bhishma, who is in his dying breaths.

Yudhisthira’s inquisitive dialogue with Bhishma, which takes place here, spans Shanti and Anushasana parvans of the Mahabharata.

In this dialogue, Yudhishthira asks Bhishma, "Why does one feel sorrow? why does one feel pain?"

Bhishma’s answer is comprehensive, it nearly spans 18 shlokas. The reasons he enlists are both intrinsic and extrinsic in nature.

Reason 1 –

Despite of worldly comforts, when one is in a foreign land, away from home and away from the loved ones, one feels a gnawing loneliness. That makes them long and yearn.

(In Welsh language, there is a beautiful word that captures this longing for home – hiraeth)

Reason 2 –

May be because of personal flaws, but when a person is deserted by their friends and loved ones, then the home itself feels like a foreign land, and that thus makes the person sad.