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Cut the crap!

Your stupid & dishonest verbal gimmicks notwithstanding, the undeniable fact is that Buddha indeed compared Brahmins to dogs & concluded dogs were better.

Even traditional commentary on the verse says "Buddha comes Dogs to Brahmins, and Dogs come out better" https://t.co/1Aks88MSMX

 To begin with, even the name of the Sutta is "Sona Sutta"( Dog sutta).

But this Sutta has nothing to do with Dogs. It is a rant against Brahmins. Dogs feature only when they have to be compared with Brahmins.

And every comparison concludes that Dogs were better than Brahmins
What is this Sutta about?

It is about Buddha's stereotyping and generalisation against Brahmins.

He begins by saying that Brahmins of his time mated with females of all backgrounds. He compares Brahmin sexual mating pattern with that of dogs.
Here Buddha condemns Brahmins of his time for intermarrying with other varnas/communities and compares them with dogs who mate with every breed.

This is not an innocent comparison. Sexual behaviour of dogs is known for its licentiousness and promiscuity

https://t.co/vGcaki8K2h
This is the reason why words like "k*tti", "bit*h" denoting dogs is used as a grave sexual insult.

Although modern Buddhists flaunt egalitarianism now, for the historic Buddha intercaste marriage was a horror that amounted to licentious social behavior resembling dogs.
To push further his caricature that Brahmins were licentious like dogs, he then accuses Brahmins of indulging in sex even during periods.
Buddha then makes his third accusation.

He says all Brahmin males of his time buy and sell females. Note the gross generalization and stereotyping.
Buddha then condemns Brahmins of his time for earning money.

Note that according to Buddha a brahmin has to either beg for food or starve himself to death. He has no right to earn or stash anything.
Buddha then condemns the all Brahmins of his time for overeating and "swelling their bellies".

The fat tummied brahmin is a very common stereotype that Buddha also uses.
In every comparison, the dogs comes out better. Buddha makes these laughable claims in the process

1) Dogs are not as licentious as Brahmins.

2) Dogs dont mate during periods unlike Brahmins

3) Dogs dont sell their women unlike Brahmins

4) Dogs eat only twice unlike Brahmins
Stereotyping is a very common weapon used in racist generalisation.

Did buddha enter the private bedrooms of every brahmin house to check whether Brahmin females mated during periods?

Did he take a survey to check that every Brahmin sold his wives?
If we have to stereotype, it must start with the Buddhist monks themselves.

Buddhist monasteries were full of nashedi intoxicated Buddhist monks. Wine production in ancient India was a business over which Buddhist monks held monopoly.

https://t.co/jaxRFL0MRD
During excavations in Swat, Archaeologists found wine making distilleries inside Buddhist monasteries.

Buddhist monks loved to indulge in wine revelries

https://t.co/VreLPAZrbP
During ASI Nagarjunakonda excavations , mint machine was found in monasteries.

In Satavahana state, no one except king had the right to mint coins.

The archaeologist Longhurst concluded that Buddhist monks "made their own coins".

In other words, they indulged in counterfeit
There is no evidence that Brahmins of Buddha's time were more lustful voracious wife-sellers than other communities (I would like to see if such evidence exists), but it can be said that Buddhist monks themselves indulged in wine making, intoxication and fraud counterfeiting.
Creating an imaginary past caricature for appropriation to use as a stick with which to beat the current community is a common trope in religious polemics

When Prophet Mohd extolled ancient Jews like Moses, he had no love lost for Jews of his present

https://t.co/UjDV5EQMhh
A Sculpture from Buddhist center of Nagarjunakonda proudly displays devout Buddhist Ikshavaku king Virapurishadatta trampling a Shiva Linga with his feet (c.3rd century AD)
Buddhists later invented a deity named Vignantaka( such a deity does not exist in early Pali canon).

This deity Vignantaka is ALWAYS shown trampling Hindu god Ganesha with his feet
In their scriptures, Buddhists also circulated stories of a Boddhisttva named Vajrapani kiIIing Hindu God Shiva.

Shiva is described as a very malevolent being. He deludes people with his malevolent Shiva Bhakti
Bodhisattva Vajrapani orders Shiva to accept Buddhism.

Shiva does not comply. A battle ensues. Shiva loses the fight. Both Shiva and durga fall at the feet of Bodhisattva Vajrapani.

Yet, Shiva is eventually kiIIed by this Bodhisattva
Buddha also had a lot to say about ancient Indian epic characters revered by Hindus.

About Draupadi, Buddha says in Kunala Jataka that although Draupadi (Krishna/Kanha) was wed to five Pandava princes, she lusted for many more and she "became the wh*re of a hunch back dwarf"
Buddha accuses Sati Draupadi of having an illegitimate affair with a hunch back dwarf. In Dasaratha Jataka, he says Rama and Sita were biological siblings, thereby reducing the "Sita Rama Kalyana" performed by Hindus every year to a mere sibling incest
When JNUwalas addressed Goddess Durga a "wh*re", entire RW erupted.

Well, such JNUites have not fallen down from the sky. Their antecedents were also in India
Once upon a time, Hinduism was largest religion of Cambodia. Angkor wat was largest Hindu temple of the world.

Today, there is no Hinduism in Cambodia. Like most C Hindu temples, Angkor wat was converted to Buddhist temple.

Even four armed Vishnu Murti was converted to Buddha
*Eight armed Vishnu.

The Buddhists also invented a deity called Trailokyavijaya (He is absent in early Buddhist texts).

This Buddhist deity kiIIs Shiva. He stands on Shiva's decapitated head and tramples Goddess Parvati's breasts with his feet
Sculpture provenance: Nalanda. 8-9th century

Source: https://t.co/5g6E1bSIiT
More information about this Buddhist deity Trailokya Vijaya who loves to sexually assault Goddess Parvati even after she begs for his mercy

https://t.co/TxIiDDo1Az
When Buddhist deities themselves love to trample and sexually assault Goddess Parvati with their feet, is it any wonder that some modern Bheemtas addressed Goddess Parvati as "wh*re"?
I could go on and on. But here is the thing. When Adi Shankaracharya opposed this cult tooth and nail, it was not because he was intolerant. He was more knowledgeable and wiser than all of us put together, and we need to trust that everything he did was for the greater good
Many people are asking me to comment on Gautama Buddha and his alleged status as a Vishnu Avatara.

I have not much to say. But just one observation.

There was an Upanishad named Allopanishad which declared Akbar was an incarnation of Vishnu.

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Rudra and Apollo [A thread]


In Vedic literature, one of the most frequent names of Rudra is शर्व ("archer").

Yajurveda 4.5 (Taittiriya Samhita) is popularly known as Shri Rudram or Śatarudrīya

Its fifth Anuvaka starts with

नमोभवाय च रुद्राय च नमः शर्वाय च पशुपतयेच

Infact, the Śatarudrīya starts with:

नमस्तेरुद्रमन्यव उतोत इषवेनमः ।
नमस्ते अस्तुधन्वनेबाहुभ्यामुततेनमः ॥

"Veneration to your wrath, O Rudra. Veneration to your arrow as well; Veneration to your bow and veneration to your arms" (Yajurveda 4.5.1.1).

The bow of Rudra was पिनाक

In fact, in the entire Vedic literature, triśūla is not mentioned anywhere as the weapon of Rudra-Śiva. This is only mentioned in Post Vedic literature(Epic and Puranic)

Likewise, God Apollo is renowned in Ancient Greek literature as "The Archer".

In Illiad (c. 800 BC), The most frequent phrase used by Homer to describe Apollo is "Apollo who shoots from afar"
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This is nothing but THEFT and appropriation of Indian Heritage.

While this might look very trivial at the outset, this is a very major cultural appropriation.

This threads explains the Golden ratio, its history and its modern appropriation

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What is Golden ratio?

In mathematics, two quantities are in the golden ratio if their ratio is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities.

If two numbers be designated by a and b (a>b>0), then they are aid to be in Golden ratio if a/b=(a+b)/a

Thus, Golden Ratio is solution to quadratic x2-x-1=0(assuming a to be x and b to be 1 in the same ratio).
This approximates to 1.618033.
Since in a Fibonacci series every number(except first & second) is sum of the previous two, golden ratio approximates ratio of larger/smaller

How is Golden ratio important?

Golden nature is everywhere in the nature. Infact, Golden ratio is called Divine proportion.

According to latest research, universe is governed by Golden ratio.

Universe has a golden ratio that keeps everything in order.

https://t.co/pHqMipG69w


Infact, the Golden ratio of Fibonacci series can be seen everywhere around us in the universe.

The petals of a flower and seed heads follow a Fibonacci series where each consecutive cycle is in golden ratio with the previous one
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Nehru was officially classified as "Class A Prisoner".

He had newspapers, books, servants & coolies. He was allowed to walk out & meet others.

He was also allowed Switzerland trips "while technically imprisoned".

Savarkar was locked up in Kalapani & beaten up for 10 years


It was only once in his life that Nehru was treated just like any ordinary prisoner.

This was in Nabha Jail for 12 days.

Within 12 days, Nehru's father begged British viceroy.

He wrote an apology & assured that his son Nehru will never enter Nabha.

12 Days v/s 10 Years!

Nehru's jail in Ahmedabad had a badminton court specially built for Nehru and other top Congress leaders.

On his insistence, a library was made accessible to him during prison terms . That is how he could write books while "imprisoned".

A fitness instructor also attended to him

Nehru's jail terms were essential political stunts in building up his image as a great freedom fighter.

However, they seemed more like exotic getaways than real prisons

The 12 day imprisonment of Nehru in Nabha jail was harsh.

When Motilal came to know that his Nehru was locked up in a real jail, he rushed to meet Nehru but was forbidden by the administrator of Nabha.

Then, British viceroy came to the rescue of Nehrus and overruled this order
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Taliban has hoisted its flag on Hazrat Ali mosque of Mazar I Sharif.

This mosque is especially venerated by Shia Hazaras of Afghanistan.

This development is of extreme significance in the light of history and has implications on the very definition of Afghanistan

Thread.


The Afghanistan we see on the map today was created by Afghan King Emir Abdur Rahman in 1900.

Before 1880, the entire central region of Afghanistan constituted a different country that was known by the name Hazaristan or Hazarajat

It was NOT considered a part of Afghanistan


That Afghanistan is nation of Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, etc is just a modern notion created 50 years ago.

Consider this Afghan idiom of the famous Pashtun poet Khushal Khattak(c. 1613 -1689 CE)

"An Afghan is a Pashtun and a Pashtun is an Afghan. Bεhead him who says otherwise"

Who are Hazaras?

Hazaras are considered by historians to be descendants of Genghis Khan's army.

This is supported by their Asiatic features.

Although a majority of Hazaras adopted Persian with their own Hazaragi dialect, some still speak a Turkic language known as "Moghul"


An overwhelming majority of Hazaras are Shia by faith, in contrast to their Sunni Pashtun neighbors.

Hazaras are distinct from other Afghans linguistically, culturally and ethnically.

Traditionally, they inhabited the entire central region of Afghanistan from Ghazni to Herat
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India and Israel. Hindus and Jews.

This thread is about the history of the mutual interaction and relation between two of the oldest extent civilizations of the world.

We will also look at how appeasement politics alienated our ally and affected our own international position

The earliest trade contact between Hebrews and Hindus could have dated back to the era of David and Solomon.

"The king had trading ships at sea along with ships of Hiram. Every three years it returned, carrying gold, silver and ivory, and apes and baboons"

Bible( Kings 10.22)


According to the Old Testament, Ophir was the name of the place famous for its wealth. Solomon traded gold, silver, sandalwood, pearls, ivory, apes, and peacocks

Modern scholars have identified Ophir with Abhira kingdom of western India

https://t.co/5En1aZrViM


But the first large scale migration of Jewish refugees to India was after Roman destruction of Jerusalem.

Indian Jewish tradition says first wave of Jewish refugees landed on Kerala coast at Kodungallur in 70 CE.

Painting from Paradesi Synagogue(Mattanchery) depicts the scene


The Hindu Maharaja of Kodungallur cordially received the Jewish refugees.

He granted them land, freedom of life & freedom to practice religion.

Painting from Paradesi Synagogue depicts the king welcoming Jewish refugees.

The king is with full entourage bearing colored parasols
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NARHARI AND BHAGWAN PANDURANG/VITTHAL

Once a goldsmith by the name of Narhari lived in Pandharpur. He excelled in his craft. He had vowed not to look at Pandurang or visit his mandir ever, as he was a Shiva Bhakt.
One day, a wealthy merchant visited him.


He wanted a gold girdle studded with precious gems, to be made for Prabhu Vitthal. Narhari refused to make it as it was for Vitthal.
After many requests, he agreed to make the girdle but asked the merchant to bring the measurement from the mandir as he himself would not go there


The measurement was given n he made the girdle. When the girdle was put on Vitthal, it was loose. Narhari had to shorten it. Now the girdle became tight. So Narhari was forced to take measurement on his own. He had to go to the mandir but went blindfolded to avoid seeing Vitthal


In the Mandir, when blindfolded Narhari touched Vitthal, he felt as if he was touching Shiva with matted hair, the moon, snake in His neck and Trishul in His hand. Ecstatic with joy, he removed the blindfold to see Shiva but he found the murti of Vitthal with Rukmini there.


He realised the truth that there was no difference between Vitthal and Shiva. Narhari at once fell at the feet of Panduranga. He then took the measurement of the waist of Vitthal and this time the ornament fit the Murti perfectly.

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RANI GAIDINLIU:THE LESSER KNOWN FREEDOM FIGHTER

Rani Gaidinliu joined the freedom struggle at 13 &was sentenced to life imprisonment at 16."We r free people—the White should not rule over us.”Thus calling out to her Zeliangrong tribesmen was the voice of 13yr-old Rani Gaidinliu.


She joined the freedom struggle in the present-day Northeast India. Today, her struggle is lost in history as most of her countrymen wouldn’t even have heard her name. B'coz our history textbooks tell us that only Mahatma Gandhi &Pandit Nehru got India its Independence.


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EARLY LIFE AND HERAKA MOVEMENT

Gaidinliu belonged to the Rongmei clan of the Zeliangrong tribe in the Tamenglong district of western Manipur. Born on January 26, 1915, she was fifth among eight children.


Her native village was Nungkao, which is present day Tamenglong distt. Brought up in a specially backward region,she couldn't receive any formal education. However,this didn't stop her from joining the freedom struggle. At the age of 10 she came under the influence of her cousin.
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अस्य श्री गायत्री ध्यान श्लोक:
(gAyatri dhyAna shlOka)
• This shloka to meditate personified form of वेदमाता गायत्री was given by Bhagwaan Brahma to Sage yAgnavalkya (याज्ञवल्क्य).

• 14th shloka of गायत्री कवचम् which is taken from वशिष्ठ संहिता, goes as follows..


• मुक्ता-विद्रुम-हेम-नील धवलच्छायैर्मुखस्त्रीक्षणै:।
muktA vidruma hEma nIla dhavalachhAyaiH mukhaistrlkShaNaiH.

• युक्तामिन्दुकला-निबद्धमुकुटां तत्वार्थवर्णात्मिकाम्॥
yuktAmindukalA nibaddha makutAm tatvArtha varNAtmikam.

• गायत्रीं वरदाभयाङ्कुश कशां शुभ्रं कपालं गदाम्।
gAyatrIm vardAbhayANkusha kashAm shubhram kapAlam gadAm.

• शंखं चक्रमथारविन्दयुगलं हस्तैर्वहन्ती भजै॥
shankham chakramathArvinda yugalam hastairvahantIm bhajE.

This shloka describes the form of वेदमाता गायत्री.

• It says, "She has five faces which shine with the colours of a Pearl 'मुक्ता', Coral 'विद्रुम', Gold 'हेम्', Sapphire 'नील्', & a Diamond 'धवलम्'.

• These five faces are symbolic of the five primordial elements called पञ्चमहाभूत:' which makes up the entire existence.

• These are the elements of SPACE, FIRE, WIND, EARTH & WATER.

• All these five faces shine with three eyes 'त्रिक्षणै:'.
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Mahabharat - the great war - 18 days of heroism, deceit, blood and intrigue - now as a mega Twitter thread.

I'll add the events from a few days of the war each day.

Caveats: lots of editorialization, creative liberties and interpretations.

There will also be a lot of asides - especially around war strategy and tactics, the characters and their motivations and non-canon storylines.

Over the years, I've read multiple versions, phenomenal translations and modern retellings. So be prepared for a potpourri.

There are different ways of looking at this war. Was it a family feud? Sure - but whose family? Shantanu's or Satyavati's? Was Vyas essentially telling us his family history? And then Kunti added a twist to this tale. Here's a helpful chart:


Satyavati's two sons from Shantanu both died without children. Vyas - her first son - fathered Dhritarashtra and Pandu (and Vidur).

Pandu never fathered any children. Kunti and Madari gave birth to six demi-gods (Karna and the five Pandavs).

So Satyavati Vs Kunti and Madari.

Or was this a fight between two massive neighbouring kingdoms - the Kurus and the Panchals? While many smaller kingdoms joined the battle, most of the Pandav army (more than half of their 7 divisions) came from the Panchals. King Drupad and his son Shikhandi led two divisions.
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As per Shiva’s boon, Vayu is incarnated here as Shiva and worshipped as Kalahasteeswara.
The kshetram is also associated with Rahu and Ketu.


The Kshetram is named after 3 devotees of Shiva- a snake, spider and elephant who worshipped a lingam in the forest. Elephant did jal abhishek with water from its trunk, spider protected it from dust by weaving a web on it and snake adorned it with his jewel.
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Once, the web and jewel got washed away when elephant sprayed water on the lingam. Angered snake entered elephant’s trunk and bit him but died in the process. The agitated elephant trampled the spider accidentally. Shiva gave moksha to all three.


Hence the name-Sri for Spider, kaal for snake n hasti for elephant.

Shiv bhakt Kanappa is said to have plucked his own eye to put it on the lingam here when he saw blood oozing from the eye on the lingam
This place is the ultimate location for Rahu Kethu Sarpa Dosha Nivarana.
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