20 books to read in your 20s

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I chanced upon this book in 1st yr of college and I am so glad I did. It gave me a perspective that I hadn't had until then, about the significance of

The Subtle Art of not giving a F*ck

So much of our 20s are spent in caring about what others think of us. This book changed and challenged so many views around that. While I read this book in my last 30s, I wish it was there when I was

The Alchemist

This book introduced to me the power of belief. And I think that has stayed with

Man's search for meaning

This book, from the eyes of a Jew in a Nazi concentration camp, is about my favorite thing in the

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#Thread on #Savarkar

Most historians - British as well as Indian, have described and dismissed the rising of 1857 as a ‘Sepoy Mutiny’ or at best ‘The Indian Mutiny’.

We all have read it in the similar fashion in our History Textbooks too.

Whereas several revolutionaries and freedom fighters regarded this as a strategy that was well planned, & organised to destroy the British power in India.

#Savarkar was the one who looked at it from the Indian perspective.

Being a revolutionary himself, he was inspired by the bravery, heroism, the burning passion, suffering and the unfortunate tragic fate of the leaders in 1857.

He decided to change the British and the Indian narrative about 1857.

He spent days and months in the 'India Office' library in London and accordingly wrote a book in Marathi in 1908.

He found it impossible to publish this in India and the original manuscript was returned to him back. He tried publishing the same in Germany but in vain.

Some Indian students at India House translated this in English and he could finally publish it in Holland in 1909 (almoat a year after he finished writing the book) under the title :

“THE INDIAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE –1857”

Baby who drank milk of Mata parvati herself -- life of thiru gnana Sambandar

He was born in sirkazhi. Father name was sivapada hrudayar. Mother name was bhagavathi. Both were devout couples. By Grace of shiva. He was named sambandar. He attained age 2. All were happy.

Cry of child reaches shiva

He was loved so much by parents. Father went to theerthakund for bath. Child adamant on going with his father. So he took him and placed him on steps and went to theerthakund for bath. He had habit of doing japa underwater. Seeing this child cried.

Mata parvati feed her milk

Child started crying as he saw his father disappeared in water. Cry of child didn't reach father but it reached lord if sirkazhi. Shiva and parvati came to child and took care of him. Parvati gave her own milk with sivagnana to child. Child so happy

First pathigam

Siva & Parvati played with child. Then they both disappeared. Father who finished his japa came & saw baby laughing with milk drop from his mouth. He took stick and told who gave him milk. Sambandar sing beautiful ten songs describing shiva. All were amazed

Thiru gnana Sambandar

His father took him on his shoulder and danced joyfully. All came from far and near cities to see the divine child. As he got Siva gnana he was called gnana Sambandar. People respectfully addressed him as thiru gnana Sambandar.

महान गणितज्ञ आर्यभट ने अपनी पुस्तक ‘आर्यभटीय’ में 120 सूत्र दिए. पृथ्वी का अपने अक्ष पर घूमना, पाई का सटीक मान, सूर्यग्रहण और चंद्रग्रहण की व्याख्या, समयगणना, त्रिकोणमिति, ज्यामिति, बीजगणित आदि के कई सूत्र व प्रमेय

आधुनिक विज्ञान से कई वर्षों पहले हमें आर्यभट द्वारा रचित ‘आर्यभटीय’ में मिलते हैं.

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(आर्यभटीय, गोलपाद, श्लोक 9)

अर्थ: जिस प्रकार से नाव में बैठा हुआ मनुष्य जब प्रवाह के साथ आगे बढ़ता है तो उसे लगता है कि पेड़-पौधे, पत्थर और पर्वत आदि उल्टी गति से जा रहे हैं. उसी प्रकार अपनी धुरी पर घूम रही पृथ्वी से जब हम नक्षत्रों की ओर देखते हैं तो वे उल्टे दिशा में जाते हुए दिखाई देते हैं.

इस श्लोक के जरिए आर्यभट ये समझाने की कोशिश कर रहे हैं कि पृथ्वी भी अपनी धुरी पर घूमती है.

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चतुराधिकं शतमष्टगुणं द्वाषष्टिस्तथा सहस्राणाम्।
अयुतद्वयस्य विष्कम्भस्यासन्नो वृत्तपरिणाहः॥
(आर्यभटीय, गणितपाद, श्लोक 10)

अर्थ: 100 में चार जोड़ें, आठ से गुणा करें और फिर 62000 जोड़ें. इस नियम से 20000 परिधि के एक वृत्त का व्यास ज्ञात किया जा सकता है.
(100 + 4) x 8 +62000/ 20000= 3.1416
इसके अनुसार व्यास और परिधि का अनुपात (2πr/2r) यानी 3.1416 है, जो पांच महत्वपूर्ण आंकड़ों तक बिलकुल सटीक है.

जानिये कश्मीर के पराक्रमी सम्राट ललितादित्य मुक्तापीड की गौरवमयी वीरगाथा, जिसकी तलवार का डंका मध्य एशिया तक बजा।

राजा श्रीललितादित्य: सार्वभौमस्ततोऽभवत् ।
प्रादेशिकेश्वरस्त्रष्टुर्विघेर्बुद्धेरगोचर: ।।१२६।। राजतरंगिणी

ब्रह्मा ने प्रादेशिकेश्वर रूप में उसकी सृष्टि की थी किन्तु अनन्तर ब्रम्हा की बुद्धि से भी अगोचर श्री ललितादित्य सार्वभौम राजा हुआ ।

[ सार्वभौम का अर्थ है..
1 - इसका अर्थ है सब भूमि का सम्राट। यह प्राचीन राज पद है। मुद्राराक्षस में भी इस शब्द का प्रयोग किया गया हैं।

2 - सार्वभौम राजा की आय उस समय इक्कावन करोड़ कर्ष वार्षिक आय मानी जाती है।]

ललितादित्य मुक्तपीड “कार्कोटा वंश” के कश्मीर के महान हिन्दू सम्राट थे। इनका कार्यकाल 724 ईस्वी से 760 ईस्वी तक था।

श्री दत्त राजा ललितादित्य मुक्तापीड प्रथम का राज्य अभिषेक काल सन् ६९७ ई. राजतरंगिणी में बताया गया है। 
आइने अकबरी में ललितादित्या का राज्यकाल 36 वर्ष 7 मास 11 दिन दिया गया है। (पेज नम्बर 375)

ललितादित्य मुक्तापीड की दो ताम्र मुद्राएं मिली हैं। मुद्रा के एक तरफ लक्ष्मी देवी और श्री प्रताप तथा दूसरी तरफ दण्डायमान राजा तथा कि(दार) टंकणित है। श्री ललितादित्या की मुद्रायें भिटवारी गाँव फैजाबाद, बाँदा, राजघाट, सारनाथ(वाराणसी), पटना, मूँगेर, तक मिली हैं।

Santkumaras-The four adorable kids of the Universe.

The Kumaras r the four sages who roam the Universe as children from the Puranic texts of Hinduism named,Sanaka, Sanatana,Sanandana& Sanatkumara.They r described as the first mind-born creations &sons of the creator God Brahma.

Brahma,who had received the knowledge of Puranas from the Universal being(God Himself), imbibed this to his 4 Kumaras.
Sanat Kumaras then taught the Puranas to Narada.Narada transmitted it to Krishna Dwaipayana who in turn scripted them in monumental epic documents of 18 Puranas.

The Vishnu Purana is recorded in two parts,the Vishnu Purana & Naradiya Purana.The teachings of Sanaka of the Kumara brothers r contained in the Naradiya Purana which is also divided in two parts, the first part containing the teachings of Sanaka &second part,teachings of others.

Born from Brahma's mind,4 Kumars took lifelong vows of celibacy against their father's wishes.They r said to wander throughout materialistic &spiritualistic universe without any desire but with the aim to teach.All 4 brothers studied Vedas from their Childhood&travelled together.

The Bhagwata Purana lists the Kumaras among the 12 Mahajanas(great devotees or bhaktas) who although being eternally liberated souls from birth, still became attracted to the devotional service of Vishnu from their already enlightened state.

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प्रस्तुत प्रसंग रामायण के सुंदरकांड में से लिया गया है जिसमें बहुत ही सरल तरीके से हनुमान जी की अन्तर्मन की भावनाओं से ये समझाया गया है कि ईश्वर की इच्छा बिना संसार में कुछ भी होना संभव नहीं।
अत: जो हुआ, जो हो रहा है और जो होगा, सब प्रभु की इच्छा से होगा।

अशोक वाटिका में जिस समय रावण क्रोध से भरकर, तलवार लेकर, सीता माता को मारने के लिए दौड़ पड़ा , तब हनुमान जी को लगा कि इसकी तलवार छीनकर, इसका सिर काट लेना चाहिए।

किन्तु अगले ही क्षण उन्होंने देखा कि मंदोदरी ने रावण का हाथ पकड़ लिया। ये देखकर वे गदगद हो उठे और ये सोचने लगे कि यदि मैं आगे बढ़ता तो मुझे भ्रम हो जाता कि यदि मैं न होता तो सीता जी को कौन बचाता?
बहुत बार हमको ऐसा ही भ्रम हो जाता है,
मैं न होता, तो क्या होता ?

परंतु ये क्या हुआ?
सीताजी को बचाने का कार्य प्रभु ने स्वयं रावण की पत्नी को ही सौंप दिया। तब हनुमान जी समझ गए कि प्रभु जिससे जो काम लेना चाहते हैं, वह उसीसे लेते हैं। कोई और चाहकर भी वह काम नहीं कर सकता।

आगे चलकर जब त्रिजटा ने कहा कि लंका में बन्दर आया हुआ है और वह लंका जलाएगा।

तो हनुमान जी बड़ी चिंता में पड़ गए कि प्रभु राम ने तो लंका जलाने को कहा ही नहीं है और त्रिजटा कह रही है कि उन्होने स्वप्न में देखा है कि एक वानर ने लंका जलाई है। अब उन्हें क्या करना चाहिये। फिर उन्होने सोचा,'जो प्रभु कि इच्छा।'

SHRI GOSWAMI TULSIDAS

It is believed that whenever society is oppressed, depressed and feels helpless, it calls out for help from Parmatma. The cries and pleas, when mixed with true devotion and true feelings are always answered by Parmatma.

Either he comes as avtaar or he sends his Representative to heal the society.

So when Goswami ji appeared the society was facing the same type of crisis. He brought about a calmness through his healing touch expressed through his writings which oozed positivity.

He presented Ishwar as saviour who always stood for his bhakts. His language of writing was the then used dialect understood by all. Anyone could read and find answers and solace in it. Other poets were busy pleasing the wily rulers.

Tulsidas is believed to be avtaar of Valmiki.

He was born in Vikram samvat 1554 in Banda district in a village called Rajapur to Atma ram Dubey and Hulsi. He was born with all his teeth intact and did not cry at birth. He was named Tularam.

Goswami ji himself mentioned his date of birth.

पंद्रह से चौवन बिषै, कालिंदी के तीर।
स्त्रावन शुक्ला सप्तमी, तुलसी धरेउ सरीर।।

He was married to Budhimati in Vikram samvat 1583. He was very attached to his wife.

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Aurangzeb sent his maternal uncle Shaista Khan with powerful army over 1,50,000 on the request of Badibegum Sahiba, Adilshahi sultanate

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Shaista Khan entered Deccan to kill Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj & to destroy his empire. Shahista Khan captured a lot of province and fort of Chakan near Pune.

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Till 3 years he gave lot of troubles to the subjects of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and he personally made Lal Mahal his destination to live at , which was the property of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj . Lal Mahal, where Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj spent his childhood.

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1. In the April 1663 Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj personally made a surprise attack on Shahista Khan in the Lal Mahal Pune.

2. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj attacked with 300 soldiers at the midnight while Lal Mahal had strong security of 1.5 lac soldiers for Shahista Khan.

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3. He entered in Pune, he made a drama of wedding ceremony to enter in Pune near Lal Mahal.

4. During the night they made big hole at the wall of Lal Mahal and entered into the palace.

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SHRI NIMBARKACHARYA THREAD

There is a dispute as to the birth date of Nimbarkji. Some of his followers believe him to be born in Dwapar yug as it is believed that Nimbark himself mentioned in his bhashya the names of Narad and sanat Kumars.

They also believe that in Nimbarkacharya's upnayan sanskar it was Narad who preached to him Shri Gopal mantra and taught him Shri Bhu leela and Krishnopasana. Therefore Narad is believed to be his guru and his sect is known as Sankadik sampraday. Some followers believe him

to being born in fifth century. But modern historians fixed his date to eleventh century. But it does not matter which date he was born. Important is to know about Nimarkacharya divinity.

He was born in South near the Godavari banks in Vaiduryapattan in Arunashram

to Arun muni and Jayanti devi.

His sect is also known as DWAITADWAITVAD. This is a very old sect. But due to his talent, behaviour and experiences it was known after him. He is supposed to be reincarnate of Vishnu's weapon Sudarshan Chakra.

He was named Niyamanand.

But why was he known as Nimbark can be explained through this story. Once when he was residing in Mathura on Yamuna banks, a Dandi swami or a jain sadhu came to meet him. Their discussion prolonged for a long time and both realized it was sunset. The sage would have to

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It is said that the one who bears the dust thrown from the hoof of Gaumata on his head, as if taking a bath in the water of the teerth sthalam and getting rid of all sins.

Ved and all other Hindu scriptures venerate the cow. The Vedic dictionary, Nighantu, gives amongst other synonyms of 'Gau' [ or cow] the words 'Aghnya', 'Ahi', and 'Aditi'.

Yaska the vedic decoder and commentator on Nighantu, defines these as-

Aghnya —— the one that ought not to be killed
Ahi —— the one that must not be slaughtered.
Aditi —— the one that ought not to be cut into pieces.

These three names of cow signify that this is an animal which should not to be put to tortures. These words appear frequently throughout the Veda in context of the cow.

But in due course the falsehood of killing cows spread far and wide and they became even more deep rooted when western scholars with their half baked knowledge of Sanskrit transliterated these interpretations of commentaries of Sayanacharya ,

How devotees saved #JagannathTemple from Cruel Aurangzeb.

Siyaha Akhbarat-i-Darbar-i- Mu‘alla, Julus 24, Jamadi I, 23 / 1st June 1681.

“The Emperor ordered Asad Khan to send hasbu ‘l-hukm to Amir-ul-Umara, the Subedar of Bengal, to demolish the Temple of Jagannath in #Orissa.”

Receving the farman the Officials arrived in Puri to destroy the temple. Odisha was under the mughal rule, however it still had the king of Khurdha known as Gajapati who acted as the protector of the temple.

Now listening this news there was fear, anger, desperation everywhere, everyone was helpless & a plan was carved out.

There was a negotiation with mughal subedar, he was offered a huge amount of money as bribe. Still he knew the consequences of not executing Aurangzeb's order.

However, the bribe amount was huge and Odias were successful in persuading him with the offer and he finally decided to take the risk and somehow convinced Aurangzeb that his order has been carried out.

A replica of lord Jagannath was created and it was sent to Aurangzeb's court in Delhi to mislead him.
The temple was closed permanently. All the rituals were stopped. The pilgrimage was stopped. A rumor was spread that jagannath temple and the idol has been destroyed.

SHRI RAMANUJACHARYA

Ramanujacharya was a great scholar with lot of patience, was simple and generous. He belonged to the Allavandar tradition. His father was Keshav bhatt who stayed in southern region of Terunkudur. Ramanuj lost his father at a very young age.

He went to study under the tutelage of a guru named Yadav Prakash. Ramanuj was a sharp student who now started taking out mistakes from his guru's wrong teachings. So the guru,on pretext of sending his disciples to Kashi,conspired with Ramanuj's cousin to kill him in deep forest.

But he was saved by a hunter and his wife. Later he acquired many siddhi's and cured the Princess of Kanchi.

When the sage Allavandar was on his deathbed, he sent his disciple to call Ramanuj. But before Ramanuj could reach , Allavandar was no more.

On reaching Shrirangam, Ramanuj noticed that three fingers of Allavandar were turned. Only Ramanuj understood it's significance that his guru had entrusted him the work of analysing Brahmsutra, Vishnusahastranaam and Divya Prabhandam.

Ramanuj vowed there to get these works completed. The guru's finger now were straight. He took Vaishnav diksha from the main disciple of Allavandar whose name was Periyanambi.

Although he was married but he decided to become sanyasi under Yatiraj.