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The Last Days of a Contemporary Rishi and Vedacharya Sri Sheshanna Shrauti

The Last Days of a Contemporary Rishi and Vedacharya Sri Sheshanna Shrauti

In this Series The Sanatana Life of Sri Sheshanna Shrauti – A Contemporary Vedacharya Vedacharya Sri Sheshanna Shrauti: A Sacred Vow of Lifelong Vedic Learning The Sama Veda Yaga of Vedacharya Sri Sheshanna Shrauti and Indifference to Fame The Nectar of the Veda: The Equanimity of Sri Sheshanna Shrauti The Vow

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The Vow of Aparigraha of Vedacharya Sri Sheshanna Shrauti

The Vow of Aparigraha of Vedacharya Sri Sheshanna Shrauti

In this Series The Sanatana Life of Sri Sheshanna Shrauti – A Contemporary Vedacharya Vedacharya Sri Sheshanna Shrauti: A Sacred Vow of Lifelong Vedic Learning The Sama Veda Yaga of Vedacharya Sri Sheshanna Shrauti and Indifference to Fame The Nectar of the Veda: The Equanimity of Sri Sheshanna Shrauti The vow

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Subashita Sunday Episode 3: Vemana, Kalidasa and Vedanta

Subashita Sunday Episode 3: Vemana, Kalidasa and Vedanta

We’re back again with Episode 3 of the Subhāṣita Sunday on The Dharma Dispatch. Like always, we have curated a handpicked collection of articles drawn from the best and the most prized annals of Bharatiya tradition. Happy reading! The Futility of Leading Life Randomly It appears that you can

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The Nectar of the Veda: The Equanimity of Sri Sheshanna Shrauti

The Nectar of the Veda: The Equanimity of Sri Sheshanna Shrauti

In this Series: The Sanatana Life of Sri Sheshanna Shrauti – A Contemporary Vedacharya Vedacharya Sri Sheshanna Shrauti: A Sacred Vow of Lifelong Vedic Learning The Sama Veda Yaga of Vedacharya Sri Sheshanna Shrauti and Indifference to Fame After he began the work of the Pratishthana, Sri Sheshanna Shrauti did not

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The Sama Veda Yaga of Vedacharya Sri Sheshanna Shrauti and Indifference to Fame

The Sama Veda Yaga of Vedacharya Sri Sheshanna Shrauti and Indifference to Fame

In this Series: The Sanatana Life of Sri Sheshanna Shrauti – A Contemporary Vedacharya Vedacharya Sri Sheshanna Shrauti: A Sacred Vow of Lifelong Vedic Learning Learning Sama Veda from Sri Sheshanna Shrauti After I finished writing Sandhyadarshana, I used to visit Sri Sheshanna Shrauti to learn Sama Veda. Every morning at

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Vedacharya Sri Sheshanna Shrauti: A Sacred Vow of Lifelong Vedic Learning

Vedacharya Sri Sheshanna Shrauti: A Sacred Vow of Lifelong Vedic Learning

Read Part 1: The Sanatana Life of Sri Sheshanna Shrauti – A Contemporary Vedacharya Acquaintance with Sri Sheshanna Shrauti My acquaintance with Sri Sheshanna Shrauti deepened after I began working earnestly on the Sandhyadarshana book. I was a frequent visitor to his home and eventually got to know his family and

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The Sanatana Life of Sri Sheshanna Shrauti – A Contemporary Vedacharya

The Sanatana Life of Sri Sheshanna Shrauti – A Contemporary Vedacharya

Preface The auspicious Vyasa Purnima (or Guru Purnima) concluded earlier this week. However, the equally auspicious Chatur-Masya is still ongoing. But one doesn’t really require a special occasion to recall the life, contribution, and enduring legacy of Rishi-like luminaries. Especially in a tradition like Santana Dharma where

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The Ideal, Conception and Practice of Chakravartin Shows the All-Encompassing Unity of Bharatavarsha

The Ideal, Conception and Practice of Chakravartin Shows the All-Encompassing Unity of Bharatavarsha

Read Part 1: 10 Features Showing the Fundamental and All-encompassing Unity of Bharatavarsha: A Ready Reckoner Chakravartin or Samrat: The Paramount Sovereign This is a very ancient ideal, conception and institution of kingship dating back to the Vedas and had been familiar to Indians hundreds of years before Chandragupta

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10 Features Showing the Fundamental and All-encompassing Unity of Bharatavarsha: A Ready Reckoner

10 Features Showing the Fundamental and All-encompassing Unity of Bharatavarsha: A Ready Reckoner

One of the seminal seeds of mischief that the British and Maculayite education system sowed on the Hindu psyche is the phony claim that Bharatavarsha was never a united country. Of course, there was no dearth of Indian scholars, thinkers, writers and statesmen of that period who powerfully debunked this

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Deewaar: Disarming Hindus via Billa No. 786

Deewaar: Disarming Hindus via Billa No. 786

For all his copious verbal and textual nonsense, even Jawaharlal Nehru, the Granddaddy of secularism in India, couldn’t have come up with the stealthy genius of Salim-Javed who so subtly, insidiously promoted Islamism in mainstream cinema in the garb of secularism and the “Hindu-Muslim Bhai bhai” template.

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