By Sunil Kumar Lest I forget and my self-important memories are lost in the spectre of thoughtless infinity What I wrote to the Founder: Dr Paranjape helped us and me in particular to reflect on the Indic paradigm and the importance of not jumping to conclusions. In a fast paced world we sometimes operate
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar मोक्षस्य पदं तीव्रं विमोहनिकरं चिरं नः। प्रवृत्तिं त्यक्त्वा निवृत्तिं विज्ञानं स्वात्मदर्शनम्॥ आत्मानुभूतिरानन्दः परं विश्राममोक्षयोः। यस्य प्राप्तौ न विच्छेदः न तृष्णा न च जन्मनि॥ ब्रह्मणि स्थितिरानन्दे शान्तिर्ज्ञाने च पारम्। मुक्तस्य नित्यमुच्छेदे सर्वदा परमं पदम्॥ सर्वभूतान्तरात्मा तु मोक्षः स्वतन्त्रजीवनम्। संसारबन्धनात्मकं परं पदं निरीक्षते॥ योगिनो योगमुक्तिं च ज्ञानिनो ज्ञाननिर्मलाम्। मोक्षं वेदान्तविज्ञानः स्वयं विज्ञेयमात्मनि॥ अविद्यामोक्षविद्या च जीवन्मुक्तिरनुग्रहः। स्वात्मदर्शनयोगेन भवति ब्रह्मसंस्कृतिः॥ तत्त्वज्ञानेन मोक्षस्य विश्रामो न च भावितः। तेन जीवः स्वतन्त्रस्तु ब्रह्मण्यात्मनि निष्ठितः॥ निजात्मानुभूतिर्मोक्षः परमानन्दसंयुतः। स्वात्मदर्शनयोगेन संसारविनिवृत्तिमान्॥ जीवानां पावनं मोक्षं वेदान्ते सर्वसंशयः। स्वात्मनिष्ठज्ञानस्यैव रहस्यं सद्गुरुं नुमः॥ This Sanskrit poem in Anushtup Chanda explores the concept of Moksha, liberation or spiritual emancipation. It highlights the attainment of self-realization, supreme bliss, and ultimate freedom from the cycle of birth and
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar नामधेयं मम जीवनं, मुंबईवासी भवान्तः। विश्वविलासपूर्णं तत्त्वं, नगरे समुद्रतटे निवासः॥ व्यस्ततां जनसंख्या, जागृतानि नगरे सदैव। व्याप्तं शौर्यं वीरत्वं च, सहकारीभावः व्याप्तिश्च॥ विज्ञानं प्रगतिश्चैव, समान्यं माध्यम्यं तथा। कर्मयोगस्य साधनं, संस्कृतं ब्राह्मण्यं तथा॥ मायाधीश्वरद्वयात्मकं, व्यापारसंस्थानसंबद्धं। धर्मसंस्थापनं नित्यं, महामुंबईवासीत्वम्॥ निर्मलं दृष्टिपथं तत्त्वं, सुरभिसंपूर्णं वाससः। संस्कृतं संस्कृतिरत्नं, मुंबईनगरस्य जीवनम्॥ यात्रा त्रिभुवने वासाः, अन्तःपुरं नगरस्य तु। योग्यशिक्षासम्पादनं, सर्वकार्येषु समागमः॥ मुंबईनगरे जीवनं, सर्वदा यात्रा सर्वदा। नगरे जन्म नगरे जीवनं, नगरे विद्या नगरे सुखम्॥ A poem in Sanskrit on Life In Mumbai- One of my first efforts in the language of the Gods
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar (My Quora Answer circa 2017) Swami Vivekananda aka Naren Dutta was a man with a keen intellect; who was quite well-read. Like other Bengalis of the time; he joined the Brahmo Samaj; an organization which worked for social upliftment; but disagreed with it as it believed that British rule was a
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar A challenge that writers face is the limitations of their own senses in examining their own biases. Our perceptions and experiences are shaped by our upbringing, education, and social conditioning, and it is easy to fall into the trap of assuming that our perceptions are objective and universal. To overcome these limitations,
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar(From My Quora answers) Not bothered to invade India. Persia would have been enough. As it is I would have been thought of as a living God by my followers and myself, so I would have sat back, consolidated my gains for some time. Regrouped after some years and launched an invasion
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar(Originally answered on Quora) Giving an answer to your question would be reaching far back into hoary antiquity, when the concept of modern nation-states was not there, and the world was in a fluid civilizational construct. For example, the history of what is now China would be limited to a very small
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विद्यते । तत्स्वयं योगसंसिद्धः कालेनात्मनि विन्दति ॥ ४-३८॥ (Bhagavad Gita) There certainly is no purifier in the world like knowledge. Who is himself/herself perfected in Yoga(divinity) finds it due course of time. The Upanishads and Indian philosophy often refer to the lower Apara Vidya(the finite world of
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar “Revenge is not always better, but neither is forgiveness, learn to know them both son, so there is no problem”” – Draupadi in the Mahabharata, quoting Prahlada The epics are the creative fount of the Indian mindscape, a fact that is so obvious that repeating it sounds cliched. Scholars throughout the world
Read MoreBy Sunil Kumar “Silence is worse, all truths that are kept silent become poisonous” – Friedrich Nietzche , Thus Spake Zarathustra O Bhagavan, Oh Khodai! Reading ‘The Magicians of Mazda’ by Ashwin Sanghi is a rip-roaring deep dive into history and many truths that have been long buried by the sands of time. The ‘Bawa'(Parsi)
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