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 09:35 | 30/Jun/2008
The Essence of Hinduism
The essence of Hindu teachings is that everything is divine. Which means everything is perfect - every individual and all circumstances are perfect. However, our experience seems to tell us otherwise. We generally feel that our life and circumstances have so many things to be corrected and changed so that we may, perchance, one day become at least ... more...
 12:25 | 5/Jan/2008
Are we God?
Are we God? Many religions posit that God created the universe and then claim to have exclusive revelations as to what He expects of us. However, it seems to me that the creator-created dichotomy is artificial and even if we posit that God created it all, it is obvious that the one thing He could not have created would be life, for the simple reaso... more...
 22:45 | 8/Nov/2007
Upright Rama or Unjust Rama?
[One of our bloggers Mr. Vikas Vij, who writes very well, had written a blog titled Trial by Fire, which I have taken the liberty to quote in full below. His views, according to me, appeared to be misleading and I have given here below my view on the subject, which I had also posted at his blogsite.]Trial by Fire By Vikas VijTrial by FireWhen Sita ... more...
 11:26 | 13/Sep/2007
Only Muslims have sentiments?
When a private individual filed a petition in the Calcutta High Court seeking a ban on the Quran because it preaches violence, the then Congress government was quick to depute its Law Minster to have the case withdrawn because it did not want Muslim sentiments hurt. Now when the Congress central government itself submits in the Supreme Court that R... more...
 10:33 | 13/Sep/2007
Divali holiday to be withdrawn?
Now that Sonia Gandhi’s UPA Government has said that there is no historical proof that Ram and his contemporaries ever existed, we await the government’s withdrawing its holiday on Deepavali till authoritative proof is provided that Ram was not just a fig of the Hindu’s imagination.     more...
 18:40 | 12/Sep/2007
Bhagvad Gita as 'national holy book'
Bhagvad Gita contains the teaching to transform man from a restless being without control of his passions to a restful being capable of confronting problems dispassionately. This teaching should be disseminated widely and if India takes it as her national mission to propagate it amongst her citizens, we would be strengthening our nation to the envy... more...
 13:18 | 18/Aug/2007
Taslima and M.F. Hussain - Facts vs. Ima...
[This is in response to a blog on NDTV “Why Muslims hate Taslima Nasreen” by Ansari Mohammed Rehan.]http://www.ndtvblogs.com/views/viewcomments.asp? gl_guid=&blogname=rehan&q_blogid=18553&ref=8/14/2007%20 5:27:31%20PMUnless there is freedom of expression, humans will be stunted. Only through freedom can truth be discovered, lived or re-lived.To compa... more...
 22:36 | 7/Aug/2007
God is not an outsider!
It is generally said that we are not and we can never be God or part of Him.  In thus saying we appear to be making a twin-error – one, in reducing “we” to our limited physical body and two, in assuming that God is less than the whole or total or absolute.  If by God we mean “the person (or entity) who/that created the universe, sustains it and wou... more...
 17:51 | 19/Jul/2007
Hindus and 33 crores Gods.
 There are many who mock at the concept of 33 crores gods worshipped by the Hindus. My take on this is that it is obvious to anyone who understands the highest teachings of Hinduism (Advaita) that everything there is and there is not is of one essence, call it God or whatever. Since the experience that is readily available to us since birth is the ... more...
 00:15 | 28/Jun/2007
Guru Gobind Singh - trapped in the clerg...
Sonia Gandhi as Goddess Durga, Ram Rahim Singh as Guru Govind Singh, Da Vinci character as Jesus Christ and a cartoon as Mohammad.  Do these enactions infringe on the sacred space of communities? Or should we take these as depictions of the sacred to convey a contemporary message, even if political? Just as metaphor is the sustenance of language, e... more...
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 Unni Thekkoot | 11:05 | 16/Jun/2008
Friends: (48)  | City: Cochin  | Interests: Observation, Book...
Celebration - II
Celebration – II   If there is a thousand or more days in a year! We/they will celebrate all the days! We/they have enough reasons to do so! Because celebrations are theirs! They are celebrating!!   T. K. Unni  more...
 Shalini K | 12:38 | 12/May/2008
Friends: (204)  | City: Singapore  | Interests: Books, environmen...
Her Man (II)
HER MAN (II) “Anita? Is everything ok?” Peter was Anita’s good friend from University and was currently a practicing lawyer. After her man’s escapade in Vietnam and the nightmare decision she had made with David, Peter had bumped into her while she was waiting for the train in the morning. Peter could not believe how phased out she looked when appr...  more...
 Madhavan PK | 16:15 | 21/Jun/2008
Friends: (393)  | Interests: Books, crossword,...
Scarlet Sins
“When I am dead, I hope it may be saidHis sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”    1.      “Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man” wrote Francis Bacon. He was a renowned English author, courtier and philosopher (1561 – 1626).  Later, may be after his death, there were reports that he had the bottom pinchi...  more...
 ajay rana | 21:37 | 29/Jan/2008
Friends: (237)  | City: Lucknow  | Interests: Reading, swimming...
Consciousness in the Single Neuron
Are the contents ofconscious perception tied to individual brain cells? Can we use singleneurons to determine someone’s subjective experience? A recent studiespublished in PNASsuggests otherwise: there are no specialized neuronsthat carry information about what enters awareness and what not. If oneholds the picture of a butterfly in front of one ey...  more...
 surendra upl... | 08:19 | 23/Jan/2008
Friends: (99)  | City: Hyderabad  | Interests: Chess
Books
for quality used, rare, and out-of-print books online click the following link http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-2372680-10468647   can save 60% by buying used copies or international edition textbooks at above site.      more...
 ok | 11:16 | 28/Jun/2008
Friends: (116)  | City: ILAND  | Interests: READING .....
Interior Designing
Hi Friends, Had visited an Interior Designing institute today to take up a course, as had always dreamt to be an interior designer and to bring out my creativity.  Just wanted to share what I learnt on simply the first date of the demonstration. There is only one Exterior and many Interiors. The student’s artwork which was shown to be was beautiful...  more...
 Kusum Mohapatra | 10:15 | 21/Nov/2007
Friends: (76)  | City: keonjhar  | Interests: Music, writing, p...
The Swan Song!!!
Hello everyone..I'm today writing my last post here..Thank you all for all your constructive comments and feedbacks and trust me, it has been huge..That is not to say i'm stopping writing altogether..but this point forward i'll be blogging on:http://disruptiveharmony.blogspot.com.(i've already transferred most of my blogs there...and some others, i...  more...
 psychologist... | 14:59 | 18/Jun/2008
Friends: (51)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: India-- Behind th...
PGB, India and "Confusion"
Confusion....exists world wide...........in India, its more.....Why? PGB Bonks "Where relationships supply oxygen, theres bound to be more confusion..BPD, Codependence and the Dance of Schizophrenia"..............I want you but when I get u I dont want you, when you go away I again want you.............Cycle of birth and rebirth goes on in India as...  more...
 Rajeev S | 14:46 | 1/Aug/2007
Friends: (122)  | City: The Present  | Interests: Reading, Writing
Spiritual Freelancing
Call it spiritual discord or spiritual detachment. This is what is creeping into the minds of youth these days. We see a growing spiritual crisis in the world today. There is devotion to indulgence of pleasure in the objects of sensual desire, which is inferior, low, vulgar, ignoble, and leads to no good; and there is devotion to self torment, whic...  more...
 Sandil Srini... | 21:50 | 25/Aug/2007
Friends: (99)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Movies. Music. Te...
Voting abuse
C ouldn't find any other word to describe it. How can Chang possibly be voted out, ahead of Prashant and Ankita? Whoever voted for those two is fucking deaf. Here is the dentist's blog again, Buddha Soliloques . Atleast, that's a consolation - he'll be back to dentistry and blogging soon. Here's a video about him A star anyway, no?  more...
 lucille iaco... | 23:04 | 22/Jun/2008
Friends: (341)  | City: Cape Cod, MA  | Interests: Nature, flora & f...
Help Free Greenpeace Activists
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 Vikas Vij | 14:41 | 17/May/2008
Friends: (526)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Everything
Of a Happy Life
[Written in context of the various criticisms that Amitabh Bachchan has been facing ever since he became a fellow-blogger.]OF A HAPPY LIFEFacing personal vilification and condemnation is the exclusive privilege of men of eminence. They thrive on it, and it only makes their positions stronger.  Whether it is the timeless heroes like Socrates or Jesu...  more...
 balaji jayas... | 10:53 | 21/Dec/2007
Friends: (41)  | City: tiruvannamalai  | Interests: reading,mobile,la...
marketsonmobile
Moneycontrol.com has introduced Market on mobile.one can get information about stocks,stock news.it also has ticker and watchlist,which can be customized according to our needs.Theapp can be downloaded from mobile.moneycontrol.com.A list of compatiable phones is available in moneycontrol.com. I think this  app will work with most of the javaenabled...  more...
 greengrass | 21:57 | 21/Jun/2008
Friends: (537)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Swimming, Dance, ...
சூரியĪ...
    From www.Manakkudiyan.com From Ananda Vikatan, By Amarar Sujatha:சூரி 91;ன்ஒன்&# 2986;தாவது மாடியĬ 7;லிருந 021;த தன் அலுவலĨ 5;தĮ...  more...
 Jessica Singh | 09:49 | 13/Sep/2007
Friends: (860)  | City: Ever heard of Nadir ?  | Interests: blogging ...and t...
Sleepless in ......
I have always been a dreamer.But, these days I am not even able to sleep properly. A constant irritation itches on in my mind and I know not where it comes from. As a child, our own Doctor Uncle used to point out that diagnosis was pivotal to medication. I somehow found a deeper meaning in those words in connection to our daily lives even when I wa...  more...
 News Domain | 12:36 | 6/Oct/2007
Friends: (965)  | City: Chandigarh  | Interests: Reading, writing,...
please income
SantaSingh got his promotion and became principal in colledge. To keep up with his status, he decided tospeak only in English to all his juniors. One morning, his peon peeped through the doorto see if his principal was busy. Santa Singh noticed him and shouted, 'Why areyou outstanding! Please in...  more...
 Sanghamitra ... | 22:14 | 19/May/2007
Friends: (405)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Writing , Reading...
Major Som nath Sharma , The first recipi...
Major Som nath Sharma , The first recipient of Param Vir Chakra ..Disclaimer : The contents have been borrowed from reliable sources ---------------------------------------- -------------------------Major Somnath Sharma, son of Major General Amarnath Sharma, was born on 31 January 1923, in Himachal Pradesh District Kangra. He was commissioned in the...  more...
 Anjali shahi | 09:47 | 28/Mar/2007
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Looking good
We all want to look good , but in our teenage due to hormonal changes , pollution , exam. stress ,often this seems virtually impossible to achieve. Nearly 80% of the teenagers get some degree of Acne (Pimple/Zits) .      Acne - combination of blackheads, whiteheads & a variety of imflamed lesions, which appears in the form of pustules , bumps or la...  more...
 Sandil Srini... | 13:12 | 30/Jul/2007
Friends: (53)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Writing. Photogra...
This Blog ends here
It's been nice blogging here folks, and it's time to bid adieu. I loved the exposure here at rediff iLAND but it's time to shut down this blog for good -- I will be blogging more often at Mutiny.inand hope to see you there sometime.... and I am retaining Showbizia :-)The prime reason to have suspended blogging is because I want to focus on completi...  more...
 PROMIT BANERJEE | 11:34 | 7/Mar/2008
Friends: (143)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: MAKING FREINDS,CR...
ATTITUDE.....FIND IT IN U
 IFA=1B=2C=3D=4E=5F=6G=7H=8I=9J=10K=11L= 12M=13N=14O=15P=16Q=17R=18S=19T=20U=21V= 22W=23X=24Y=25Z=26Then H+A+R+D+W+O+R+K = 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%K+N+O+W+L+E+D+G+E = 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%L+O+V+E=12+15+22+5=54%L+U+C+K = 12+21+3+11 = 47%(None of them makes 100%)Is it Money? ..... No!!!!!Leadership? ...... NO!!!!Every problem has a solution, o...  more...
 Fasahat Khan | 13:05 | 6/Mar/2007
Friends: (8)  | City: I Am Where My Heart Is.  | Interests: Conversations, Po...
The Conversations Reprise: Venu Gopal's ...
Venu's Response----------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------Dear Fasahat Khan,I am replying  by e-mail and am not posting on the comment slot ofrediffland slot as my comments are too long for the slot. You may re-post itin your main blog as you deem fit so that more participants are attracted tothe dialogue....  more...
 hindu icon | 09:58 | 25/Aug/2007
Friends: (118)  | City: Cochin  | Interests: hindutva
HAPPY ONAM AT TN RAILWAY STATIONS
 ON ONAM eve we get snubbed by Tamil Nadu by its regional satraps, we as Malayalees need to evaluate the causes of total lack of respect for the state in the national political scene.Wat astonishes me more is the fact that this is in the backdrop of the great respect that Malayaless get as individuals across any spectrum. I can personaly vouch for ...  more...
 raj aandipatti | 22:28 | 15/Jul/2007
Friends: (105)  | City: earth  | Interests: music
THE DEFEATED
Defeat   is  colourless......all  alone......you.............................lick   your  wounds.......thinking,  what  might  have  been......Your   dreams......lying   shattered......in  myriad   pieces........What   has  gone   wrong.......?.......................................... .....Agonising........you   are  all  alone........................  more...
 Susan George | 20:47 | 1/Dec/2007
Friends: (167)  | City: Chennai  | Interests: dating,romance,tr...
Keeley Hazell - 2008 Calendar - Janaury
http://www.yellowpagesindia.info/forum/forum_posts.asp? TID=685http://www.yellowpagesindia.info/forum/forum_pos ts.asp?TID=685Hollywood Stars Photo Gallary, Tamil filim stars photo gallary, Telugu filim stars photo gallary, Malyalam filim stars photo gallary,Discuss about romance in moviesBollywood Stars Photo Gallary, Tamil filim stars photo gallary...  more...
 TheGeetha Fa... | 09:29 | 26/Oct/2007
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The field and the knower of field in ken...
This is priliminary info about kenopanishad from wiki..About KenopanishadKenopanishad derives its name from the first word Kena , meaning ‘by whom’. It belongs to the Talavakara Brahmana of Sama Veda and is therefore also referred to as Talavakara Upanishad. It has four sections, the first two in verse and the other two in prose. Adi Shankara who h...  more...
 mukesh parmar | 00:32 | 15/Jun/2008
Friends: (86)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: L O V E * O N E N...
One
The words paint the surroundings they give color to you n me some visible some not but there is one oneness not visible yet everywhere.  more...