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  1. Jaskaran Singh

    Poetry / Kavit -- on Love and/or on the Shri Gods

    It could be read as either pra + ihi + iti or as pra + A + ihi + iti. The आ indicates "towards" so I think the latter would be a more correct reading (this use of "A" is also present in bhUmivaggavaNNanA of the tipiTaka, like in "itthiyam A," and is even occasionally used in modern-day...
  2. Jaskaran Singh

    Poetry / Kavit -- on Love and/or on the Shri Gods

    It this the person you're talking about?: Martin Haug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I can't say I've read any of his works, but if he doesn't know that the correct word is bhadrAt and not bhardrAt, then I'm wondering who gave him the position of "superintendent of Sanskrit studies and...
  3. Jaskaran Singh

    Poetry / Kavit -- on Love and/or on the Shri Gods

    bhardrAt is not a word, nor is predhi. I think you mean bhadrAdabhi shreyaH prehIti, which is from the taittirIyabrAhmaNa, not the taittirIyasaMhitA.
  4. Jaskaran Singh

    How does it make you feel, as a Christian?

    Are you talking about the same posts? I deleted my posts about Jesus because I thought you were angry at me. I thought I told you that by PM. So this doesn't have anything to do with me? If you are talking about me, then you're being patently dishonest; I deleted ALL three of the posts I wrote...
  5. Jaskaran Singh

    Did Ramakrishna and his followers eat meat?

    Here: "What do we want in India? If foreigners want these things, we want them twenty times more. Because, in spite of the greatness of the Upanishads, in spite of our boasted ancestry of sages, compared to many other races, I must tell you that we are weak, very weak. First of all is our...
  6. Jaskaran Singh

    Did Ramakrishna and his followers eat meat?

    namaste prabhu, Yeah, it's all just a myth. Even the Adjunct Professor of the Department of Anthropology at George Washington University is just spreading rumors, right? If you read the context, you can see that he is referring to rAmAnuja's views, not his own views in that statement. Here...
  7. Jaskaran Singh

    Brahman/Maya & The Two Truths

    So it pretty much has to do with Orientalist/Indologist convention (I've noticed that the prAtipadika of words are also used is other cases, like nirvANa rather than nirvANam, sUtra rather than sUtram, mahAbhArata rather than mahAbhAratam)? However, if that is the case, then why use the...
  8. Jaskaran Singh

    Questions For Advaita or Vishishtadvaita Vedanta

    Stuff that rAmakR^iShNa did. The quotes about pedophilia as well as the "f*rt disciples" comment come from the shrI shrI rAmakR^iShNa kathAmR^ita, which is the same source where I assume Contemplative Cat got the statements about rAmakR^iShNa worshiping his penis. Which information, the AsArAm...
  9. Jaskaran Singh

    Brahman/Maya & The Two Truths

    Perhaps this would help: Declension table of brahman m. (chaturmukhI brahmA, the creator deity in the trimUrti) Masculine Singular Dual Plural Nominative brahmA brahmANau brahmANaH Vocative brahman brahmANau brahmANaH Accusative brahmANam brahmANau brahmaNaH...
  10. Jaskaran Singh

    Brahman/Maya & The Two Truths

    It's mostly correct. because they specified that brahmA had an "आ" at the end with the macron over the ending "a" as well as that when it is considered genderless, brahman refers to the concept in vedAnta. Technically, they're still partially incorrect, since neuter-gender is still...
  11. Jaskaran Singh

    what's your favourite...

    Actually, it's dyauShpitA, pitar is the vocative form (sambodhanavibhakti), although it's funny that you stated that the role of thunder wielder was shifted from Dionysus to Zeus; in India, it was the exact opposite, dyauSh was the fashioner of the vajra (with the help of tvaShTA) which was then...
  12. Jaskaran Singh

    Hindus should restart worshipping Indra

    I think it means that it's more moderated or something, so that some people who are not Hindu (cough...CC from NYC...cough) can't troll the DIR forum with off-topic posts
  13. Jaskaran Singh

    Brahman/Maya & The Two Truths

    No, that's like saying that water is wetness. Wetness can be considered a "lakShaNa" of the water, but not everything that has wetness is water. Similarly, the existence of everything is dependent upon brahma/bhagavAn, but it doesn't follow that bhagavAn is just the universe; he both permeates...
  14. Jaskaran Singh

    Brahman/Maya & The Two Truths

    Yes, it can come through weeping alone, having you ever heard of the gajendramokShaNa from the bhAgavatam: eAt2v2qpDt0 Gajendra Moksha by Umangi Shah/ Ninad Mehta - YouTube Besides, who are you to tell how one can acheive mokSha, are you bhagavAn? rAvaNa possessed kAma, krodha, lobha, moha, you...
  15. Jaskaran Singh

    Brahman/Maya & The Two Truths

    I think you're missing the point that I'm trying to make. brahma and brahmA are different, but brahman is just a uninflected word which could refer to either (making it more confusing). Why not just use brahm or brahma to distinguish with brahmA? The only case where that would be confusing would...
  16. Jaskaran Singh

    Brahman/Maya & The Two Truths

    None. Hinduism is technically an artificial construct anyway (for example, what would a mAdhva vaiShNava share with a shaiva siddhAntI?), so it kind of already is a grouping of several different religions. "Religions" with several commonalities sure, but distinct enough to be considered...
  17. Jaskaran Singh

    Brahman/Maya & The Two Truths

    You're mostly correct, although brahmA is the masculine inflected form of brahman (ब्रह्मन्) and not brahma (ब्रह्म). Nonetheless, I agree that Contemplative Cat completely missed my point and instead stated that...
  18. Jaskaran Singh

    Brahman/Maya & The Two Truths

    I don't want to get into arguments about terminology and what not, but why do western vedAntI-s often use the word brahman rather than brahma? If "brahman" (ब्रह्मन्) is inflected as a neutral noun it becomes brahma...
  19. Jaskaran Singh

    Hindus should restart worshipping Indra

    It's funny though that you couldn't tell whether it was a real quote by her or not. It seems she really is that crazy...
  20. Jaskaran Singh

    Hindus should restart worshipping Indra

    That quote isn't real. It's a joke; I'm making fun of stuff Arundhati Roy says...
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