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Hinduism - Good Karma and Bad Karma
Gopi, we have talked at length abt Periyar/EVR/DK/DMK before. It remains a hugely controversial issue. To me it is so primarly because of the unadultered stance that dubs all believers fools/muttaals (which happens to be 95% of the world!! and inclu…

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Hinduism - Good Karma and Bad Karma
Dear Venkat, very nicely summarized!! Yes all Ramayanas have the same dharmic concept, good over evil although it can get pretty confusing at times. The concept of Ravana 'kidnapping' Sita when she is his daughter completely negates one of…

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Hinduism - Good Karma and Bad Karma

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Hinduism - Good Karma and Bad Karma
Parasara Maharishiyin Puthrar Pugazh petra Vyasa Bhagavan. Vyasar Vedathai thoguthu koduthavar. Evare Mahabaratham endra kadhayai ezhudi ulagathukku thandaar. Mahabaradhathai than manadhil yaatha pin idhai evvaru ulagathukku tharuvadhu endru vyasa…

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Hinduism - Good Karma and Bad Karma
Thanks for the link Satish, I was looking for a good Kamba Ramayana link for long. Yes it is true that Valmiki's epic was the original and all the rest evolved out of it. Robert Goldman one of the oldest western scholars of the epic also writ…

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Hinduism - Good Karma and Bad Karma
I think we are having two discussion on one thread..the one on karma and ethihasas/epics/etc, why don't we separate?

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Hinduism
Ravi, 100% right, yes that is true. Just a personal experience - I live in Kentucky, evangelist heartland. I have met many,many people like the author of this article, some even worse. Between hindu,buddhist and other minority faiths we have tried m…

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Hinduism - Good Karma and Bad Karma
Dear Dr Sri and all, my sincere apologies, it appears to be the blackberry. No more messages from handheld. thanks for your patience. Malathi

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Hinduism - Good Karma and Bad Karma
VV, There are research books written extensively on origins and interpolations in both Ramayana and Mahabharat. I have not read any on Mahabharat but the Ramayana there is a very good book written by Paula Richman, Many Ramayanas - where she talks …

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Hinduism - Good Karma and Bad Karma
Yes Vyasar Virundhu is a great and simple version of the Mahabharat. There is a new one out there in English by Ramesh Menon which is also excellent but voluminous.

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Hinduism - Good Karma and Bad Karma
I am no philoshpical expert but a practical two cents - Free will is not an illusion. It is limited than what we think that is all. Just having choices does not mean person can make them. It depends on your background, psychological mindset, and sev…

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Hinduism - Good Karma and Bad Karma
Yes absolutely. Also there is a huge flip side to this whole concept of memorizing, I mean everything about indian school education (atleast until the dawn of computers) was memory test. Every exam, every course. What learning really means, is under…

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All things Arjuna
NV, you got most of them right, couple I did not know, thanks.Some more - Gandeevi - for owner of Gandeeva the famous bow, Gudakesha - conqueror of sleep as he used to practice archery at night, Kapidhwaja - has Hanuman Banner. The normal 10 name…

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Hinduism - Good Karma and Bad Karma
I don't disagree that we have lost much of our great oral tradition. But times change, what we learn, where we learn, how we learn, everything has changed radically since the time of our ancestors. Atleast we had books, our children now have ev…

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Hinduism - Good Karma and Bad Karma
Dear N Venkat, thanks for pointing out the errors. Yes Janemejaya was Arjuna's great grandson, not grandson. And Vaishampayana was Vyasa's disciple, not grandson. I wanted to say actually that all kauravas were really Vyasa's grandchi…

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mahabaratha quiz
It is not peepatsu it Bheebatsu - fair fighter, one of Arjuna's names. Sri Rama lectures Bharata in Ayodhya Khanda on Gita-like virtues and this is often called Sri Rama Gita. Adhyatma Ramayana supposedly authored by Veda Vyasa again also has a…

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mahabaratha quiz
I think someone answered, it is Jayadratha, Sindu raja who plots Abhimanyu's death and is later killed by Arjuna.

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Hinduism - Good Karma and Bad Karma
Dear Venkat (please if you dont' mind can you drop 'Smt' makes me feel old), I understand what you say on Thenkalai philosphy and I am no expert on Vaishnavite philosphies myself. However, I disagree that the commonality in Shaivait…

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Hinduism - Good Karma and Bad Karma
Interestingly Vyasa also appears in two Jataka tales, perhaps the only character to be shared with Buddhism. He is known as Kanyadipayana in Buddhism, from Dwaimpayana in Sanskrit. One tale is similar to the last parva of Mahabharat where yadava you…

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Hinduism - Good Karma and Bad Karma
Also to remember the Mahabharat as written by Vyasa was related by his grandson Vaishampayana to Arjuna's grandson Janamejaya in the great 'sarpa yagna'. As I understand whatever we have now is the record of Vaishampayana's narra…

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All things Arjuna
Pavithra, also that book is on my list of books to read, definitely I have heard many good things about it. Will post a separate thread on Panchali today, fascinating woman she is. Malathi

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All things Arjuna
Yes that is pasupatha asthram, the battle referred to in the quiz is the battle between Indra and Arjuna/Krishna and the burning of Kandeeva vana to quench Agni's thirst for appetite. (Earliest forest fire :))

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reply: All this Arjuna
In Vanaparva Krishna himself tells Arjuna that he is Nara and they are born together for a purpose. The beautiful Swaminarayan mandir has Nara Narayana forms in all their glory.

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mahabaratha quiz
A chaioteer does not take up arms Sri Krishna had to take up chakrayudha in an attempt to slay Bheeshma since Arjuna and other pandavas did not stand up to it. Correcta?

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mahabaratha quiz

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mahabaratha quiz
Yes, Yuyutsu.And the 100th brother who is the only one who objects to the war and Draupadi vastraharan. what is his name?

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mahabaratha quiz
Order of kaurava army commandship.

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