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Subhash Kak
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3 days ago

American Ouroboros

The US is robbing from its next generation to support the hegemony of the dollar, which has become a source of structural imbalance in the world economy. Like the mythical ouroboros, it is oblivious that it is eating its own tail. After World War II, the newly emergent international monetary…

United States

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American Ouroboros
American Ouroboros
United States

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Aug 30

The Churning of the Ocean and the Elixir of Immortality

The story of the Churning of the Ocean (samudra- or amṛta-manthana) goes to the very heart of Hinduism. It is found in various versions in the Purāṇas, the Rāmāyaṇa, the Mahābhārata, and is referenced in the Vedic hymns. It is a story about the very nature of being and the…

Vedas

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The Churning of the Ocean and the Elixir of Immortality
The Churning of the Ocean and the Elixir of Immortality
Vedas

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Jul 2

A Place called Time

There is no time without space, and no space without time. Reality is existence (sat), consciousness (cit), and our capacity to make sense of it (ānanda). These three, in their universal forms, are represented by Viṣṇu, Śiva, and the Goddess, and behind each lurks the mystery of time. Since we…

Time

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A Place called Time
A Place called Time
Time

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May 29

The Strange Fight over Science in India

Scientific narratives can jar common sense. Thus an electron can be at two places at the same time, even traveling simultaneously through two holes. Matter can collapse and then disappear altogether, and then reappear at some other place. …

Science

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The Strange Fight over Science in India
The Strange Fight over Science in India
Science

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May 11

Kailāsanātha — The World’s Grandest Artistic Conception

The Kailāsanātha Temple at Ellora is perhaps the world’s grandest artistic conception in which the entire structure, together with its ornamentations and sculptures, was carved out of a single rock. The temple, which is enclosed within a mountain, has large and dynamic carvings that creates a dramatic effect. This architectural…

Temple

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Kailāsanātha — The World’s Grandest Artistic Conception
Kailāsanātha — The World’s Grandest Artistic Conception
Temple

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Jan 14

India: The Next Twenty-Five Years

The world is going through extraordinary change, and all signs point to India playing a prominent role in the new order. If the past few centuries were about discovery and control of the outer, the world is now in the dangerous phase of control of the inner by chemicals, pharma…

Future

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India: The Next Twenty-Five Years
India: The Next Twenty-Five Years
Future

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Dec 23, 2022

Finitude and Wokeism

Empathy is a universal emotion, which is why people cry over suffering in books, stories and movies (even those about animals). Suffering at an epic scale as in a war or in the bombing of cities is rationalized by the mind as something over which no one has control. Despite…

Wokeism

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Finitude and Wokeism
Finitude and Wokeism
Wokeism

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Nov 20, 2022

The Devi and Planes of Consciousness

The chimpanzee and the human have similar sensory capacities, but why can some humans do science or poetry and chimps apparently can’t? If truth be told, the memory of chimps is far superior to that of humans as revealed in the famous study on a chimpanzee named Ayumu at the…

Goddess

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The Devi and Planes of Consciousness
The Devi and Planes of Consciousness
Goddess

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Oct 29, 2022

The West’s War with Russia

The Russians see the war in Ukraine as their response to the attempted expansion of NATO to their borders. They feel that security considerations demand that they must thwart the expansion at all costs. But there is another angle to the war. A couple of weeks ago, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry…

Russia

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The West’s War with Russia
The West’s War with Russia
Russia

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Oct 26, 2022

A Brief Guide to Hinduism for the Perplexed

Hinduism describes the nature of the outer and inner realities and instructs on ways to obtain self-knowledge. The formal name of Hinduism is Sanātana Dharma (Eternal or Universal Law) and its oldest text is the Ṛgveda. It also has a huge amount of ancillary literature that covers a wide variety…

Hinduism

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A Brief Guide to Hinduism for the Perplexed
A Brief Guide to Hinduism for the Perplexed
Hinduism

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