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Advaita Vedanta!!!

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 || गुरुर ब्रह्मा गुरुर विष्णु गुरुर देवो महेश्वरः गुरुः साक्षात्परब्रह्म  तस्मै श्री गुरुवे नमः|| Today its not "Gyan Data" who will write for you. We have a guest writer today, let me introduce you, Pandit Niranto Sen A.K.A. Niranta Lahiri. Panditji has been studying and researching about the Advaita Vedanta philosophy throughout his life and is a follower of the "Ramakrishna Mission Ideology" to a great extent. Now, let us all read, what he says about Advaita Vedanta... Advaita Vedanta I would like to begin with a story, fictional of course. Unless, it will be very difficult for the reader to comprehend the profound philosophy of Advaita Vedanta. In the beginning, there was nothing. But there was God; God said, ‘Let there be light, and there was light; then God said, ‘Let there be water, and there was water; he then manifested Air, ether, and finally Life. God had created a Universe through his powers, a Universe where everything was according to his liking, ...

Bhavsagar: The Cosmic Ocean!!!

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"Kewat re kewat badi bhagi teri naiyya...   Aaj teri nayya mein biraje, bhavsagar ke khivaiyaa!! " Kewat, a professional who owns boats and helps people cross rivers, played a significant role in the story of Lord Rama, Goddess Sita, and Lord Lakshman during their period of vanvaas (exile). They needed to cross the holy river Ganga, which was wide and deep, making it impossible to cross on foot. Sri Ram, accompanied by the king of Nishads, Sri Nishadraj, called upon the kewat to serve them. During the reign of Ramayana, all the people on Earth were incarnations of various gods who had come to serve Lord Vishnu in the form of Rama. However, Sri Ram himself was unaware that he was Lord Vishnu (Parameshwar). The kewat, eager to wash and touch the holy feet of the supreme with Ganga Jal (water from the Ganga), started arguing with Sri Ram. He explained that Sri Ram's feet were miraculous, as he had stepped on a stone which got converted into an Apsara had emerged. The kewat...

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Surrogate Advertising : The Nation Heading Backwards!

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"All of us have heard about this term, right?" So basically surrogate advertising means advertising things like cigarettes, liquor and tobacco under some other products. This blog is an INTENSE PROTEST BLOG and hence no mercy will be shown, neither towards any company nor celebrity. And if you ask me if I am not afraid, let me tell you that I am not even afraid of DEATH. The first case of surrogate advertising, I remember in my conscious life was in 2015. I had come to my native place all alone, I was just 12 years old then. During those days the 2015 ODI word cup was going on, and in the ad break, there used to be an ad. Oh yes this one, you got it right. It advertises alcohol as Soda, now imagine as a 12 year old boy if someone would have asked me to bring soda from soda shop and keeping that ad in my mind I would have asked the shopkeeper for a McDo***** soda, what impression others would have on my family teachings and that too when it's not their mistake at all. Then...

Sthanak meri Manzil!!!

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More appropriate title to this blog would have been "Home to Station". This is probably the first blog related to my personal experiences. This is being written in response to an order passed by my poetic and blogging and defence mentor about six months ago. So basically I live in Panvel, my college is in Bandra. Three kilometres from my house is the Panvel station and from their forty five Kilometres away is my college. From station my college is about 1.6 km away. Readers be like: Ye wala Panvel, ye wala?  Me: Ha bhai ha aur koi hai hi nahi duniya mein..... So let us continue.  Generally on regular college days I use share rickshaw to reach the Panvel Railway station. They charge Rs. 20 per seat. Usually our lectures used to start by 9.30 A.M. in the morning. So I used to take the 7.39 direct Goregaon train (Maa kasam jannat hai yar baithne mila toh!). Let all that be aside. Let us come back to our rickshaw. So whenever I go in an auto the three seats behind if occupied by ...

Arise, Awake and Stop not till the Goal is Reached!

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As we all are aware of this famous quote that has bee used by me in the title of this blog, it was quoted by Swami Vivekananda. Here the question arises, why I would name a blog based on his life as a phrase quoted by him. The answer being..... "I don't want people to remember me but I want them to practice my ideas in their life...." Born as Narendranath Datta, Swami Vivekananda was son to Vishwanath Datta and Bhuvneshwari Devi. He was quite a naughty child and would keep disturbing everyone, every now and then. Swami's mother used to jokingly say..." After worshiping shiva so much with utmost devotion, I was expecting my child to be a great soul, but here I have been made a mother of havoc-creating demon!" In order to calm down a notorious Swami, his mother used to pour a bucket of cold water on his head chanting the name of Shiva and then Swami would become calm and composed as if in a deep meditative state. Later in his life he lost his father and then h...

The three 'M's of National Development

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  The reason I decided to write this out of the box blog is that these remedies of national development that have been there in my head since ages immemorial 😅😂. Let us explore the three M s one by one  Meritocracy Integrity : The First 'M'. The very first M of national development is meritocracy integrity. Reservation that had started as a result of severe oppression faced by a particular weaker section of society is NOT a wrong thing but its implication has totally gone wrong. Reservation to whomsoever it may concern, must be given on the basis of attainment of financial stability. Once a family attains financial stability using reservation benefits that family should NOT again be given reservation and then even they should be evaluated on the basis of General merit. Military Diplomacy : The Second 'M'. This simply means that even the armed forces of the nation that truly wants to develop should actively participate in diplomatic relations. In our country, recently ...