Tattva

Namaste, This year Guru Purnima was celebrated on July 29th. It is a day given over to the remembrance of the sage Ved Vyas. This edition covers an article on the significance of Guru and Guru Purnima in Hindu culture. Later in the issue we further talk about Vegetarianism and explain how some of the world’s best athletes could achieve great physical strength and be vegetarian at the same time. South Asian groups are very active on college campuses. What does it mean to be ‘South Asian’ as opposed to Hindu or Indian? Does the Hindu thought provide a solution to the problem of Global Warming? Jai Shree Ram! Please visit www.hinduyuva.org/tattva-blog/2007/08 to read the August 2007 edition of Tattva.

For long it has been believed that non-vegetarian food is a necessity for athletes to enhance their performance to the highest possible limit. However, I recently came across a book which presents strong arguments to the contrary. The book in question is ‘Capoeira Conditioning’ by Gerard Taylor.  Read the rest of this entry »

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Our understanding about global warming has reached a definite mode when scientists across the globe (Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Changes) have declared a few things in unequivocal terms. They are as follows:  Read the rest of this entry »

“Who am I?” or “Who are you?” are questions both profound and quotidian. The answers could be mundane, convoluted, enlightening, “real” or “false”. The eighth century Indian philosopher (788-820 couC.E. ) Ad I Shankara, following Yagnavalkya, may have argued “ayam atma brahma” (this self is Brahman).

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Celebrating the Guru

Hindus attach paramount importance to spiritual gurus. Gurus are often equated with God and always regarded as a link between the individual and the Immortal. Just as the moon shines by reflecting the light of the sun, and glorifies it, all disciples can dazzle like the moon by gaining from their Gurus. Read the rest of this entry »

I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the tenth century or earlier time disfigured, defaced, you know that they were not just defaced for fun: that something terrible happened. I feel that the civilization of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions. And I would like people, as it were, to be more reverential towards the past, to try to understand it; to preserve it; instead of living in its ruins. The Old World is destroyed. That has to be understood. The ancient Hindu India was destroyed.

-VS Naipaul, Nobel Laureate Literature 2001