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Brahmāṇḍaḥ and Universe

For me the biggest find of 2011, the Sanskrit word for universe: ब्रह्माण्डः(brahmāṇḍaḥ) comes from the root ब्रिह्(brih) which means ‘to expand’. The modern science discovered this expanding attribute of the universe only in 1930s and the word meaning “one…something rotated, rolled, changed”- ‘universe’ is the English word.

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    • #sanskrit
    • #india
    • #hinduism
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Christmas reminds me of Colonialism, Imperialism, Slavery and Exploitation. Why celebrate them? Only buffoons support them.
Satyajit Ray
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    • #Christianity
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Sanskrit is the UNIX of languages.
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    • #unix
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It looks like a human was involved in choosing what went where,” Marissa told them. “It looks too editorialized. Google products are machine-driven. They’re created by machines. And that is what makes us powerful. That’s what makes our products great.
Marissa Mayer addressing Google designers, as quoted in “In The Plex” by Steven Levy (via buzz)
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ONE FORTY PLUS: If you want to be truly intimidating,If you want to make an...

jhnmyr:

If you want to be truly intimidating,

If you want to make an impact,

If you want to have strong connections with others

just be sincere.

Sarcasm is not an attitude, and it’s not a personality trait. It’s a style of rhetoric meant to be used occasionally to highlight a larger point. Saying…

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Building a durable, multi-billion dollar business takes time, and Founders Fund is the rare firm with the patience and balance sheet to participate in that process,” said Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX and co-founder of Tesla Motors and PayPal. “The world faces a number of critical, perhaps existential problems, and none of them will be resolved by investors with time horizons measured in months.
peHUB’s announcement of Founders Fund’s $625 million closing of Fund IV (via informationarbitrage)
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ushaft:

 Example of the extent of politicization and harm brought about by political parties in Nepal. Scott MacLennan, the Executive Director of The Mountain Fund posted this picture with the following caption on his facebook:

Then came the biggest dissapointment of all. What should have been the  most modern hospital for the entire district, serving 45,000 people with  full care for all things is lost because of political fighting. Prem  Tamang and his damn maoist people only want Maoists to have a hospital  not all Rasuwa, so we walked away from this too. Happy Prem? You are the  leader for Rasuwa and you screw your own people out of a hospital for  your party needs. Welcome to the new Nepal where politicians rule and  people get nothing. Well done, Prem my lad.
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ushaft:

 Example of the extent of politicization and harm brought about by political parties in Nepal. Scott MacLennan, the Executive Director of The Mountain Fund posted this picture with the following caption on his facebook:

Then came the biggest dissapointment of all. What should have been the most modern hospital for the entire district, serving 45,000 people with full care for all things is lost because of political fighting. Prem Tamang and his damn maoist people only want Maoists to have a hospital not all Rasuwa, so we walked away from this too. Happy Prem? You are the leader for Rasuwa and you screw your own people out of a hospital for your party needs. Welcome to the new Nepal where politicians rule and people get nothing. Well done, Prem my lad.

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respectisbeautiful:

A letter 17 year old Zooey Deschanel wrote to the editors of Vogue. Vogue ended up publishing the letter.
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respectisbeautiful:

A letter 17 year old Zooey Deschanel wrote to the editors of Vogue. Vogue ended up publishing the letter.

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vintageanchor:

‘”I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
 –from THE NEW LIFE by Orhan Pamuk
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vintageanchor:

‘”I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”

–from THE NEW LIFE by Orhan Pamuk

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The difficulties of language are not negligible. One’s native speech is a closely fitting garment, and one never feels quite at ease when it is not immediately available and has to be replaced by another.
Erwin Schrödinger
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    • #native language
    • #sanskrit
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Cultural domination has been an underappreciated facet of American global power. Whatever one may think of its aesthetic values, America’s mass culture exercises a magnetic appeal, especially on the world’s youth. Its attraction may be derived from the hedonistic quality of the lifestyle it projects, but its global appeal is undeniable. American television programs and films account for about three-fourths of the global market. American popular music is equally dominant, while American fads, eating habits, and even clothing are increasingly imitated worldwide. The language of the Internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation. Lastly, America has become a Mecca for those seeking advanced education, with approximately half a million foreign students flocking to the United States, with many of the ablest never returning home. Graduates from American universities are to be found in almost every Cabinet on every continent.
“The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives” by Zbigniew Brzezinski
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    • #globalization
    • #cultural dominance
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The Chinese pronunciation of Sanskrit is very cool and unique. I like it. Here is the Sanskrit text-

ॐ वज्र-सत्त्व-समय मानुपालय वज्र-सत्त्वत्वेन-उपतिष्ठ

दृढो मे भव सुतोष्यो मे भव सुपोष्यो मे भव अनुरक्तो मे भव

सर्व-सिद्धिं मे प्रयच्छ सर्व-कर्मसु च मे चित्त- श्रेयः कुरु हूं

ह ह ह ह होः भगवन् सर्व-तथागत वज्र मा मे मुञ्च

वज्रि भव महा-समय- सत्त्व आः ॥

    • #sanskrit
    • #chinese
    • #china
    • #china
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अचेल पश्चिमको अर्को उपहार एड्सको मात्र बोलवाला छ। रोग पनि उतैबाट आउँछ, उपचार खर्च पनि उतैबाट! यो हतियारजस्तै हो। हतियार पनि उतैबाट आउँछ, हतियारविरुद्ध प्रचार र मानव अधिकारका नारा पनि उतैबाट आउँछन्।
भोल्टेयरले भनेका छन्- वेद पूर्वको पश्चिमलाई अतुलनीय उपहार हो।
म भन्छु- भिरंगी र एड्सजस्ता यौनरोग जगतलाई पश्चिमको अविष्मरणीय देन हो।
http://www.nagariknews.com/saturday/31333-2011-09-17-09-05-53.html
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    • #Syphilis
    • #East
    • #West
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Bizarre thing that happens when our senses conflict.

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    • #McGurk Effect
    • #strange
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Guerrilla-style attack on Satan's kingdom

This is why I believe Christian evangelism and conversion should be banned in India and around the world.

Why focus on children at all? Stravers explains, “Ministry to children is more of a guerrilla-style attack on Satan’s kingdom because children are the most open to the Gospel. We’ve discovered that when children hear a Bible story, they go right into the home with the Gospel, where an evangelist cannot.”

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    • #evangelism
    • #india
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