Videos Archives - Yoga, Meditation and Hinduism

Nov112019 by tatvamaseeNo Comments

Naming A Hindu Child: Why Should We Not Trust The Internet | Nityananda Misra

So, try the basic well, try checking a dictionary or go to a scholar who would know Sanskrit. Don’t blindly believe Google. So, this is actual screenshot from 16th of June for the name Ishanvi. Google Ishanvi for Sanskrit name meaning and you see the feature snippet which the Google shows which has the wrong meaning, and also the first result the second and third results, a lot of people do this, they just search the meaning of name on Google and Google sorts its information from web sites which are popular. Web sites which are popular are usually the name websites which have a lot of usage-oriented content, which is more of them are not correct, and Google shows up incorrect results, which are not to be trusted. Next Wikipedia, so the Wikipedia kids are smarter than Google kids, becau

Nov112019 by tatvamaseeNo Comments

The Art And Science Of Naming | Nityananda Misra

Srijan Snippets, Videos

Sayanacarya, the great scholar who commented on all the four Vedic samhitas, he explains that, the first name is the ”Naksatra nama, Nakshatra nama, Guhya nama, Prakasa nama, ithi treeni namani”. The first name of the child was the Naksatra nama - it was based on the naksatra and even today you will have that tradition of giving names as per the Janma Naksatra. The second name was Guhya nama or a secret name; this was known only to the parents. So this was like the personal name, called inside home, the name only use by the parents and the close family. The third name was the Prakasa nama. Prakasa means manifest or which is visible. So this was the name which was known to everybody. They had two names, one was the Nakshatra name, one was the public name or the Prakasa name and the fourth

Oct242019 by tatvamaseeNo Comments

Is Islam Ready For Reform?: Arif Mohammad Khan In Conversation With Sanjay Dixit

#SrijanTalks, Featured, Know Islam, Videos

In this very interesting conversation, Shri Arif Mohammad Khan and Shri Sanjay Dixit discuss and debate on the desirability and possibility of reforms within Islam. The historical context of falasafa, and ishtehad in the Abbasid Empire, and the influence of Al Ghazali and Ibn Taiymiyyah in killing ishtehad, and finishing off the falasafa school (the Tahqiqis), leading to the current situation are also touched upon. The features of Hanafi Islam (Taqlid), and the general supremacism and intolerance exhibited towards other faiths by all strains of Islam, whether Ahl-e-Hadis (Wahhabi), Barelvi or Deobandi are also discussed. They look at the incompatibility of Time Concepts and Logic Concepts of Islam and Hinduism, and points of reconciliation. https://www.youtube....

Oct222019 by tatvamaseeNo Comments

[Q/A] Yogic Neuroscience — A Talk By Sh. Adinarayanan

#SrijanTalks, Health & Wellness, Hinduism, Indic Religions, Videos, Yoga, Yoga & Meditation

Main Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjdOV... Recent research in the fields of Neuroscience, #Epigenetics and Cognition is aimed at developing a deeper understanding of how the brain works and ways of enhancing human potential. While Neuroscience or Epigenetics looks at things from a third person perspective, Yogic Sciences look at first person experiences. There is a wealth of knowledge available in the Indian tradition and a transdisciplinary approach involving Neuroscience, Epigenetics and Yogic Sciences can help solve modern day problems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjdOVisKGNo&t=2s

Oct182019 by tatvamaseeNo Comments

Yogic Neuroscience — A Talk By Sh. Adinarayanan

#SrijanTalks, Featured, Health & Wellness, Hinduism, Videos, Yoga, Yoga & Meditation

Recent research in the fields of Neuroscience, Epigenetics and Cognition is aimed at developing a deeper understanding of how the brain works and ways of enhancing human potential. While Neuroscience or Epigenetics looks at things from a third person perspective, Yogic Sciences look at first person experiences. There is a wealth of knowledge available in the Indian tradition and a transdisciplinary approach involving Neuroscience, Epigenetics and Yogic Sciences can help solve modern day problems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAZZShrd1rg&t=114s About Speaker: - Sh. Adinarayanan, founder, Anaadi Foundation is a Tapasvi and visionary teacher. With a decade of teaching and research experience at Amrita University, he and his wife Smrithi started A...

Oct152019 by tatvamaseeNo Comments

The Specialties Of Sabarimala Temple | Anand Prasad

Sabarimala, Srijan Snippets, Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pVyUEMN6uY&t=12s Important things about Sabarimala, not a regular temple. So they don't do daily puja at here, the temple is open only on very specific days or periods. There is a Mandala puja which is November, December, it sort of goes into January, it goes into the Makara Vilakku, or the Makara Sankranti as we call it. They also open it on the Vishu festival which is mid-April and then there is a tradition of opening it in the first five days of each Malayalam calendar year. Now the interesting point is that the Devaswom board, when it made its argument in the Supreme Court and it's recorded there, that the restriction on women of menstrual age is only for the pilgrimage period, it is for one, two and three, there is no clear restriction in tra...

Oct102019 by tatvamaseeNo Comments

Sabarimala: Secularism Or Monotheism? | Anand Prasad

Sabarimala, Srijan Snippets, Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vwoMAqqwaM Now secularism really can mean that, I will not discriminate between religions and there are two ways, are not discriminating -- one becoming godless as somebody who is sort of administrator, judge you. The other is I will be like maybe in the US, I could be Christian state, but I will actually not make the distinction no particular religion will get any favors. But in India we sort of have gone down the path of the British version of secularism, which is basically a godless state, that is how we, our whole state has been constructed on the basis of a British constitutional principle and that's what you follow. So it doesn't matter if a judge is religious, it doesn't matter if a judge is a priest, because this particular constitution be...

Oct102019 by tatvamaseeNo Comments

Sabarimala: Understanding Hinduism

Hinduism, Sabarimala, Srijan Snippets, Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0nB9SODuWs Since ancient times it is actually a geographical description of the land, that this is Hindu land, the people who reside over here are Hindus and that essentially was I mean, I would say that just like you look at people who reside in China's Chinese, people who live in Iran as Iranians, who live in Greece as Greeks, those who lived in India, India is an English term, but were called Hindus, even today some of the languages in the Middle East and in China tend to use the term Hindu, for anybody that comes out of India regardless of their religion. So, the term is religious and agnostic, it is geographical in description. Now what the Europeans did, is that they continued to use the nomenclature Hindu, except they gave it a religious co...

Oct102019 by tatvamaseeNo Comments

[Q/A] Sabarimala: Rationalising Skewed Perspectives — A Talk By Anand Prasad

#SrijanTalks, Sabarimala, Videos

Main Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8HKH... In this Q/A session Anand Prasad Answers to the questions from the audience. In main talk, Anand Prasad talks about understanding the Supreme Court ruling on Sabarimala. He questions why is it difficult for the court to see the traditional Indian viewpoint? The notion is that a secular State is viewed as a godless state, as against a State that accepts all gods. The court is an institution of rational thought and hence struggles to sanctify an argument in myth. There are multiple schools of Hinduism and they differ from each other. The problem arises when the court applies principles of the bhakti school (or the idea of “faith”) to other schools of Hinduism. For presenting the arguments in review before the Supreme Cour

Oct102019 by tatvamaseeNo Comments

Sabarimala: Rationalising Skewed Perspectives — A Talk By Anand Prasad

#SrijanTalks, Featured, Sabarimala, Videos

In this very enlightening talk, Anand Prasad talks about understanding the Supreme Court ruling on Sabarimala. He questions why is it difficult for the court to see the traditional Indian viewpoint? The notion is that a secular State is viewed as a godless state, as against a State that accepts all gods. The court is an institution of rational thought and hence struggles to sanctify an argument in myth. There are multiple schools of Hinduism and they differ from each other. The problem arises when the court applies principles of the bhakti school (or the idea of “faith”) to other schools of Hinduism. For presenting the arguments in review before the Supreme Court, the science of temples need to be understood, the science of energy needs to be understood. It is also important