The Dharma Dispatch

To the Hindu com­munity, the Kashi Vishwanath Temple destruction is one of the most enduring and high-profile proofs of their civilisational and spiritual loss and a heartless usurpation of their piety. In Muslim chronicles written during Aurangzeb’s rule and later, the demolition is described as a celebration of the conquest of ignorance and infidelity. -- Do read the full story 🚩🕉️🕉️🚩🚩🙏 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/historical-cookery-over-the-gyanvapi-mosque?utm_source=one-signal&utm_medium=push-notification

Hijab, the Prophet Row, Nupur Sharma and the Quranic Concept of War THE GLOBAL ISLAMIC LOBBY and its willing and fear-ridden Shariafied harems in the media, academia and commentariat have their faces deep in camel dung, to borrow an early Arabian idiom. Who would have thought that a mere statement on a TV debate would transform Nupur Sharma into an inadvertent herald of a massive and much-needed Hindu consolidation? The consolidation happened because Nupur Sharma spoke the truth found in Islamic primary texts. THE LAST TIME we heard, no Fatwa was issued against Rana Ayyub for wearing profoundly un-Islamic clothes and leading a thoroughly Haraami lifestyle while simultaneously recommending the Hijab to her Muslim sisters. This, dear Hindus, is the precise juncture where the Mullah meets and merges with masquerades such as Rana Ayyub. She feeds and sustains the Ulema’s thralldom over the community and the Ulema gives her the driving licence to indulge in Haraam activities. The Washington Post subsidises both. Muslims jealously guard the reputation of their Prophet. Muhammad is held in the highest possible esteem. No pictorial representations are allowed. The reason for the caution is what may be called 'the posthumous authority of Muhammad'. From the beggars in the slums of india to the spectacularly wealthy sheikhs of Saudi Arabia, from the illiterate peasants of Pakistan to the erudite scholars of al-azhar, from the village women of the third world to the sophisticates of western female society. Undoubtedly, this is one of the clearest explanations for the violent outrage that has erupted from the Muslim community over Nupur Sharma’s statement. — Read the whole piece! 🔖🔖🕌✍️✍️ https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/hijab-the-prophet-row-nupur-sharma-and-the-quranic-concept-of-war

The Enduring Possibilities of the Vasistha-Visvamitra Story and a Contrast with Leo Tolstoy -- Maharshi Valmiki has given us a timeless raw material in his Vasistha-Visvamitra story. A contrast with Leo Tolstoy's popular fable shows a clear difference between Bharatavarsha and the Christian West. -- TOLSTOY'S STORY, WHILE EVOCATIVE, works only on the mundane plane, delivering the eternal maxim: excessive greed causes death. Its underlying impulse is thoroughly Christian. Kaushika’s case is markedly different. His desire to possess Kāmadhēnu arises from his ignorance, which mistakes her as a magical cow which grants unlimited material bounty. In reality, Kāmadhēnu is a profound symbol of eternal and universal spiritual knowledge, which cannot be owned by anyone, and attempts to do so will assuredly end in disaster. Thus, the hand that freely granted such a grand feast to Kaushika also punished him with equal ferocity. This in turn led not to Kaushika’s death but an inner awakening. It was punishment that purified and then sanctified. -- Read the whole piece! 🛕🕉🔖🐄🛕 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/the-enduring-possibilities-of-the-vasistha-visvamitra-story-and-a-contrast-with-leo-tolstoy

A Passage from Maha-Brahmana: Transforming Sacred Lore into Literary Pearls — Devudu Narasimha Sastri's literary crowning glory, "Mahabrahmana" gives us a memorable depiction of the famous Vasistha-Visvamitra story. DEVUDU NARASIMHA SASTRY, one of the most acclaimed litterateurs of Kannada who blazed an independent path in the last century, *gives us an evocative, brilliant and insightful depiction of the Vasistha-Visvamitra story in his pathbreaking classic, Mahabrahmana.* The work easily ranks as one of the classics of world literature and continues to run into multiple reprints. The genius of Devudu is his original brand of amalgamation of the various versions of this celebrated Vasistha-Visvamitra story and then owning it: to the extent that after reading Mahabrahmana, it is hard to visualise it in any other manner. — Read the whole essay. Hindu cultural values will be propagated in a more effective manner through such stories. 🛕🛕🕉✍️🔖🛕 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/a-passage-from-maha-brahmana-transforming-sacred-lore-into-literary-pearls

The Next Time you Visit Vidisha, Remember Hatiya’s Sacred Service to Bhayillasvamin — An inscription dated 878 CE reveals the elevating story of Hatia, a Hindu merchant who performed a signal service to the deity Bhayillasvamin or Surya at Vidisha. As a true Hindu businessman, Hatia was deeply wedded to the core values of living a Sanatana life. Dāna was one such core value. Accordingly, Hatia purchased three Vīthis in Bhilsa and endowed the rental income derived therefrom to meet the expenses involved in performing the niyata-bhoga to the Narayana-Vishnu and Devi deities. As a devout Hindu, Hatia believed that this endowment would bring Punya to his deceased parents, a profound conviction, Śraddhā that is as old as Sanatana Dharma itself. Needless, to the defiled and vulgarised “modern” Hindu psyche, such notions sound funny or ridiculous or both. — Read the whole ennobling piece! 🛕🛕🕉🔖✍️🛕 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/the-next-time-you-visit-vidisha-remember-hatiyas-sacred-service-to-bhayillasvamin

The Secularist Perfidy Called Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb -- A historical exploration of the spurious phenomenon commonly known as Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb.✍️🔖🕌🛕🔖 https://thedharmadispatch.substack.com/p/the-secularist-perfidy-called-ganga?sd=pf

From Dusshera to Ugadi: How the Hindu Military Tradition Obeys Bharata’s Geography — Indian military history shows how climate and season were inextricably woven with the dictates of Bharatavarsha's geography. The close of monsoon heralds the onset of Dusshera.in the Hindu tradition of statecraft, this is also the most auspicious time to embark on a Digvijaya.  The overall picture of the military geography of Bharatavarsha viewed from the lens of history is this: the fall of great Hindu Empires in North India was often determined by just one decisive collision of two great armies. With it, almost half of Bharatavarsha was gobbled up by the alien invader. However, Dakshinapatha presents perhaps the most obstinate, sustained and successful story of Hindu resistance against the alien invader. Till the very end, no Muslim Empire was able to bring the whole of South India under its control. — Read the whole thrilling essay! 🔖🔖✍️🛕🕉🕉✍️ https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/from-dusshera-to-ugadi-how-the-hindu-military-tradition-obeys-bharatas-geography

Revisiting the 1967 General Elections: A Pivot of India's Downfall -- The 1967 General Elections of India was a crucial juncture in the history of "independent India." It was the clear line that separated decency from brazenness. https://www.dharmadispatch.in/commentary/revisiting-the-1967-general-elections-a-pivot-of-indias-downfall

The Psychotic Congress Hatred of Veer Savarkar Explained https://t.co/7Q1EkBLQ3r

The Military Geography of Ancient and Medieval India: An Introduction — This is the first part of an expository series on the military history of India set in the backdrop of the geography of ancient and medieval India. Geography is also war because terrain dictates both strategy and tactics. Intertwined with terrain is climate. Together, they author and alter history, and nowhere is this more pronounced than in India. The sacred geography of Bharatavarsha is broadly divided into two parts: Uttarapatha and Dakshinapatha. A geography unified by a shared spiritual culture where political boundaries were secondary at best. This overall picture of Bharatavarsha’s geography comes alive in a brilliant and often brutal fashion when we regard it as a Great Military Theatre placed on the canvas of Time. In a limited sense, in some of its particulars, it has all the dimensions of a Cosmic Play that Bharatavarsha was both fortunate and ill-fated to participate in. — Read the full story! 🔖✍️🛕 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/the-military-geography-of-ancient-and-medieval-india-an-introduction

Announcement of Two Courses: Upanishads and Shilpa Sastra -- VIBHU ACADEMY offers two online courses: 1. Upanishads: A Comprehensive Study 2. Shilpa Sastra: Training in Basic Drawing Designs of Traditional Hindu Sculptures   Full details are enclosed in the attached announcement. Both courses are led by stalwarts and are highly recommended. ---   Click the link to enrol. Last date for enrolment is June 2, 2022. 🛕🔖✍️🛕🛕 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/dispatches/announcement-of-two-courses-upanishads-and-shilpa-sastra

Why Sita Ram Goel’s Letter to Romila Thapar is a Superb Model for Combating Left Historians Sita Ram Goel's letter to Romila Thapar is an exemplary work that combines solid historical scholarship and fearlessness in confronting a powerful opponent. https://thedharmadispatch.substack.com/p/why-sita-ram-goels-letter-to-romila?sd=fs

Here it is: A Ready Reckoner of Aurangzeb’s Industrial-Scale Temple Destructions -- The Dharma Dispatch has compiled a partial list of Hindu Temples destroyed by the Mughal king Aurangzeb using primary sources written by Aurangzeb and his officials. And this list is just the tip of the iceberg. This list is by no means exhaustive and is meant to be a ready reckoner of sorts given the manner in which Aurangzeb has been elevated almost to sainthood by the secular mafia masquerading as historians. -- Do read and share widely! ✍️🛕🔖🛕 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/here-it-is-a-ready-reckoner-of-aurangzebs-industrial-scale-temple-destructions

Hindu Performing Arts as Vehicles for Transmitting Sanatana Education to the Masses -- How dance, drama, and music were used as the most effective modes for transmitting essential education throughout the sacred geography of Bharatavarsha. For countless centuries, tradition was popular across space and time because the Hindus of those eras regarded tradition as a value. Tradition was the root. People were merely occupying a temporal branch which was naturally destined to break and fall down and merge with the cosmos. Tradition was the flowing river, its followers were streams of bubbles. The disfiguring of the colonised Hindu mind is responsible for regarding tradition and popularity as opposites, which is why the intrinsic and lasting value of such an education in essential knowledge has escaped us today. -- Read the whole elevating essay! ✍️🛕🔖🕉🛕 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/hindu-performing-arts-as-vehicles-for-transmitting-sanatana-education-to-the-masses

If, without flame and sword, Hinduism spread over the whole of the Far East, it was possible because the Ramayana and Mahabharata, through the oral expounder, the sculptor, and the dancer went forth in advance, clearing the way and conquering the peoples’ imagination. The cultural expansion of India into greater India was mainly due to the fact that India always tried sincerely to get into the spirit of the cosmic reality and that she was never content with the surface value of life. 🛕🛕⚔📖 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/bharatavarshas-cultural-conquest-of-south-east-asia-through-its-sacred-education

The Sanskrit term for knowledge is *Shruta* — that which is heard. Its direct translation in Tamil is befittingly, *Kelvi*. In Kannada, the word *Kelu* means “hear or listen.” That our religious history has thrown up saints from among weavers, cobblers, potters, shepherds and Harijans shows how widely the soil has been irrigated and fertilised by the country’s spiritual engineers. https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/the-fabulous-tradition-of-adaptive-direct-transmission-of-sacred-knowledge-through-itihasa-and-purana?utm_source=one-signal&utm_medium=push-notification

10 PM IST | The glories of Vijayanagar Empire alone are sufficient to increase the self-esteem of Indians all over the world to such an extent that every little complex the invaders sought ot instil among Hindus would be washed away. Sandeep Balakrishna joins Vibhuti Jha and Sanjay Dixit to a treat of grand history of India. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2qYyfgzpj8

The Transmission of Sacred Education to Hindus: A Brief Journey Through the Eons We begin a new essay series tracing the extraordinary educational tradition of spreading sacred knowledge throughout the length and breadth of Bharatavarsha for a period of at least three millennia. -- FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES, our sacred civilisation recognised two types of knowledge broadly speaking: (1) The Essential (2) The Professional. Our genius lay in the sublime and invisible manner in which it fused the two and achieved an unbeatable harmony both in theory and practice. Unlike the West which considers essential knowledge and professional knowledge as opposing poles or as distinct from each other, the Santana mantra was synthesis. In the Santana conception, philosophical, spiritual, or Dharmic knowledge is essential knowledge. Professional knowledge is rather self-explanatory. The former encompasses the Manōmaya and Vijñānamaya Kōśas leading ultimately to the ānandamaya Kōśa. The latter covers the Annamaya and prāṇamaya Kōśas or the bare and base existential planes. -- Read the full thing! ✍️🛕🕉🔖 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/culture/the-transmission-of-sacred-education-to-hindus-a-brief-journey-through-the-eons

The Buddhist Tomb Tells the Story of Bakhtiyar Khalji's Devastation of Bihar and Bengal. Copious Buddhist primary sources narrate the story of Bakhtiyar Khalji's annihilation of Bihar and Bengal. They make for agonising reading. -- The great Tibetan Buddhist monk, Dharmasvamin got his first taste of Bakhtiyar Khalji's devastation at Uddandapura or Odantapura. The battered remains of that once-fabled university was now the residence of a Turushka military commander. Likewise, nothing remained of Vikramashila, the other pearl in the necklace of Buddhist learning. All the eighty Viharas at Nalanda, now a mass of desolate wreckage, had long been abandoned. A little-known fact of the MuZlim history of India is that Islam gained the maximum number of converts during Bakhtiyar Khalji's reign. -- It's painful to read, but do read. ✍️🛕🕌✍️🕉🔖 https://www.dharmadispatch.in/history/the-buddhist-tomb-tells-the-story-of-bakhtiyar-khaljis-devastation-of-bihar-and-bengal