Aditya kohl biography of mahatma
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[Recorded on Nov 18, 2014.]
Someone asked Guruji what is dvaita (duality) versus advaita (non-duality.)
Indian philosophy is inundated with long-winded discussions, explanations, and arguments about these basic terms. Numerous text books have been written and so many schools of thoughts started by self-proclaimed philosophers, acharyas, expounding their subtle philosophical differences – advaita, shuddha (pure) advaita, vishishta (special) advaita, dvaita-advaita, etc.
Guruji gave a simple answer which cut through all the smog. “There will be dvaita, duality, within you as long as your conscious and subconscious are separate. When your subconscious is also conscious and you have full consciousness that will be advaita, non-duality.
“Sākāra and Nirākāra: What we have not seen or don’t know yet is nirākāra, formless. When we see them and know them it is sākāra, with form.
“Saguṇa and Nirguṇa: Whose guṇa, qualities
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Indigenous Aryanism
View that the Indo-Aryans are indigenous to India
Indigenous Aryanism, also known as the Indigenous Aryans theory (IAT) and the Out of India theory (OIT), is the conviction that the Aryans are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent, and that the Indo-European languages radiated out from a homeland in India into their present locations. It is a "religio-nationalistic" view of Indian history, and propagated as an alternative to the established migration model,[5] which considers the Pontic–Caspian steppe to be the area of origin of the Indo-European languages.[note 1]
Reflecting traditional Indian views based on the Puranic chronology, indigenists propose an older date than is generally accepted for the Vedic period, and argue that the Indus Valley civilisation was a Vedic civilization. In this view, "the Indian civilization must be viewed as an unbroken tradition that goes back to the earliest period of the Sindhu-Sarasvati (or In