The Advaith

I heartily recommend the page at Smithsonian where some truly wonderful people talk about great things. For example, Karen Armstrong, who t...

Om Vishvam Darpana Drishya Maana Nagari Tulyam begins the Sri Dakshinamurthy Stotra which is said to encapsulate the essence of Advaita and...

Atanu has a very nice anecdote of the " vagvivada " of two Monks, in an aptly titled post: Thoughts without a Thinker . == Postscr...

I am not sure how many of my friends read NYTimes editorial page regularly. I would request them to read it regularly. The op-ed's are v...

There has been a campaign against using YAHOO!, notably from Nikolas Kristof because of its evil doings in China. On February 19, 2006, in C...

The post titled appeal to the silent majority , by Prof VK has a set of questions on for determining your "level of competency of Gita...

I have listened to a wonderful audio rendition of selections from Bhagavad-Gita. The text is from my favorite translation, the one by Prabha...

An excellent post by Molnar on advising. Link from Lance's weblog, who follows up with his own great post on advising . Thanks to both!

Fromm the IBM Almaden page Lattice algorithms Shortest vector problem. The shortest vector problem (SVP) is the problem of finding the sho...

Dear Readers, I am sorry for not blogging regularly. I have a couple of posts pending, but have important work to do too! While I am bloggin...

A quiz on opening lines . A List of best first lines from Jabberwock . He and others have written more in the comments of the post .

The New York Times version of what happened on that day. Gandhi Lives!

In A Genius Finds Inspiration in the Music of Another , Arthur Miller says Einstein once said that while Beethoven created his music, Mozart...

Was talking to an EE student, who is taking the course for which I am a TA. [Context: We are using a simulator of hardware instead of follow...

A refreshing talk by James Burke on "The Knowledge Web" at Smithsonian Institution. Link, thanks to Atanu . I fully agree with At...

Adi Shankaracharya the movie, by G.V.Iyer Original review: Saturday, January 21, 2006 Many corrections added later. Watched the movie Adi S...

It is said that, when HiranyaKasipu asked his son Prahlada, "Where is Hari?" Prahlada saw Hari everywhere. At the same time, Hiran...

Found the following about Advaita from Philosophy Foundation (actually went to the following link of one Advaiti , which was forwarded by a...

In Advaitin mailing list at yahoo groups, Question regarding Kailash Nath , Krishna Prasad asks, Dear Scholars, We all know Kailash Mountai...

SJ has just returned from a Laser show where he observes a braid of lasers with DSOM and WOZ. Naturally, he links the show back to his fa...