The Advaith

Thanks to the notes in the introduction to Vivekachudamani by Prof. John Grimes (pages 28 and 52), I could get the references for the Mahav...

A conversation with Al (who is a christian, and with whom I discuss Advaita and similar stuff, over email): [Al wrote] ... im running into w...

From the translation of Chandogya by Shri Radhakrishnan (VII.9.1, page 477) (an online edition of the translation by Max Muller): ... there...

I wrote to Prof. Grimes saying the anecdotes in the Ganapathi book moved me (and my friends) a lot, he replied ... Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09...

From chapter "Who am I?" (page 139) from the Ganapati by Prof. Grimes: Once many years ago, I had a "chance" meeting wi...

What are the Seven Great Untenables? Prof. John Grimes seems to have a a book on it, and there seems to have been some discussion on advait...

From page 92 on anada of Ganapati by Grimes: ... The word modaka comes from the Sanskrit root mud (joy delight). The self is said to be ...

This day in 2001: when Very Very Special and the Wall were the only humans before Tugga and his final frontier. This is the "this da...

John Grimes is a professor in Michigan State University and author of the book on Vivekachudamani and Ganapathi. This is from the entry on ...

Link from Ziegler's homepage: Some algorithmic problems in polytope theory: AProPo .

I thought that that there may have been some interesting posts on Raja Rao in the newsgroups (or I was just trying to pass time). Either way...

I am only halfway through the book Ganapati: Song of the Self , but I am amazed by the way Grimes approaches to explain Ganapati in an entir...

The library entry for the book by Swami Chinmaya Mission says also known as Man¯is¯apañcaka. . Of course man is apanchaka, as is beyond the ...

A set of good lecture notes on Ramsey Theory. More to come.

The essence of education is to learn, relearn, and possibly unlearn.

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...