The Advaith

Thanks to Lance for the great posts on Richard Rado (1906-1989) and Kurt Godel (1906-1978) , on the eve of their birth centenaries. Link t...

1 The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name 41 When a superior man hears of the Tao...

In Part VII-a , Part VII-b , Part VII-c , Part VII-d and Part VII-e , Shri Subramanian discusses Verse VI of Shri Dakshinamurthy Stotram:...

This blogger has been a fan of Nicholas Kristof. His work has been exemplary. Whether it is reporting on genocides, or tackling the administ...

Raimundo Panikkar's The Vedic Experience: Mantramanjari , a good translation -- possibly one of the best in English -- of some of the sc...

Possibly, my most favorite poem of the woman in white (or the Bartleby page for Emily Dickinson): I had no time to hate, because The grave...

Thanks to Lance , Agarwal, Kayal and Saxena, the authors of the famous paper "Primes is in P" , won the Goedel Prize for 2006 . ...

My friend Elliott, pinned the poem "Now is the Time" by Hafiz (a 14th century mystic/poet from Persia) outside my door: Now is th...

So start the most beautiful Sanskrit verses ever written. They were the inspiration for great poets like Kalidasa. Here is an online version...

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...