Bharatheeyam : ( 08/11/2012. )

The Ideal And The Actual In Gandhi's Philosophy : The question: “How is the ideal related to and distinct from the actual?” is crucial to the understanding of Gandhi’s philosophy. The failure to appreciate this has led his critics either to misrepresent him or to call him inconsistent and full of contradictions. Gandhi has often been quoted against himself. Dr Bondurant writes: “Gandhi’s political philosophy is, indeed, elusive. To the scholar who seeks internally consistent, systematised bodies of thought, the study of Gandhi is unrewarding.”1 She attributes this to the “result of his thinking in public.” 2 Another recent writer, Dr Paul F. Power, writes: “Divergent and sometimes conflicting positions can be traced throughout most of his public life, although one may dominate the others during particular phases.”3 He tries to classify Gandhi’s idea into different categories at different times and concludes that they “cut across.”4 At the same time, later on he observes: “...

    Basic Principles Of Gandhism     Mahatma Gandhi was an intensely active personality. He was interested in everything that concerns the individual or society. He is best known as the matchless political leader who evolved the new technique of "satyagraha". His fight against untouchability and the notions of superiority and inferiority by birth are also fairly well known. For India, his greatest service was, perhaps, the emancipation of Indian women.   It is generally known that he lived an austere life, practised strict vegetarianism and abstained from alcoholic drinks, tobacco and even the milder stimulants like coffee and tea. His attachment to simple natural remedies against illness and disease and his radical ideas on education are not so well known to the outside world and, even in India, they have not made much impact. Gandhi deliberately refrained from making these public issues and thereby confusing the people. The only excep...

Articles-1 മാര്‍ക്ക് ദാനം മഹാദാനം : കെ.ജി. മുരളീധരന്‍, അനീഷ് ജേക്കബ്, വി.യു. മാത്യുക്കുട്ടി, രതീഷ് രവി മാര്‍ക്ക് തട്ടിപ്പിന്റെ ദൈനംദിന കഥകള്‍, പകര്‍പ്പെഴുത്താവുന്ന ഗവേഷണ പ്രബന്ധങ്ങള്‍, പതിനാലുവര്‍ഷത്തെ അധ്യാപക നിയമന നിരോധനം....ചരടു പൊട്ടിയ പട്ടം കണക്കെ അലക്ഷ്യമായി നീങ്ങുകയാണ് നമ്മുടെ ഉന്നതവിദ്യാഭ്യാസ, ഗവേഷണരംഗം. പിന്നാക്ക സംസ്ഥാനങ്ങള്‍ പോലും മികവിന്റെ മുന്നേറ്റം നടത്തുമ്പോള്‍ കേരളം അടിക്കടി പിന്നോട്ടാണ്. ഉന്നത വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ മേഖലയിലെ ദുരവസ്ഥയെക്കുറിച്ച്... 2+2+1+1=86 എന്ന് കേള്‍ക്കുമ്പോള്‍ പഴയ എം.ബി.ബി.എസ്. മാര്‍ക്കുതട്ടിപ്പ് കേസാവും ഓര്‍മയിലെത്തുക. എന്നാല്‍, ഈ സൂത്രവാക്യം എം.ജി സര്‍വകലാശാലയ്ക്കു കീഴിലുള്ള ഒരു സ്വാശ്രയ എന്‍ജിനീയറിങ് കോളേജിനു സ്വന്തമാണിപ്പോള്‍. സംഭവം നടന്ന് ഏതാനും ദിവസമേ ആയിട്ടുള്ളൂ. വിവരങ്ങള്‍ പുറത്താരുമറിഞ്ഞില്ല. നമ്മുടെ കോളേജിലെ ഏഴാം സെമസ്റ്റര്‍ ഇലക്ട്രിക്കല്‍ ആന്‍ഡ് ഇലക്‌ട്രോണിക്‌സ് വിദ്യാര്‍ഥിക്ക് ഒരു പേപ്പറിന്റെ പ്രാക്ടിക്കല്‍ പരീക്ഷയ്ക്ക് ലഭിച്ചത് ആറു മാര്‍ക്കാണ്. ഈ പേപ്പറിനു വിദ്യാര്‍ഥി തോറ്റതായി കാണിച്ച് സര്‍വകലാശാല ഫലവും പുറത്തുവിട്ടു. മാര്‍ക്ക...

PRESENT BHARATHAM:- Bharatham is a spiritual country, world acknowledges this view. Since liberalisation, new modernisation ,and globalisation started change occurred to great extent, we lost our culture along with this mad rush. We started to imitate western culture, began to neglect one's own mother tongue, in the mean time Gulf boom began, new rich germinated, boom of IT sector, and salary hike, one more rich germinated, lot of foreign exchange, a new genaration flew to western countries on job hunting,: these made a great impact on our ancient culture. The media boom next, films,television channels, adverts, press, every thing changed. Women bodily exposures are visible in all areas from there, Internet, cellphones culture a curse to youngsters due to pornography, all advancement in technology became a sudden curse to the country, channels telecasts serials where women's cruel rolls started rolling, or weak rolls for women is a assured one, in films half naked...

Rediscover Bharatham!!! Our Father of Nation Mahatma's dream was "Ramarajya in BAharatham". The word secularism may oppose the term used 'Ramarajyam', the term means a land of TRUTH AND VALUES. The Upanishadic culture is the culture of our country. The training given to the citizens of Bharatham to live this Sanatana Dharma is called Hinduism. Bharatham is a Spiritual country. BHA means Knowledge and ratham is one who lives, hence Bharatham means a country where people are living in knowledge. Modernisation, Globalisation , our political parties, our Rulers, our system, our education, parents, new generation, media, our dress code, blind imitation of western countries and many more causes of this. Science and technology is boon for good people, where demonic citizens take advantage and exploit these benefits into criminal activities, we had experience since Atom was mis-used, now the demonic activities is continuing. Rulers keep open their eyes and ...

Pratipaksha bhavana :- The previous two and three stanzas of Bhajagovindam the teacher (Swami Sankara) tried to to help the student to make correct judgement of the place of money and woman in a healthy man's dynamic living. They are not to serve as treacherous rocks upon which one's ship of life should get smashed and floundered. Here, next, Acharya is helping us to realise how ephemeral, and riddled with painful imperfections, is this uncertain existence of the embodied. Since life is so uncertain, and the world is in a sense nothing but sorrow, there is no time for any one to waste. Death rarely announces its visit, and unannounced it enters cities and hamlets, flats and fields. It respects neither the person nor the place that it visits. Therefore, strive right now. 'Now'and 'here'seems to be the urgency behind.  Swami Sankara in the 4th stanza of Bhajagovindam symbolises the extreme uncertainty of life, the analogy of a drop of water trembling ...

WOMEN:- Biologically, nature has made man and woman, with a natural affinity for the charms of the opposite sex. This natural urge is to be controlled, disciplined, purified and sublimated. An intelligent intellect alone can achieve this. An animal cannot; to act according to its instincts and impulses is but its privilege.  The glory of man is that he can, by his rational intellect, curb and control the flow of his instincts for carnal pleasures and re-divert them, thus ultimately sublimating himself into something nobler and more divine. PRATIPAKSHA BHAVANA:- Here Swami Sankracharya in his book Bhajagovindam, slokam-3, gives us a line of thinking, which can be an efficient antidote to the fanciful price, that the body gives to the object of senses. The soft inviting bosom of your beloved, if scientifically analysed and mentally seen in its reality, will reveal itself to be compoed of only abhorrent flesh and fat, packed in a scaly skin! If these component parts are brou...