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What is Religion? What is Philosophy? – Dr S. Radhakrishnan explains (Post 6003)

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FEBRUARY 2019 ‘GOOD THOUGHTS’ CALENDAR

28 more quotations from Dr S Radhakrishnan (a great philosopher and Formerly President of India.) sometime ago gave 30 quotations from his book in a month’s calendar. The quotations below are from his article on philosophy

February 2019 Important Days—4 Thai Amavasai, 9 Vasantha Panchami, 12 Ratha Saptami/ Bhishma Ashtami, 19 Masi Magam

Full moon day- 19, New moon day- 4,Hindu Fasting Days/ Ekadasi- 16

FEBRUARY 1 FRIDAY

PURPOSE OF RELIGION

Hindu culture is directed towards that which is transcendent and beyond. Its great achievements in times past were due to the high tension of the spirit to which our age has no parallel. The purpose of religion is spiritual awakening and those who are awakened are delivered from the base delusions of caste and creed, of wealth and power.

FEBRUARY 2 SATURDAY

Religion expresses itself in and discloses its quality by the morality which it demands.

FEBRUARY 3 SUNDAY
ROLE OF HINDUISM
Hinduism strove victoriously against the corruption of the ancient world, civilised backward people, transformed and purified the new elements and preserved the tradition of the spiritual and profane sciences.

FEBRUARY 4 MONDAY

Religion may start with an individual but it must end in a fellowship.


FEBRUARY 5 TUESDAY
It is essential to liberate not only the bodies from starvation but minds from slavery.


FEBRUARY 6 WEDNESDAY

SAINT
Saintliness, when genuine, is marked by true humility and love. Religion is a search for truth and peace, not power and plenty.


FEBRUARY  7 THURSDAY

RELIGION MEANS ADVENTURE

In the name of religion we are often taught that the prevailing conditions are ordained by god. Thus it had been, was now and ever would be. Rightly interpreted, religion means courage and adventure, not resignation and fatalism.

FEBRUARY 8 FRIDAY

SCIENCE AND RELIGION

Religion needs certainty, complete assurance, but this just the quality which scientific naturalism has pretty thoroughly rejected. Our need to believe, we are told, cannot be sufficient foundation for faith.


FEBRUARY 9 SATURDAY

RELIGION- LENIN, DURKHEIM,CROCE, SANTAYANA
Religion, according to Santayana,a species of poetry, mythology (Croce), sociological phenomenon (Durkheim), or a narcotic for a decadent society (Lenin).


FEBRUARY 10 SUNDAY

BAD THINGS IN THE NAME OF RELIGION

Religion, as a matter of history, has crippled the free flight of intelligence and stifled glad devotion to human values. It has fostered superstition and prescribed crime. It has comforted millions of suffering humanity with illusions of extra-terrestrial solace to compensate for the barrenness of their earthly lives.

FEBRUARY 11 MONDAY

PRIESTS ARE NOT GOOD

The present class of priests, with rare exceptions, have lost their good breeding, kindliness and polish and have not gained in sureness of intellect, learning and adaptability.

FEBRUARY 12 TUESDAY

NEED OF THE WORLD

A veritable renewal is what the world and not merely India stands in need of. To those who have lost their anchorage, to our age itself which is in a great transition, the way of the spirit is the only hope.

FEBRUARY 13 WEDNESDAY

CHAOS IN OUR MINDS
The present chaos in the world can be traced directly to the chaos in our minds.
The modern intellectual whose mind has been moulded to a degree seldom recognised by the methods and concepts of modern science, has great faith in verifiable facts and tangible results. Whatever cannot be measured and calculated is unreal. Whispers that come from the secret depths of the soul are rejected as unscientific fancies.

FEBRUARY  14 THURSDAY

Philosophy
In India, philosophy has been interpreted as an inquiry into the nature of man, his origin and destiny.

FEBRUARY 15 FRIDAY


To the Indian mind philosophy is essentially practical, dealing as it does with the fundamental anxieties of human beings, which are more insistent than abstract speculations. We are not contemplating the world from outside but are in it.

FEBRUARY 16 SATURDAY

SCEPTICS

Since men began to think, there have always been sceptics. The wise man, said Arcesilaus, should withhold his assent from all opinions and should suspend his judgement. This admirable attitude for the scientific investigator is now turned to one of dogmatic denial which offers but an inadequate guide to life and action.

FEBRUARY 17 SUNDAY

LIFE IS AN ACCIDENT
Human life is an infinitesimal speck on a tiny planet, in a system of planets revolving round an insignificant star, itself lost in a wilderness of other stars. Life is an accident arising in some unknown fashion from inert matter. It is wholly explicable, though not yet explained by mechanical laws.

FEBRUARY 18 MONDAY

SCIENTIFIC  BARBARIANS
Social groups are formed in the interests of survival. They have no other purpose than furthering their own material good, by force and fraud, if necessary. Economic welfare is the end of all existence. The principles of evolution offer a scientific basis for militaristic imperialism. When powerful groups exploit the weaker races of the earth, they are but instruments for furthering the evolution of higher biological forms which has brought us from amoeba to man and will now complete the journey from Neanderthal man to scientific barbarians of the modern world.

FEBRUARY 19 TUESDAY

LIFE IS A CIRCUS

Life has become a carnival or a large circus in progress, without structure, without law, without rhythm.

FEBRUARY 20 WEDNESDAY

WHAT WILL RELIGION GIVE YOU?
The need of the world today is for a religion of the spirit, which will give a purpose to life, which will not demand any evasion or ambiguity, which will reconcile the ideal and the real, the poetry and the prose of life, which will speak to the profound realities of our nature and satisfy the whole of our being, our critical intelligence and our active desire.

FEBRUARY  21 THURSDAY

POWER OF HUMAN MIND

Hindu systems of thought believe in the power of human mind to lead us to all truth. Our ordinary mind is not the highest possible order of the human mind. It can rise to the level almost inconceivable to us.


FEBRUARY 22 FRIDAY

IMAGE OF GOD IN MAN
The essential truth is expressed in the language of religion as the in dwelling of the Logos. There is the image of god in man, an almost deathless longing for all that is great and divine.

FEBRUARY 23 SATURDAY

AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
Ours is an age which is justly proud of its rationalism and enlightenment. But any sound rationalism will recognise the need for intuition.

FEBRUARY 24 SUNDAY

DESCARTES

Descartes , though a thorough going rationalist and admirer of the geometrical method, uses the intuitive principle. While he employs the process of doubt to free the mind from error and prejudice and insists that we should accept only what presents itself to the mind so clearly and distinct ly as to exclude all ground s of doubt, he finds what is clear and distinct in his kno.edge of himself as a thinking being.

FEBRUARY 25 MONDAY

INTUITION
Intuition is not used as an apology for doctrines which either could not or would not be justified on intellectual grounds. It is not shadowy sentiment or pathological fancy fit for cranks and dancing dervishes. It stands to intellect as a whole to a part, as the creative source of thought to the created categories which works more or less automatically.


FEBRUARY 26 TUESDAY
Intuition requires cultivation quite as much as the powers of observation and thought.

FEBRUARY 27 WEDNESDAY

CANNOT TAME NATURE

Nature cannot be completely tamed to do man’s bidding. Her caprices, her storms and tempests, her cyclone s and earth will continue to shatter his works and dash his hopes. Fortunes vagaries and the fickleness of man will continue to operate. Peace of mind is a remote hope until and unless we have a vision of perfection and is glimpse eternity to prevail against the perspective of time. Security without which no happiness is possible cannot come from mastery of things. Mastery of the self is the prerequisite.

FEBRUARY  28 THURSDAY

BYRON SAID……

In the great cities in the East as well as in the West we meet with young men, cold and cynical with a swagger and a soldierly bearing, energetic and determined to get on, waiting for a chance to get into a place in the front rank, men who esteem themselves masters of life and makers of the future , as Byron said, they lead the world because they go to bed late. Their self-assertive, offhand manner, their vulgarity and violence, their confident insolence and cocksureness , their debasing of the law and derisive disregard of justice show the utter  demoralisation through which the world is passing.

–subham–




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GERMAN POET DID NOT KNOW WHAT HE WROTE! (Post No.5975)

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Some of the admirers of the 18th century German poet Klopstock made a journey from Gottingen to Hamburg to ask him to explain a difficult passage in his works. Klopstock received them graciously, read the passage and said, 
I cannot recollect what I meant when I wrote it, but I remember it was the finest thing I ever wrote and you cannot do better than devote your lives to the discovery of its meaning.

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Erskine’s Question


John Erskine one time went to lecture at the University of Pennsylvania. The President of the university had never met Dr Erskine, and did not immediately succeed in finding him when he went to meet him on the station platform. When the two men had at last identified one another, the president of the university said 
I asked one gentleman if he were Dr Erskine, and he said emphatically, I should say not.
I asked another one and he said, I wish I were. That proves that at least one of them had read your books. 
Yes, said Erskine. But which one?

XXX



Shelley s. reading habit 

Let main pattern of Shelley s life was an alternation of sleeping and reading. He was, in fact, always fatigued from night reading, and had a habit of falling asleep by day, anywhere sudddenly, like a child. At Oxford he read about sixteen out of every twenty four hours, his eyes always in a book when eating or when walking whether in country lanes o, or on the streets …..


It was his habit at this time to read standing where possible. Trelawney that he left Shelley at ten one morning, standing at the mantel in his study reading and returning at six, found him in the same position still reading, looking pale and exhausted.

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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY PROFILE

SHELLYEY, English Poet, Novelist and Essayist

Born August 4, 1792

Died July 8, 1822

Age at death 29

P B Shelley was one of England’s greatest Romantic poets. He was born into a wealthy noble family. He was educated at Eton college, where his radical views on politics and religion earned him a nick name ‘Mad Shelley’. While still at Eton and aged just 18, he published his first book, a gothic horror novel called Zastrozzi. In 1811 he was expelled from Oxford University for writing an anti-Christian pamphlet.

The same year 19 year old Shelley shocked his family even more by secretly marrying 16 year old Harriet Westbrook. This was the start of Shelly’s adventurous life of elopements and restless travels. Three year later Shelley eloped with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who became Mary Shelley and who wrote the famous novel Frankenstein. Harriet killed herself in 1816, and Shelley married his new love. Mary and Shelley moved around constantly; they travelled around Europe and lived in many different towns in England. Shelley wrote his poetry in short bursts of intense creativity. His poems such as Alastor and Ozymandias, overflow with intense emotion and radical ideas that were not always appreciated by readers of his time.

In 1818 Shelley and Mary left England to live in Italy. He completed some of his greatest poetry there, including his masterpiece Prometheus Unbound. A few years later, on a short sea voyage along the Italian coast, Shelly’s small sail boat was caught in a storm and he was drowned. He was just 29 years old, but he had written poetry hat established him as one of the greatest English poets.

Publications

1810 Zastrozzi

1813 Queen Mab

1816 Alastor

1818 The Revolt of Islam

1818 Ozymandias

1819 The Cenci

1820 Prometheus Unbound

1821 Adonais

Published after he died

1824 The Triumph of Life


Xxxxx Subham xxxx 

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To Talk or Not to Talk: Bhartruhari Puzzled (Post No.5923)

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Wife’s Support gave us a Good Novel! (Post No.5896)

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GREEKS SACRIFICED 100 OXEN FOR A DISCOVERY! (Post No.5827)

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Mathematicians Anecdotes

When the Greek philosophers found that the square root of 2 is not a rational number, they celebrated the victory by sacrificing 100 oxen.

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PASCAL – A born mathematician


Pascal’s genius for geometry began to appear before he was even 12 years old, in the room where he passed his hours of play. He procured a piece of charcoal, and drew diagrams on the floor, trying to make a circle, perfectly round, a triangle with equal sides and angles, a perfect parallelogram and like thing. He discovered all this unaided and then turned his attention to the properties of these figures and their mutual relations and proportions. But as his father had with such great care concealed from him all mathematical works, the poor boy did not even know the names of the figures he drew.

Compelled to make his own definitions he called a circle ‘a round’ and a line a ‘bar’ etc and with these very primitive definitions, proceeded to construct his axioms, till at last he wrought out complete demonstrations!

Step by step he advanced in his studies, one discovery opening the door to another; and so far did he push his researches, that without ever seeing a mathematical work, he got to the thirty second proposition of the book of Euclid.

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USELESS MATHEMATICIANS!


Edison approached the mathematical aspects of his science with that same practical instinct and native ability that characterised every other phase of his work. He often succeeding in beating the mathematicians on his staff to the draw in search for correct formulae, seeming to arrive at his conclusions through infallible instinct and native genius.

“These mathematicians make me tired”, he often said, “you ask them to work out a sum and they take a piece of paper, cover it with rows of’ ‘a’ s and ‘b’ s and ‘x’ s and’ y’ s. Decorate them with a lot of little numbers, scatter a mess of fly specks around them and then give you an answer that is all wrong!

Xxx

Explorers Anecdotes — KANGAROO!

When Captain Cook discovered Australia, his sailors brought a strange animal aboard ship whose name they did not know. Sent ashore to inquire of the natives, they came back and said,

‘It is a kangaroo’.

Many years passed before it was known when the natives were asked to name the animal and said, ‘Kangaroo’, they meant,

‘What did you say?’

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·  Robert Falson Scott, the explorer, applied to Lloyd George for assistance in financing of his last and fatal polar expedition. The then Chancellor referred him to a certain wealthy man, also of some prominence in the political scene.

·  How did you succeed? Asked Lloyd George, when the explorer again called on him.

·  “He gave me a thousand pounds” was the reply,” but he has undertaken to raise 20,000 pounds if I can persuade you to come with me, and a million if I can manage to leave you there”.

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—SUBHAM—


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HUMBUG – NEW INSECT DISCOVERED! (Post No.5700)

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SCIENTISTS ANECDOTES

A Cambridge lecturer on the history of chemistry thus describe the celebrated Mr Boyle,
He was a great man; a strong man; he was the father of modern chemistry, and the brother of Earl of Cork.

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I DON’T KNOW ELECTRICITY!

Lord Kelvin, the great physicist once paid an unexpected visit to an extensive electrical plant. He had not disclosed his identity and was shown through the plant by a young foreman who painstakingly explained all the rudiments of electrical science, as here manifested to the great man.

When the tour was completed, Kelvin asked him quietly,
What then is electricity?
His guide was stumped.
No matter, Lord Kelvin said kindly,
That is the only thing about electricity which you and I do not know..

Xxxx

NEW INSECT DISCOVERED- HUMBUG


The great naturalist Charles Darwin, was once approached by two small boys of the family whose guest he was.
They had caught a butterfly, a centipede, and a grass hopper.
Taking the centipede s body, the butterfly s wings, the beetle s head and the grasshoppers legs, they had glued them together to make an alarming and original insect.

We caught this bug in the field, they said innocently.
What kind of a bug is it Mr Darwin?
Darwin examined it with great solemnity.
Did you notice whether it hummed when you caught it,boys? He asked gravely.
Yes sir, they answered , trying to conceal their mirth
Just as I thought, said Darwin, it is a humbug.

FROM THE DICTIONARY—-

HUMBUG noun

  1. 1.

deceptive or false talk or behaviour.

“his comments are sheer humbug”

synonyms: hypocrisy, hypocritical talk/behaviour, sanctimoniousness, posturing, cant, empty talk; More

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verb

  1. 1.

deceive; trick.

“poor Dave is easily humbugged”

synonyms: deceive, trick, delude, mislead, fool, hoodwink, dupe, hoax, take in, beguile, bamboozle, gull, cheat; More

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USELESS DOCTOR!

The wife of the great physicist Robert A Millikan, happened to pass through the hall of her home in time to hear her maid answer the telephone,
Yes, Mrs Millikan overheard,
This is where Mr Millikan lives, but he is not the kind of doctor that does anybody any good.

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XXXX SUBHAM XXXX

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SNAKE OR GOOSE OR FOOL IN THE CROWD? (Post No.5696)

 

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Lecture anecdotes
On the occasion of a lecture which Charles Lamb was once delivering, a loud hiss emanated from somewhere in the audience. There was an embarrassed silence. Lamb, not turning a hair said,
There are only three things that hiss—
A goose
A snake and A fool.
Come forth and be identified.

Xxxx

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UNDESERVED GOT THE AWARD

Scientists anecdotes
When Gustavus III of Sweden was in Paris, a deputation of French scientist s called on him. It congratulated him on the happy fortune, that had given him so great a man as Scheele, the discoverer of Magnesium, as his subject and fellow countryman.
The king, who took small interest in the progress of science, felt somewhat ashamed that he should be so ignorant as never even to have heard of the renowned chemist.

He dispatched a courier at once with the laconic order
‘Scheele is to be immediately raised to the dignity of a count’.
‘His Majesty must be obeyed’, said the prime minister, ‘but who in hell is Scheele?’

A secretary was told to make inquiries.’
He came back with very full information, Scheele is a good sort of fellow, said he, a lieutenant in the artillery, a capital shot, and a first -rate hand at billiards.
The next day the lieutenant became a count, and the illustrious scientist was completely forgotten by King and court.

Xxxx

DESTROYER OF BEAUTY
A botanist found a beautiful plant by the wayside. He sat down to analyse it. He pulled it apart and examined every part under a microscope.
When he had finished, he could tell the colour of the flower, its classification and the number of stamens and pistils and petals and bracts, but the life and beauty and the fragrance were gone.

Xxx

MONKEY LOOKING AT YOU!


They tell the story of a celebrated biologist who tried for months to train a monkey to play ball. As a last resort, he shut up the little creature by itself in a room with a bat and a ball. After some considerable time, had elapsed he finally stooped and peeped through the keyhole. He was disconcerted to find himself starting into an intent brown eye.

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XXXX SUBHAM XXX

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WHY DO PEOPLE COME TO MY MEETING? GERMAN PHILOSOPHER EXPLAINS (Post No.5672)

WHY DO PEOPLE COME TO MY MEETING? GERMAN PHILOSOPHER EXPLAINS (Post No.5672)

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While he was dramatic critic on the old Denver Post, Eugene Field was given an assignment to report on a performance of King Lear, his review was brief but pointed

Last night at the Tabor Opera House, So and So played King Lear. He played it as though under the premonition that someone was about to play the Ace.

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Lecture Anecdotes

Professor Agassiz, the naturalist, had declined to lecture before some lyceum or public society, on account of the inroads which previous lectures given by him had made upon his studies and thought. The gentleman who had been deputed to invite him continued to press the invitation, assuring him that the society was ready to pay him liberally for his services.

That is no inducement to me, replied Agassiz, I cannot afford to waste my time in making money.

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I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY ON WIT AND HUMOUR

Artemus Ward was once about to lecture on American Wit and Humour, but the chairman spoke at such length on the subject when Artemus rose he said,
The chairman has said all that needs to be said on the American Wit and Humour, so instead of taking that subject, I shall lecture on Indian Meals, and he did.

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MY AUDIENCE
The German philosopher and theologian , Frederich Schleilermarcher , once attempted to explain to a questioner the type of people who composed his audiences.

My audience is composed mainly of students, young women and soldiers. Student s come because I am a member of the Board of Examiners. The young women come because of the student s. And the soldiers come because of the young women.

XXX SUBHAM XXX

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A B C D POEM REVIEW –1 2 3 4 ! (Post No.5660)

 

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CRITICS ANECDOTES

According to Richard Aldington, in the early days of Dada (predecessor of surrealism) I received for review a book which contained the following poem
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W X
Y Z

on which I commented,

1 2345
678910

I still think that was the most snappy review I ever wrote; but unfortunately The Times refused to print it.
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WHO WILL MAKE A NAME?

Richard Aldington tells that,
An American friend of mine was then editing the Outlook, and asked me to write an article telling his readers about young writers and picking out those I thought would make a name. I made a choice which I modestly think wasn’t bad for 1919 :
James Joyce, T S Eliot, d h Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, and marcel Proust. I received a letter from the editor in these terms,
For God’s sake, Richard, can’t you think of somebody who has been heard of or is ever likely to be heard of?
I protested, and my article was submitted to the judgement of that eminent expatriate, Mr Logan Pearsall Smith, who decided that my writers never would be heard of; and the article was rejected. If I had chosen such mediocrities as Jack Squire, Hugh Walpole, Frank Swinner town, I should have received a cheque and a crown of wide parsley.

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BURY THE CRITIC
A man said he was afraid he was going to be of no use in the world because he had only one talent.
Oh that need not discourage you, said his pastor. What is your talent?
The talent of criticism.
Well, I advise you, said his pastor, to do with it what the man of one talent in the parable did with his. Criticism may be useful when mixed with other talents, but those whose only activity is to criticise the workers might as well be buried, talent and all.

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BEATING A BIG DRUM

Jerrold admired Carlyle, but objected that he did not give definite suggestions for the improvement of the age which he rebuked.
Here, said he, is a man who beats a big drum under my windows, and when I come running down stairs, has nowhere for me to go.

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DR JOHNSON ON CRITICISM

A friend of Dr Johnson s, in conversation with him, was lamenting the disagreeable situation in which those persons stood who were eminent for their criticisms. As they were perpetually expected to be saying clever things, it was a heavy tax on them.
It is indeed, said Dr Johnson, a very heavy tax on them; a tax which no man can pay who does not steal.

XXXX SUBHAM XXXX

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CAN YOU FIND THE 7 HOLY RIVERS AND 7 HOLY CITIES IN INDIA? (Post No.5658)

 

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ANSWER ISGIVEN AT THE END

I T A V S A R A S
R A Y A M K A S I
A W O A A A N I K
V A D Y T R U N A
A N H A H A M D V
H T Y M U W A H E
D I A R D Y U R
O K k A N C H I
G A N G A W E R

 

 

SEVEN HOLY RIVERS (GANGASINDHUS CHA KAVERI YAMUNA CHA SARASVATI,REWA,GODHAVARI…)

SARASVATI

KAVERI

SINDHU

GANGA

REWA=NARMADHA

YAMUNA

GODAVARI

SEVEN HOLY CITIES (AYODHYA MATHURA MAYA KASI KANCHI AWANTIKA DWARAKAPURI…..)

AWANTIKA= UJJAIN

AYODHYA

KANCHI

MATHURA

KASI

DWARAKA

MAYA=HARIDWAR

–SUBHAM–

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by Tamil and Vedas on November 13, 2018  •  Permalink
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