On some penuries of practice

A week back (if I remember right), I had quoted Swami Desikan and how the school has opined of Rudra/Paramashiva (at least traditional ones, laity and newer adherents can be discounted on the basis of ignorance) Was …

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On some pointers about counter narratives

Even cursory look at the lines of the bygone Trotsky, would provide a handful of pointers to say the least. Among others, enabling one to arrive at a justifiable, definitive, and rational understanding. An understanding …

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On the efficacy of tooling RoIs

Switches that go against the grain are in general tense, to say the least. Having stuck to a “build internal as much as possible”, I can quite agree to the nature there. Some six years back, when I first picked up …

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Some additional pointers towards a historical fog of war

If my memory serves me right, the validity/veracity of “AnIya nIla shRRi~NgAt” / its authorship by Swami Desikan [either/both, need to rehash memory from the old discussions] was questioned a long while back. Just wish …

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Spent

The older one in all, ’ere comes along early; sickles and hammers, their need now gone. Of newer poisons, and new masks they don; world’s evolved he wonders, of humans ’ere surly. ~ Your job done they say, ’tis no …

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A bit of a hard refresh

After a brief hiatus with both writing down my thoughts and attempting to recover the old Ghost blog’s contents, decided to leave things as is and move on. A certain something I’d do well to implement in life otherwise …

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A sullen wrap and a long dragging strap

The start to the weekend opens up with breaking the early schedules and this one somehow did not feel bad the way it happened. What did however feel weird, was how the entirety wrapped up, late in the evening. A certain …

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Breaking another hiatus

Had a fair long break from writing about vedAnta proper now. So, in an attempt to break the hiatus, wrote a bit on the stature of saguNopAsana as held by vivaraNa school from prakAshAtmayati’s pa~ncapAdikA vivaraNa, and …

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Digital, Ocean, and your binary sail or sink.

Over the last few months, there are few things that I learnt the hard way. But one stands apart from all, in how it has come back to help me in immediate use/work. Three years back, when we moved from using AWS to …

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Of a cold breeze, flowery freeze, and more.

“You know, I did lie to you a bit”, her voice in the middle of the night did put him through a vortex. A moment’s pause later, her deep gaze into his eyes unwavering, she continued. “With each time I expressed myself, I …

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