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Hindu Conception of Time

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

My last section of one of my classes met outside, on the grass and in the sun. We weren’t learning any new material, but were reviewing and talking about what things in the class we’d remember and take away with us. As the teaching fellow talked for a bit about the format of [...]

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Faith, truth, and reality

Monday, April 26, 2010

On Friday we discussed the convergence of, and tension between, reason and faith.  Harvard in particular is an interesting environment — as a leading educational institution in the world, its values are well-grounded in ideals of reason and truth.  Faith — widely known to be that which we believe in, but which doesn’t often manifest [...]

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Govinda

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Since yesterday was Janmashtami, I wanted to write a post on Krishna, one of the incarnations of Vishnu.
During the festival of Janmashtami, families often have traditions of making butter for Krishna or singing bhajans and praying to Him. As a common tradition in the southern region of India, on the eve of Janmashtami, little footsteps [...]

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