The reason the teachings of Buddha were wiped out from India : ISLAMIC TERROR. In the 10th and 11th century Mahmud Ghazni, Muhammad Ghori and Bakhtiyar Khilji destroyed viharas, massacared monks and wiped out nalanda, taxila and udantpuri . The survivors mostly fled to Tibet. Only in 1800s did Buddhism make a comeback to India. That said I'm happy to see Buddhism and Hinduism coming to an alliance it is not only good for India but also good for humanity. Excellent work Sir Rajiv. Respect
Kael Yaalon Ya you r right and but Commie Historian narrate different version and Neobuddhist of India r being misguided to form alince with Jihad supporters against Hindotva ....!!!!
Electrohin No you talk as if Hinduism and Buddhism are separate. This is what brain washing and zero understanding does. Buddhism is a branch of Sanatana Dharma based on Vedic philosophical knowledge. Several kinds of philosophies like this put together is called Hinduism. Also, NO, Hindus didn’t kick the Buddhists out and attack them like Islamic or Christiania attacks. In olden and ancient India, there were only Gurus of philosophy. They would have philosophical arguments in a civilized manner and the one who looses will accept his defeat and take up the winners philosophy along with his students and followers. A best example would be Mandana Misra and Adi Sankaracharya. Although, Buddhism is considered a logical development of ancient Sanatana Dharma, it’s still too early to be applied. The rest of the world, thanks of Abhrahamic cults is still barbaric which attacks and destroys other civilizations. A highly enlightened mind still cannot survive barbaric attacks. That’s when Dharma needs to be protected again. That formed the revival of today’s traditional Hinduism and people took up their Karma again to pretext themselves. Look at Tibet, they were once the most fierce warriors the world knew. Now that they are all extreme Buddhists and too enlightened to be stuck in pathetic human quarrels, they can’t protect themselves. Not even from the commie Chinese who invaded them. If you are a seeker willing to learn truth, I’ll respond to your queries. If u r just another brain washed Abrahamic, Leave me alone and spread your shit else where.
Rajivji, your videos are getting bigger and bigger in terms of its impact on socio cultural effect and bringing back Bharat's grand narrative. Looking forward to read your upcoming India's grand narrative book. Thank you for your videos. You are doing an excellent work.
Acharya Satya Narayan Goenka ji was a remarkably great person with his humble and simple behavior, though had a profound knowledge and wisdom of Dharma. My pranam to Giruji.
Thank you Rajiv ji for very informative and inspiring interview. Clearly Pagoda is a living example of spreading Dharmic message in a peaceful manner rather than through violence and coercion.
In my opinion,we should support all Dharma traditions to come together.We have many things common than differences and we can live together with differences.
Thanks sir For being an enlightened being Throwing the hinduphobic ideologies into dustbin by your discussions I'm your big fan The best thing about your work is it's meticulous research
Hopefully this video entices the minds of young budding architects who want to revive our traditional architecture in modern form. In the US, I see most buildings built on the lines of the Greek Parthanon and Roman Pantheon . Like the US supreme court, Capitol hill, etc. Why can't we make public building on the lines of Temples , Stupas in terms of aesthetics but modern in structural construction materials. I hate Indian architects like Hafeez Contractor blindly copying Greek architecture and calling it classical.
Vipassana is Really Really Great🙂😄😊😊😊!! I Went To Dhammathali Jaipur... !! These Pagodas Are Very Nicer!! But I Also Need To Acknowledge... Just a Lively Sharing... Whosoever Lives The True Bhartiya culture... One Should appearitiate... Shri Goenka ji s work+++ plus... Osho 🙏 Meditations .. of Vipassana are also Great...!! In Fact... Osho is The One Truer Mystic... Who Again Bring back the.. Gautam The Buddha to Bharat/ India 🇮🇳. If you Listen to Osho's Discourses / lectures... ,, The Dhammapada in English &" Ais Dhammo Sanantano"" in Hindi...👍. Than One Can Recapitulate The Great Gautam The Buddha Rooted Back in Bharat/ in India 🇮🇳.. Once Again... !! Also One Will Understand Osho too,,which had been criticised lot in The Past. You Will Get to know Both Gautm Buddha & The Forgotten Mystic & A Great Santt of Land Bharat.. called Osho...!! Pranaam 🙏🤝 to SirRajiv Ji Malhotra & to Shri Bhansali Jee.. ..
Absolutely brilliant video! Informative ( about Vipassana meditation), Inspiring ( the twin approaches of self enquiry & compassion for others and the example set forth by people like Shri Rajiv and Shri Vallabh Bhansali in engaging in this task with such commitment and devotion ) and as always accompanied by a call to positive action to become informed and explore such beautiful indic traditions!!
Great Presentation. Nice of both of you talking of blind, mindless consumerism. It’s time all Bharatwasis stop blindly aping the West. We gleefully embraced bottled water, plastics, Coke and Pepsi in the late ‘80s and the destructive impact is very visible 40 years later I.e now - dried up rivers, ugly plastics waste which we struggle to dispose and deadly life style deceases caused by guzzling toilet cleaners - Coke and Pesticides - Pepsi without even questioning its ingredients.
The Bodhi tree is Bodhgaya also was brought from Sri Lanka. Would love to visit this Pagoda in Mumbai one day. I would like to hope that like the Bodhi tree branch from Sri Lanka, our Hindu culture will come back with more force and reinstate our ancient practices. Like Sri Rajiv Malhotra is coming from the US and highlighting Indian/Hindu culture in India and the US and reigniting it in India!
Just great Sri R Malhotraji. It is one more feather in your cap sir. It is and also appears another great monument created for the benefit of mankind for inner peace and tranquility. I have watched the other presentation of Sri V Bhanshali by Sri RMji. That was also an excellent presentation of an most successful chartered accountant turning himself to spirituality of highest order. As explained by you it is an marvellous architectural temple of spiritual greatest master BHUDDHA 's liking dedicated to humanity. Without much marketing tourists and real spiritual seeking people will flock. I am sure to make it in my next visit Mumbai. Excellent presentation GOD BLESS YOU BOTH in more such ventures.
Beautiful place and riveting video. Will definitely plan to visit there soon. My recent visit to North East India helped me revisit and connect with some of our earliest Buddhist traditions. I also visited Zong Dog Palri Fo Brang Monastery located on top of Durpin Hill in Kalimpong (W.B.). It was a sight to see 108 volumes of sacred Kunguyar, a Tibetan religions scripture, which was carried there by Dalai Lama during his exile. These volumes were locked inside traditional book shelves. I am hopeful some of the monks or other knowledgeable historians can open up such hidden treasures for wider dissemination to general public. - Mukul Mohan Mittal
Vipassana means...true reality....or looking the way it actually is rather than living in make believe world. The way I see it is.... peace, compassion, nonviolace..... and all those nice words......we Hindus swear by.....and look at the results we have to show for last 1000/2000 years. since other more aggressive Abrahamic regions have taken over....high time to learn the vipassana.
Rajivji I always wonder if you have been to the Swaminarayan Akshardham in New Delhi, its a beautiful place that shares our ancient hindu heritage, a video on the visit there will be well worth sharing...
After doing all these by our anscestors thousands and thousands of years back they dictated "do this, do not do this" based on the dictates of the mind and the intellect. Just tfollow them and do not questioon. The result will be what you wanted.itnellect
As far as i know and indeed i can challenge that there is not even a tiny tint of hatred towards the people of other faiths, in ANY of the scriptures of THE Dharmic religions, including that of Lord Buddha or Lord Mahavira, or the holy texts of the Sikhs. SUCH is the NATURE of this holy land - Bharatham...
As much as I love this episode, I am a bit disappointed that a concept of such novelty of a hollow stone dome for housing 10000 meditators had to take the design of Shwegadon Pagoda. What they could have done was to revive the Indian Buddhist architecture with modern elements and taken some elements of Shwedagon to give some tribute rather than taking the iconic structure of Swedagon.
25:38 study of that which is manifested is Science. Study of that which manifests is Yoga/Adhyatmavidya. Now the thing is that Science can never touch Adhyatmavidya bcz it's an Higher state. They can only study those things which gets manifested in our physical body(including brain). When you are in a Rishi state that state also gets manifested in physical body. Like Science is used to create technology. Adhyatmavidya is also used to create technology. Vipassana is one such example. Now im not against technology which is created by science bcz it buys time which i can use for my Vipassana. But the science should stop looking in the business of creating happiness. They can create addictive experiences which is not happiness.
My comments and suggestions are regarding the video and the cameras. I think you are using three cameras. One is focused on Rajiv Malhotra, second is focused on Vallabh Bhanshali and third is covering both. When the camera is focused on Rajiv Malhotra, hand gestures can be seen along with the face. Whereas the camera focussing on Vallabh Bhanshali, hand gestures are cut out, only the face is seen. Camera focusing is not in sync with what/when the speakers are speaking/discussing. Cameras suddenly zoom in and zoom out from one speaker to the other. This sudden camera movement is creating a disturbance in the eyes while watching. I have been observing this trend when there are two speakers. I kindly request Rajiv Malhotra or Infinity Foundation team to make necessary changes and improvements while shooting the video and during post-production. Thank you.
Thx. You are right. We are having great difficulty getting good video folks in India. Tried 5 different teams each costing a huge professional rate, but none reliable. Good ones work in studios like movies or tv. Regular ones are used to doing marriages and parties where requirements are for mere montage. We have had fights with them. Given written instructions. Had litigation with one of them. Formal contracts. Nothing has worked. We have full time paid video professionals based in Chennai and Meghalya. The problem is: It is a culture of jugada. A major source of my aggravation of doing work in India. In my latest India trip we flew our video head from Meghalya and video team from Bangalore to places like delhi, etc, just because we have tried and rejected all the local video teams we can find. Lots of drama behind the scenes, unprofesionalism galore. Disgusting work ethic. But what you say is valid. The buck stops here with me. I keep trying my best. By the way, we pay them handsomely. In many professions, Indian workers are incompetent spoiled brats. Super emotional if you criticize them. "Feel good" addiction.
This episode could've been much better by talking more about Vipassana and meditation, experiences of people and resulting changes in life. This is a very general discussion, unrelated to Vipassana.
Deepa Singhal , Vipassana meditation means observing the reality as it is, what we do in that is, we observe the sensation on the body from top part of head to feet and vice versa. more you practice this more sensation you feel then a reality will appear that all this sensation is anitya or temporary, if you practice more then slowly slowy reality within your body will starts to appear.
Shankacharyaa debated with Buddhist scholars to weaken the foothold of Buddhism in India. Why are you trying to bring it back? Are you against Shankaracharyaa in this context?
Arya S Sri Adi Shankaracharya debated not only with Buddhists but even with different Aastic(Hindu) schools of thought with the only aim to revive the true rationalistic, Spiritual and cultural glory Sanatana Dharma. Not to push them away...but to accept the core faulty theory of Buddhism( not every part of it). He accepted many theories of Buddhism but refuted the core part. There is nothing wrong in glorifying Buddhism, as it is a Dharmic culture which came as an offshoot of Sanatana Dharma.
Sorry, as impressive as the structure looks, I feel these people should have used stronger architectural influences from India. Burmese architecture has Indian influences, but there are Chinese influences as well, and this structure doesn't blend as well with India. You didn't need to copy something like this, you could have designed a better structure with appropriate Indian influences. This just looks like a Southeast-Asian foreign structure in India. Shame on this lack of originality, authenticity, and creativity.
A Bcde - It is Burmese architecture as the founder SN Goenka was born in Burma, learnt meditation there from Sayagyi U Ba Khin and then came to India and spread it everywhere by setting up meditation centers in the way he knew i.e. Burmese influenced.
Deepa Singhal , I agree its a burmese architecture but don't you u think all these vipassana centers are places to brain wash people in the name of meditation, where 10 days you have to sit and every day 1 hour the lectures of Goenka is shown, which talks abusred about Hinduism. Vipassana is Bhartiya, because it came from Vedic rishi, but in Goenka's lectures he talks again and again that it was revived by Sidhart Gautam. which I don't think is true, Sidhart Gautam met various gurus before attaining enlightenment.
The reason the teachings of Buddha were wiped out from India : ISLAMIC TERROR. In the 10th and 11th century Mahmud Ghazni, Muhammad Ghori and Bakhtiyar Khilji destroyed viharas, massacared monks and wiped out nalanda, taxila and udantpuri . The survivors mostly fled to Tibet. Only in 1800s did Buddhism make a comeback to India. That said I'm happy to see Buddhism and Hinduism coming to an alliance it is not only good for India but also good for humanity. Excellent work Sir Rajiv. Respect
we have to wipe out ISLAMIC TERROR from the Earth !
Kael Yaalon Ya you r right and but Commie Historian narrate different version and Neobuddhist of India r being misguided to form alince with Jihad supporters against Hindotva ....!!!!
FYI, may be accidentally or deliberately, you have mentioned ONLY 50% of the problem... the other 50% iyou have left out.
Electrohin No you talk as if Hinduism and Buddhism are separate. This is what brain washing and zero understanding does. Buddhism is a branch of Sanatana Dharma based on Vedic philosophical knowledge. Several kinds of philosophies like this put together is called Hinduism. Also, NO, Hindus didn’t kick the Buddhists out and attack them like Islamic or Christiania attacks. In olden and ancient India, there were only Gurus of philosophy. They would have philosophical arguments in a civilized manner and the one who looses will accept his defeat and take up the winners philosophy along with his students and followers. A best example would be Mandana Misra and Adi Sankaracharya. Although, Buddhism is considered a logical development of ancient Sanatana Dharma, it’s still too early to be applied. The rest of the world, thanks of Abhrahamic cults is still barbaric which attacks and destroys other civilizations. A highly enlightened mind still cannot survive barbaric attacks. That’s when Dharma needs to be protected again. That formed the revival of today’s traditional Hinduism and people took up their Karma again to pretext themselves. Look at Tibet, they were once the most fierce warriors the world knew. Now that they are all extreme Buddhists and too enlightened to be stuck in pathetic human quarrels, they can’t protect themselves. Not even from the commie Chinese who invaded them. If you are a seeker willing to learn truth, I’ll respond to your queries. If u r just another brain washed Abrahamic, Leave me alone and spread your shit else where.
Nani Pappu The clash between Vedic brahmins and Buddhists is undeniable, better come out of your ignorance.
Rajivji, your videos are getting bigger and bigger in terms of its impact on socio cultural effect and bringing back Bharat's grand narrative. Looking forward to read your upcoming India's grand narrative book. Thank you for your videos. You are doing an excellent work.
Happy to see that Buddhism is being promoted in India. Excellent efforts by Shri Vallabh Bhanshali and Shri Rajiv Malhotra.
Rajiv malhotra is great soul.🙏
Acharya Satya Narayan Goenka ji was a remarkably great person with his humble and simple behavior, though had a profound knowledge and wisdom of Dharma. My pranam to Giruji.
Thank you Rajiv ji for very informative and inspiring interview. Clearly Pagoda is a living example of spreading Dharmic message in a peaceful manner rather than through violence and coercion.
In my opinion,we should support all Dharma traditions to come together.We have many things common than differences and we can live together with differences.
Just wow!! Sabka Mangal ho!!
Sir I'm your shishya. Pranam from rajisthan.
Thank you 🙏🏼 namo buddha
Thank you Rajiv ji🙏🏻
Thanks sir
For being an enlightened being
Throwing the hinduphobic ideologies into dustbin by your discussions
I'm your big fan
The best thing about your work is it's meticulous research
Very nice to see Hinduism showing it’s connection to bhagwan Buddha. It needs to be done. Wonderful
quality of videos is excellent outstanding , thanks Rajiv ji.
Hopefully this video entices the minds of young budding architects who want to revive our traditional architecture in modern form. In the US, I see most buildings built on the lines of the Greek Parthanon and Roman Pantheon . Like the US supreme court, Capitol hill, etc. Why can't we make public building on the lines of Temples , Stupas in terms of aesthetics but modern in structural construction materials. I hate Indian architects like Hafeez Contractor blindly copying Greek architecture and calling it classical.
then pseudo seculars and libtards will start beating drums and then commit sucide
Well said!
I did my first few meditation retreats in the Goenka tradition. I am forever indebted to Goenkaji for introducing me to the Dhamma.
At t=12:50, Rajiv says, "These paramparas are very precious!"
What is the point that you are trying to come to?
Rediscovering and reconstruction of past glories is a great part of nation building...
Wishing you all
हर हर महादेव श्रीमान
Vipassana is Really Really Great🙂😄😊😊😊!! I Went To Dhammathali Jaipur... !! These Pagodas Are Very Nicer!! But I Also Need To Acknowledge... Just a Lively Sharing... Whosoever Lives The True Bhartiya culture... One Should appearitiate... Shri Goenka ji s work+++ plus... Osho 🙏 Meditations .. of Vipassana are also Great...!! In Fact... Osho is The One Truer Mystic... Who Again Bring back the.. Gautam The Buddha to Bharat/ India 🇮🇳. If you Listen to Osho's Discourses / lectures... ,, The Dhammapada in English &" Ais Dhammo Sanantano"" in Hindi...👍. Than One Can Recapitulate The Great Gautam The Buddha Rooted Back in Bharat/ in India 🇮🇳.. Once Again... !! Also One Will Understand Osho too,,which had been criticised lot in The Past. You Will Get to know Both Gautm Buddha & The Forgotten Mystic & A Great Santt of Land Bharat.. called Osho...!! Pranaam 🙏🤝 to SirRajiv Ji Malhotra & to Shri Bhansali Jee.. ..
Congrats.excellent show.
Rajiv ji..this is brilliant..very informative, amazing place. Now extremely curious to go here and meditate
Absolutely brilliant video! Informative ( about Vipassana meditation), Inspiring ( the twin approaches of self enquiry & compassion for others and the example set forth by people like Shri Rajiv and Shri Vallabh Bhansali in engaging in this task with such commitment and devotion ) and as always accompanied by a call to positive action to become informed and explore such beautiful indic traditions!!
Great Presentation.
Nice of both of you talking of blind, mindless consumerism.
It’s time all Bharatwasis stop blindly aping the West.
We gleefully embraced bottled water, plastics, Coke and Pepsi in the late ‘80s and the destructive impact is very visible 40 years later I.e now - dried up rivers, ugly plastics waste which we struggle to dispose and deadly life style deceases caused by guzzling toilet cleaners - Coke and Pesticides - Pepsi without even questioning its ingredients.
Sir Rajiv.. Pranaam 🙏🙌💮 aapki yeh Sundar Kshatriya Challalaagenen / leaps bahut Beautiful hain hum Bhartiya Yuvak Ko aap hee Kae jaisae kee Zarurat hai Jaagaane Kae lie Aapka Anant Anant Shukrana. Aur Hardik Pranaam 🙏🙌💮 Arpit Kartee huun aapshri Kae Sundar Charanon mein... Om.. !! Aur Yeh Gautam Buddha ka phir SAE Bharat Khudh hee kee dharti par lauutnaa Atyant Aavashyak hai... Tabhi humare Bharat Desh mein phir SAE Sahee Dharmikta keee Suneet Hawayen.. paida ..ho Sakengee...!! Dhanavaad Sir ....Aapko.... Yours Student Jyoti... ✌️✌️✌️👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏💕💕💕💕 Oshohooho🙏🤝☝️✌️💮.. .. .. !!!
Nature have its beauty
We have to accept for our happiness, great job wonderful achievement grade up humanity.
*absolutely beautiful monument !*
The Bodhi tree is Bodhgaya also was brought from Sri Lanka. Would love to visit this Pagoda in Mumbai one day. I would like to hope that like the Bodhi tree branch from Sri Lanka, our Hindu culture will come back with more force and reinstate our ancient practices. Like Sri Rajiv Malhotra is coming from the US and highlighting Indian/Hindu culture in India and the US and reigniting it in India!
Just great Sri R Malhotraji. It is one more feather in your cap sir. It is and also appears another great monument created for the benefit of mankind for inner peace and tranquility. I have watched the other presentation of Sri V Bhanshali by Sri RMji. That was also an excellent presentation of an most successful chartered accountant turning himself to spirituality of highest order. As explained by you it is an marvellous architectural temple of spiritual greatest master BHUDDHA 's liking dedicated to humanity. Without much marketing tourists and real spiritual seeking people will flock. I am sure to make it in my next visit Mumbai. Excellent presentation GOD BLESS YOU BOTH in more such ventures.
Keep it up ✌ 🇮🇳🕉 Respect
Thank u thank u thank u .its amazing
Thank you both for this amazing And insightful experience
this is so brilliant! wish we can rejuvenate the Maha Parinibbana stupa in Kushinagar which is taken over by ASI.
Thanks Rajiv ji !! Another episode with Bhansaliji ..It’s amazing that we have a interlocking stone pillerless Dome can host 10000 people..!!
Very intelligent man.
🙏🏼. Thank you
Sadhu sadhu sadhu.
just a week ago i completed 10 day Vipassana course
beautiful and peaceful
WOW!
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wow, quite a replica of Shwe Dagon in Rangoon. Goenga ji has quite a huge following here too.
Very inspiring talk and experience, Sir. The thing which troubles me is how to balance compassion and affirmative action against evil.
Beautiful place and riveting video. Will definitely plan to visit there soon.
My recent visit to North East India helped me revisit and connect with some of our earliest Buddhist traditions. I also visited Zong Dog Palri Fo Brang Monastery located on top of Durpin Hill in Kalimpong (W.B.). It was a sight to see 108 volumes of sacred Kunguyar, a Tibetan religions scripture, which was carried there by Dalai Lama during his exile. These volumes were locked inside traditional book shelves. I am hopeful some of the monks or other knowledgeable historians can open up such hidden treasures for wider dissemination to general public. - Mukul Mohan Mittal
Vipassana means...true reality....or looking the way it actually is rather than living in make believe world.
The way I see it is.... peace, compassion,
nonviolace..... and all those nice words......we Hindus swear by.....and look at the results we have to show for last 1000/2000 years. since other more aggressive Abrahamic regions have
taken over....high time to learn the vipassana.
Rajivji I always wonder if you have been to the Swaminarayan Akshardham in New Delhi, its a beautiful place that shares our ancient hindu heritage, a video on the visit there will be well worth sharing...
After doing all these by our anscestors thousands and thousands of years back they dictated "do this, do not do this" based on the dictates of the mind and the intellect. Just tfollow them and do not questioon. The result will be what you wanted.itnellect
👍👍
Where is the location of this wonderful place, Rajivji. Please provide an address so we can visit.......Namasthe!.......Rao Andavolu.
Location: Near Essel World Next to Esselworld, Gorai Village, Mumbai 400091 India
I need to visit Global Vipassana center soon, amazing I never knew of this place, thanks Rajivji, great video for sure.
Nice shirt sir......😎
As far as i know and indeed i can challenge that there is not even a tiny tint of hatred towards the people of other faiths, in ANY of the scriptures of THE Dharmic religions, including that of Lord Buddha or Lord Mahavira, or the holy texts of the Sikhs. SUCH is the NATURE of this holy land - Bharatham...
INDIA A ONLY HEAVEN ON EARTH FOR MUSLIMS .
Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism should not be considered as separate religions.
Sir hum budhiisim k bare m janna chahte h kha se aya ye panth
As much as I love this episode, I am a bit disappointed that a concept of such novelty of a hollow stone dome for housing 10000 meditators had to take the design of Shwegadon Pagoda. What they could have done was to revive the Indian Buddhist architecture with modern elements and taken some elements of Shwedagon to give some tribute rather than taking the iconic structure of Swedagon.
The architecture unknowingly hints that "The Buddha", "Gautam Buddha", "Buddhism" is far from and not connected to Sanatan Dharma and India.
25:38 study of that which is manifested is Science. Study of that which manifests is Yoga/Adhyatmavidya. Now the thing is that Science can never touch Adhyatmavidya bcz it's an Higher state. They can only study those things which gets manifested in our physical body(including brain). When you are in a Rishi state that state also gets manifested in physical body. Like Science is used to create technology. Adhyatmavidya is also used to create technology. Vipassana is one such example. Now im not against technology which is created by science bcz it buys time which i can use for my Vipassana. But the science should stop looking in the business of creating happiness. They can create addictive experiences which is not happiness.
where is this ?
In my opinion, neuron manipulations using material molecules or chips etc would not yield the desired results that the material scientists expect....
My comments and suggestions are regarding the video and the cameras.
I think you are using three cameras. One is focused on Rajiv Malhotra, second is focused on Vallabh Bhanshali and third is covering both. When the camera is focused on Rajiv Malhotra, hand gestures can be seen along with the face. Whereas the camera focussing on Vallabh Bhanshali, hand gestures are cut out, only the face is seen.
Camera focusing is not in sync with what/when the speakers are speaking/discussing. Cameras suddenly zoom in and zoom out from one speaker to the other. This sudden camera movement is creating a disturbance in the eyes while watching.
I have been observing this trend when there are two speakers. I kindly request Rajiv Malhotra or Infinity Foundation team to make necessary changes and improvements while shooting the video and during post-production. Thank you.
Thx. You are right. We are having great difficulty getting good video folks in India. Tried 5 different teams each costing a huge professional rate, but none reliable. Good ones work in studios like movies or tv. Regular ones are used to doing marriages and parties where requirements are for mere montage. We have had fights with them. Given written instructions. Had litigation with one of them. Formal contracts. Nothing has worked. We have full time paid video professionals based in Chennai and Meghalya. The problem is: It is a culture of jugada. A major source of my aggravation of doing work in India. In my latest India trip we flew our video head from Meghalya and video team from Bangalore to places like delhi, etc, just because we have tried and rejected all the local video teams we can find. Lots of drama behind the scenes, unprofesionalism galore. Disgusting work ethic. But what you say is valid. The buck stops here with me. I keep trying my best. By the way, we pay them handsomely. In many professions, Indian workers are incompetent spoiled brats. Super emotional if you criticize them. "Feel good" addiction.
For this kind of useless teaching of budha, hibdus lost Afganistan and places like bangal to mulla.
Well, then why we lost Pakistan? Because of Hinduism? Believe me, the reason for losing territory goes way more deeper than that.
This episode could've been much better by talking more about Vipassana and meditation, experiences of people and resulting changes in life. This is a very general discussion, unrelated to Vipassana.
Deepa Singhal , Vipassana meditation means observing the reality as it is, what we do in that is, we observe the sensation on the body from top part of head to feet and vice versa. more you practice this more sensation you feel then a reality will appear that all this sensation is anitya or temporary, if you practice more then slowly slowy reality within your body will starts to appear.
Developing Shamtha is equally important. The Buddha repeatedly encouraged to develop the Jhanas to see clearer.
Shankacharyaa debated with Buddhist scholars to weaken the foothold of Buddhism in India. Why are you trying to bring it back? Are you against Shankaracharyaa in this context?
Arya S
Sri Adi Shankaracharya debated not only with Buddhists but even with different Aastic(Hindu) schools of thought with the only aim to revive the true rationalistic, Spiritual and cultural glory Sanatana Dharma. Not to push them away...but to accept the core faulty theory of Buddhism( not every part of it). He accepted many theories of Buddhism but refuted the core part. There is nothing wrong in glorifying Buddhism, as it is a Dharmic culture which came as an offshoot of Sanatana Dharma.
Sorry, as impressive as the structure looks, I feel these people should have used stronger architectural influences from India. Burmese architecture has Indian influences, but there are Chinese influences as well, and this structure doesn't blend as well with India. You didn't need to copy something like this, you could have designed a better structure with appropriate Indian influences. This just looks like a Southeast-Asian foreign structure in India. Shame on this lack of originality, authenticity, and creativity.
A Bcde - It is Burmese architecture as the founder SN Goenka was born in Burma, learnt meditation there from Sayagyi U Ba Khin and then came to India and spread it everywhere by setting up meditation centers in the way he knew i.e. Burmese influenced.
Deepa Singhal , I agree its a burmese architecture but don't you u think all these vipassana centers are places to brain wash people in the name of meditation, where 10 days you have to sit and every day 1 hour the lectures of Goenka is shown, which talks abusred about Hinduism. Vipassana is Bhartiya, because it came from Vedic rishi, but in Goenka's lectures he talks again and again that it was revived by Sidhart Gautam. which I don't think is true, Sidhart Gautam met various gurus before attaining enlightenment.
I am talking about Hindi discourse
Prasanjeet Any references, sir?
you are asking reference for Burmese Architecture or Goenka's discourse?
Somebody higher up in Vipassana organisation called Hinduism a sect.
You must not characterize Buddha as a scientist. His concern was for the ultimate nature of the soul, not for its games.
हिंदी बे बात करो , अंग्रेज मत बनो