Yantra , Tantra, Mantra

In a matter of days, the U.S Supreme Court handed out not one but two rulings which firmly go against the will of the American people. Both are based on specious reasoning and stink of political maneuvering and back room deals. Ann Coulter had warned us about John Roberts in 2005 that a tabula rasa such as himself was far worse than a liberal justice. Whether Roberts chose to commit these travesties against the Republic because he was a closet liberal or Obama in his characteristic Chicago manner of dirty tricks not limited to blackmail or other threats worked his "magic" on him, only history will tell. To be fair, even as he disgraced himself on Obamacare , he did make up for it by writing a superb dissent on Obergeffel (gay marriage case). I guess the tyrant Obama knows his own limits, which is heartening in its own twisted way. Anyhow her words have proven to be prescient. He has folded not once but twice on the Leviathan in waiting- Obama care and ha...

To clear up some misconceptions I want to make it clear that yogis do use certain herbs both orally and by inhalation.  But the herbs are not taken to create "psychedelic" experiences nor is meditation meant to create some undefined strange mystical experience.  The practice of meditation is very well defined in Hinduism and the expectations from it are also well defined. One cannot generalize anything regarding all sadhus as that would span everything from murderous criminals hiding out from the police to real yogis devoted to yoga practice.  Yogis are not after "some" psychadelic experience caused by drugs.  Ideally they want to be able to increase the energy in their body, and eventually manage to circulate it with mental intent.  From my personal experience I can say that it is indeed quite possible, but requires a good deal of awareness to be intact for controlling the circulation of the energy. But just to clear up the issue of using herbs, certain herbs...

I recently had the misfortune of sitting through the "comedy" film called Welcome 2(?) Karachi whose "plot" can be summarized as follows- two Indian misfits and simpleton end up in Pakistan where they end up with the Taliban and hounded by the CIA because they mistake them for the Taliban. They make their escape only to be detained by Pakistani authorities but a good natured and beautiful ISI agent(?!!) ensures their release all the while foiling a terrorist plot by the Taliban. All the while feted by both India and Pakistan. Firstly the movie is not very funny even as it is supposed to be a slapstick sort of comedy. The actors are talented but there is only so much they can do with such an ill conceived and semi literate script. However the movies contains a great deal of post colonial tropes and memes and pretty little lies that modern day Indians are particularly attached to. Firstly let us examine the treatment of Americans and their mission in Afghanistan...

Mr. Sanjeev Sabhlok while admirable in his quest for good governance and economic policy for India is rather lacking in knowledge of Indian history and religion. And what is worse he is unwilling to entertain counter arguments. Recently he caught the Aryan Invasion Theory bug and a derivative of the same is the notion that Indian was routinely defeated due to its lack of a good cavalry. I retorted here As you can see, he might as well be completely oblivious of my post. He just goes and repeats the same talking points even if I had refuted his argument. And when I went and criticized his views on AIT somehow he turned me into Hindutvadi even as I criticized Hindutvadis more than once on his forum, not to mention here as well! And then he complains about "personal attacks" I made about him! The "personal attack" he keeps whining about ,which him being so thin skinned he didn't even publish, was something along  the lines of me pointing out his hypoc...