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Bhaavin Shah

The Rise of India & China

Synopsis of the book
‘THE ELEPHANT & THE DRAGON’

By Robyn Meredith

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As demonstrated in India & China, globalization never hurt the poor as was widely claimed by the activists protesting globalization.

China’s story

China opened its economy to the outside world in 1978. This led to a five-fold increase in average incomes.

China has had a sickening history during the times of Mao-Tse- Tung before its rise in the world . In pursuing his vision of egalitarianism (which is the basis of communism), he collectivized all land and paid peasants based on collective revenue. This only entrenched famine. Deng Xiopang, the architect of Modern China, who came in Mao’s wake decollectivized land, re-allowed trade of produce from privately owned land and China’s harvests grew back to decent shape. Keep Reading

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Spontaneity

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Living beyond discipline

RSVK as an organization is based upon three tenets as framed by Pujya Guruji Rishi Prabhakar. Amongst them, the first one is : ‘There is nothing that needs to be accomplished over here.’ However, I wonder how many of us have reflected upon the essence of this statement and made it the very way of operating in our lives.

We define SSY as the science of non-doing.. Non-doing essentially, is nothing but ‘Living in No-Goal’.

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Community Living

Community living

To visit the commune location, pls copy-paste this URL into your browser bar :
(The location is Katarkhadak as can be seen on the left-hand-side centre)

http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=18.6107835&lon=73.6880493&z=12&l=0&m=b&tag=332

JOYFUL LIVING & PLAYFUL PRODUCTION

Today mankind is placed at a very critical juncture in human history. In many ways, it is in the perilous ‘Do or die’ situation. The matter of concern is not just the often-talked-about condition of our ecology & external environment but also the internal environment of a human being and the rift we see between man & man. Keep Reading

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Karma Yoga

Key learning points from the book

‘KARMAYOGA’

by Swami Sukhabodhananda.
(This book is a commentary on Bhagvad Gita chapter 3.)

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The genesis of mechanical tendency of a human being is unawareness. The more you are unaware, the greater is your mechanical tendency, the greater is the robotic life that you lead and consequently true religious quality gets eroded out of life. The more we deepen our awareness , the greater is our relationship with life.

In order to relate to the :

a) World of objects , be mathematical i.e. be objective, detached.
b) World of people , be musical i.e. full of love & respect.
c) Your own interior world, be meditative i.e. calm, silent & in gratitude. Keep Reading

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Fate or Free will

A summary of facts from David Shiang’s famous book

GOD DOES NOT PLAY DICE

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A) History of Modern Physics

1. CLASSICAL PHYSICS

After the renaissance scientists like Galileo & Copernicus, the next giant to come in the scientific arena was Isaac Newton. Newton discovered the laws of motion and science related to gross objects. He claimed that the world is inherently deterministic & predictable & if we apply certain parameters to physical laws, that which is to come can be determined too. He didn’t believe in the possibility of chance, randomness or unpredictability in events. Keep Reading

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