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		<title>The Extremism in branding the Gita as &#8220;Extremist&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 06:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gemsfromgita</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bhagavad-gita recently shot back to fame. And it was encouraging to see the modern man discussing the subtleties of the Gita. From students in college cafeterias to panel discussions on some television news channels to columns in popular newspapers in the country, most Indians were a part of this never-before hype that the Gita [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsongita.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10218861&amp;post=275&amp;subd=reflectionsongita&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stopping Extremism</title>
		<link>http://reflectionsongita.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/stopping-extremism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 07:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gemsfromgita</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world is at it again. At least some are. And there are signs that slowly the others are catching up. Some time back, the Hungarian government led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban has started a new church law taking effect from Jan 1, 2012 that could strip the followers of Hinduism in Hungary of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsongita.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10218861&amp;post=270&amp;subd=reflectionsongita&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Knowledge Born?</title>
		<link>http://reflectionsongita.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/is-knowledge-born/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 6 2011 is GitA Jayanti &#8211; the day on which Bhagavad-gitA was spoken by Lord Krishna to Arjuna around 5000 years ago. Many will celebrate the occassion throughout the world. The word &#8220;jayanti&#8221; is used specifically to indicate birth of an incarnation of the supreme Lord. Thus, a thought comes to my mind &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsongita.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10218861&amp;post=261&amp;subd=reflectionsongita&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Resting Place of Everything</title>
		<link>http://reflectionsongita.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/the-resting-place-of-everything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We hear that God is the supreme resting place of all that be. Sometimes, this could get difficult for us to understand. How can everything be within Him? Our finite intelligence is unable to fathom this. It is almost inconceivable to understand how the whole material creation can rest in a person. Lord Krishna mentions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsongita.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10218861&amp;post=254&amp;subd=reflectionsongita&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Contact With the Supreme</title>
		<link>http://reflectionsongita.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/contact-with-the-supreme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gemsfromgita</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the age of communication. We want to stay in touch with so many people&#8211;friends, family members, relatives, workplaces contacts&#8230; Whew&#8230;The list goes on. Contact with some gives us happiness and with some we hope it could have been better. Amidst all these experiences, what if we could contact the supreme? At least, this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsongita.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10218861&amp;post=245&amp;subd=reflectionsongita&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A launch-pad for intelligent decision-making</title>
		<link>http://reflectionsongita.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/a-launch-pad-for-intelligent-decision-making/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I discussed about the principle of satisfaction. In my present post, I discuss the principle of satisfaction from a different perspective. An exam is fast approaching and depending on your particular stream of interest, you are frantically trying to cram all kinds of formulae/ equations/ facts and figures/ histories etc. into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsongita.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10218861&amp;post=240&amp;subd=reflectionsongita&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Experiencing Satisfaction</title>
		<link>http://reflectionsongita.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/experiencing-satisfaction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All of us are looking for pleasure. The more we get it, the more we want it. Seems that no matter how much we get there is always some more that we could do with. For eg. the eyes are always searching for someone or something beautiful to look at; we have had many experiences [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsongita.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10218861&amp;post=230&amp;subd=reflectionsongita&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anticipating Janmashtami</title>
		<link>http://reflectionsongita.wordpress.com/2011/08/20/anticipating-janmashtami/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gemsfromgita</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The whole world will celebrate the appearance of Lord Krishna very soon. This festival is called Shri Krishna Janmashtami. One may ask &#8211; why does the Lord come here to the material world? What is the need? What for? What do I have to do with this festival? To answer these questions, let us visit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsongita.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10218861&amp;post=224&amp;subd=reflectionsongita&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tackling Corruption</title>
		<link>http://reflectionsongita.wordpress.com/2011/08/20/tackling-corruption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 04:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s times aren&#8217;t good. Everyone is in the &#8220;grabbing&#8221; mentality. If anything is good, it is definitely meant for me alone. There is so much news floating around about the ill-effects of corruption&#8211;about how so many are already behind the bars and about how so many are threatened by the ongoing stir in India against [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsongita.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10218861&amp;post=216&amp;subd=reflectionsongita&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stealing from the Lord?</title>
		<link>http://reflectionsongita.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/stealing-from-the-lord/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 15:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gemsfromgita</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No. I am not referring to the recent stock-taking at Sri Ananta Padmanabha Swamy temple in India. I am talking of the need for stock-taking by everyone of us—of our own hearts, that is. How much do we accept the existence of the Lord in our day-to-day lives? We may term ourselves theists in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reflectionsongita.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10218861&amp;post=200&amp;subd=reflectionsongita&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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