Dayanand Bharati

Author: Dayanand Bharati

  • The Bible and the Flag

    This is only for my personal use and not an article. The Bible and the Flag, Brian Stanley, England. Apollos[is an imprint of Inter-Varsity Press], 1990. Ch. One.  Christianity and the anti-colonial reaction …More politically aggressive and racially polemical has been the variant of African theology known as ‘black theology’ which surfaced in South Africa…

  • Karma and Theodicy: A Layman’s Question

    I have a simple question that arose when I began reading scholarly discussions about karma and the problem of theodicy: Can karma really be called the Hindu answer to the problem of theodicy? I ask this as a layman, not as a specialist in theology or Hindu philosophy. For most of my life as a…

  • Secular Song 691 to 695

    Secular Song 691 Old Age Another senior citizen called to inquire about my health, saying he had heard I was not doing well. After some conversation, I told him, “I am fine, but these physical ailments are simply part of the old age journey.” When we say, “I am not well,” what we are really…

  • Bhakti: A Contemporary Discussion

    Bhakti: A Contemporary Discussion Only for my personal use.  Not an article. Points were taken for Kotation. As the Italics of Sanskrit words are not uniformly followed in the book, I removed Italics of Sanskrit words completely. Similarly the diacritic fonts are not uniformly followed.  However I tried to follow as it is in the…

  • Ashram songs

    This is for my personal use and excerpts.  B£WUlTôUôûX, GhPôm T§l×, _øûX, 1961, ¡±vÕÏX B£WUl ©WÑWm, §ÚlTjço, ØLÜûW: ¡±vRYL úLô®pL°p, úUpSôhÓl TôPpLû[, Ck§V WôLeLs Vôl©Xd¡V úTôdÏLs ØR­VYtû\ A\úY ANhûP ùNnÕ, ®LôW Øû\ûUVôn ùUô¯ùTVojÕlTôÓm ‘TôUôûX TôhÓLs’ ‘Ñ®úN` ¸ReLs’ Guàm TXYûLl TôhÓLs, TôpVl ©WôV ØRp AûYL°p TZ¡®hP(T. i)  ¡±vRYoLÞdÏ CuTUônl úTôn®hPôÛm SUÕ úRNj§]tÏ úLôW NlRUôLúY ùRô²dÏm, SUÕ…

  • Gentile Sinners

    When Paul Called Gentiles “Sinners”: An Uncomfortable Word in Galatians There is a small phrase in Paul’s Letter to the Galatians that has troubled me more and more the longer I reflect on it: “We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners.”—Galatians 2:15 The difficulty is not simply the word sinners. Nor is…

  • A History of Celibacy

    A History of Celibacy This is only for my personal use. This is nothing but excerpts from this book and not an article.  Don’t waste your time by reading it and then blame me. Elizebath Abbott, A History of Celibacy, New York, Da Capo Pr 2001, …St Augustine, always able to identify with libertine males, summarized…

  • Glory to America

    When I read Kenneth E. Bailey’s remarks on “glory theology,” I was delighted—not surprised—to discover that even Prosperity Theology has a respectable theological ancestry. And, as one might expect, America is somewhere in the family tree! There is a famous, slightly irreverent way of describing the historical journey of Christianity: the Gospel began as a…

  • Failed Success

    There is a peculiar kind of success which is actually a failure. We sometimes imagine that we have succeeded simply because we have done what we set out to do. But an action by itself is not necessarily an achievement. What matters is whether the purpose behind the action has been fulfilled. This thought came…

  • No Surprises in India

    When I read Alf Hiltebeitel saying, “But the term ṛṣidharma was a surprise to me, as I had never even considered that there was such a thing,” I had to smile. Not because I found anything wrong with what he said. Far from it. He was a serious scholar who spent years studying dharma, and…