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Aug 30, 2022
Quiz details
Hari om everyone,
Hope you are all enjoying the series!
A review quiz is posted after every 16 episodes
(Since the vlog was started to mark my son's 16th Birthday 😊).
These fun quizzes are for the purpose of review and for self-evaluation ONLY!
• It will take only a few minutes to take these online quizzes.
• Answers can be seen at the end of the quiz.
• No need to share the score/results!
• Quiz-taking is optional 🙂
Challenge yourself at your own convenience.
Happy testing!!
Significance of Kṛṣṇa Kamala
Krishna Kamala (Passion Flower)
This is the flower seen at the end of every episode of Mahabharata Matters.
It was the first bloom of the plant at our home. Incidentally, it had bloomed just before the recordings for Mahabharata Matters started!
Its delicate fragrance is delightful and incomparable! This variety stays open for 24 hrs and starts closing up after that. Some others keep their blooms for a few days.
Amazing Mother Nature! 🙏
This flower is said to represent many different aspects of Mahābhārata.
- The 100 purple filaments - Kauravas (Apparently, the filaments are precisely 100 in number!)
- The 5 inner yellow petals - Pāṇḍavas
- The single ovary - Draupadī
- The 3 green stamens - the Trimurtis (Brahma, Viṣṇu, Maheśvara)
- The pattern in the center - Kṛṣṇa's Sudarśna Chakra
- The 10 outer petals of alternating color, encompassing everything - 5 karmendriyas and 5 jñānendriyas
These are the characters from the largest epic called Mahabharata. It comprises of 100,000 verses. Though ancient, the values learned are VERY relevant even in this day and era!
This flower is a beautiful reminder that Mahabharata is not something outside, but that all the characters are encompassed within the sheaths of our very own 10 sense organs - look so beautiful, yet transient!! 🙏
My Blogs/Books/Vlogs
Sanskrit Pearls - A blog of 450 Subhāṣitas with audios, meanings, and expositions.
Sanskrit Pearls Books - A 3-book series of 450 Subhāṣitas with meanings and expositions.
Sanskrit Study - A blog for a beginner to intermediate level of study of the Sanskrit language with 80+ lessons.
Sanskrit Games - A blog with fun, games and riddles in Sanskrit.
Sanskrit Prayers - A blog with scripts for many commonly used prayers with notations for easy learning and precise pronunciations.
Kashi Delights - A blog with almost 200 recipes for healthy and exquisite homemade foods along with tips, tricks, and pictures.
Mahabharata Matters - A vlog with 165 succinct videos narrating the stories of Mahabharata and the values that can be learned through those stories.
Sanskrit Games - A blog with fun, games and riddles in Sanskrit.
Sanskrit Prayers - A blog with scripts for many commonly used prayers with notations for easy learning and precise pronunciations.
Kashi Delights - A blog with almost 200 recipes for healthy and exquisite homemade foods along with tips, tricks, and pictures.
Mahabharata Matters - A vlog with 165 succinct videos narrating the stories of Mahabharata and the values that can be learned through those stories.
About the Vlog
In this series, we will be discussing the matters of Mahabharata, because even today, Mahabharata Matters!
Mahabhaarata is an itihāsa grantha (history). The epic narrates actual events that happened many eons ago. The stories in it are very intriguing and tangled, to say the least.
No character in the epic is free from faults. There are no black and white characters. Everyone falls in the grey area! There are many conflicting ideas, ambiguous situations, crises of dharma, and the like. We find ourselves in these situations all the time! From these stories, we can learn both 'what to do' and 'what not to do'.
This video log (vlog) was started on September 23, 2022, to mark my son's 16th birthday as well as my brother's birthday.
Short videos narrating the stories of the Mahabharata were posted every day, along with takeaway messages. That's what makes The Mahabharata very relevant to us even today!
These videos can't be comprehensive as there can be many takeaways from these stories. Hence, this series will give a good overview of the events and their applicability in today's life.
One review quiz is posted after every 16 episodes. (Since the vlog was started to mark my son's 16th Birthday 😊). These fun quizzes are for the purpose of review and for self-evaluation ONLY!
Do check out the 'Bonus Features' on the right-hand side.
This narration of the entire Mahabharata in succinct nuggets along with takeaway messages, was completed on March 5th, 2023 with 165 episodes in all.
These 6 months have been very gratifying and a humbling experience!
Thank you for your continued support and encouragement! Please keep your thoughts and comments coming for the betterment of the vlog.
Hari om 🙏
About Me
Princeton, NJ, USA
Bachelors in Comp. Sc.,
Best student award
Bangalore University
Masters in Sanskrit,
Gold-medalist, 5th Rank
Mysore University
My Interests: Reading, Writing, Teaching, Volunteering, Subhāṣitas, Sanskrit, Cooking, Making children smile, Being a student always!
My Other Works:
Volunteering at Chinmaya Vrindavan, NJ. Have taught Bala Vihar to students of most grades — from toddlers to high schoolers.
Teaching Sanskrit classes, Chanting classes, Culture and Heritage classes for over 15 years.
Blogger since 2009.
Substitute teacher at public schools.
Published 3 books on Sanskrit Subhāṣitas
Volunteering at Chinmaya Vrindavan, NJ. Have taught Bala Vihar to students of most grades — from toddlers to high schoolers.
Teaching Sanskrit classes, Chanting classes, Culture and Heritage classes for over 15 years.
Blogger since 2009.
Substitute teacher at public schools.
Published 3 books on Sanskrit Subhāṣitas
Made short YouTube videos weekly for 6 months in a series called Sanskrit Musings for Project Gita. If knowledge is the content, language is its container! These videos (on YouTube) explain a few Sanskrit names and terms from the Bhagavad Geeta, along with their linguistic, historic and symbolic meanings.
Have taught two online courses through Chinmaya International Foundation under the title Hey, there's a Subhāṣita for that! They are now available as lecture series for seekers to learn at their own pace.
My Blogs:
Sanskrit Pearls - A blog of Subhāṣitas with audios, meanings and expositions.Sanskrit Study - A blog for a beginner to intermediate level of study of the Sanskrit language.
Sanskrit Games - A blog with fun, games and riddles in Sanskrit.
Sanskrit Prayers - A blog with scripts for commonly used prayers with notations for easy learning and precise pronunciations.
Kashi Delights - A blog with recipes for healthy and exquisite homemade foods along with tips, tricks and pictures.
Mahabharata Matters - A vlog with short videos narrating the stories of Mahabharata and values that can be learned through those stories.
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