The word Aryan was forged by Europeans from the Hindu (Sanskrit) word arya meaning “noble”. I’ve never seen (from my limited readings at least), the word occur in anything other than in its adjective form (”arya”); that is, hardly does it occur in the sense of the proper noun “Aryan” (as in to describe a [...]
Art Films
On art films, by the great Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky:
Tarkovsky felt his task was to unveil relationships between images and events that were created by God in the universe, rather than imposing relationships upon an audience in order to manipulate them into a prescribed point of view. Tarkovsky was especially drawn to the internal [...]
It is interesting to note how well the four varnas match the four broad categorizes of yoga (jnana, raja, karma, and bhakti). Note that none of these were mutually exclusively (in fact in the past all forms of yoga were accompanied by a good amount of bhakti).
It is said that the difference between the kshatriya [...]