"BHARAT: Through the Lens of Puranas and Itihasas" by Shri Dushyanth Sridhar

Profile of the speaker:
Shri. Dushyanth Sridhar is one of the most sought-after public speakers in Sanatana Dharma who renders discourses in English & Tamil.
He delivers discourses on Rāmāyana, Mahābhārata, Bhāgavata, Vishnu Purāna, etc in the upanyāsam, pravachanam, or kālakshepam style. Dushyanth has rendered over 3000 discourses in 125 cities across 23 countries. He has collaborated with eminent musicians to deliver discourses in the harikathā style and with renowned dancers in the kathā-nritya style.
He organizes Yātrās to temples of religious and architectural significance in collaboration with a leading tour agent. Till date, they have accompanied over 2000 pilgrims to 200 temples in India, Nepāl, Bhutān, Bāli, Cambodiā, and Sri Lankā. Besides donning the role of the protagonist, he penned the story, screenplay, and dialogues for the movie Vedānta Desika which was produced by Mukthā Films. He has also directed and produced a Sanskrit language historical film, Sakuntalam, an adaptation of Kalidasa’s work Abhigyan Shakuntalam.
This lecture was delivered on 17th September 2022 at Central Lecture Theatre (CLT), IIT Madras
Timestamps :
0:00 : Beginning of the event: auspicious lamp lighting, Vande Mataram song
6:36 : Introduction of speaker Shri Dushyanth Sridhar
8:09 : The word "BHARAT" is derived according to Puranas and Itihasas
9:42 : Why do the people of the south of India pronounce certain nouns in a different way than people of the north of India pronounce them in a different way?
12:09 : Why should the country be named after Bharata when there are better characters?
23:05 : Gyana yoga, Karma yoga, Nurthya yoga and Bhakati yoga
25:43 : How do we see the oneness in Puranas and Itihasas? are they connected? or are they different? Connection between Ramayana and Mahabharat.
44:15 : Q&A: If Bharat was a better administrator during the exile of Rama for 14 years. why do we glorify Rama Rajyam, not Bharata Rajyam?
50:27 : Q&A: Ravana did not touch Sita?
52:33 : Q&A: Vedavyasa Valmiki says Rama is the epitome of gratefulness. He killed Ravana but not crow which actually harmed Sita. It was his duty to kill Ravana anyways, why is he still called grateful?
54:22 : Q&A: As you said Puranas and Etihasas are correlated both should go together. Similarly, there is an argument that Smrithi shastra and Sruthi Shastra are independent and they can't be correlated together. How can we correlate? Many of them have no correlation?
58:36 : Q&A: In modern era, people have gone away from Sanatana dharma and adopting or moving towards western culture. How can we motivate people to Santana dharma volunteerly?
1:01:18 : Sanatana dharma, Vedavyasa Valmiki Ramayana, Adi Shankaracharya
1:05:22 : Q&A: Basically, Ram killed Ravana. we know that it is evil that is destroyed. What was the evil over there is it arrogance or something more complicated?
1:11:05 : Q&A: In Recent times, Many writers on Ramayana and Mahabharat found bit more distorted from the original form. can you suggest an authentic English translation for me?
1:15:30 : Q&A: Many characters in Ramayana like Hanuman, Laxmana, Vibhishan, etc., and Mahabharat like Arjun, Yudistira, etc., What we see extremely struck with their values,
they followed sincerely. it seems very nice to hear but when we try to implement we face all sorts of difficulties in the world.
1:21:56 : Q&A: Ramayan is a story plotted by Valmiki. if I start writing a book that will be true after hundred years. So this is a story and these are characters.
1:27:12 : Q&A: Shambuka was killed because of the rule of Rama for performing Penance. Rama has obliged to that rule and he killed. If this rule was in existence even before Rama. Who brought this rule? Why was this decided upon? Why did Rama agree to follow this inequality?
1:39:20 : A token of memento to Shri Dushyanth Sridhar
1:40:00 : Vote of thanks
1:41:45 : Photo session with Shri Dushyanth Sridhar
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