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Rediscovering Gita for Modern World
Episode 17 - Understanding Avatarhood - by Shrikant Soman
Based on Essays on Gita by Sri Aurobindo
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This is such an essential phrase: “The only Constitutional rights upon which we can depend are those we extend to the weakest and most reviled among us.”
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Matthew 25: 40 "Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." (Some things sorta stick from one's postcolonial anglican school hymn books and readings)
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