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Friday, March 1, 2013

DharmaQuiz Session 199: 1-Mar-2013

Theme: Birth and Death places of famous Gurus of India.

Name this 19th/20th century Indian Guru, whose birth and death places were different, but both started with 'Tiru'. #DharmaQuiz 1356. Ans: Ramana Maharshi. Death - Tiruvannamalai and Birth - Tiruchuli.
Name this famous Guru from 500 yrs ago, whose birth & death places are in Pakistan now. Death place 3KM from Indian border. #DharmaQuiz 1357. Ans: Guru Nanak.
Name this Guru from 500 years ago, who was born in Bengal and died in Odisha. His teachings inspired ISKCON's creation. #DharmaQuiz 1358. Ans: Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Name this Guru Maa who was born in today's Bangladesh area & died in today's Uttarakhand 31 yrs ago.(See the embedded picture) #DharmaQuiz 1359. Ans: Anandamayi Maa.
{Final, Open till 10 PM} Name this Guru/ Swami from 400 years back, whose language was Kannada, born in TN & samadhi in AP. #DharmaQuiz 1360. Ans: Raghavendra Swamy. Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raghavendra_Swami

For Question 4

Top Scorers of session 199:

@shawjipk : 5
@hchaturv : 5
@rahulghildiyal : 5
@Tasmayi : 5
@biswajeetdash : 5
@TheArvindDhar : 5
@sharathinindia : 5
@anandt_05 : 5
@S_Mandalia : 5
@indianomad : 5

Congrats to all these scorers:

@vschanna : 4
@Mamdhata : 4
@DrSatyaSaraswat : 4
@geophyraj : 4
@Rasraj : 4

@Manjunaath : 3
@Kar7x : 3

@AdwaitanWay : 2
@Susri1210 : 2
@AAP_ka_BAAP : 2
@vishal1818 : 2

@gboxam : 1
@DrSaisree : 1
@rathivar : 1
@robinrajsingh : 1
@lalitadvani : 1
@shreeramm : 1
@gautamsinha1 : 1
@sa_kiran : 1
@Bgiridharr : 1
@stormylook : 1
@Bipul2047 : 1
@emsreenu : 1
@deborshihazra : 1
@jdroy1 : 1
@SudhirSubhartam : 1
@Saffronista : 1
@aackthu : 1
@jugal_godara : 1
@WarHawk313 : 1
@sanjayleo : 1
@Sreevathsaa : 1

The next one is the grand 200th one! Don't miss on Tuesday, the 5th. There will be a special prize too.

Friday, December 7, 2012

DharmaQuiz Session 180: 4-Dec-2012

Theme: Hindu Renaissance leaders of 19th century.

Name the Hindu Renaissance leader of 19th century who founded a new Samaj devoid of untouchability. Family name was Tiwari. #DharmaQuiz 1256. Ans: Swami Dayananda Saraswati -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Dayananda
Name the Hindu Renaissance leader of 19th century, whose writing on Vedas came the book "The Secret of the Veda". #DharmaQuiz 1257. Ans: Sri Aurobindo -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo
Name the Hindu Renaissance leader of 19th century, who used ancient Upanishads as a vision of rationalist 'modern' India. #DharmaQuiz 1258. Ans: Raja Ram Mohan Roy. More -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Mohan_Roy
Name the Hindu Renaissance leader of 19th century, who immortalized the "Arise, Awake" message of Katha Upanishad. #DharmaQuiz 1259. Ans: Swami Vivekananda. Kathopanishad says: “Uttishthata jagrata Prapyavarannibodhata, Kshurasydhara nishita”, meaning " Arise, awake, Empower yourself through knowledge, As sharp as the razor’s edge”. Vivekenanda used this splendidly in his speeches & slogans inspiring 100s of millions till date.
Name this Hindu Renaissance leader of 19th century, who in 1894 started the public Ganesha poojas. #DharmaQuiz 1260. Ans: Bala Gangadhar Tilak --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal_Gangadhar_Tilak

Just for this session, I could not compile the full scores. So I will leave out that part. The response was very good and I had to browse through 100s of tweets. Sorry, it got too late then.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

DharmaQuiz Session 143: 12-Jun-2012

Theme: Phrases describing God in Hindu or Sanatana Dharma.

In Hindu Dharma, God is termed as Paramatma. What does Parama+atma mean? #DharmaQuiz 1071. Ans: Parama = Supreme ; Atma = Soul ; Supreme Soul.
In Indian Dharma, God is existence absolute,knowledge absolute & bliss absolute. What's the Sanskrit combined term for all? #DharmaQuiz 1072. Ans: Sat-Chit-Ananda or Satchidaananda.
Sages of ancient India described the God as "Swayambhu" in Samskritam. What does it mean? #DharmaQuiz 1073. Ans: Swayam = Self; Bhu = Existed or created. Self-Existent or does not depend upon others for existence.
God in Hinduism is described as "SarvaVid". Here "vid" is the same root word as that of "Veda". What does vid mean? #DharmaQuiz 1074. Ans: vid = "to know". God is "Sarva vid" which means "all knowing".
{Final, Open till 11PM} Dharma teaches us that God is "antaryaami". Translate Antar-Yaami into English. #DharmaQuiz 1075. Ans: Antar = Inside ; Yaami = Residing. Overall it means the supreme soul within - http://vedabase.net/a/antaryami

All questions today were formed after reading this beautiful essay by Swami Sivananda.
http://hinduism.about.com/od/basics/a/whoisgod.htm?nl=1
Top Scorers today:

@shawjipk : 5
@hchaturv : 5
@JagannathAjnabi : 5
@vschanna : 5
@sweetandu : 5
@rahulghildiyal : 5
@iSaakshi : 5
@TheArvindDhar : 5
@sharathinindia : 5
@pvaidyaraj : 5
@NikhilShembekar : 5
@DevNakshi : 5
@vinodvyas220 : 5
@Dhanushm : 5
@Gurush_ : 5

Congrats to:

@bhaviknz : 4
@anandt_05 : 4
@sanathandharma : 4
@mayaadvaita : 4
@siddarthpaim : 4
@bhijeetD : 4

@sharad_51 : 3
@suar4sure : 3

@sandeepsmysore : 2
@s007kunal : 2
@TheRajarshi : 2
@PravishShetty : 2
@hiteshrangra : 2

@Right2bRight : 1
@jai1900 : 1
@basubash : 1
@Manjunaath : 1
@manohar_sram : 1
@rajiv2131 : 1
@rinku3009 : 1
@karthik_sy : 1
@hindu_rashtra : 1
@voxindica : 1
@LalooKant : 1
@VijayShenli : 1
@mukunthaniyer : 1
@ShivaKap : 1
@RajivSuresh : 1
@sjkgill : 1
@ProudHindu3 : 1

Nice to see a very good response today. Please go through the links given and leave comments if you have more to share on this fascinating Paramatma topic.