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  • About
  • Autobiography
    • Autobiography of a Sadhu
    • 50 Excerpts
    • Reviews
  • Talks
    • MasterClass Videos
    • The Edge of Indian Spirituality
    • Dhuni Discourse
    • Multani Baba Discourse
    • Baba’s Interviews
      • Swami Shivanand
      • Peter Jenkins 2014
      • Baba Rampuri on Mass Media, Propaganda, Sacred Speech
      • Interview with Kalyan
      • Interview with Kartazon, Hari Puri Ashram, 2007
      • Baba Interview NYC 2011
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    • Art of Homa
    • Art of Invoking Ganesh
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    • Art of Yajna
    • Inviting Deities
    • Kalash Sthapana
    • Ganesh Homa
    • 9 Chandika Yajna begins
    • Making Yantras for Yajna
    • Navgraha Havan
    • Nine Chandika Homa
    • Chandika Havan Purnahuti
    • Chandika Yajna Bhandara – Feast
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    • Navratri Durga Puja
      • Navratri 2025
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        • Day 5 – Kushmanda Devi
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The Idea of India

Deconstructing the post-enlightenment representation of India.

Baba Rampuri talks about the challenge to know the “other,” and, in this case of engaging another culture, overcoming its representations by one’s own culture.

 

“I see the mainstream representation of India in much the same way as I see the mainstream news media. Our understanding of India is an imperial culture’s construction of its colony. I clearly saw this in my own thinking, and continue to discover its artefacts in my thoughts.”

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Baba Rampuri is a Shri Mahant of Juna Akhara, initiated in 1971 as the first foreigner ever taken into the order. For over fifty years he has lived in Bharat, practising and teaching the oral tradition of the Sanatan Dharma. This site is his archive — his experience, teachings, and discourse, past and present.

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