tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post115750766888909028..comments2024-03-24T16:46:26.733+05:30Comments on Indian Temples & Iconography: A reflection on Lord ShivaKavitha Kalyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00813712305535152213noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-40343981827277334122012-07-12T15:16:13.485+05:302012-07-12T15:16:13.485+05:30Splendid, Kavitha, And very true! Thank you so muc...Splendid, Kavitha, And very true! Thank you so much!<br /><br /> I was looking for an inspirational text in spiritual preparation for the Shravan-month and I found this philosophical/devotional poem of yours of September 6, 2006 as my first hit. And while reading it for the first time I knew by heart it fulfils my bhakti desire entirely! <br /><br />May the Great Lord & Best God bless you, Barthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11357659283971574867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1158662283369961982006-09-19T16:08:00.000+05:302006-09-19T16:08:00.000+05:30its awesome. whole of the blog. its pleasure that ...its awesome. whole of the blog. its pleasure that i could find this blog. gr8 work kavitha.. keep going..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1158287114297914002006-09-15T07:55:00.000+05:302006-09-15T07:55:00.000+05:30The advantage of being an innocuous part of the au...The advantage of being an innocuous part of the audience - of a performance of, say a drama or a music recital on the stage - is that one gets to appreciate the roles of all the performers related with the presentation as a whole in an itegrated manner, whereas, each performer personally concentrates mainly on its own role. It is the appreciation received from the audience from time to time, say Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1158219539107379732006-09-14T13:08:00.000+05:302006-09-14T13:08:00.000+05:30Yes, Kavitha, it is the audience that helps the mu...Yes, Kavitha, it is the audience that helps the musician to strive hard to perform better, and still better, with time, i.e, there is an evolutionary process involved in any phenomenon related with ‘fine arts’ too...No one today with one's musical performance is seen to attract deers, or melt stone or light lamps as Tansen reportedly could having been trained by a spiritual personality, Swami Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1158207889879418032006-09-14T09:54:00.000+05:302006-09-14T09:54:00.000+05:30Thank you Kaushalji. Its the inspiration i get fro...Thank you Kaushalji. Its the inspiration i get from all the responces that keeps me regularly writing to my blog. <BR/><BR/>I am crazy about temples and i keep digging as much information as i can about them, and when people begin to appreciate these temples i just feel very happy that i accomplished something at the end of the day. <BR/><BR/>Do keep visiting and thanks again.<BR/><BR/>Regds<BR/>Kavitha Kalyanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00813712305535152213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1158175186293422942006-09-14T00:49:00.000+05:302006-09-14T00:49:00.000+05:30Kavitha,Your work is mind-boggling and very inspir...Kavitha,<BR/>Your work is mind-boggling and very inspiring at the same time. I wish I had half as commitment to my writing as yours! I never thought that I would be so interested in temples. The credit is to your amazing narrative. Please keep up the good work.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00821205589244107449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1158167212093205532006-09-13T22:36:00.000+05:302006-09-13T22:36:00.000+05:30With the above background, I have tried to relate ...With the above background, I have tried to relate the eight ‘chakras’ or ‘bandhas’, that is ‘locks’, each with a selected colour of the rainbow including ultra-violet and infra-red rays, as essence of a particular planet with the background knowledge from their usage carried over through time immemorial in India. And, then have attempted to determine the control planet for a given individual, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1158134923209059822006-09-13T13:38:00.000+05:302006-09-13T13:38:00.000+05:30Having attempted afresh, I have apparently seen th...Having attempted afresh, I have apparently seen the likely locations of essences of heavenly bodies on human body, viz. #1 planet Mars at the tip of the tail-bone end (‘Mooladhar chakra’); #2& 3 that of Jupiter at the navel (‘Swa-adisthan chakra’, or the ‘house where He Himself is seated’) and of Sun at the solar plexus (‘Manipuraka chakra’); #4 that of planet Venus at the throat (‘Vishuddhi Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1158119259510520572006-09-13T09:17:00.000+05:302006-09-13T09:17:00.000+05:30The beauty of the ‘Nature’ is that whatever has ap...The beauty of the ‘Nature’ is that whatever has apparently come into existence, (entered ‘kal charka’ or time cycle, the term used by the ancients), continues to remain within the universe at some location or the other, it doesn’t become obsolete – it either just shifts, like dust - removed from the floor - settles at a higher/ lower level, or exist ‘frozen’ in the form of its seed, waiting for Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1158112425512106052006-09-13T07:23:00.000+05:302006-09-13T07:23:00.000+05:30Kavita,joshiji,"apsmara" in medical parlance is eq...Kavita,joshiji,"apsmara" in medical parlance is equivalent to an attacak of epilepsy!as Joshiji has very correctly put it the patient doesn't have a memory of the event.Dr.Anil Joshihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751770622662718050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1158046294655231832006-09-12T13:01:00.000+05:302006-09-12T13:01:00.000+05:30Hi Anilji, Kavitha…Let me also try to reach the me...Hi Anilji, Kavitha…<BR/><BR/>Let me also try to reach the meaning a bit indirectly. It literally means “poor memory”, with “smar” standing for “smaran’ or memory and the prefix “ap” for “bad” or “poor”... <BR/><BR/>It therefore perhaps indicates the inability of an average individual to recall information recorded within the body, distributed in the various ‘chakras’, which as per the ancients Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1158040180935967792006-09-12T11:19:00.000+05:302006-09-12T11:19:00.000+05:30Hi AniljiThe meaning of apasmara is disrespect/ in...Hi Anilji<BR/><BR/>The meaning of apasmara is disrespect/ insult/ ignorance etc. In the dance of Lord Nataraja, he stands on the dwarf below his feet, who represents apasmara. Hence the dwarf is called "apasmara purusha". <BR/><BR/>The main point being that complete surrender to Lord Shiva brings happiness and saves us from disrespect and insult in our lives, does not bring problems of this kind,Kavitha Kalyanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00813712305535152213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1158028208763045112006-09-12T08:00:00.000+05:302006-09-12T08:00:00.000+05:30The earlier-said could perhaps help one realize th...The earlier-said could perhaps help one realize the truth indicated by the ancients about overall apparent time, in terms of long durations of Yugas, built up from the minutest fraction of a second adding up billions of times - like a small drop of water is made up of billions of droplets, perhaps as an example of the basic design of forms/ abstract entities in ‘Nature’…<BR/> And, although one Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1158025072835685582006-09-12T07:07:00.000+05:302006-09-12T07:07:00.000+05:30kavita,unable to understand the meaning of the wor...kavita,unable to understand the meaning of the word"Apasmara".Dr.Anil Joshihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751770622662718050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1158022725934200522006-09-12T06:28:00.000+05:302006-09-12T06:28:00.000+05:30The earlier-said could perhaps help one realize th...The earlier-said could perhaps help one realize the truth indicated by the ancients about overall time, in terms of long durations of Yugas, built up from the minutest fraction of a second adding up billions of times - like a small drop of water is made up of billions of droplets, perhaps as an example of the common basic design of forms/ abstract entities in ‘Nature’… And, although one Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1157953519860991132006-09-11T11:15:00.000+05:302006-09-11T11:15:00.000+05:30The ‘scientists’ tell us that our sun is the centr...The ‘scientists’ tell us that our sun is the central ‘heavenly body’ that has been making the planetary system function for over 4 billion years, making the grand variety of planets go around it – including the most evolved one, i.e., our earth. And, that it is likey to continue to do so for many billions more... Thus, when even a bacterium apparently is ‘intelligent’, if for a second we were to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1157877289195054842006-09-10T14:04:00.000+05:302006-09-10T14:04:00.000+05:30There is a saying that explains the ‘naturally’ ev...There is a saying that explains the ‘naturally’ ever changing environment, “Old order changes, yielding place to new.”<BR/><BR/>Of course, perhaps today no one has time to wonder why?<BR/><BR/>In my childhood, I visited a ‘mela’ or fete with friends. We enjoyed the various items of entertainment presented in different stalls, till towards the exit end we came to the item that impressed me the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1157767163298566052006-09-09T07:29:00.000+05:302006-09-09T07:29:00.000+05:30Hi Kavitha,Although it might all be as per a natur...Hi Kavitha,<BR/><BR/>Although it might all be as per a natural design, however, the mythological stories - such as reflected in the story related to ‘Arjuna’ when he ultimately gets convinced of his being only an instrument with ‘Yogiraj Krishna’s hand’ behind all his apparent actions - indicate that human actions follow the script of a Supreme story writer…and that the formless Creator is Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1157699025101175352006-09-08T12:33:00.000+05:302006-09-08T12:33:00.000+05:30The use of gemstones since time immemorial indicat...The use of gemstones since time immemorial indicates that the Yogis must have advised those based on some ‘scientific’ analysis - that is yet to be realized by the present day man, although those might not be as efficient as sound energy - as alternative sources of required energy, which, like air and water in ‘Nature’, is freely available in the cosmic particles, to be exploited properly for theAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1157646268692940412006-09-07T21:54:00.000+05:302006-09-07T21:54:00.000+05:30For the logic of ‘Maya’, as a model of Shiva, on t...For the logic of ‘Maya’, as a model of Shiva, on the human body the ‘dot’ or Nadbindu - the original neutral point source of infinite energy – as realized by the Yogis believably lies at the ‘Third Eye’, the meeting point of the forehead and the nose or the ‘Ajna Chakra’…<BR/> <BR/>They also apparently realized that the original energy/ information is redistributed between ‘chakras’ such that itsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1157602596035408092006-09-07T09:46:00.000+05:302006-09-07T09:46:00.000+05:30Hi Kavitha,The essence of ‘Hindu Philosophy, as I ...Hi Kavitha,<BR/><BR/>The essence of ‘Hindu Philosophy, as I have understood it, is, “…Guru Devo Mahesh…etc.,” i.e., Earth, as the superior most among the demi-gods or 'physical matter', believably is a teacher or Guru that rests on a dot, i.e., its core or ‘heart’, and because of its ‘Maya’, its influence doesn’t just end on its surface - it extends over the apparently infinite void of the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com