tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post116606632736002538..comments2024-03-24T16:46:26.733+05:30Comments on Indian Temples & Iconography: The calling: Phone call or lizard?Kavitha Kalyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00813712305535152213noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1166583278693120412006-12-20T08:24:00.000+05:302006-12-20T08:24:00.000+05:30The average soul is depicted in Shiva the Nataraja...The average soul is depicted in Shiva the Nataraja’s idol as ‘Apsmara purush’ or a man who is unable to recall memory of his past life. For, although ‘Krishna’ the supreme knowledge of physical forms is within one, yet it is not accessible to an ordinary man. Due to characteristic property of time, it is locked up in the different Bandhas or Chakras. <BR/><BR/>In Gita, Krishna tells Arjuna that Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1166503900661627392006-12-19T10:21:00.000+05:302006-12-19T10:21:00.000+05:30The modern west and even the east too in a greater...The modern west and even the east too in a greater proportion today, without indepth thoughts, superficially reject ‘idol worship’ that is being ritually performed since time immemorial in ‘India’ even today.<BR/> <BR/>One could perhaps find the modern saying itself - “Face is the index of mind” - relevant. For, as we have seen, the ‘truth’ is a matter of thoughts, i.e., the generally unstable Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1166403509989365762006-12-18T06:28:00.000+05:302006-12-18T06:28:00.000+05:30It is well known that each individual has a limite...It is well known that each individual has a limited capacity to acquire information in various aspects of day-to-day life and also retain that for durations varying from one to another only. And thus, in the ‘present’, the human race finds lot more information is needed to be gathered before the truth of creation could be reached. And so also the purpose of human life perhaps (which the wise Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1166326199485716692006-12-17T08:59:00.000+05:302006-12-17T08:59:00.000+05:30Therefore, in view of what I wrote in the thoughts...Therefore, in view of what I wrote in the thoughts in my earlier posts, it is purely a matter of faith and belief, i.e., believing the thoughts of the ancients about one and only intelligent life and all other apparent physical forms in the infinite universe to be its imagination. And unfortunately for the apparent physical forms, with limitations in the physical senses provided for gathering Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1166285663946306782006-12-16T21:44:00.000+05:302006-12-16T21:44:00.000+05:30However, if the Creator is a point, ‘Niarakar Naad...However, if the Creator is a point, ‘Niarakar Naadbindu’ who is related with zero time and space, ‘entering His mind’ would mean losing one’s believable physical existence – although it is anyway temporary – and becoming a point or nirakar itself. <BR/><BR/>The ‘wise’ ancients however realized the apparent existence of a parallel hierarchical world of formless also (perhaps like the apparent ‘Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1166250080566919892006-12-16T11:51:00.000+05:302006-12-16T11:51:00.000+05:30Thus, prayers by the physical form is apparently m...Thus, prayers by the physical form is apparently meant to overcome the otherwise disturbing or negative thoughts that also continue to enter the human mind together with neutral and positive thoughts. In the present, the concerned ‘health experts’ advise that one should consciously merge both neutral as well as positive thoughts together with the apparent negative thoughts at all times to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1166237150471844662006-12-16T08:15:00.000+05:302006-12-16T08:15:00.000+05:30From the very common use of the word, ‘Maya’ or il...From the very common use of the word, ‘Maya’ or illusion, for human life happenings which in the remotest corner of India even today is ritually repeated since time immemorial, shows how the ‘truth’ that is believably unrelated with ‘apparent time’ and in reality with time and space zero. It indicates what the Creator can do to the believably ‘most intelligent life on earth’ – make one and all Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1166164170178117322006-12-15T11:59:00.000+05:302006-12-15T11:59:00.000+05:30Thus in so far as we humans in NEWS are concerned ...Thus in so far as we humans in NEWS are concerned – for ease in understanding even from a common housewife’s point of view irrespective of what language she speaks - the most evolved form (Earth or Shiva) could be considered similar to, say, preparing from an egg an omelet - as the desired end product - irrespective of what other ingredients etc. (Centre of galaxy for churning, solar system for Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1166154314553693252006-12-15T09:15:00.000+05:302006-12-15T09:15:00.000+05:30With the above post as the brief background, the a...With the above post as the brief background, the ancients appear to have come to realize supreme knowledge to be concentrated at one point, called ‘Naadbindu’ or point source of unlimited (‘anhad’) sound energy, the formless creator of the physical universe/ world. <BR/><BR/>However, within the human form - as a part of apparent design - complete knowledge or information was realized to have beenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-1166074700792373112006-12-14T11:08:00.000+05:302006-12-14T11:08:00.000+05:30Ornithologists, or in layman’s words, ‘bird watche...Ornithologists, or in layman’s words, ‘bird watchers’, today say that birds are next to man in intelligence. Similarly, based on the expertise developed by ancient Yogis, who apparently came to understand the language of birds, many stories about ‘tota and maina’ or ‘Parrot and Mynah’ were authored by writers in the past. The two birds mentioned are even today domesticated and taught to imitate Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com