tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post5319085384928743332..comments2024-03-24T16:46:26.733+05:30Comments on Indian Temples & Iconography: Bana Lingas from the depths of the Narmada RiverKavitha Kalyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00813712305535152213noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-79889926257487599042012-09-27T09:51:05.058+05:302012-09-27T09:51:05.058+05:30I have a Bana Lingam at home, How do I do Ahisheka...I have a Bana Lingam at home, How do I do Ahishekam to the Lingam, and how many times should Abhishekam be done? I vaguely remmeber being told that it should be done once every 48 days.Nithyanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-28675227604929140452008-06-01T21:25:00.000+05:302008-06-01T21:25:00.000+05:30Nice Comparison Joshi Uncle between cricket & Kris...Nice Comparison Joshi Uncle between cricket & Krishna leela! But I think The likes of BCCI ICCI & others form the black hole!Dr.Anil Joshihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751770622662718050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-15984117017890012432008-06-01T20:13:00.000+05:302008-06-01T20:13:00.000+05:30Kavitha, Dr Anilji, Aswin Kini, being an ardent lo...Kavitha, Dr Anilji, Aswin Kini, being an ardent lover since ‘my childhood’ of the game called Cricket (that ‘I’ have earlier elsewhere shown to represent the essence of a galaxy, or/ rather the various models of galaxies through different teams at different locations representing different forms of ‘Krishna’ or Black Hole the cause apparent at the centre of each that apparently makes innumerable JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-49255138378923266592008-06-01T20:09:00.000+05:302008-06-01T20:09:00.000+05:30Hello Dr Anilji, If ‘I’ had your email address, ‘I...Hello Dr Anilji, If ‘I’ had your email address, ‘I’ could have forwarded to you also the concerned email ‘I’ received from a friend settled in the USA that contained some photographs also, which of course mightn’t help prove all that was contained in the write up, which ‘I’ copied here…and it could very well be a ‘hoax’ that is illusion or a result of ‘Maya’! Still one cannot deny an eagle as a JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-17526828176690239222008-06-01T18:44:00.000+05:302008-06-01T18:44:00.000+05:30Joshi uncle! Hallo! As regards the story of eagle ...Joshi uncle! Hallo! As regards the story of eagle is it a truth or only a legend!To me an eagle goes into isolation,thinks a lot ,Introspects & adapts to the new ways & goes on....That is the essence of the story.As regards the trady or sometimes an absent response from my side it takes a little long for me to really appreciate the hidden meaning in your despatches,Needless to say they are indeedDr.Anil Joshihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751770622662718050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-84493446476017487502008-06-01T08:24:00.000+05:302008-06-01T08:24:00.000+05:30Hi Kavitha, Good morning! As ‘I’ told you ‘I’ am a...Hi Kavitha, Good morning! <BR/><BR/>As ‘I’ told you ‘I’ am a seeker of the ‘Truth’ apparently hidden in ‘Nature’ (and stone Temples for the Formless, or in human forms too, are one small, negligible, part of it)... And, ‘Nature’ has also been read before ‘me’ by the ‘wise ancients’, whether one called them ‘scientists’ or ‘Yogis’ (refer Shakespeare’s famous quote about ‘Rose’, which to a Hindu JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-29792467434522939242008-05-31T15:51:00.000+05:302008-05-31T15:51:00.000+05:30HI Joshi Uncle,Am really sorry for not being able ...HI Joshi Uncle,<BR/><BR/>Am really sorry for not being able to answer to your comments earlier. I just have not had the time, to read through and respond. <BR/><BR/>My apologies Uncle<BR/><BR/>Regds<BR/>KavithaKavitha Kalyanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00813712305535152213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-42825115616385143582008-05-31T08:56:00.000+05:302008-05-31T08:56:00.000+05:30Kavitha, ‘I’ am sorry for being responsible for th...Kavitha, ‘I’ am sorry for being responsible for the sea of words! (My French teacher had talked of 'romain fleuve' that is the river of words only)...So, ‘I’ should perhaps stop here and wait for comments of others:-)JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-21604918595238862302008-05-31T08:49:00.000+05:302008-05-31T08:49:00.000+05:30With the Hindu thought about ‘truth’ remaining una...With the Hindu thought about ‘truth’ remaining unaffected by ‘time’ (for God is related with time and space zero), and also Krishna, the reported source of ‘Maya’ that is illusion as a mischievous character at the back of one’s mind, looking for its reflection in the ‘present’ perhaps one could find it reflected in the recent times by the ‘western character’ named Stephen Hawking, who expressed JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-63639407543163281002008-05-31T08:37:00.000+05:302008-05-31T08:37:00.000+05:30Statements, such as ‘Maya’, ‘Jagat Mithya’ that is...Statements, such as ‘Maya’, ‘Jagat Mithya’ that is ‘illusory earth’, etc. conveys the apparent physical forms as images, or characters in dream of the Formless Creator, that is Bhootnath Shiva, who is represented by its own images symbolically by Shivalingas made of materials provided by earth itself as its own nearly true image, for only the Bhootnath Shiva/ Vishnu the Nadbindu the point source JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-41122940691074584082008-05-31T08:22:00.000+05:302008-05-31T08:22:00.000+05:30And, as we have seen earlier also, the mysterious ...And, as we have seen earlier also, the mysterious character, named Krishna, is indicated to have been born within a prison in Mathura on one bank of River Yamuna to Ma Devki, to find itself on the other bank in Gokul and brought up by Ma Yashoda! And, it was Ma Yashoda who saw the entire universe in child Krishna’s mouth! And, the mischievous Krishna’s true identity is seen in Bhagavad Gita, JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-11478183350828202102008-05-31T08:06:00.000+05:302008-05-31T08:06:00.000+05:30Kavitha, you might remember, ‘I’ had once indicate...Kavitha, you might remember, ‘I’ had once indicated ‘Hindu thoughts’, read between lines, how earth, that is, Shiva reflects His various faces or images through different individuals…Some have understood earth as a school where humans, i.e., souls, come to get educated. Some have understood the world as a hospital/ mad-house/ workshop for repair work on defective machines. <BR/>Some compared it JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-26766605125851546342008-05-30T20:13:00.000+05:302008-05-30T20:13:00.000+05:30Continuing with the reflection of SS’s design, alt...Continuing with the reflection of SS’s design, although, perhaps ‘I’ am repeating it the nth time, Australia, or ‘down under’, a continent located in the southern hemisphere as the base of the northern hemisphere - where ‘Ma Durga’s’ tiger shaped ‘India’, (with abode of Adi Shiva in Kashi), in the ‘Indian sub continent’ is located - presents in appearance the head of a bull that perhaps found JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-63156319879384990692008-05-30T08:25:00.000+05:302008-05-30T08:25:00.000+05:30Shri Aswin Kini, Kavitha, Dr Anilji… Talking of hi...Shri Aswin Kini, Kavitha, Dr Anilji… Talking of hints of the ‘wonderful design’ by ‘panchbhootas’, reflected in ‘Nature’ coming gradually to light, as observed by ‘present day scientists’ also, could perhaps help visualize how the ‘ancient Hindus’ would also perhaps have gone through the same process in the ‘past’…and perhaps the following finding, (‘I’ received on the internet, with photographs)JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-35907856652922687512008-05-29T21:14:00.000+05:302008-05-29T21:14:00.000+05:30Life apparently began under water and therefore ob...Life apparently began under water and therefore obviously one might not find spiders down there in the seas. But, perhaps as an example of eight-handed Durga, one would find an example of wonderful design in ‘Nature’: an eight-armed octopus, one of the cephalopods that include the largest, fastest, and most intelligent of all invertebrates. Unlike other mollusks, they have sucker-bearing arms or JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-24329900381504152982008-05-29T18:16:00.000+05:302008-05-29T18:16:00.000+05:30From the above, a question can arise into one’s mi...From the above, a question can arise into one’s mind: Could it be a mere coincidence that King Bruce (?), a character that appears in ‘British History’, was reportedly inspired by a spider when he was down and out not to give up despite repeated defeats in battles till then and to try again – and he succeeded next time!<BR/> <BR/>“Try, try, try again till you succeed,” is also an essential JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-51171771985351913662008-05-29T17:27:00.000+05:302008-05-29T17:27:00.000+05:30Shri Aswin Kini, ‘I’ am glad if the thoughts recei...Shri Aswin Kini, ‘I’ am glad if the thoughts received in my head - as answers to some questions posed by ‘my’ exterior to the one who according to the ‘wise ancients’ resides within the foolish ‘me’ also - are found useful in clearing some doubts. Perhaps it is like clearing some cobwebs at some time – to again find some new ones after some time, for anant Durga doesn’t tire easily :-)JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-81632012992540656882008-05-29T16:26:00.000+05:302008-05-29T16:26:00.000+05:30Learnt a lot from your comments Uncle Joshi!! :-) ...Learnt a lot from your comments Uncle Joshi!! :-) Thanks!!!Aswin Kinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16741134467278912014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-57612958452475055902008-05-29T06:49:00.000+05:302008-05-29T06:49:00.000+05:30It is interesting to observe that in Sanskrit a pa...It is interesting to observe that in Sanskrit a particular word generally suggests how the word had apparently evolved over time necessitating enlargement of the vocabulary as new things came to light. For example, ‘Brahmand’ - meaning universe - relates to the realization that the Creator is Unborn, like the chick inside a hen’s egg, say, as an example of communication in examples in ‘Nature’ JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-31654920558381381042008-05-28T08:07:00.000+05:302008-05-28T08:07:00.000+05:30Kavithaji, The story of marriage of Aniruddha and ...Kavithaji, The story of marriage of Aniruddha and beautiful Usha has a hidden message! Usha believably was the daughter of ‘asur’ or ‘rakshasha’ Banasur the ‘sahasrabhjadhari’ or thousand-handed negative character who created fear in the hearts of devtas too. Banasur kept his daughter with her friends in an underground fortress called ‘Agnigarh’ that is ‘fortress of fire’ and wanted her to marry JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-38800628220450855532008-05-28T06:30:00.000+05:302008-05-28T06:30:00.000+05:30Shri Aswini Kini, In essence, the Hindu Mythologic...Shri Aswini Kini, In essence, the Hindu Mythological stories communicate the story of evolution of Nadbindu Vishnu, that is, Nirakar or formless energy called Supreme Soul who ever remains related with time and space ‘zero’ (‘0’).<BR/> <BR/>The stories convey as the central idea that the process apparently resulted in innumerable ‘imperfect’ physical forms that appear to fill at all times the JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-7324466426771683372008-05-27T21:40:00.000+05:302008-05-27T21:40:00.000+05:30Yes, Shri Aswini Kini, you are right. Pinaka is th...Yes, Shri Aswini Kini, you are right. Pinaka is the name given to the gravitational field of earth, Vishnu’s old bow given to Shiva, which finds reference in the mythological stories in code words, that was apparently penetrated, (expressed as ‘broken by Rama’), by Sunrays (Rama’s arrows that is ‘ban’), thus also helping illuminate the Moon’s surface that exists within earth’s gravitational fieldJChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-66040635294617372672008-05-27T20:12:00.000+05:302008-05-27T20:12:00.000+05:30Was the Pinaka the bow that was broken by Rama dur...Was the Pinaka the bow that was broken by Rama during Sita' swayamvara?????<BR/>We would certainly like to know more about the legend of Shiva destroying the flying city.Aswin Kinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16741134467278912014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-44226118139918836192008-05-27T17:55:00.000+05:302008-05-27T17:55:00.000+05:30Personally, perhaps as an example of mischievous s...Personally, perhaps as an example of mischievous style of functioning of ‘Krishna’, last Sunday ‘I’ happened to see a transparent shivalinga of flowing water generated with the help of a low water fountain near the reception room of Ashoka Hotel in New Delhi. <BR/><BR/>[‘I’ had actually been there with a couple to visit an ‘education camp’ that some friends of theirs apparently saw publicized in JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-81948355420327538832008-05-27T14:07:00.000+05:302008-05-27T14:07:00.000+05:30The best example of ‘arrows of water’ moving skywa...The best example of ‘arrows of water’ moving skywards (‘gaman’) and then returning back to ground (‘agaman’) can perhaps be seen in natural geysers, for example, ‘The Old Faithful’, by visitors to the Yellow Stone National Park in USA; or by anyone anywhere in the man-made fountains – where water shoots out from the nozzle and after reaching the peak height, returns to the pool from where the JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.com