tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post7277935135381187106..comments2024-03-24T16:46:26.733+05:30Comments on Indian Temples & Iconography: Sri Rudram - Divine Verses to Lord RudraKavitha Kalyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00813712305535152213noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-53294552512365656782009-05-26T07:53:19.359+05:302009-05-26T07:53:19.359+05:30As 'I' have tried to analyse it - by entering the ...As 'I' have tried to analyse it - by entering the minds of some 'Hindu' characters as typical examples of the so-called 'blind faith' by 'westerners' - 'I' believe 'I' saw the purpose of 'meditation' is simply to train the mind to gradually become immune to the day-to-day actions related with fulfilment of basic needs of food, clothing and shelter so that at a certain stage, called 'sanyas', one JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-55233930856593528172009-05-25T23:11:14.235+05:302009-05-25T23:11:14.235+05:30Maybe as part of review of the essence, 'I' find s...Maybe as part of review of the essence, 'I' find stone masonry structures called 'pyramid' to apparently have within it generated some 'fire'. or 'energy', ie., one of the 'panchbhootas' as per the terminology used by 'Hindus', who instead provided the same shape to a part of their temples, but called them 'vimanas' since time immemorial. <br /><br />A pyramid apparently has the capacity to JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-6477509146706761842009-05-25T09:01:36.782+05:302009-05-25T09:01:36.782+05:30Life in the plains appears much faster than the li...Life in the plains appears much faster than the life in the hills and during each day has many sources that generate fear in the minds of city dwellers mostly on account of the fast life-style... <br /><br />However, fear of unknown beings was introduced to us when as a young school-going boy 'I' visited with my other siblings and parents our home-town in the hills - in the pre-independence yearsJChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-9452416498173341412009-05-25T07:15:43.910+05:302009-05-25T07:15:43.910+05:30In so far as 'scientific basis' is concerned, Bhoo...In so far as 'scientific basis' is concerned, Bhootnath Shiva (the supreme soul, or spirit) is also called Mahakal, ie., the Controller of Time, who itself believably is related with zero time and space, visualised as formless Nadbindu the believable unique source of infinite sound energy as the 'creator' of the infinite universe (Brahmand or literally 'Creator's egg' for ancient 'Hindus')...<br JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-84908042131082790432009-05-24T19:19:50.900+05:302009-05-24T19:19:50.900+05:30In the good old days, as a child, it looked funny ...In the good old days, as a child, it looked funny how 'my father' used to get letters from home that had the opening line read as "Shri Shri Shri 108 Shri Hari Krishnaji"...<br /><br />'I' could onlu later correlate the 108 as perhaps indicating the expected human life span on earth as 108 years. And that instead of rounded off 1000 cycles of Mahayugas each of 4,32,000 years in one Brahma's day JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-10425380650280862812009-05-24T18:59:15.899+05:302009-05-24T18:59:15.899+05:30Once someone has understood Earth as Shiva (as ref...Once someone has understood Earth as Shiva (as referred in the 'Hindu Mythology') - and the 'scientific knowledge' that our apparently most beautiful planet earth, in our galaxy that alone supports 'life', is believed to have evolved from a 'fireball' and also that the cool moon ('Indu' in Sanskrit, respnsible for the origin of 'Hindu') evolved from earth itself - it's easy to realise it as the JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-33709289377261558842009-05-23T18:09:53.710+05:302009-05-23T18:09:53.710+05:30**************************
252. May 22, 2009 5:44 ...**************************<br />252. May 22, 2009 5:44 am <br /><br />Continuing from my comment @ 200, I would like to add that a city is dynamic - it virtually starts from a point and expands outwards, if ideal conditions for sustenance of life are available to start with and also for its sustenance to a certain point in time, when if the population increases any further it might collapse due, JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-34012109061395165632009-05-23T18:09:19.017+05:302009-05-23T18:09:19.017+05:30For the sake of Kavitha's visitors, 'I' give below...For the sake of Kavitha's visitors, 'I' give below copies of three of my posts in a blog on 'science' (in two comments due to limitation on number of words)...<br />********************<br /><br />47. May 20, 2009 8:33 am<br /> <br />Talking of intelligent design, in ‘India’, perhaps the ancient most country in the eastern part of the common globe that we all share with innumerable animal forms JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-8873074598563775372009-05-22T15:44:52.034+05:302009-05-22T15:44:52.034+05:30Hi 'Shiv Bhakt', The 'wise ancients', the Yogis, h...Hi 'Shiv Bhakt', The 'wise ancients', the Yogis, have clearly indicated a physical form as yoga or fusion of (temporary)matter and (immortal) energy, the exterior form and the 'soul' within...and they have given 100% weightage to soul as the VIP, common in all physical forms...<br /><br />Thus it apparently is only a matter of 'mental attitude'...And, eventually one has perhaps to believe that JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-54211869981767156952009-05-22T08:12:13.226+05:302009-05-22T08:12:13.226+05:30Very well said.
This seems like a natural evoluti...Very well said.<br /><br />This seems like a natural evolution of the orthodox religious interpretation. Only a fully baked enlightened Rishi really knows though .... has it pat down. The rest of us are groping around in dark caves of the online world.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06047966759848871621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-24282916555612047452009-05-21T11:25:16.953+05:302009-05-21T11:25:16.953+05:30For the sake of elaboration (as well as time pass!...For the sake of elaboration (as well as time pass!), many 'Hindu' mythological stories convey how certain characters, in different Yugas in the 'past', and in the 'present' also (for truth believably remains unaffected by 'time') apparently had to undergo physical and/ or mental suffering when they accepted God as benevolent or 'karunanidhi', the sea of kindness...The story related to Satyuga of JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-91001229121213467382009-05-19T09:36:49.631+05:302009-05-19T09:36:49.631+05:30"Necessity is the mother of invention." Similarly,..."Necessity is the mother of invention." Similarly, 'fear' is the mother of Lord Rudra, the angry Shiva! But, He is also imagined in reality as Bholenath or the Simple God beloved of all 'devtas' and 'rakshashas'! <br /><br />It is believed by the 'wise ancients' to appear thus on account of the illusory or temporary exterior animal forms, as the 'images' of the Formess Creator itself that is JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.com