tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post7476445253949140485..comments2024-03-24T16:46:26.733+05:30Comments on Indian Temples & Iconography: Enlightenment - The meaning of Sahasra LingaKavitha Kalyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00813712305535152213noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-75335200541700945722011-02-04T10:05:11.810+05:302011-02-04T10:05:11.810+05:30good collection of information in your blog. thank...good collection of information in your blog. thanks for updating hidden points on gods and goddesshari babuhttp://www.indiatemplesinfo.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-37416868297288997712008-04-26T19:05:00.000+05:302008-04-26T19:05:00.000+05:30Shri Anon, Kacitha, Also, ‘I’ recalled ‘my’ previo...Shri Anon, Kacitha, Also, ‘I’ recalled ‘my’ previous visits that varied from a few hours to a few days after the first one up to date, the next one being 11 years later, when ‘I’ escorted my sister-in-law back to her home via her uncle’s house in Tallital. Just one year later ‘I’ was back again for a few hours’ stay in my cousin’s in law’s house also located at Tallital. Thus, ‘I’ observed that JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-705083105030159852008-04-26T13:50:00.000+05:302008-04-26T13:50:00.000+05:30Shri Anon, Kavitha, Noteworthy was our descent fro...Shri Anon, Kavitha, Noteworthy was our descent from Naina Peak (then called China Peak), located around 8,000 feet above MSL, in just 20 minutes, ie, about 2,000 feet down to Lake level, whereas it had taken us perhaps over 2 hours to reach the peak via the beaten track. Being young and a bit adventurous, or maybe ‘foolish’, during the return journey we decided to take the pebbly route followed JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-86936025905644146992008-04-26T11:06:00.000+05:302008-04-26T11:06:00.000+05:30Hi Kavitha, That's why we are called "Apsmara Puru...Hi Kavitha, That's why we are called "Apsmara Purush'! 'My wife' was born in M.P., now Chhattisgarh, which 'I' sw to some extent, such as, Chitrakoot falls, for example!<BR/><BR/>Continuing with my mental journey to Nainital: During those three weeks we three made it a point to ride as many times as it was possible a boat to Tallital, from Mallital where all boats were parked on the shore, ie, JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-48485930226346839252008-04-26T08:55:00.000+05:302008-04-26T08:55:00.000+05:30Hi Joshi Uncle,Dont we all miss it. While i was se...Hi Joshi Uncle,<BR/><BR/>Dont we all miss it. While i was searching for pictures and content on the web for my next post, I stumbled upon a few places in untouched Madhya Pradesh which attracted me so much that I feel i had already been there earlier sometime. Its familiar, like i already know the place exists but when i find it in reality its a crazy feeling of elatedness. I have MP on my Kavitha Kalyanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00813712305535152213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-86398341668368527242008-04-26T07:32:00.000+05:302008-04-26T07:32:00.000+05:30Hi Shri Anon, Kavitha, The human form is a mobile ...Hi Shri Anon, Kavitha, The human form is a mobile library where one - being an integrated system of analogous computers - as a reader retrieves, in the ‘present’, information pertaining to events related with ‘past’ for comparison, analysis and reaching some conclusion at that particular point in time - that might change when some more data becomes available later…(thus the concept of ‘absolute JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-81300700865158840832008-04-26T00:03:00.000+05:302008-04-26T00:03:00.000+05:30Pranams everyone!Hi Joshi Uncle, I tried to post t...Pranams everyone!<BR/><BR/>Hi Joshi Uncle, <BR/><BR/>I tried to post this on the last thread but I guess there was computer trouble.<BR/><BR/>The Narmada Lingams are interesting to me because they are carved from the actions of water on the rock. Calls to mind one Buddhist story, a man was going to develop patience by grinding down a rock using a feather!<BR/><BR/>The Narmada Lingams also remind Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-64924480213672802572008-04-25T11:21:00.000+05:302008-04-25T11:21:00.000+05:30As per indications available in the myths, ‘advanc...As per indications available in the myths, ‘advanced Yogis’ or ‘highly elevated souls’, with valiant efforts (Herculean/ Bhagirath-like) apparently demonstrated unlimited potential of human capabilities. And, interestingly ‘God’ was visualised as Omnipotent, and therefore man was understood as an image of God Himself!<BR/> <BR/>However, it is a matter of untiring efforts, which is apparently JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-55903362731496243662008-04-25T08:28:00.000+05:302008-04-25T08:28:00.000+05:30The central idea of 'meditation', with a goal to r...The central idea of 'meditation', with a goal to reach theinner world, communicated by various legends etc. is for the ‘seeker’ to take hints from ‘Nature’ and try to gradually achieve zero thoughts, starting from minimum thoughts through the various rituals – with the goal to eventually remain consciously unmoved of the ‘exterior world’ under all conditions of apparent pleasure and pain…<BR/><BRJChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-64870489637883557042008-04-24T20:17:00.000+05:302008-04-24T20:17:00.000+05:30Kavitha, one Shri Kamaleshwar from Uttarakhand had...Kavitha, one Shri Kamaleshwar from Uttarakhand had visted one of your blogs and had referred his new blog for which he had sought suggestions for improvement, which perhaps escaped your notice…<BR/>‘I’ found in one of his few postings he had described his visit to Ruchh (in Sanskrit, meaning ‘dry’, or ‘inert’), at the confluence of Rivers Madhuganga and Saraswati in the Garhwal region of JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-73524975810618097602008-04-24T19:35:00.000+05:302008-04-24T19:35:00.000+05:30With the background of ‘Panchtantra’, the fables t...With the background of ‘Panchtantra’, the fables that were symbolically utilised by a ‘brahmin’, Pandit Vishnu Sharma, in the ‘past’, to educate the reportedly dullard princes in the boring art of Public Administation (that in the ‘present’ that is Kaliyuga for the ancients appears to be ‘a game of scoundrels’) within a short time and in an interesting manner, a seeker with a little background JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-7684288124944111552008-04-24T17:31:00.000+05:302008-04-24T17:31:00.000+05:30The ‘enlightened’ souls apparently reached a state...The ‘enlightened’ souls apparently reached a state of bliss for some time by withdrawing to some secluded regions, such as the Himalayas from their original place of birth and thus got to see from close quarters the comparatively cooler, more peaceful and beautiful ‘Nature’ rendered thus by the flora and fauna, and primarily by the absence of humans, the believably biggest destructive agent of ‘JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-81358550694434169922008-04-24T17:08:00.000+05:302008-04-24T17:08:00.000+05:30The eight (8) directions related with ‘Krishna’ th...The eight (8) directions related with ‘Krishna’ the eighth and lucky child of Ma Devki of Mathura/ eight-handed Ma Durga the daughter of the Himalayas appear as cryptical clues in the Himdu mythological stories and are associated with Adi Shiva the Ardhanarishwar or Androgynous God who had His original abode at Kashi that is present day Varanasi in ‘India that is Bharat…the piece of land JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-66089879728115042012008-04-24T12:24:00.000+05:302008-04-24T12:24:00.000+05:30The Hindu Mythology indicates Brahma has four face...The Hindu Mythology indicates Brahma has four faces, which with the four Cardinal directions in mind and read along with the reported sayings of Krishna in the Gita, (or Kali the Black that has red tongue - for shakti worshippers), claiming Himself (or Herself) responsible for Maya that is illusion could perhaps help realize ‘India’ as a Divine Person, represented by essences of energies JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-66467056554163735662008-04-24T07:00:00.000+05:302008-04-24T07:00:00.000+05:30Sorry! Please delete from the last but one line "t...Sorry! Please delete from the last but one line "thereon and shalt put the medicine"JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-56476605849248036262008-04-24T06:56:00.000+05:302008-04-24T06:56:00.000+05:30Kavitha, Shri Anon, particularly for the benefit o...Kavitha, Shri Anon, particularly for the benefit of Dr Anilji ‘I’ would like to give below an extract from Cosmos by Carl Sagan in the Introduction to show how ‘Trinity’ or ‘Trimurty Shiva’ Vishnu (that is Vish the poison and anu the atom) perhaps got referred as Anu, Shiva as Shamash, and Brahma as Ea in another part of the globe, ie, Assyrians of 1000 B.C.<BR/><BR/>After Anu had created the JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-40372721598267603672008-04-23T18:55:00.000+05:302008-04-23T18:55:00.000+05:30The Hindu mythological stories convey the Trimurty...The Hindu mythological stories convey the Trimurty Shiva in physical form represented symbolically by Brahma, Vishnu, & Mahesha, that is, our Sun, our centre of galaxy, and Earth respectively. <BR/>In the galaxy, the centre - where a super gravity Black hole is believably housed - keeps in motion innumerable other relatively weaker heavenly bodies while itself remaining relatively immobile. JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-81547048231687669682008-04-23T17:56:00.000+05:302008-04-23T17:56:00.000+05:30The above lifting to the top of energy/ informatio...The above lifting to the top of energy/ information from ‘Mooladhar Chakra’ located at the level of ‘linga’ that is the tail-bone end on the spinal column to ‘Sahasrara Chakra’ in the head, however, is indicated to be happening ‘naturally’ also 1,000 times to cover all 360 degrees of space (which ‘I’ believe was just a rounding off of actually 1,080 cycles, and therefore 108 beads used in the JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-85237885235820340942008-04-23T17:32:00.000+05:302008-04-23T17:32:00.000+05:30All said and done, eventually the ‘Yogis’ could ap...All said and done, eventually the ‘Yogis’ could apparently reach zero thoughts for some time daily, starting with ‘meditation’ from early age, for they realized the Formless Creator to be related with zero, time and space etc. Meditation involved reaching minimum thoughts by ‘sadhna’ that is gradually controlling the apparently crude and uncontrolled physical senses. The phenomenon is also JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-80225473675614677332008-04-23T14:04:00.000+05:302008-04-23T14:04:00.000+05:30The overall attempt made by ‘advanced ancient Hind...The overall attempt made by ‘advanced ancient Hindus’ (thanks to Time, or Mahakal Shiva and His Maya, as reflected by the ‘make believe world of cinema’) was to generate consciousness among them - through the environment as in a hermitage - to think only of the Formless or Bhootnath Shiva as the real entity and all material forms as images to fool them. Or perhaps to review His limited past - as JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-49852775351853027072008-04-23T07:29:00.000+05:302008-04-23T07:29:00.000+05:30Kavitha, It is interesting to observe that some sh...Kavitha, It is interesting to observe that some shivlingas carved on the rocks in one of the photographs presented by you appeared to ‘me’ like the ‘Khardaoon’ the footwear made from wood for convenience in movement over thorny plants even that were worn by the ancient sages the ‘Brahmacharis’ in the hermitages, minus ‘sita’ the groove…perhaps for them to act as a reminder to control their minds JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-82250715094876874762008-04-23T07:09:00.000+05:302008-04-23T07:09:00.000+05:30The apparent confusion among average humans is bec...The apparent confusion among average humans is because of apparent hierarchy in all aspects of ‘Nature’ getting accepted by all and sundry, but not when it comes to dealing with humans, which was understood by the ‘wise ancients’ as the cause of apparent ‘struggle for existence’ among different ‘life’ forms... <BR/>The ‘wise men’ - responsible for communicating the ‘Truth’ of life, or animation (JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-48936558047578039482008-04-22T18:07:00.000+05:302008-04-22T18:07:00.000+05:30There are thus innumerable Gurus who are present a...There are thus innumerable Gurus who are present at any time at a particular location who, if accessible, would tell different ways to reach a particular goal. But, one follows only that advice that synchronises with one’s mental inclination or conscience, perhaps naturally. For, it is said, “One can lead a horse to water/ But twenty cannot make him drink!”<BR/>Thus the human society at the same JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-3809953970475941952008-04-22T14:01:00.000+05:302008-04-22T14:01:00.000+05:30‘I’ recall that ‘I’ had seen in the ‘Discovery Cha...‘I’ recall that ‘I’ had seen in the ‘Discovery Channel’, sometime ago, how in the recent times a huge crowd of mediapersons, ‘specialists’ and relatives were gathered at some place in Nepal to watch a young boy seated within the hollow of a tree who was apparently oblivious of their presence, lost in ‘sadhana’ or ‘zero’ thoughts, for God alone knows how many days without food and water – JChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05374795168555108039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8999700.post-40765969788956037922008-04-22T11:23:00.000+05:302008-04-22T11:23:00.000+05:30Hi Joshi Uncle,Sure missed your presence on the bl...Hi Joshi Uncle,<BR/><BR/>Sure missed your presence on the blog for a day! <BR/>Welcome back :) <BR/><BR/>Anon,<BR/>This is my interpretation of what it could be in cambodia given the other references we find in India.<BR/><BR/>I might be wrong.<BR/><BR/>Regds<BR/>KavithaKavitha Kalyanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00813712305535152213noreply@blogger.com