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The symbolism of the number 6 dedicated to God Muruga.
The
symbolism of the number 6 dedicated to God Muruga.
1) After
"amavasai" we celebrate «Deepavali".
2) After we
celebrate the "kanda Shasti thiru vizaha" for 6 days.
3) From
Deepavali, one month is called "Karthigai".
4)
"Karthigai Deepam" comes to close this prosperous period.
5) Shasti
is celebrated in South India with brilliance: Why and what is special about
this festival?
6) This is all
about number 6, charged with mystery and sacredness.
7) We have
6 vital organs while Vedas is composed of six essential parts.
8) MEDICINE
SIDDHA describes 6 essential flavors: sweet (water and earth), acid (water and
fire), salty (land + fire), spice (heat + air), bitter (air + ether) and
astringent (air + ground) .
9) There
are six paths to "Shaivism." (Karma yoga, jnana yoga, bhakti yoga,
raja yoga, mantra yoga and yantra yoga)
10) There are
six chakras in the body. 1) Muladhara 2) Svadhishthana
3) Manipura
4) Anahata 5) Vishuddha 6) the third eye "Ajna".
11) There
are six duties or responsibilities in the life of man vis-a-vis 1) his parents,
vis-a-vis 2) or his guru Asan, vis-a-vis 3) his wife 4) children 5) his country
6) vis-à-vis every living being in the universe
12) Lord
Muruga (6 letters) symbolically represents the 6 duties of man and the
qualities to be acquired to eliminate 6 defects: (lying, anger, jealousy, and
lust, physical and verbal violence that must be eliminated).
13) The six
desirable qualities that are designated by a word "Shad-Sampat" Sama,
Dama, Uparati, Titiksha, Sraddha and Samadhana. These six qualities are one
quality without which the concentration is impossible. (sama alludes to the
peace of mind; dama refers to control of the senses; Uparati is the mindset that
finds satisfaction in one’s own mind, titksha is the power of endurance,
sraddha is the intense faith in the Vedas and the Guru who teaches these texts.
Samadhana is the concentration of the mind on Brahman or the self.
14) Lord
Muruga symbolizes the victory of good over evil through 6 symbolic battles that
take place in different locations known as "Aru Padai viddu». In these 6 places, Lord Muruga tales 6 forms
to convey the message that it is important
to control one's mind and senses.
15) KARTHIGAI women who brought up the child
Muruga are 6 in number too.
16) The
letters that are assigned to Muruga are 6 in number "bi / ja / sh / a / r
/ m) and also the mantra “sa ra va na ba va”.
17) His
"Natchatra mandala" is composed of 6 sides.
18) For the
six benefits (an healthy mind in a
strong body, good thoughts, good family, a good environment, success in
one's actions), we do a 'yagam' for Muruga for 3 days (Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday), six times a day, very rare and little known but very powerful that
can make our most cherished wishes come true.
19) For
Hindus, the Divine can be seen in both aspects of Nirguna-brahma (unmanifested
reality) and Saguna-Brahma (the manifestation of that reality). It was while
performing this yagam, one addresses agni DEVA: the best actions are made with
a spirit of sacrifice and self-giving. Offering flowers or fruit means that in
reality we realize that everything belongs to God. There is a mantra in the
Yaga (ritual in which offerings are made in the fire) when the priest says
"Idam agnayé, idam na mama! This is God manifested as fire, this is not
mine!" Karma binds us by its results, only the Knowledge releases us from its
terrible grip!
Thursday 30 April 2015
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Wednesday 25 March 2015
INDIAN INTELLECTUALS : Latest by Dr Koenraad Elst
Latest by Dr Koenraad Elst
From a lecture by former JNU Vice-Chancellor Prof. Kapil Kapoor before the Indore-based India Inspires Foundation, I have to relate a particularly relevant part, viz. about our Indian “intellectuals”. Any mistakes in my rendering are of course mine.
These intellectuals are to be distinguished from Hinduism’s traditional men of knowledge, or Rishi-s. The Rishi-s were devoted to the welfare of society, and they encouraged responsibility, self-reliance and cheerfulness. By contrast, our present “intellectuals” are only Buddhi-Jivi-s, those who “use their intellect to make a living”.
They have certain typical characteristics:
* They are worried, with a perennially worried look on their carefully careless-looking faces. They think that everything is bad, particularly all that really or allegedly stems from Hindu religion: caste, sati (eventhough the Sati after whom the custom was named, set herself on fire while her husband Shiva was alive, and eventhough all Hindu scriptures from the Rg-Veda on down condemn this rare Rajput practice), superstition etc. They worry about minorities and gender, and about the environment: whatever Hindus do, is polluting. Thus, while their consumerist lifestyles are above criticism, Hindus throwing around coloured powder on Holi are harming the ecosystem. Nowadays they worry about the farmers, even though they can’t tell a hoe from a plough.
* They have a sense of bad luck. Thus, why did they have to be born in a poor “developing country” rather than in America? (Well, at least the status of “developing country” is useful in so far as it keeps the donations coming, which money is then funneled towards the established intellectuals so that their children can get Ph.D.s in America.) They bemoan everything. They are like Rudali-s, professional mourners; except that Rudali-s only mourn at a occurrence of a real loss, a king’s death or so, whereas these intellectuals mourn all the time. Shiites flagellate themselves on Muharram to mourn Hussain’s defeat; these intellectuals have a Muharram every day.
* They suffer from a Hanuman complex. Hanuman was so strong that the gods were afraid of him and cursed him to forget his strength until someone would remind him. So, they forget about the past glories of their own civilization. The first European travelers wondered why the Indians had no maps; well, because maps are for people who have to go elsewhere because they need something from there, but Indians had everything in their own country. Our intellectuals see only the poverty that Islamic and British colonization and Nehruvian socialism have wrought (which they falsely attribute to Hindu influence, terming Nehruvian economic failure the “Hindu rate of growth”). They are always appealing for state intervention, like today’s middle class, who always ring up for help; or like the Devata-s (gods) in the Puranic myths, helpless before their Asura (demon) enemies. It is always the Asuras who are self-reliant, while the Devata-s are only there to shower flowers.
* They have a Tittiri complex. The Tittiri is a Indian bird that sleeps on its back with its feet skywards, as if supporting the heavens so that they don’t fall. Likewise, the intellectuals think that their enduring concern is needed to save India.
And a little extra to cap it all: intellectuals are good at talking about a book without having read it. This they call “meta-study”. (Or as their hero Ayatollah Khomeini said about Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses: “You don’t need to jump into a dungheap to know that it stinks.”) @ http://www.hinduhumanrights.info/indias-intellectuals/
Tuesday 10 March 2015
"Who am I?": "Who am I?"
"Who am I?": "Who am I?": "Who am I?" MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2010 Hariḥ Om. THIS IS NOT MY ORIGINAL WORK, I HAVE ONLY PLAYED THE ROLE OF A SCRIBE ...
"Who am I?": "Who am I?"
"Who am I?": "Who am I?": "Who am I?" MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2010 Hariḥ Om. THIS IS NOT MY ORIGINAL WORK, I HAVE ONLY PLAYED THE ROLE OF A SCRIBE ...
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