Category: Ballads
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Uplifting Showers
Uplifting showers. Its pouring quite heavily though not the blanket of torrential rains of my childhood but incessant. The weather is damp and wet outside. Can you imagine the loveliness of being warm snug inside the house when the weather out is cold and damp? Storms and rains literally change the energy in the air…
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Spider energy weaving life
Rick Riordon in book Mark of Athena, talks of an Arhcane as a wonderful weaver, she wove the sunlight into tapestries. My perception of cobweb has changed since then, they are of course the carpets of dustbunnies and they have to be done away with, yet they also remind us that we have the ability…
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Two Sides Of the Same Moon
Tetisa kopi devargala oda goodi hattavataarava nettidanamma. Is a verse from the famous purandaradasa’s poetry. Well, this translates to along with thirty three crores of gods he (Vishnu) took ten avatars. This has been a bone of contention, and even ridicule. But we never put it to context. When we say gods, we are talking about…
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worship of lakshmi
worship of lakshmi some musing from the vishnu purana, about the worship of Lakshmi
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Srisuktam and Akshaya Trithya.
Srisuktam and Akshaya Trithya. The festival of Akshaya Trithya symbolically welcomes abundance into life. This abundance is family focused, and creates richness of relationship, food, and wealth. The Brighu Purana states the worship on Lakshmi on Akshaya Trithya helps to overcome the insecurities that we harbour within us and achieve peace and prosperity. The Phala…
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Divine nourishment
Akshaya Trithiya celebrates abundance. This abundance is personified by DhanyaLakshmi. Food or what is refered to as “Anna” is one of them. The sacred texts say The hymn to Annapurneshwari talks about Anna being pratyeksha maheshwari. The visible divine. For food is the primary need of every living creature in the plant and animal world.…
