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Category: Reluctant Hindu

  • Do I Believe in fate?– a Plinky Prompt.

    Do I believe in fate? The dictionary says fate is • Something unavoidable that befalls a person. • The universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of thins is presumably prescribed. The decreed cause of events. • Which is inevitably predetermined? • A prophetic declaration of what must be. Death, destruction or ruins.…

  • The moody weatherman

    Weather is a great metaphor for life – sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella. ~Terri Guillemets Rainbows “Moods, are the clutter-declutter pattern of us created by our harmones, experiences, anticipatory response and even the weather. We tend to have feel energtic with…

  • Sri Lakshmi the goddess of material abundance

    wealth is abundance. Quickie darshan Wealth to me is abudance. Wealth is something that will give me choices. I will not be limited by resources. It could be abundance in any form. The hindu mythology personifies this abundance as Goddess Lakshmi. The most popular image of Goddess Lakshmi is of abudance of material wealth. The…

  • Sita-Ahalya-Tadaka

    The Ramayana talks of three women. Tadaka she was killed by Rama Ahalya was supposed to have been redeemed by Rama Sita the spouse. Somewhere these women are not given their due. No matter what symbolization or explanation we give it is only a document of power play and oppression. Assuming that Ramayana is a…

  • Jarjara– the arbor Mundi

    Great aunt Kittadoddamma had her favourite narration of the samudra manthan and how the vatavriskha and the Kalpataru came out of it. She would explain to us how the Kalpataru was bejewelled and rich. As usual Param-ajja would snort and he would tell us that the kalpataru was nothing but the coconut tree which contributed…

  • Parijata

    Adansona digitata is the botanical name of this flower. Parijata is what my grandmother called it. Prajukta, shefali, shagufta call it any name. Beautiful white with a coral orange stalk. I am seeing this after nearly twenty two years. When I set my eyes on this I am back to my child hood. Though then…