Category: Reluctant Hindu
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Honoring the Father.
Gokarna Aunsi, Kushe Aunsi, The legend of Gokarna is something that every Kannada child is grown up with. We have heard the story of Shiva Bhakta Ravana promising to get Shiva’s atmalinga for his mother, when Shiva gives him the linga he tells him don’t put it on the ground. For it would take root as…
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Beyond the physical
Beyond the physical Beings of light. when a colleague of mine Geeta was researching on the Yuga- she wanted to create a narrative round it. She would go read through lot material particularly from Sri Aurobindo. He was talking about the four Yuga’s the satyuga where the light in us or the connect to the…
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Dakshinayana.. the summer solstice.
June 21st the summer solstice. Solstice is an astronomical event that occurs twice each year as the sun reaches its highest or lowest excursion in relation to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere. The solstices together with the equinoxes are connected with seasons and many cultures have elaborate rituals and associations to commemorate this.…
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Beauty
We hear so much about beauty being skin deep, inner beauty and other things, all we have to do is look for beauty and she is there all around. Hindu mythology, has given this power to Lakshmi, the goddess of abundance she becomes soundarya the manifestation of beauty. It is as if beauty speaks to…
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Akshaya and Akshata
Akshata Abundance of nourishment was the focus of the Vedic society this was symbolized by grains of rice. Called the akshata. When sanctified through use in a ritual it became “mantra-akshate” that which was empowered to unlock that particular blessing for you. Literally Akshaya means something which does debilitate. So Akshaya Trithya commemorates that potential…
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