Parwatisingari's Weblog

Category: Reluctant Hindu

  • sati-parampara

    Like my standard refrain, the “sati” that seems to be the burning problem of India… so what is this all about… The Sati has come in honour of the goddess Sati, who jumped into the sacrificial fire as she could not bear her father insulting her husband Shiva. The word originally was used to mean…

  • random thoughts on dharma

    Dharmasya charnam shreyah Dharmajnam tu dushkrama. The good and righteous follow the dharma but it is difficult to know what the dharma is. The keeper of dharma tend to become self righteous  such men are known as dharmadwaja these people on the face of it are vociferous keepers of dharma but their rigidity gives rise…

  • Tale of the brothers– ramakatha

    Ramakatha. North Indian houses, believe that Ramayana should be read in the house, as it is a tale of brothers bonding but not Mahabharata. Ramayana is indeed a tale of brothers, Ravana–Kubera Ravana-Kumbhakarana Ravana- vibhishana Vali – sugriva Jatayu-Sampati Rama–Lakshmana Rama-Bharat. Somewhere in this annals poor shatrughna stays forgotten. The Ramayana of uttarkhand talks of…

  • Seasoning life with seasons.

    Rtu samhara, the cycles of season, or rtushringara the romance of season.  That is what it all about cycles, decay and rebirth.  In Sanskrit poetry seasons are entwined with love, both erotic and divine. They are parallel and interwoven. Vasanta spring, the eternal companion of the Kamadev, the lord of love, adorned with flowers and…

  • personal universe

    We have all heard, of the atma and Paramtma. God made us in his model. For me these concepts manifested as the construction of atom and the parallel in the solar system. People of ancient faiths including Vedic Hinduism, lived in a spiritually alive from horizon to horizon where spirituality was a dimension of every…

  • the duality of Lakshmi.

    The duality of Alakshmi fascinated me. For if the Amritha or the nectar of immortality emerged when the Ocean of milk was churned so did the pollutant Halahala or the cosmic poison. The Vaishnava legends claim that Alakshmi the twin of Lakshmi is the embodiment of Halahala. She is the goddess of misfortune and strife.…