Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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About Souls and Selves.
I used to think soulful eyes, and gazing into the soul were all poetic exaggeration until, I did hypnotherapy. Hypnotherapy has taught me many things. One of them is the existence of soul. Soul we are told is the purest expression of an individual and is not bound by physical forms or fleeting emotions. The…
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creating a serene home to invite comfort.
I am listening to my friend’s to client she is detailing her plans for carpets, curtains, she had images of bedspread material she had hung over a chair to see if she could live with it. i wondered about her partner, and if she had done the same with him/her, drape the person over a…
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Getting my Hands dirty
Here I am working my morning pages. Strangely the things that come in space are gardening, trekking and swimming in the river and not what I thought were my standard hobbies that are theatre and dancing. Strange isn’t it. Even as a child when I was very upset a walk in the garden or sitting…
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Saddula Bathukamma
https://parwatisingari.wordpress.com/2015/10/19/bathukammadurgashtami/ The ninth day of Bathukamma is also the last day of the festival and is called Saddula Bathukamma. On this day the Bathukamma is immersed into the water. Conical creations of cow dung decorated with flowers is the Bathukamma, this is a folk art. The immersion is done with great devotion, accompanied by rhythmic…
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Bathukamma@Durgashtami.
Sometime back I was researching the nature related festivals in southern India. The floral tributes of Onam ruled the roast, somewhere between the lots I found a lesser known festival of Telangana One very interesting festival I came across was called the Bathukamma, and it is celebrated in the state of Telangana. This is a…
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