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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Chaitra Gaur / Photos

Festival celebrating cycle of seasons. An ancient story of Shiv and Parvati is associated with this festival. Gauri, the incarnation of goddess Parvati, is worshipped in household shrines from the third day after the new moon in Chaitra to the third day after the new moon in Vaishakh.

This is the beginning of spring time when new leaves appear on the trees, mango trees bear raw mangoes and chickpeas ripen in the fields. So a savoury dish of young raw mangoes and soaked chickpea lentils and a squash like drink of raw mangoes called Panha is prepared. This snack is then offered to married women. Married women are invited home and honoured by applying kumkum and turmeric powder to their forehead and then treated to these snacks. The first flowers of Son Chapha, which appear in the spring, are offered to the women. In this fashion the new spring and its bounty is appreciated and a close bond is established with the nature.

It is believed that goddess Parvati comes to visit her parents in this month. She is sent back when the month gets over. This tradition has a reference to the story whereby Shankar and Parvati stayed with Parvati’s family for a month.

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Sunday, August 14, 2011

itself

  1. Shiva is not compassionate, He is Compassion itself
  2. Shiva is not merciful, He is Mercy itself.
  3. Shiva is not great, He is Greatness itself.
  4. Shiva is not godly, He is God itself.
  5. Shiva is not good, He is Goodness itself.
  6. Shiva is not a creator, He is Creation itself.
  7. Shiva is not a sustainer, He is Sustenance itself.
  8. Shiva is not a destroyer, He is Destruction itself.
  9. Shiva is not a concealer, He is Concealment itself.
  10. Shiva is not a revealer, He is Revealment itself.
  11. Shiva is not a pervader, He is Pervasion itself.
  12. Shiva is not a supreme being, He is Supremacy itself.
  13. Shiva is not a realized being, He is Realization itself.
  14. Shiva is not a full being, He is Fullness itself.
  15. Shiva is not a eternal being, He is Eternity itself.
  16. Shiva is not an infinite being, He is Infinity itself.
  17. Shiva is not a conscious being, He is Consciousness itself.
  18. Shiva is not a existent being, He is Existence itself.
  19. Shiva is not a blissful being, He is Bliss itself.
  20. Shiva is not a knowledgeable being, He is Knowledge itself.
  21. Shiva is not a transcendent being, He is Transcendence itself.
  22. Shiva is not an immanent being, He is Immanence itself.
  23. Shiva is not a true being, He is Truth itself.
  24. Shiva is not an infinite being, He is Infinity itself.
  25. Shiva is not a being, He is Being itself.
  26. Shiva is not all-knowing, He is All-Knowingness itself.
  27. Shiva is not all-powerful, He is All-Power itself.
  28. Shiva is not omnipresent, He is Omnipresence itself.
  29. Shiva is not a he, He is He-ness itself.
  30. Shiva is not a she, He is She-ness itself.
  31. Shiva is not a neuter, He is Neuter-ness itself.
  32. Shiva is not beautiful, He is Beauty itself.
  33. Shiva is not kind, He is Kindness itself.
  34. Shiva is not easily pleased, He is Pleasure itself.
  35. Shiva is not giving, He is Gift itself.
  36. Shiva is not one, He is Oneness itself.
  37. Shiva is not guru-like, He is Guruhood itself.
  38. Shiva is not fatherly, He is Fatherhood itself.
  39. Shiva is not motherly, He is Motherhood itself.
  40. Shiva is not a Vedic god, He is the Veda itself.
  41. Shiva is not an Agamic god, He is the Agama itself.
  42. Shiva is not praise-worthy, He is Praise itself.

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