Tag: Hindu

Silent Sunday

May 30, 2021

“Buddy, Aims in the life are not low hanging fruits. They are like coconuts” @writings

✔Mango is the national fruit of India.

✔Hindus consider mango as an auspicious tree.

✔Hindu festivals and auspicious occasions are marked with the tying of mango leaves in front of their main entrances. Called Toran, this mango leaf garland is believed to invite health and prosperity into the home.

✔Mango leaves are used in Hindu marriages in plenty. They find a place right from decoration to puja and rituals. It is believed that they possess the power to bless the couple with good children bearing capacity.

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Thank you.

Namaste 🙏🙏🙏

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Happy Vaikuntha Ekadashi 2020

December 25, 2020

“The causeless mercy of Lord Vishnu is unparalleled, and such mercy is perceived by the devotees only by the grace of the Lord” Srila Prabhupada

Today ( Dec,25th ), is VAIKUNTA EKADASHI, an important and auspicious day for Hindus.

It’s a major festival celebrated in the temples of Lord Vishnu all over the country especially in South India.

This day is dedicated to Lord Vishnu.

This particular day happens between December and January as per the Hindu Calendar.

It’s believed that Gates of the Lord’s inner sanctum is opened on this day and devotees who observe fast on this day attain salvation by going to Heaven.

Fasting is an important aspect of Ekadashi day.

Wishing all the Hindus, celebrating this day, a happy Vaikunta Ekadashi

Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya. (Om I bow to Lord Vishnu)

More strength and peace to you all.

Thank you.

Namaste 🙏🙏🙏

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Team

April 28, 2020

This post is in response to Discover Prompts, Day 27: Team by Ben Huberman

Team-work, simply stated,it’s less me and more We

In the above photograph,what these people are up to ?

No no no,they are not into headbutting !

And we see all the heads coming together as a Team in unity.

This click is taken from a high position.

These people are Hindu priests. ( students ).

After the Prayer is completed,these young priests are busy picking up and distributing the sacred ‘Akshata’ among themselves.

What is Akshata/Akshat ?

Akshata consists of uncooked unbroken raw rice mixed with turmeric powder or vermilion.

Akshata

How Akshata is Used ?

In Hinduism,rice holds spiritual and ritual significance and rice is revered as a symbol of sustainability,prosperity & good health.

Preparing ‘Akshat’ represents one of the services of PUJA (Ritualistic worship of a deity). After Prayers Akshata is sprinkled on the heads of those attending / performing the Puja.

In Hinduism sprinkling,sipping & bathing are symbolic of purification.

On the festive occasions, Akshat is thrown over the heads,stuck on the forehead of idols and also sent along with the invitations during marriage occasions.

Akshat is offered to the elderly by the younger,to be sprinkled on the heads of the young symbolizing the ‘Blessings’ for long & healthy life.

Significance of Akshata in Hindu Rituals

Thank you. Namaste 🙏🙏🙏

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Bangles

October 24, 2018

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Although Bangles are worn for style all over the world,the

ornament hold special significance in Hinduism.

It is almost similar to the ‘Wedding Ring” in the Western

Culture.

For Hindu Women Bangles are of Sentimental value,symbol of good

luck.

A Hindu Woman is deemed incomplete without this,so much so even

the poorest of the poor wear some form of Bangles.

Thus Bangle Industry is making a kill with Designer Wear etc.

If bangle breaks it is considered as bad omen.

Hindu Festival is incomplete without women wearing the bangles.

The only time married women remove bangle is either at labor or

when she is widowed.

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Life is too short to have a boring hair….

September 28, 2018

Hair-Style-Hindu traditional way

The tuft of Hair known in India as sikha is a long tuft, or lock of hair left on top or on the back of the shaven head of a male Orthodox Hindu.

Though traditionally all Hindus were required to wear a śikhā, today it is seen mainly among Brahmachari, ‘celibate monks’ and temple priests

The śikhā is tied back or knotted to perform religious rites. Only funerals and death anniversaries are performed with the śikhā untied or with disheveled hair. Disheveled hair is considered inauspicious, and represents times of great sorrow or calamity.

Father of my nation, Mahatma Gandhi felt ashamed to wear the Sikha when he was in England & South Africa,since he could become laughing stock for the funny appearance.

In his autobiography, Mohandas K. Gandhi writes about his encounter with an orthodox Hindu: In his words…

“He was pained to miss the shikha (tuft of hair) on my head and the sacred thread about my neck and said: ‘It pains me to see you, a believing Hindu, going without a sacred thread and the shikha.

These are the two external symbols of Hinduism and every Hindu ought to wear them.’ … [T]he shikha was considered obligatory by elders. On the eve of my going to England, however, I got rid of the shikha, lest when I was bareheaded it should expose me to ridicule and make me look, as I then thought, a barbarian in the eyes of the Englishmen.

In fact this cowardly feeling carried me so far that in South Africa I got my cousin Chhaganlal Gandhi, who was religiously wearing the shikha, to do away with it. I feared that it might come in the way of his public work and so, even at the risk of paining him, I made him get rid of it”.

The śikhā was one of the few symbols of Hindus that transcended caste, language or regional barriers. Although there were variations of the style of sikha amongst communities, it was obligatory for all males.

Information Courtesy- WIKIPEDIA