Further reading on Dassera Celebrate Dassera Vijayadashami or Dussera, the 10th day of the bright half of Ashwin, is celebrated as the day of victory to rejoice about Durga’s triumph over the demon Mahishasura. In Mysore, at the hilltop Chamundi temple, Dussera is a picturesque festival. The goddess is the maharaja’s family deity and a…
The Panchatantra, written by a great Hindi scholar Vishnu Sharma, is perhaps the best-known collection of tales from ancient India. There are several versions of it. One of them, by Vasubhaga Bhatta is lost. Fortunately the Panchatantram, in Kannada, by Durgasimha (12th Century) is available. It contains over twenty tales not found in Vishnu Sharma?s…
The Mercury After the audience showed their appreciation to Mars’ champion for his forceful presentation, Mercury’s advocate took the floor. He was a paragon of the sort of versatile intelligence and mercurial mental dexterity that Mercury signifies, and everyone leaned forward that they might not miss any clever word-play or diplomatic wit that might be…
Om: The Universal Sound Om does not belong to Hinduism or any one religion. From ‘Om Mane Padme Hum’ of Buddism and ‘Amen’ of Christianity, ‘Amin’ of Islam and Omkar k Satnam of Sikhism, one detects the echos of the same cosmic sound experienced by all the great masters of mankind. Om and the latin…
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(1) Visvam: He whose manifestation is the whole universe of forms: the Viraat-Purusha. The cause is always present in the effects and as such That Form from which the whole universe has emerged out can only be its own manifestation. The whole cosmos of gross forms is His own expression, and therefore. He is called…