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BHAKTI PRAPAMCHAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00035921379676513637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587994501897235637.post-30162568951793169402013-05-22T22:33:00.001-07:002013-05-22T22:34:08.307-07:00 Lakshmi Narasimha Jayanthi 23-5-13<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The fourth and the greatest incarnation of Lord Vishnu amongst his ten
prime avataras is Lord Narasimha who emerged out of a pillar as
Man-Lion, i.e.,Lion's head on Man's trunk. He devoured Demon-Lord
Hiranyakashyapu who was Master Prahalada's father. When Prahalada was in
the womb of his mother, Queen Kayaadu, he had the fortune of listening
to Devarishi Naradha regarding Lord Vishnu's compassion towards his
devotees. Hence right from his birth Prahalada was dedicated to the name
of Lord Vishnu.<br />
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Hiranyakashyapu who was an arch rival of Lord Vishnu and a symbol of
torture to noble souls, could not bear with his son and started
torturing young Prahalada in many ways after trying through his henchmen
to advice Prahalada that Hiranyakashyapu himself was the prime god and
Lord Vishnu stood null in front of Hiranyakashyapu. Young Prahalada
denounced such thoughts and stuck to his wisdom that Lord Vishnu was
"Purushothama", the supreme. One day, Hiranyakashyapu screamed at
Prahalada and questioned him as to where his Lord Vishnu was present and
whether he could save Prahalada from death at his own hands.<br />
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To this, Prahalada replied that Lord Vishnu is omnipresent. Hiranyakashyapu pointed
out at a pillar in his palace and asked Prahalada whether Vishnu was present
in it. Prahalada's reply was affirmative. The Demon using his Gadha(Mace) broke
open the pillar and there emerged Lord Narasimha who slain the demon using
his sharp paws and blessed Prahalad as his topmost devotee on earth.To mark the
above incidence and to pay our respect to the Lord, Narasimha Jayanthi is celebrated
at several temples.Narasimha Jayanthi falls on 23rd May 2013, this year.BHAKTI PRAPAMCHAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00035921379676513637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587994501897235637.post-12280901183377457862013-04-18T09:37:00.000-07:002013-04-18T09:37:54.100-07:00శ్రీ రామ నవమి- 19 ఏప్రియల్ 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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చైత్రశుధ్ధ నవమి ప<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">ునర్వసు నక్షత్రాన మధ్యాహ్నవేళ, కర్కాటక లగ్న౦లో సూర్యుడు మేష౦లో ఉ౦డగా, ఐదుగ్రహాలు ఉచ్ఛస్థాన౦లో ఉ౦డగా శ్రీరామావిర్భావ౦ జరిగి౦ది. ఒక గ్రహ౦ ఉచ్ఛ స్థాన౦లో ఉ౦డి జన్మి౦చగా సర్వారిష్ట వినాశ౦తో రాజు అవుతాడు. ఐదు గ్రహాలు ఉచ్ఛలో ఉ౦టే లోకనాయకుడు అవుతాడని అర్ధ౦. శ్రీరాముడు లోకోత్తర నాయకునిగా అవతరి౦చాడు. శ్రీరాముడు అవతరి౦చి ఒక కోటి 81 లక్షల 50 వేల స౦వత్సరాలు అయినట్లు ప౦డితులు పరిశోధి౦చి చెప్పారు. అయినా నేటికీ శ్రీరాముని ఆరాధన జరుగుతో౦ద౦టే ఆ అవతార వైశిష్ట్యాన్ని గుర్చి౦చవచ్చు.</span></div>
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ఈరోజు శ్రీరాముని ఆరాధి౦చి ఉపవసి౦చడ౦ ఆచార౦, లేదా ఏకభుక్త౦ చేయవచ్చు. ఈరోజున ఉపవాసవ్రత౦ అత్య౦త ప్రాధాన్యాన్ని స౦తరి౦చుకొన్నది. రామ మ౦త్రోపాసకులు తప్పనిసరిగా ఉపవాస౦ ఆచరి౦చాలని నియమ౦.</div>
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ర - ఆత్మ, మ - మనస్సు</div>
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ర - సూర్య బీజ౦ - అజ్ఞానాన్ని పోగొడుతు౦ది</div>
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అ - చ౦ద్ర బీజ౦ - తాపాన్ని పోగొడుతు౦ది్</div>
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మ - అగ్ని బీజ౦ - పాపాన్ని భస్మ౦ చేస్తు౦ది</div>
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రా - అ౦టే పురుషుడు, మ - అ౦టే ప్రకృతి</div>
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పురుషుడు ప్రకృతి కలిస్తేనే ఈ సర్వ ప్రప౦చ౦ ఏర్పడి౦చి. ఈవిధ౦గా రామ శబ్దానికి నిత్య సత్యమైన పరబ్రహ్మ౦ అని అర్ధ౦. విశ్వమ౦తా పరబ్రహ్మస్వరూపమే కాని మరొకటి లేదు. సమగ్ర ఐశ్వర్య౦, ధర్మ౦, కీర్తి, స౦పద, జ్ఞాన౦, వైరాగ్య౦ ఈ ఆరు గుణాల సమన్విత రూప౦ ధరి౦చినవాడే ఆ శ్రీరామచ౦ద్రమూర్తి. సకల సద్గుణ కరమై౦ది శ్రీరామనామ౦. రామోచ్ఛారణే సర్వపాప నివారక హేతువని విజ్ఞులు పలికారు. అ౦దుకని సర్వులూ ఆ స్వామి నామాన్ని జపి౦చి తరి౦చాలి. అ౦తేకాక ’రామ’ లో రా అ౦టే రావణ అని, మ అ౦టే మర్దన అని అర్ధ౦ స్ఫురిస్తో౦ది. అ౦టే రావణ మర్దనుడే రామ అన్నమాట. రావణుడ౦టే కామక్రోధాది దుర్గుణ స్వభావ౦. కనుక ఆ దుర్గుణాలను పోగొట్టేది శ్రీరామ పవిత్రనామార్ధ౦ అని మన౦ స౦భావి౦చుకోవచ్చు.</div>
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’రా’ అనే అక్షర౦ పలుకగానే నోరు తెరుచుకొని మనలోని దోషాలు, పాపాలు వెలికిపోతాయి. ’మ’ అనే అక్షర౦ పలుకగానే నోరు మూసుకొని మనల్ని దోష రహితులుగా చేస్తు౦ది. అ౦దుకే రామ అనేది బీజాక్షర యుక్తమైన మ౦త్ర౦.</div>
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రాముని వ౦టి ఏకపత్నీవ్రతుడు, రాముని వ౦టి కొడుకు, రాముని లా౦టి భర్త, రాముని లా౦టి అన్న, రాముని లా౦టి స్నేహితుడు, రాముని లా౦టి రాజు ఈ విశ్వప్రప౦చ౦లో నాటిను౦డి నేటి వరకు లేడ౦టే అతిశయోక్తి లేదు.</div>
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శ్రీమద్రామాయణానికి ర౦గుల హరివిల్లు శ్రీరాముని గుణ ఔన్నత్యమే. సీతమ్మ తల్లిని తప్పి౦చి స్వప్నమ౦దైననూ అన్య స్త్రీ ఆలోచన ఆ అవతార పురుషునికి వచ్చినట్లు ఎక్కడా లేదు తన భార్య కాక మిగిలిన స్త్ర్రీల౦దరూ మాతృసమాన౦గా ఆదరి౦చబడ్డారు శ్రీరామునిచే. అ౦దుకనే శ్రీరామ చ౦ద్రుని వ౦టి భర్త రావాలని ప్రతి కన్య ఆశ పడుతో౦ది.</div>
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యజ్ఞపురుషుడు ప్రసాది౦చిన పాయసఫల౦గా శ్రీరామచ౦ద్రుడు అవతరిస్తే, యజ్ఞ నిర్వహణకై భూమిని శుద్ధి చేసేటప్పుడు నాగేటి చాలులో దర్శనమిచ్చిన పరమపావని సీత ఆమె జనకుని తనూజకాదు. ’జనకాత్మజ, అయోనిజ.</div>
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యాగరక్షణకోస౦ విశ్వామిత్రుని అనుసరి౦చిన శ్రీరాముడు ఆ మహర్షి వె౦ట మిథిలానగానికి వెళ్ళాడు. అక్కడ జనక మహారాజు విశ్వామిత్రునికి, శ్రీరామలక్ష్మణులకు శివధనస్సును చూపి, దాని విశేషాలను తెలియజేస్తాడు. దానిని ఎక్కుపెట్టినవానికి తన కుమార్తెను ఇచ్చి పెళ్ళి చేస్తాన౦టాడు. విశ్వామిత్రుని ఆదేశ౦తో శ్రీరాముడు శివధనుస్సును ఎక్కుపెట్టే ప్రయత్న౦ చేశాడు. అలా ఎక్కుపెట్టిన విల్లు ఫెళ్ళుమని విరిగి౦ది. సీతారామ కళ్యాణానికి మార్గ౦ సుగమ౦ అయి౦ది.</div>
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శివధనస్సు అనేది మాయకు ప్రతీక. శ్రీరామ చ౦ద్రుడు ఆ ధనస్సును నిలిపి తాను మాయను భరి౦చగలనని నిరూపి౦చాడు. ఆ ధనస్సును త్రు౦చి తాను మాయను లోబరచుకొన్నవాడు మాధవుడు. మాయను జయి౦చిన మానవుడు మాధవుడౌతాడు. అతనిలో దాగియున్న దివ్యత్వ౦ అప్పుడు ఆవిష్కరి౦పబడుతు౦ది. యజ్ఞపరమైన కార్యాచరణ దివ్యత్వానికి ఫల౦. అ౦దువల్ల లోకకళ్యాణ౦ జరుగుతో౦ది.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.5pt;">Makar
Sankranti is a major harvest festival celebrated in various parts of India.
According to the lunar calendar, when the sun moves from the Tropic of Cancer
to the Tropic of Capricorn or from Dakshinayana to Uttarayana, in the month of
Poush in mid-January, it commemorates the beginning of the harvest season and
cessation of the northeast monsoon in South India. The movement of the earth
from one zodiac sign into another is called Sankranti and as the Sun moves into
the Capricorn zodiac known as Makar </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.5pt;">Makar Sankranti is of great
significance to a devote Hindu and is one of the most important dates in the
Hindu Calendar. Lord Surya (Sun God) is worshiped on this day. Every living and
non-living being merges with the Brahman and Sun is the Pratyaksha-Brahman
or the Brahman that can be seen. Makar Sankranti also heralds the arrival
of spring.The importance of Sun to earth and to the living beings was
understood by Hindus from the very beginning. And the importance of it can be
found in the Gayatri Mantra chanted to Sun (Surya) daily.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.5pt;">Makar Sankranti signals the end of winter and the onset of spring
throughout the northern hemisphere. The period is referred to as Uttarayan
Punyakalam and is considered auspicious. For the next six months, the days are
longer and warmer. Legend has it that the Devas wake up after a six-month long
slumber during this period.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.5pt;">There is also a symbolic meaning to </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="http://hindublog.blogspot.com/2007/01/what-is-makar-sankranti.html"><span style="color: windowtext;">Makara Sankranti</span></a><span style="color: black;">. ‘Makar’
meanscrocodile. Sankranti means ‘to cross into or change.’ The ‘Makara’ or
crocodile represents the materialistic world and ‘Sankranti’ gives an
opportunity to get away from the clutches of the crocodile or the materialistic
world.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.5pt;">The six month long Uttarayana begins on the Makar Sankrant day.
From this day, the harshness of winter subsidizes and the days get longer.
Symbolically, the Sun slowly removes darkness and ushers in the light of
knowledge. Uttarayana is also the daytime of the Devas and therefore auspicious
activities takes place during this period.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="grame"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Religious </span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="grame"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Significance</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">:</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.5pt;">There are also numerous legends and myths which add to the
importance of Makara Sankranti.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.5pt;">One of the most important myths is the death of Bhishma Pitamaha
in the Mahabharata. Bhishma chose the Uttarayan period. (Bhisma had got a
boon from his father that he will only die when he wishes.) It is believed
that people who die during Uttarayana merges with the Brahman, thus ending the
cycle of rebirth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.5pt;">Legend also has it that Lord Vishnu buried Asuras on this day
beneath theMandara Mountain. It signifies the end of evil and the dawn of
righteousness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">From Uttarayana starts the ‘day’ of Devatas, while
dakshinayana is said to be the ‘night’ of devatas, so most of the auspicious
things are done during this time. Uttarayana is also called as Devayana, and
the next half is called Pitrayana.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Another legend is that King Bhageeratha brought Ganges down
into Patala on Makara Sankranti day. This was to get salvation to his ancestors
who were cursed by Sage Kapila and turned into ashes. On this day millions of
people take bath in the Ganges. Makara Sankranti is also an
important bathing date during </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="http://hindublog.blogspot.com/2006/12/what-is-kumbh-mela.html"><span style="color: windowtext;">Kumbh Mela</span></a><span style="color: black;"> and
Magh Mela.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is another
spiritually symbolic aspect of this story. The 60,000 cursed son of Maharaj
Sagar represent our thoughts,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="grame"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">who</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>become
dull & dead-like because of uncultured & blind ambition. Redemption of
such people is only by the waters of Gangaji, brought down ‘to’ & later
‘from’ the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Himalayas<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"></span></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">with
great tapasya. This represents dedicated hard work to get the redeeming
Brahma-Vidya, which alone enlightens, enthuses & enlivens the life of
anyone.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.5pt;">The Puranas say that on this day Sun visits the house of his son
Shani, who is the swami of Makar Rashi. These father & son do not
ordinarily get along nicely, but inspite of any difference between each other
Lord Sun makes it a point to meet each other on this day. Father in fact
himself comes to his son’s house, for a month. This day symbolized the
importance of special relationship of father & son. It is the son who has
the responsibility to carry forward his fathers dream and the continuity of the
family.</span> The co-relation of cosmic events with individual life and values
is one of the most astounding traits of Hindu Masters. Once this co-relation is
brought about thereafter these cosmic events become instrumental to remind us
the best which we cherish & value. Of all the cosmic bodies Sun is the most
glorious & important, thus every sun-centric cosmic event became very
important spiritual, religious & cultural events. On Makar Sankranti day
the Sun begins its ascendancy and journey into the Northern Hemisphere, and
thus it signifies an event wherein the Gods seem to remind their children that
'Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya'. May you go higher & higher - to more & more
Light and never to darkness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5587994501897235637" name="astro"><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Astrological
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.5pt;">Makar
means Capricorn and Sankranti is transition. There is a sankranti every month
when the sun passes from one sign of the zodiac to the next. There are twelve
signs of the zodiac, and thus there are twelve sankranti's as well. Each of
these sankranti's has its own relative importance but two of these are more
important - the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="grame"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Mesh (</span></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Aries) Sankranti and the most important, the Makar
(Capricorn) Sankranti. Transition of the Sun from Sagittarius to Capricorn,
during the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere is known as Makar
Sankranti. From this day begins the six-month long Uttarayana, considered very
auspicious for attaining higher worlds hereafter. While the traditional Indian
Calendar is basically based on lunar positions, but sankranti is a solar event,
so while dates of all festivals keep changing, the english calendar date of
Makar Sankranti is always same, 14th January. Makar Sankranti is celebrated in
the Hindu Calendar month of Magha. There is another significance of this day,
after this day the days start becoming longer & warmer, and thus the chill
of winter in on decline.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.5pt;">Throughout India Makar Sankrati is in a way
associated with harvest. So people pray for a good harvest on this day. Cows -
which is an integral part of agriculture – is bathed and worshipped. Another
important aspect is ‘Daan’ or Charity. Charity does not merely confirm to money
but a person donates what he/she is able to like food, Moong Dal, rice, ghee,
Til etc.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.5pt;">There is slight variation in the festivities in
different states</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.5pt;">Makar
Sankranti, apart from a harvest festival is also regarded as the beginning of
an auspicious phase in Indian culture. It is said as the 'holy phase of
transition'. It marks the end of an inauspicious phase which according to the
Hindu calendar begins around mid-December. It is believed that any auspicious
and sacred ritual can be sanctified in any Hindu family, this day onwards.
Scientifically, this day marks the beginning of warmer and longer days compared
to the nights. In other words, Sankranti marks the termination of winter season
and beginning of a new harvest or spring season.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">All over the
country, Makar Sankranti is observed with great fanfare. However, it is
celebrated with distinct names and rituals in different parts of the country.
In the states of northern and western India, the festival is celebrated as the
Sankranti day with special zeal and fervor. The importance of this day has been
signified in the ancient epics like Mahabharata also. So, apart from
socio-geographical importance, this day also holds a historical and religious
significance. As it is the festival of Sun God and he is regarded as the symbol
divinity and wisdom, the festival also holds an eternal meaning to it.</span><span style="background: white;"> Makar Sankranti is celebrated throughout<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">India<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: black;"></span></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; color: black;">in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://hindublog.blogspot.com/2007/01/makar-sankranti-in-different-parts-of.html" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">different names</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;">and in</span>
</span>South India<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span><span style="background: white;">it is an
important harvest festival.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="float: none; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">In 2013, Makar
Sankranti will be celebrated on 14 January 2013.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5587994501897235637" name="How_did_Hinduism_begin"><b><span style="color: #e36c0a; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">How did Hinduism begin?</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Hinduism or Sanatana Dharma ("eternal spiritual path") began about
4000 years ago in India. It was the religion of an ancient people known as
the Aryans ("noble people") whose philosophy, religion, and customs
are recorded in their sacred texts known as the Vedas. These texts were
initially handed down by word of mouth from teacher to student. It was not
until much later that they were actually written down. Archeological evidence
from the Indus Valley civilization of northwestern India helps to establish
Hinduism as the world's oldest living religion. Today, worldwide, there are
almost one billion people professing some aspect of Hinduism. The </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">fundamental
teachings of Hinduism, which form the foundation of all its different sects,
are contained in the concluding portion of the Vedas, and are therefore known
as the Vedanta (the "end or concluding portion of the Vedas"). This
part of the Vedas is also known as the Upanishads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the
holy text the <i>Merutantra</i>, the word ‘Hindu’ is defined as <i>'Hinani Gunanidushyati iti Hindu</i>.'
Meaning that which destroys or <i>dushyati</i> the inferior<i> R</i><a href="http://www.forumforhinduawakening.org/articles/id/understanding/sattva-raja-tama"><i><span style="color: windowtext;">aja-Tama</span></i></a> components or <i>guns</i> (subtle
spiritual components) is a Hindu. Thus, to be a Hindu is to follow a way
of life that enhances the spiritually pure S<i>attva</i>component and S<i>attva</i> predominant
qualities like love, humility, courage, expansiveness, etc. and
overcomes the spiritually impure <i>Raja-Tama</i>predominant attitudes
like anger, attachment, jealousy, greed, lust, pride etc.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5587994501897235637" name="What_do_Hindus_believe_and_practice"><b><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">What do Hindus believe and practice?</span></b></a><b><br />
</b>The fundamental teaching of Hinduism, or Vedanta, is that a human being's
basic nature is not confined to the body or the mind. Beyond both of these is
the spirit or the spark of God within the soul. This spirit is within us and
also within everything we see. All beings and all things are really, in their
deepest essence, this pure or divine spirit, full of peace, full of joy and
wisdom, ever united with God. This is not just theory, but it can actually be
experienced. Anyone who takes the trouble to undergo the necessary training
to purify and refine the mind and senses can begin to feel the truth of this.
This training can take various forms and is known as yoga ("union"-
union of the individual self with this inner spirit). There are four main types
of yoga, meant for the four main types of human temperaments:<br />
•Karma Yoga or the discipline of right actions is for those of active
temperament, striving to eliminate selfishness, and to cultivate universal
sympathy by seeing the divine reality in all.<br />
•Bhakti Yoga is the path of devotion to God whose presence can be felt in all
things. God can be worshipped as present in an image in a Temple. God can be
worshipped also as present in suffering humanity by service.<br />
•Jnana Yoga, preferred by those of analytical bent of mind, is the discipline
of trying to see the divine reality within all things directly, by mentally
brushing aside all the obstructing physical and mental coverings that hide
it.<br />
•Raja Yoga is the process of mental control, purity, and meditation to make
the mind very calm and quiet. In that profound quiet, the inner divine light
reveals itself.<br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5587994501897235637" name="What_are_the_manifestation(s)_God_in_Hin"><b><span style="color: #e36c0a; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">What are the
manifestation(s) God in Hinduism? What are the different sects of Hinduism?</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></b></a><br />
The general name for God in Hinduism is Brahman. The name of the divine
essence within us is Atman. They are one and the same, infinite and eternal.
However, God is also present in all creation. God's manifestation in creation
goes by many names. It is the one infinite, eternal, Divine Being that is
manifesting in countless ways. It is like a person at the same time being called
"father" by his son, "friend" by his friend,
"son" by his own father, "husband" by his wife, etc. A
special relationship goes with each name. So the same Divine Lord has been
addressed as Shiva, Vishnu, etc and as Divine Mother, Kali, Durga, etc. God
can also manifest as an extraordinary being in human form, who is then known
as an incarnation of God, such as Krishna, Rama, etc. Since it is the one
infinite God alone that is being looked at in different ways, all these
manifestations can be prayed to for help and protection. This is the
underlying principle behind all the different sects of Hinduism. Those who
prefer a particular manifestation of the divinity will form a sect devoted to
the contemplation and worship of that manifestation. All the sects, however,
will accept the ancient teachings of the Vedas and the Vedanta as the
foundation of their practice<br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5587994501897235637" name="What_is_reincarnation"><b>What is reincarnation?</b></a></span><br />
In this world every cause must have its effect. We are responsible for the
results of our actions. Long ages ago, human beings first asked themselves,
why are some people born in happy circumstances, whereas others are born to
suffer all their lives? The events of this present life are not enough to
account for such suffering. To reasonably explain an excess of suffering or of
enjoyment in this life, it was assumed that we all have had previous
existences, and that we are now reaping the results of those previous
actions. It must also be true then that we can take charge of our destiny
right now. We can create a better tomorrow by resolving do better actions
today. However, as long as desires remain in the mind, the tendency toward
rebirth will exist.<br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5587994501897235637" name="What_is_Maya"><b><span style="color: #333333;">What is Maya?</span></b></a><br />
In this life we do not see things very clearly. We are constantly faced with
contradictions. Though we know what is right, we have trouble doing it. Our
thoughts soar high, but our actions cannot rise to the level of our thoughts.
The world is full of misery and injustice; as quickly as we remove some, more
seems to rush in to take its place. We are told by the saints, and we also
feel, that a loving God is at work in this creation, but we cannot reconcile
this with what we see around us. This complex situation in which we find
ourselves is called maya.<br />
The way out of this, according to Hinduism or Vedanta, is that we are not
really seeing the world properly. If we saw it properly, we would see that it
is God alone before us. Instead, we superimpose all this complex world on
that divine reality. The illustration given is that of a rope, mistaken in
semi-darkness for a snake. The snake of this world frightens us. What is the
solution? Bring a light and you will see its real nature. It is only a rope.
Likewise, the real nature or essence of this world is divinity alone. Bring
the light of spiritual wisdom through yoga, and you will see God alone
everywhere. This is what constitutes spiritual freedom or liberation, Moksha.
When this knowledge dawns, there is complete satisfaction; no desire remains
in the mind, and no further impulse for rebirth remains.<br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5587994501897235637" name="What_code_of_behavior_do_Hindus_follow"><b><span style="color: #333333;">What
code of behavior do Hindus follow?</span></b></a><br />
The code of behavior is one's dharma. This is determined by the place in
society and the duties associated with it. There are four main social
positions or varna; Brahmins (priests and teachers) Kshatriyas (rulers and
soldiers), Vaishyas (merchants) and Shudras (workers).<br />
<br />
There are four ideal stages of life described in Hindu scriptures: the
student, the family man, the recluse, and the wandering holy man. For most
Hindu people these represent a metaphorical path, not an actual path.<br />
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<i>Janma Hindu</i> -> is a Hindu by birth.<br />
Since to be a Hindu is an attitude, a <i>Karma Hindu</i> is a true
Hindu. He is Hindu by action and thought, a follower of <i>Dharma</i> and
spreads<i>Dharma</i>, which is a <i>sāttvik</i> or spiritually
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>Spirituality</b></u></span></span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
essence of spirituality is the search to know our real self, to discover the
true nature of consciousness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Throughout
the history, it has been said that the self we know -- the separate individual
self -- is a limited form of what we truly are. Unaware of our true self, we
identify with our thoughts and feelings, our memories and our personality. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Such
experiences are always changing, but the self that knows them remains the same.
We may be very different people than we were twenty years ago, but the
"I" that is aware of the difference is the same "I" as
twenty years ago. It is omnipresent and eternal. It is the "I" that
knows that it knows. The essence of realization. it is always present, whatever
we may be experiencing, sacred or profane. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
ever-present sense of being is so obvious it is easily overlooked. We fall into
believing that we are the individual senses of self that appears in our mind.
Like a character in a novel, this separate self engrosses us with its hopes and
fears, plans and deliberations. It believes that fulfillment comes from what we
have or do in the world, from our roles and possessions, from our personality
and how others see us. It promises us happiness, but any happiness it does
bring is usually short-lived, and we soon find ourselves chasing some new
promise. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Identifying
ourselves with the vulnerable, ever-changing character of our personal story,
the "I" misses its true nature. Our thinking and behavior become
"self-centered", leading far too often to suffering in ourselves and
others.</span></div>
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upon events or circumstances in the world around, a quiet but profound inner
fulfillment. We become less self-centered, less needy of others' approval or recognition,
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Spirituality
is <em><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">not</span></em>
religion and is not even necessarily affiliated with religion. While the
definition of spirituality is different for everyone, here are some common
themes associated with spirituality:</span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The idea of a
process or journey of self-discovery and of learning not only who you are,
but who you want to be. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The challenge
of reaching beyond your current limits. This can include keeping an open
mind, questioning current beliefs, or trying to better understand others'
beliefs. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">A
connectedness to yourself and to others. Spirituality is personal, but it
is also rooted in being connected with others and with the world around
you. This connection can facilitate you finding "your place in the
world." </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Meaning,
purpose, and direction. Spirituality, while it doesn't necessarily solve
or reach conclusions, often embraces the concept of searching and moving
forward in the direction of meaning, purpose, and direction for your life.
</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">A higher
power, whether rooted in a religion, nature, or some kind of unknown
essence. </span></li>
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<span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Why should we develop
our spirituality?</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Spirituality
can offer many benefits to your life, both emotionally and physically.
Developing your spiritual life can give you a sense of purpose and help you
figure out where you are most passionate in your professional, social, and
personal life. Some studies show that positive beliefs can comfort you and
improve your health. People who have taken time to develop their spiritual life
are also likely to better understand their needs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #943634; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 191;">Ideas for evoking a
spiritual experience</span></h3>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Community
Service - Volunteering for a community service project can broaden your
understanding of how you fit in with the world, as well as see how others'
circumstances differ from your own. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Spiritual
Questions - See below for a list of questions you can ask yourself alone
or discuss with a group of friends. The questions are meant to challenge
your current beliefs, reveal gaps in your knowledge, stretch your mind in
thinking beyond the normal, and create dialogue. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Keep a journal
- Writing important moments, events, or thoughts down in a journal helps
some people reflect on their personal life. Reading back over past entries
is fun and helps you see how you've grown and developed, as well as how
certain events, people, and things have affected your life. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Dialogue - Use
the questions below or any other topic, and talk to friends, family, or
peers about them. Dialogue can help you figure out what you may not be
able to figure out alone. You can bounce ideas or thoughts off of each
other for support. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Yoga - Yoga
can create a peace within you and set up your mind for stimulation. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Challenge
yourself to be a better person and think about what that means. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Pray - If you
do subscribe to the belief in a higher power, prayer can help you feel
connected and at-peace. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Create an
ongoing list of things that make you happy, or a "natural high"
list - Seeing on paper all of the things that make you happy can be
extremely beneficial when you are having a bad day. It can help you
realize the good things in your life and remember the "bright
side" of a situation. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Joan
Borysenko, author of<em><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">
Inner Peace for Busy People,</span></em> claims that keeping a gratitude
journal can contribute to a satisfying life. UC Davis research shows that
people who keep a gratitude journal, in which they write things that they
are grateful for, are more likely to exercise regularly, experience fewer physical
symptoms, are more optimistic about the future, are more likely to attain
their personal, academic, interpersonal and health-related goals, and feel
better in general than those who write about negative or neutral life
events in their journals. </span></li>
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<br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u>Meditation</u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"If you light a lamp and remove all the objects
surrounding it, the lamp will still go on giving light. In the same
way, if you remove all objects from your consciousness, all thoughts,
all imagination, what will happen? – only consciousness will remain.
That pure state of consciousness is meditation. You don’t meditate on
somebody. Meditation is a state where only consciousness remains.</span></span></div>
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"When only consciousness remains without an object, that state is called meditation. I am using the word <i>meditation</i> in this sense.</span></span></div>
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"What you practice is not meditation in the real sense; it is only a
concept. But meditation will happen on its own through this. Try to
understand that what you are practicing at night, exercises involving
the <i>chakras</i>, and in the morning, exercises involving the
breath, is all a discipline, it is not meditation. Through this
discipline a moment will come when the breath will seem to have
disappeared. Through this discipline a moment will come when the body
seems to have disappeared and thoughts have also disappeared. What
will remain when everything has disappeared? That which remains is
meditation. When everything has disappeared, that which is left behind
is called meditation." </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">You probably understand much more now how meditation works and how</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">you will become happier and healthier on an emotional, physical and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">spiritual level.</span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1356926779220_10678" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">A light state of meditation</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">A light state of meditation typically results in an increase in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">production of mainly Alpha brainwaves. When you find yourself lost</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">in a daydream, staring off absent-mindedly into space, for example,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">you're actually in a light state of meditation.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Your brain has boosted up production of Alpha waves as a by product</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">of this state. The brainwaves produced would likely fall somewhere</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">around 12Hz, perhaps a point or two higher or lower, but in the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">general range of 12Hz.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">10Hz is a state somewhat below that of a common daydream.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1356926779220_10679" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">You may wonder then what the tangible differences would be between<br />this state, and simply losing yourself in a common daydream. And<br />the differences would be many.</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">From a physiological standpoint, the breathing would probably</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">become somewhat slower and possibly a little deeper. There is a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">common claim that the blood becomes more highly oxygenated, but</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">that is not really the case.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The blood is normally very close to its maximum state of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">oxygenation when a person is breathing in the usual manner.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Even if you give someone a tank of oxygen to breath from, the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">actual content of oxygen in the blood (in a normal, healthy person)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">does not change all that much. To get the blood to carry any</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">significantly higher oxygen levels requires pressurization in a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">hyperbaric oxygen chamber.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">On first learning this fact some people might be disillusioned</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">because they've been told meditation increases oxygen in the blood.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">It doesn't,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1356926779220_10681" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">but in fact what it DOES do is much more significant</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Meditation, and the accompanying states of consciousness and their</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">attendant brainwave patterns actually produce changes at the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">cellular level.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">This is far more significant than simply putting more oxygen in the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">blood. This is changing the body at the cellular level in such a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">way that the cells of the body begin utilizing the oxygen they are</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">exposed to more efficiently, thus requiring less oxygen to get the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">same amount of work done.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1356926779220_10680" style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">This is part of the reason why you hear of people who have various<br />medical ailments finding that their conditions improve after<br />beginning a practice of meditation. It is not that they are<br />injecting more of something into the body, but rather the body is<br />improving its efficiency at using the resources it already has</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">So, for instance, you may hear that someone suffering from</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">emphysema begins to need less and less of their bottled oxygen. It</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">isn't because they've got more oxygen in their system. It's</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">because on a cellular level their bodies begin making better use of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">the available oxygen.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Or someone experiencing anxiety or panic attacks, who often feels</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">as if he or she is getting insufficient oxygen while breathing (a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">common symptom of panic and anxiety,) will find this disturbing</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">sensation is alleviated once they begin a practice of meditation.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The deeper levels of meditation</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">There are many other changes besides breathing and oxygen that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">occur during meditation. Improved functioning occurs in increasing</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">amounts the deeper you go in your states of consciousness.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The deeper the state of consciousness, the slower the brainwaves,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">and the greater the improvement of the physical functioning of the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">body, not just superficially, but clear down to the cellular level</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">(and perhaps even deeper than that.)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; display: inline ! 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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: .75pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Datta
Jayanti (Guru Dattatreya Jayanthi, the birthday of Lord Dattatreya) is observed
on Margashirsha Purnima, the full moon day in <a href="http://ways2extramoney.blogspot.in/" target="_blank" title="Margashirsha Month"><span style="color: #ff8e01;">Margashirsha Month</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: .75pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Datta
Jayanti 2012 or Dattatreya Jayanthi 2012 date is December 27. In fact, Datta
Jayanti is observed on Shukla Paksha Chaturdashi in Margashirsh month.
Dattatreya, the son of Anasuya and Atri Maharshi, is considered as Trimurti Avatar,
an incarnation of Hindu Trinity – Lord Vishnu, Brahma and Shiva.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: .75pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When
Goddesses Saraswati, Lakshmi and Parvati came to know about Anasuyas pativrata
dharma, they wanted to test her and requested their husbands Brahma, Vishnu and
Shiva to do so by asking her to give food with unclothed body. Anasuya made the
Hindu trinity as small babies and fed them without any cloth on her
body. Anasuyas huband, Atri Maharshi came and knew the wholeepisode, created
all three babies into one. This one form ofTrimurti is Dattatrya Swamy.
With their powers, Atri and Anasuya recreated Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; letter-spacing: .75pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Datta
Jayanthi is celebrated with lot of gusto in Sri Pada Vallabha Kshetram at
Pithapuram in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. This
kshetram is also known as Padagaya Kshetram, Datta Kshetram or Vallabha
Kshetram. Dattatreya Jayanti is a major festival at Ganugapur Sri
Kshetra Dattatreya temple in Gulbargadistrict in Karnataka.</span></div>
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BHAKTI PRAPAMCHAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00035921379676513637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587994501897235637.post-77564806578759895872012-12-20T00:54:00.002-08:002012-12-20T00:54:42.214-08:00Hanuman Vratam 25 Dec 2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hanuman Vratam</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;"> is observed on Margashirsh
Shukla Trayodasi. In 2012, Hanuman Vrata date is December 25. As per Andhra
Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat it falls on Margashira Shudda
Trayodashi. This vrata is observed for good health and prosperity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;">During Hanumath vratam, Lord Hanuman is
worshipped with Shodashopachar puja. Hanuman vrat katha is recited in puja and
naivedyam is offered to the Lord. Hanuman Astottaram, Sundara kanda and some
other Hanuman stotras are chanted as part of puja.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;">Performing Hanmad vrata keeps you healthy,
free from all fears, psychological tensions and even successful in studies. It
is observed by married couples, unmarried devotees, children and elder people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;">Famous Hanuman temples in
India where Hanuman vrata is performed with much gusto are – Sankat Mochan
Hanuman temple in</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;"> Varanasi</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;">, Jhaku temple in Shimla, Kondagattu Anjaneya
swamy temple in Karimnagar</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;"> district </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;">of Andhra Pradesh and
Surendrapuri Panchamukha Anjaneya swamy temple near Yadagirigutta in Andhra
Pradesh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;">It is to note that in</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;"> Tamil
Nadu </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;">and
Kerala, Hanuman Jayanthi is observed in Margazhi month. As per Gujarat and</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;"> Maharashtra calendars</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;">,</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;"><span style="color: #ff8e01; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="http://ways2extramoney.blogspot.in/" target="_blank">Hanuman jayanti</a></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.75pt;">is celebrated on Chaitra
Purnima, the full moon day in the month of Chaitra. Andhra Pradesh and
Karanataka people celebrate Hanuman Jayanthi on Vaishakha Krishna paksha
Dashami.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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BHAKTI PRAPAMCHAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00035921379676513637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587994501897235637.post-85494965775402036752012-12-15T21:40:00.002-08:002012-12-15T21:40:36.667-08:00subrahmanya shashti<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong>Subramanyan Shashti, Subrahmanya
Shasti Date, Subramanya Sashti 2012, Kukke Subramanya Sashti, <span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">18th
December, 2012</span></span>, Shashti Viratham in Margashira Month</strong></div>
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Subrahmanya Sashti is the Skanda Shasti,
that falls in the month of Margashira. Skanda sashti is celebrated
every month on shukla paksha shashti. This fast is dedicated to god
Subramanya. This year, Subramanya Sashti is on Tuesday, 18th December,
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Subrahmanya Sashti is celebrated to
commemorate the victory of Lord Subramanya over Demon Tarakasura. On
this day, God Subramanya is worshiped in the form of five headed snake.
Shankapala is also worshiped on this day. It is auspicious to perform
Subramanya Darshana (visit Skanda temple), Snan (river bath) and Dana
(donation) on this day.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Subramanya Shasti</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Subramanya
Sashti is celebrated on the Sixth day of Waxing moon period in the hindu lunar
month of Margashira. This festival is dedicated to God Skanda (Subramanya).
This festival mainly observed in southern parts of India i.e in Tamilnadu, Karnataka,
Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lord
Skanda is Avatar of God Manmatha. He is the son of God Shiva and Godess
Parvathi. He resides in same kakshya with God Indra. Subramanya is considered
as Handsome and sharper of all the gods. He is the general of gods army and
lord of wars. His vehicle is Mayura (peacock). This god consists of six faces
and he can see in all six directions at once.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Subramanya
Sashti is the day, that marks the victory of God Subramanya over demon
Tarakasura. On this day devotees wake up early in the morning and take ritual
bath and go to Subramanya temple and perform pujas. Daan is also considered
auspicious on this day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Subramanya
Sashti is the best day to get rid from sarpadosha. It can be done by worshiping
Subramanya on this day and offering milk and other things to the snake pits.
People worship five headed snake and Shankapala (Also a Nag Devata). The one
who observe this vratha relived from their sins, Kalasarpa dosha and skin
diseases.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">God
Subramanya is a Brahma chari. Devotees worship bhrhamachri’s on this day.
Bhakshyas made of urad dal offered to them. They offered Vastra and Dakshina.
During His Kalyana God Srinivasa nominated him to invite the audience. The
other names of God Skanda are Kumara Swamy, Murugan, Shanmuka and Kartikeya.</span></div>
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<span class="userContent">దేవాలయం అంటే ఏమిటి?<br /><br />హిందూధర్మంలో దేవాలయాలకు అత్యంత ప్రాముఖ్యత ఉంది. అసలు ఈ దేవాలయమంటె ఏమిటి? ఈ దేవలయాలు ఎందుకు? అన్న ప్రశ్నలు తలెత్తినప్పుడు, ‘దేవానాం దేవస్య వా ఆలయా అని సమధానమిచ్చారు మన ఋషిపుంగవులు. దేవాలయం ప్రార్థన కోసం, పూజ కోసం, దేవతావిగ్రహాలను, ఇతర ఆరాధ్య వస్తువులను ప్రతిష్టించి, వాటి రక్షణకోసం కట్టించిన కట్టడమే దేవాలయమని అన్నారు. అందుకే మనవాళ్ళూ దేవలయాన్ని సప్తసంతానాలలో ఒకటిగా పేర్కొన్నారు. కొడుకు లేక కూతురు, తటాకం, కావ్యం, విధానం, ఆలయం, వనం, భూదేవస్థాపనం అనేవి సప్తసంతానాలుగా చెప్పబడ్డాయి. దేవాలయన్ని దేవగృహం, దేవగార, దేవాయతనం, దేవకులం, మందిరం, భవనం, స్థానం, దేవస్థానం, వెష్మం, కీర్తనం, హర్మ్యం, విహారం అని, విమానం, ప్రాసాదం అని పిలవడం జరుగుతోంది.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />మన సంస్కృతి, కళలు, శిల్పం, వాస్తు, వేదాంతం పురాణం మొదలైఅన వాటి సంగమ స్థానం హిందు దేవాలయం.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />పరిపూర్ణమైన, సుందరమైన ఆలయమంటె మానవశరీరం. ఇక్కడ “తత్” (ఆత్మ) ఇల్లు చేసుకొని జ్ఞానేంద్రియాలు, కర్మేంద్రియాలు, పంచభూతాలు, పంచప్రాణాలు, పంచవిషయాలు అంతరంగ వృత్తులు (అంత: కరణ, మనస్సు, చిత్త, బుద్ధి, అహంకారాలు) తమ క్రియలను నిర్వహించడానికి అవకాశాన్ని కల్పించి ఇచ్చింది. దేహమే దేవాలయం. దేహంలో ఉన్న జీవమే పరమత్మ. జీవాత్మ పరమాత్మకంటె వేరన్న అజ్ఞానమే నిర్మాల్యం; నేనే అతనని పూజించలి అని అగమాలు ఘోషిస్తాయి. దేవాలయం ఒక దేహం లాంటిది. శిఖరం శిరస్సు; గర్భగృహం మెడ, ముందరి మంటపం ఉదరం; ప్రాకారపు గోడలు కాళ్ళూ; గోపురం పాదాలు; ధ్వజ స్తంభమే జీవితం. ఇలా ఆలయం భగవన్మూర్తిగా భావింపబడుతోంది. అందువల్లనే దేవలయాన్ని పవిత్రంగా భావిస్తున్నాము. ఆ స్థలాన్ని పుణ్యక్షేత్రంగా పరిగణిస్తున్నము. అక్కడే మనం విశ్వసిస్తున్నాము. దేవాలయ ప్రాచీనత<br />భగవంతుడు లేకుండా మానవుడు జీవించలేడననీ, శివుని అజ్ఞ లేనిదే చీమైనాకుట్టందనీ, అందుకనే భగవన్మూర్తిని ఒకచోట ప్రతిష్ఠించి ఆరాధిస్తున్నాము. భగవత్సాక్షాత్కారం కోసమే ప్రతి హిందువు తపన పడతాడు. ప్రయత్నిస్తాడు. అదే పవిత్ర స్థలం. అదే దేవాలయం. ఇది భౌతిక శరీరం (ఫిజికల్ బాడీ) మానసిక శరీరం (సైకిక్ బాడీ), తైజసిక శరీరాలను (సూపర్ కాన్ షియస్ బాడీ) ప్రతిబింబిచే ఒక ప్రతీక. అందువల్లనే దేవాలయం భగవంతుడికి మానవుడికి ఉన్న ఒక కొక్కీ (లింక్) అని విజ్ఞుల అభిప్రాయం. దేవాలయ నిర్మాణం ఎప్పుడు, ఎక్కడ ఆరంభింపబడిందో చెప్పడం కష్టం. వేదకాలాల్లో దేవాలయాలు లేవనీ, విగ్రహారాధనా పద్ధతి, దేవాలయాల నిర్మాణం వెదకాలపు చివరిదశలో, రామాయణ, మహాభారత కాలల్లో ఆరంభమైందనీ, వేదకాలపు యాగశాలలే కాలక్రంగా దేవాలయాలుగా రూపొందాయని పలువురి అభిప్రాయం.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />‘దేవాలయాలు వైదికయుగంలో నిర్మితములైనట్లు కనబడదు. దేవతా స్వరూపము, దేవతల వాహనములు, ప్రతిమా వర్ణనము మొదలైన విషయములకు సంబంధించిన వాక్యములు వేదములందు కొన్ని గలపు గాని, విగ్రహారాధన ఆచరణ లోనికి వచ్చిన తర్వాత గాని, దేవాలయ నిర్మాణమునకు అవకాశముండదు. విగ్రహారాధన ఏర్పడిన వెంటనే దేవాలయ నిర్మాణము సైతము ప్రారంభింపబడినది. బ్రహ్మస్వరూపమైన ఆత్మకు దేహము నిలయమైనట్లుగా, దేవతా విగ్రహానికి దేవాలయం నిలయముగా భావించి, దేవాలయ నిర్మాణము శరీర నిర్మణము ననుసరించి కావించినారు.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />దేవాలయ వాస్తు<br />దేవాలయాలను మనం రెండువర్గాలుగా విభజించుకోవచ్చు. 1.గ్రామదేవతాలయలు 2.శిష్టదేవతాలయాలు. మొదటివర్గం గ్రామరక్షణ కోసం తరతరాలుగా గ్రామసంస్కృతిలో నిలద్రొక్కుకున్న ఎల్లమ్మ, మారమ్మ, పోచమ్మ, మైసమ్మ మొదలైన దేవతల చిన్న చిన్న గుడులు. గ్రామదేవతలలో అధికం స్త్రిలే . ఒక విధంగా వీరు శక్తిదేవతలు. ఈ దేవలయాల్లో చెప్పుకోదగ్గ వాస్తుశిల్పం కనపడదు. ఆలయాలు సాధారనంగా ఉంటాయి. ఇక రెండవవర్గం బ్రహ్మ, విష్ణు, శివ, విఘ్నేశ్వర మొదలైన శిష్టదేవతలు లేక నాగరీక దేవతల ఆలయాలు, ఈ దేవతలను పూజించేవాళ్ళు సామన్యంగా బ్రహ్మణులు. అగమాలలో చెప్పిన రీతిగా ఈ దేవతలకు షోడశోపచారాలు, చతుష్పష్టి ఉపచారాలు జరుగుతాయి.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />శిష్టదేవాలయాలు వాస్తు శాస్త్రానుగుణంగా నిర్మించబడ్డాయి. గృహ, గ్రామ, నగర, దేవాయతన, ప్రాసాద, దుర్గ, ఆరామ, తటాక, సేతుబంధ ఇత్యాది నిర్మాణ లక్షణాలను తెలిపే శిల్పశాస్త్రమే వాస్తుశాస్త్రం. ఈ వాస్తు సంప్రదాయం ఆగమాల మీద ఆధార పడింది, ఆగమాలలో దేవాలయ నిర్మాణం, ఉత్సవాలు పేర్కొనబడ్డాయి, కామిక, కారణ ఆగమాలలో నియమ నిబంధనలు చెప్పబడ్డాయి. వాస్తుశాస్త్రం త్రిమూర్తుల నుండి ఇంద్ర, బృహస్పతి, నారదులకు అనుగ్రహింపబడిందనీ, వాళ్ళ ద్వారా అనేక ఋషులకు సంక్రమించిదని అంటారు. పురాతన పట్టణాలు, కట్టడాలు వాస్తు శాస్త్రానుగుణంగా నిర్మింప బడుతుండేవి.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />వేదకాలంలో యజ్ఞాలకోసం శాలలను, వేదికలను, ఇటుక, కొయ్య, వెదురులతో నిర్మించేవారు. ఇవన్నీ శిల్పసూత్రాన్ని అనుసరించే నిర్మింపబడుతుండెవి. అవే భారతఖండ వాస్తువిద్యకు మూలరూపాలని కొంతమంది అభిప్రాయం. ఆర్యులు ఆర్యావర్తం ప్రవేశించడానికి మిందే ఈ దేశంలో నెలకొన్న ద్రావిడులు అనేక శతాబ్దాలుగా తమదే అయిన ఒక సంస్కృతిని పెంపొందించుకొంటూ వచ్చారనీ, ఆర్యులు వాళ్ళనుంచి వాస్తువిద్యను నేర్చుకొన్నారనీ కొంతమంది అభిప్రాయం. మొదట్లోవెదురుచే నిర్మింపబడి, అనంతరం కొయ్యలతో కట్టడాలు నిర్మంపబడి ఉందవచ్చు. ఆ తర్వాత మన్ను, ఇటుకలతో నిర్మింపబడి క్రీ.శ 4వ శతాబ్ది తర్వాత విడివిడి రాళ్ళతో గృహాలు, దేవాలయాలు నిర్మింపబడడం మొదలయ్యాయి. ఇటుకలు, రాళ్ల పురాతన కట్టడ అవశేషాలు ఇప్పటికీ నిలిచి ఉన్నాయి. వాస్తుకళ క్రమేపి ఏ విధంగా వృద్ధి చెందిందో ఇవి చూపెడతాయి. ఆధునిక విద్వాంసులు ఉత్తర హిందూస్థానపు దేవాలయ రీతిని “ఇండోఆర్యన్” శైలి అనీ, దక్షిణ హిందూస్థానపు రీతిని “ద్రావిడశైలి” అని అంటారు. వాస్తు శైలి దృష్టిచే ద్రావిడ వాస్తురీతి వికాసాన్ని ఐదు కాలాలుగా విభజించడం జరిగింది.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />1. పల్లవుల కాలం క్రీ.శ. 600-900<br />2. చోళుల కాలం క్రీ.శ. 900-1150<br />3. పాండ్యుల కాలం క్రీ.శ. 1150-1350<br />4. విజయనగర కాలం క్రీ.శ.1350-1565<br />5. ఆధునిక కాలం క్రీ.శ. 1600 – ….. (నాయక) పైన పేర్కొనబడ్డ ఐదు ప్రధాన రాజవంశాలు దక్షిణ దేవాలయ వాస్తు పరిణామానికి తోడ్పడ్దాయి.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />భారతదేశంలోని దేవాలయాలను, వాటి రచనా శైలికి అనుగుణంగా మూడు విధాలుగా వర్గ్రీకరించారు. 1.గర్భగృహం మీదున్న గోపురం ఎత్తుగా ఉంది. వక్రరేఖాకృతిలో ఉన్న “నాగర” శైలి. ఇటువంటి దేవాలయాలు క్రింద నుండి శిఖరం దాకా చతురస్రాకారంలో ఉంటాయి. ఇది ఉత్త్ర భారదేశంలోని దేవలయాల్లో గమనింపవచ్చు. 2. గర్భగృహమ్మీది గోపురం భిన్నాగ్ర పిరమిడ్ లో ఉన్నది. “ద్రావిడ” శైలి ఈ లక్షణం పల్లవులు, చోళులకు చెందిన దక్షిణ భారత దేవాలయాల్లో కనిపిస్తుంది. 3. ఈ రెండు లక్షణాలను లోనున్నది “వేసర” శైలి.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />ఉత్తర హిందూ దేవాలయ వాస్తు సంప్రదాయంలోని ఆలయాలు లంబప్రవృద్ధి దేవాలయాలు, ఆలయ శిఖరాలు చాల ఎత్తులో నిర్మింపబడి ఉంటాయి. దక్షిణ హిందూ దేవాలయ వాస్తు సంప్రదాయంలోని ఆలయాలు ప్రస్తవిస్తరణ దేవాలయాలు. వీటినే ద్రావిడ పద్ధతికి చైందిన దేవాలయాలుగా పరిగణిస్తున్నాము. ఈ పద్ధతికి చైందిన ఆలయాలలో విస్తీర్ణ మెక్కువగా కనిపిస్తుంది. దీనికి ఉదాహరణలుగా శ్రీకాళహస్తి, మధుర దేవాలయాలను తీసుకోవచ్చు. సహస్ర స్తంభ మండపాలు, అనేక ప్రాకారాలు, దాదాపు 200 అడుగుల ఎత్తుండే గోపురాలు, 15-20 ఎకరాల విస్తీర్ణం ఆక్రమించిన అంగణాలు, విశాల కల్యాణ మంటపాలు ఇత్యాది ఈ ఆలయ లక్షణాలుగా కనిపిస్తాయి. ఆంధ్రదేశంలో చాళుక్యులు, కాకతీయులు, విజయనగర రాజ వంశాలవారు దేవాలయ నిర్మాణానికి విశేష కృషి గావించారు. వీరి వాస్తుశిల్పం, దేవాలయ నిర్మాణం, వీటికి నిదర్శనం నేటికి చెక్కు చెదరక నిలిచి ఉన్న దెవాలయాలు.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />దేవాలయ నిర్మాణం<br />దేవాలయ నిర్మాణంలో మొట్టమొదటి అంశం ఆలయ నిర్మాణానికి భూమిని ఎన్నుకోవడం ఉంది. పవిత్రములైన దేవాలయాలు సాధారణంగా నదీతీరాల్లోకాని, నీటి బుగ్గలు ఉన్న పర్వతాగ్రాల మీద కానీ కట్టబడి వుండడాన్ని మనం గమనించవచ్చు. పుణ్యక్షేత్ర సమీపంలోను, నదీ తీరంలోను సముద్రతీరంలోను, నదీసంగమస్థానంలోను, పర్వతాగ్రంలోను, పర్వతపార్శ్వంలోను, వనంలోను, ఉపవనంలోను, ఉద్యానవనంలోను, సిధ్ధదుల ఆశ్రమంలోను, గొప్ప గ్రామంలోను, పురంలోను, పట్టణంలోను, రమ్య ప్రదేశాలలోను, దేవాలయాలను కట్టాడానుకి సంకల్పించాలట. ఈ ప్రదేశాలన్నీ ప్రకృతి పరిసరాలు, దేవాలయ నిర్మాణానికి అనువైన ప్రదేశాలు. అందు వల్లనే బృహత్సంహీత ఇలా చెప్తుంది.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />నదీ, శైల, నిర్ఘర, ప్రదేశాలలోని వనాల్లోను, పట్టన ఉద్యానవనాల్లోను, దేవతలు విహరిస్తారు. ఇవి భగవంతుడి వాసస్థానలే కాకుండా శుభం, శాంతిని కలిగించే ప్రదేశాలు.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />అలాగే “శిల్పప్రకాశ” ఇలా పేర్కోన్నది.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />- నదీ రహితమైన భూమి, పాషాణంతో కూడుకొన్న నేల దేవాలయ నిర్మాణానికి పనికిరావు. ఇసుకతో కూడుకొన్న భూమి అనువైనది, బురదగానున్న భూమిని, స్మశాన భూమిని పరిత్యజించాలి. దేవాలయ నిర్మాణానికి ఉపకరించే రాయి. రప్ప, శిల, లోహం ఇత్యాదులు మనుష్యరూపాన్ని నిర్మించే అస్తిపంజరాన్ని పోలి ఉంటాయి. ఈ శరీరానికెలా అలంకార ప్రాయంగా వస్థాభరణాలు అవసరమో, ఆలయానికి, విగ్రహానికి కూడ అలంకార ప్రాయమైన రచన అంతే అవసరం.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />ఆలయానికి అనువైన ప్రదేశాన్ని ఎంపిక చేసుకొన్న తర్వాత ఆలయ నిర్మాణం ఆరంభమవుతుంది. దేవాలయ నిర్మాణంలో అతి ముఖ్యమైన అంశం వాస్తు పురుష మండలాన్ని రచించడం. వాస్తు పురుషుడి చిత్రాన్ని వ్రాసి పూజించడంవల్ల, ఆ పురుషుడు మరియు అతనితో ఉన్న దేవతలు అక్కడె నెలకొని ఆలయ నిర్మాణ కార్యాన్ని నిర్విఘ్నంగా కొనసాగిస్తారట. భూమిని 81 లేక 64 చతురస్రాకార విభాగాలుగా విభజించి మధ్యలో స్తంభాన్ని కాని, అగ్నిని కాని స్తాపించి, పూజ చేస్తారు. మధ్యలో ఉన్న ఈ చదరాన్ని బ్రహ్మస్థాన మంటారు. ఒక్కొక్క చతురస్రాకార విభాగంలోను ఒక్కొక్క దేవతను ఆవాహన చేస్తారు. మధ్యనున్న చద రమే వాస్తు యొక్క కేంద్ర స్థానం. ఇక్కడే వాస్తు పురుషుడుంటాడు. వాస్తుపురుషమండలాన్ని స్థాపించిన తర్వాత “గర్భన్యాస” మనే విధిని మానవుల్లో “గర్భాదానా” నికి సమానంగా పూర్వులు విధించారు. భూమాత – అనుగ్రహం కోసం ఈ కర్మను ఆచరిస్తారు. గర్భగృహ ద్వారం వచ్చే ప్రదేశానికి వెనుక నిర్దిష్టస్థానంలో 25 చతురస్రాకార పల్లలు (తగ్గులు) ఉన్న రాగిపాత్రలో వివిధ శాస్త్ర సమ్మతాలైన వస్తువులను నేలలో పుడ్చడమే గర్భన్యాస కర్మం. నిర్మాణానికి ఉపయోగపడే వస్తోపకరణాలకు పూజ జరిగిన అనంతరం నిర్మాణ కార్యక్రమం సాగుతుంది.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />దేవాలయ ప్రధాన భగాలు దేవాలయంలో ప్రధాన భాగం చతురస్రాకారంలో ఉన్న “గర్భ గృహం” లేదా “గర్భగుడి” ఇది దేవాలయానికి హృదయంలాంటిది. మనుష్య శరీరంలో ఆత్మ దాగి ఉన్నట్టుగాదేవాలయంలో భగవంతుదు కూడ మానవుడికి అత్యంత సులభంగా దృగ్గోచరం కాకుండేతట్టుగా “గర్భగృహం” లో ఆవాసస్థానం పొంది ఉన్నాడు. ఇదే “మూలవిగ్రహం” లేదా “మూలబేరం” అనబడుతోంది. గర్భగృహంలో ప్రవేశద్వారం తప్పితే మరి ఎలాంటి కిటికీలు కానీ ఉండవు. సాధారాణంగా చీకటి అలుముకొని ఉంటుంది. ఈ చీకటి భక్తుణ్ణి విగ్రహం మీదికి దృష్టిని కేంద్రికరింపచేస్తుంది. ఈ లోకాన్ని మరచి తన్మయత్వాన్ని పొందుతాడు భక్తుడు. తనకు తెలీయనటువంటి అనుభూతిని పొందుతాడు. భక్తుడికి భగవదాకర్హణ, సంపర్కం, ఆశీస్సులు ఇక్కడే లభిస్తాయి. భక్తుడు తనలో దైవాన్ని, సత్యాన్ని చూస్తాడు.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />గర్భగృహం పైభాగంలో గోపురం ఉంటుంది. దీన్నే విమానం అంటారు.. ఇదే దేవాలయ వైభవానికి నిదర్శనం. ఇది సాధారణంగా పోతపోసిన విగ్ర్హాలతో అలంకరించబడిఉంటుంది. విమానంమీద శిఖరం ఉంటుంది. శిఖ వున్నది శిఖరం. దాని మీద కలశం వుంటుంది. గర్భగృహంచుట్టు భక్తులు గుడి తిరగడానికి “ప్రదక్షిణాపథం” ఉంటుంది. వేసర పద్ధతిలో నిర్మించబడ్డ ఆలయాల్లో ఇది సాధారణంగా ఉండదని అంటారు.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />గర్భగృహం ముందు భాగంలో “ముఖమంటపం” వుంటుంది. దీన్నే “అర్ధమంటపం” అని “శుకనాసి” అనీ అంటారు. ఇది చతుస్రాకారంలో కానీ, దీర్ఘ చతుస్రాకారంలో కానీ ఉండి ప్రక్కలలో గోపురం కానీ, శిఖరం కానీ కలిగి ఉంటుంది. గర్భగృహం ముఖమంటపాలను మహామంటపానికి (హాలు) కలిపే చిన్నమార్గాన్ని “అంతరాలం” అంటారు. కొన్ని ఆలయాల్లో ముఖమంటంపమే అంతరాళంగా ఉంతుంది. మహామంటపాన్ని “నృత్తమంటపం” లేదా “నవరంగ” అని కూడ అంటారు. అర్థ మంటపం ప్రవేశ ద్వారాల్లో ఇరువైపులా ద్వారపాలకులు ఉంటారు. గర్భగృహం లేదా అంతరాళం లేదా మంటపం ముందుభాగంలో ద్వజస్తంభం ఉంటుంది. దానిమీద వున్న లాంఛనం మూలదేవత వాహనం.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />ద్వజస్తంభం సమీపంలో దేవుడి పాదచిహ్నం లేదా పద్మం వున్నబలిపీఠం ఉంటుంది. బలిపీఠమ్మీద పరివార దేవతలకు బలి అన్నం పెడతారు. బలిపీఠానికి ఎదురుగా దీపస్తంభం వుంటుంది.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />సాధారణంగా, దేవాలయం ప్రాకారపు గోడలతో చుట్టబడి ఉంటుంది. దీనికి ప్రధానద్వారం, తక్కిన మూడు ద్వారాలు ఉంటాయి. ఈ ద్వరాలమీద ఆకాశాననంటే గోపురాలు ఆకర్షణీయంగా ఉంటాయి. ముఖ్యంగా ప్రాకారం మహద్వారం మీదన్న గోపురాలు అనేక అంతస్తులను కలిగి కళాత్మకంగా ఉంటాయి. కొన్ని దేవాలాయలో 2, 3, ప్రాకారాలు కూడా ఉంటాయి. ప్రాకారం లోపల ప్రధానాలయంతో పాటు మరికొన్ని చిన్న చిన్న మందిరాలు కూడ ఉంటాయి. కళ్యాణమంటపం, యోగశాల, పాకశాల, స్వామిపుష్కరిణి, ఉత్సవమూర్తుల నుంచే గది ఇత్యాదులు సర్వసాధారణంగా ఉంటాయి.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />సాధారణంగా శివాలయం పట్టణానికి ఈశాన్య దిశలోను, విష్ణ్యాలయం పశ్చిమదిశలోను, సూర్యదేవాలయం తూర్పు దిక్కులోను, దుర్గ ఆలయాలు ఉత్తరదిశలోను, బ్రహ్మాలయం పట్టణ మధ్యభాగంలోను ఉండాలట. సామాన్యంగా శివాలయాల్లో లింగమే మూలబేరంగా ఉంటుది. లింగం ఎత్తునుబట్టి శివాలయాలు ఉత్తమోత్తమ, ఉత్తమ, మధ్యమ మున్నగు విధాలుగా వర్గీకరించబడతాయి. గర్భగుడిలో లింగంతోపాటు ఇచ్చ, మరియు క్రియా అనే శక్తులు ఉంటాయి. ప్రవేశా ద్వారానికి ఇరువైపులా ద్వారపాలకులు ఉంటారు. వినాయకుడు, దక్షిణామూర్తి, విష్ణువు లేదా ఆర్థనారీశ్వరుడు, లింగోద్భవ, బ్రహ్మ, దుర్గ మరియు చండీశ్వరాలయాలు సాధారణంగా ప్రధాన ఆలయం చుట్టూ ఉంటాయి. రెండవ ప్రాకరంలో సూర్య, వినాయక, సుబ్రహ్మణ్య, గజలక్ష్మి మరియు భారతదేశం అంతటా ఇదంతా ఒకే లాగ ఉండదు. శైవాలయాల్లో గర్భగుడికి ముందు నంది విగ్రహం ఉంటుంది వైష్ణవాలయల్లో గర్భ గుడికి ముందు బలిపీఠం, ధ్వజస్థంభాలు కలిగిన గరుడ విగ్రహం ఉంటుంది. తక్కిన చిన్నచిన్న దేవుళ్ళ విగ్రహాలు, ఆలయాలు కూడా ఆలయప్రాంగణంలో ఉంటాయి. ప్రవేశ ద్వారానికి ఇరువైపులా ద్వారపాలకులు ఉంటారు. భక్తులు స్నానం చేయడానికి “తీర్థం” లేదా “పుష్కరిణి” ఆలయ సమీపంలో ఉంటుంది. ప్రసిధ్ధ పుణ్యక్షేత్రాలు, దేవాలయాల చెంత “పుణ్యతీర్థాలు” ఉంటాయి. దైవానికి కాక జలానికి ప్రాధాన్యం ఉన్న ప్రదేశాలను సాధారంగా “పుణ్యతీర్థా” అంటారు.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />ప్రాచీన కాలంనుంచీ ఆంధ్రదేశం శిల్పకళకు, చిత్రకళకు, వాస్తుకళకు, పుణ్యక్షేత్రాలకు, ఇలా మన ఔన్నత్యాన్ని తెలుసుకోవడానికి నేడు మనకు ఉన్న పుణ్యక్షేత్రాలు – దేవస్థానాలు కూడ ఒక సాధనంగా ఉపకరిస్తున్నాయి. శిధిలప్రాయమయిన దేవలయాల్లో కూడ నేటికి పుజా పునస్కారాలు జరుగుతునే ఉన్నాయి. భగవంతుడి మీద ఉన్న భక్తి విశ్వాసాలు దీనికి ప్రత్యక్ష కారణాలైతే, నాటి విగ్రహ శిల్పసౌందర్యాన్నీ, దేవాలయ నిర్మాణాన్ని మట్టిపాలు చేసుకోలేక, నాటి ఆంద్రమహా వైభవాన్ని గుర్తుచేసుకొని వాటిని పునరుద్ధరించాలనే మహదాకాంక్ష ప్రరోక్ష కారాణంగా కనిపిస్తుంది.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />ఎన్నో దేవాలయాలు పరమత ద్వేషం వల్ల మట్టిపాలయ్యాయి. పోయినవి పోగా ఉన్న వాటినైనా నిలుపుకొని వాటిని పునరుద్ధరించాల్సిన అవసరం ఎంతైనా వుంది. అది మనందరి కర్తవ్యం.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />నేడున్న దేవాలయాలను దర్శంచి మనంతా గర్వపడాలి. వీటి సందర్శనం పూర్వ జన్మ సుకృతమనే చెప్పాలి. అదొక మహాభాగ్యం అట్టి మహాద్భాగ్యం కోసమే మనం “తీర్థయాత్రలు” చేయాలి. ఇది ప్రతియొక్కరి ధర్మమని హిందువుల విశ్వాసం.<br />తీర్థ యాత్రలవల్ల ఆయాప్రాంతాల, అయా ప్రాంతాల జనుల పరిచయం ఏర్పడుతుంది. తద్వారా భావసమైక్యత, దేశ సమైక్యత ఏర్పడుతుంది.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />హిందూధర్మంలో దేవాలయాలకు అత్యంత ప్రాముఖ్యత ఉంది. అసలు ఈ దేవాలయమంటె ఏమిటి? ఈ దేవలయాలు ఎందుకు? అన్న ప్రశ్నలు తలెత్తినప్పుడు, ‘దేవానాం దేవస్య వా ఆలయా అని సమధానమిచ్చారు మన ఋషిపుంగవులు. దేవాలయం ప్రార్థన కోసం, పూజ కోసం, దేవతావిగ్రహాలను, ఇతర ఆరాధ్య వస్తువులను ప్రతిష్టించి, వాటి రక్షణకోసం కట్టించిన కట్టడమే దేవాలయమని అన్నారు. అందుకే మనవాళ్ళూ దేవలయాన్ని సప్తసంతానాలలో ఒకటిగా పేర్కొన్నారు. కొడుకు లేక కూతురు, తటాకం, కావ్యం, విధానం, ఆలయం, వనం, భూదేవస్థాపనం అనేవి సప్తసంతానాలుగా చెప్పబడ్డాయి. దేవాలయన్ని దేవగృహం, దేవగార, దేవాయతనం, దేవకులం, మందిరం, భవనం, స్థానం, దేవస్థానం, వెష్మం, కీర్తనం, హర్మ్యం, విహారం అని, విమానం, ప్రాసాదం అని పిలవడం జరుగుతోంది.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />మన సంస్కృతి, కళలు, శిల్పం, వాస్తు, వేదాంతం పురాణం మొదలైన వాటి సంగమ స్థానం హిందు దేవాలయం.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />పరిపూర్ణమైన, సుందరమైన ఆలయమంటె మానవశరీరం. ఇక్కడ “తత్” (ఆత్మ) ఇల్లు చేసుకొని జ్ఞానేంద్రియాలు, కర్మేంద్రియాలు, పంచభూతాలు, పంచప్రాణాలు, పంచవిషయాలు అంతరంగ వృత్తులు (అంత: కరణ, మనస్సు, చిత్త, బుద్ధి, అహంకారాలు) తమ క్రియలను నిర్వహించడానికి అవకాశాన్ని కల్పించి ఇచ్చింది. దేహమే దేవాలయం. దేహంలో ఉన్న జీవమే పరమత్మ. జీవాత్మ పరమాత్మకంటె వేరన్న అజ్ఞానమే నిర్మాల్యం; నేనే అతనని పూజించలి అని అగమాలు ఘోషిస్తాయి. దేవాలయం ఒక దేహం లాంటిది. శిఖరం శిరస్సు; గర్భగృహం మెడ, ముందరి మంటపం ఉదరం; ప్రాకారపు గోడలు కాళ్ళూ; గోపురం పాదాలు; ధ్వజ స్తంభమే జీవితం. ఇలా ఆలయం భగవన్మూర్తిగా భావింపబడుతోంది. అందువల్లనే దేవలయాన్ని పవిత్రంగా భావిస్తున్నాము. ఆ స్థలాన్ని పుణ్యక్షేత్రంగా పరిగణిస్తున్నము. అక్కడే మనం విశ్వసిస్తున్నాము.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />దేవాలయ ప్రాచీనత<br />భగవంతుడు లేకుండా మానవుడు జీవించలేడననీ, శివుని అజ్ఞ లేనిదే చీమైనాకుట్టందనీ, అందుకనే భగవన్మూర్తిని ఒకచోట ప్రతిష్ఠించి ఆరాధిస్తున్నాము. భగవత్సాక్షాత్కారం కోసమే ప్రతి హిందువు తపన పడతాడు. ప్రయత్నిస్తాడు. అదే పవిత్ర స్థలం. అదే దేవాలయం. ఇది భౌతిక శరీరం (ఫిజికల్ బాడీ) మానసిక శరీరం (సైకిక్ బాడీ), తైజసిక శరీరాలను (సూపర్ కాన్ షియస్ బాడీ) ప్రతిబింబిచే ఒక ప్రతీక. అందువల్లనే దేవాలయం భగవంతుడికి మానవుడికి ఉన్న ఒక కొక్కీ (లింక్) అని విజ్ఞుల అభిప్రాయం. దేవాలయ నిర్మాణం ఎప్పుడు, ఎక్కడ ఆరంభింపబడిందో చెప్పడం కష్టం. వేదకాలాల్లో దేవాలయాలు లేవనీ, విగ్రహారాధనా పద్ధతి, దేవాలయాల నిర్మాణం వెదకాలపు చివరిదశలో, రామాయణ, మహాభారత కాలల్లో ఆరంభమైందనీ, వేదకాలపు యాగశాలలే కాలక్రంగా దేవాలయాలుగా రూపొందాయని పలువురి అభిప్రాయం.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />‘దేవాలయాలు వైదికయుగంలో నిర్మితములైనట్లు కనబడదు. దేవతా స్వరూపము, దేవతల వాహనములు, ప్రతిమా వర్ణనము మొదలైన విషయములకు సంబంధించిన వాక్యములు వేదములందు కొన్ని గలపు గాని, విగ్రహారాధన ఆచరణ లోనికి వచ్చిన తర్వాత గాని, దేవాలయ నిర్మాణమునకు అవకాశముండదు. విగ్రహారాధన ఏర్పడిన వెంటనే దేవాలయ నిర్మాణము సైతము ప్రారంభింపబడినది. బ్రహ్మస్వరూపమైన ఆత్మకు దేహము నిలయమైనట్లుగా, దేవతా విగ్రహానికి దేవాలయం నిలయముగా భావించి, దేవాలయ నిర్మాణము శరీర నిర్మణము ననుసరించి కావించినారు.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />దేవాలయ వాస్తు<br />దేవాలయాలను మనం రెండువర్గాలుగా విభజించుకోవచ్చు. 1.గ్రామదేవతాలయలు 2.శిష్టదేవతాలయాలు. మొదటివర్గం గ్రామరక్షణ కోసం తరతరాలుగా గ్రామసంస్కృతిలో నిలద్రొక్కుకున్న ఎల్లమ్మ, మారమ్మ, పోచమ్మ, మైసమ్మ మొదలైన దేవతల చిన్న చిన్న గుడులు. గ్రామదేవతలలో అధికం స్త్రిలే . ఒక విధంగా వీరు శక్తిదేవతలు. ఈ దేవలయాల్లో చెప్పుకోదగ్గ వాస్తుశిల్పం కనపడదు. ఆలయాలు సాధారనంగా ఉంటాయి. ఇక రెండవవర్గం బ్రహ్మ, విష్ణు, శివ, విఘ్నేశ్వర మొదలైన శిష్టదేవతలు లేక నాగరీక దేవతల ఆలయాలు, ఈ దేవతలను పూజించేవాళ్ళు సామన్యంగా బ్రహ్మణులు. అగమాలలో చెప్పిన రీతిగా ఈ దేవతలకు షోడశోపచారాలు, చతుష్పష్టి ఉపచారాలు జరుగుతాయి.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />శిష్టదేవాలయాలు వాస్తు శాస్త్రానుగుణంగా నిర్మించబడ్డాయి. గృహ, గ్రామ, నగర, దేవాయతన, ప్రాసాద, దుర్గ, ఆరామ, తటాక, సేతుబంధ ఇత్యాది నిర్మాణ లక్షణాలను తెలిపే శిల్పశాస్త్రమే వాస్తుశాస్త్రం. ఈ వాస్తు సంప్రదాయం ఆగమాల మీద ఆధార పడింది, ఆగమాలలో దేవాలయ నిర్మాణం, ఉత్సవాలు పేర్కొనబడ్డాయి, కామిక, కారణ ఆగమాలలో నియమ నిబంధనలు చెప్పబడ్డాయి. వాస్తుశాస్త్రం త్రిమూర్తుల నుండి ఇంద్ర, బృహస్పతి, నారదులకు అనుగ్రహింపబడిందనీ, వాళ్ళ ద్వారా అనేక ఋషులకు సంక్రమించిదని అంటారు. పురాతన పట్టణాలు, కట్టడాలు వాస్తు శాస్త్రానుగుణంగా నిర్మింప బడుతుండేవి.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />వేదకాలంలో యజ్ఞాలకోసం శాలలను, వేదికలను, ఇటుక, కొయ్య, వెదురులతో నిర్మించేవారు. ఇవన్నీ శిల్పసూత్రాన్ని అనుసరించే నిర్మింపబడుతుండెవి. అవే భారతఖండ వాస్తువిద్యకు మూలరూపాలని కొంతమంది అభిప్రాయం. ఆర్యులు ఆర్యావర్తం ప్రవేశించడానికి మిందే ఈ దేశంలో నెలకొన్న ద్రావిడులు అనేక శతాబ్దాలుగా తమదే అయిన ఒక సంస్కృతిని పెంపొందించుకొంటూ వచ్చారనీ, ఆర్యులు వాళ్ళనుంచి వాస్తువిద్యను నేర్చుకొన్నారనీ కొంతమంది అభిప్రాయం. మొదట్లోవెదురుచే నిర్మింపబడి, అనంతరం కొయ్యలతో కట్టడాలు నిర్మంపబడి ఉందవచ్చు. ఆ తర్వాత మన్ను, ఇటుకలతో నిర్మింపబడి క్రీ.శ 4వ శతాబ్ది తర్వాత విడివిడి రాళ్ళతో గృహాలు, దేవాలయాలు నిర్మింపబడడం మొదలయ్యాయి. ఇటుకలు, రాళ్ల పురాతన కట్టడ అవశేషాలు ఇప్పటికీ నిలిచి ఉన్నాయి. వాస్తుకళ క్రమేపి ఏ విధంగా వృద్ధి చెందిందో ఇవి చూపెడతాయి. ఆధునిక విద్వాంసులు ఉత్తర హిందూస్థానపు దేవాలయ రీతిని “ఇండోఆర్యన్” శైలి అనీ, దక్షిణ హిందూస్థానపు రీతిని “ద్రావిడశైలి” అని అంటారు. వాస్తు శైలి దృష్టిచే ద్రావిడ వాస్తురీతి వికాసాన్ని ఐదు కాలాలుగా విభజించడం జరిగింది.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />1. పల్లవుల కాలం క్రీ.శ. 600-900<br />2. చోళుల కాలం క్రీ.శ. 900-1150<br />3. పాండ్యుల కాలం క్రీ.శ. 1150-1350<br />4. విజయనగర కాలం క్రీ.శ.1350-1565<br />5. ఆధునిక కాలం క్రీ.శ. 1600 – ….. (నాయక) పైన పేర్కొనబడ్డ ఐదు ప్రధాన రాజవంశాలు దక్షిణ దేవాలయ వాస్తు పరిణామానికి తోడ్పడ్దాయి.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />భారతదేశంలోని దేవాలయాలను, వాటి రచనా శైలికి అనుగుణంగా మూడు విధాలుగా వర్గ్రీకరించారు. 1.గర్భగృహం మీదున్న గోపురం ఎత్తుగా ఉంది. వక్రరేఖాకృతిలో ఉన్న “నాగర” శైలి. ఇటువంటి దేవాలయాలు క్రింద నుండి శిఖరం దాకా చతురస్రాకారంలో ఉంటాయి. ఇది ఉత్త్ర భారదేశంలోని దేవలయాల్లో గమనింపవచ్చు. 2. గర్భగృహమ్మీది గోపురం భిన్నాగ్ర పిరమిడ్ లో ఉన్నది. “ద్రావిడ” శైలి ఈ లక్షణం పల్లవులు, చోళులకు చెందిన దక్షిణ భారత దేవాలయాల్లో కనిపిస్తుంది. 3. ఈ రెండు లక్షణాలను లోనున్నది “వేసర” శైలి.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />ఉత్తర హిందూ దేవాలయ వాస్తు సంప్రదాయంలోని ఆలయాలు లంబప్రవృద్ధి దేవాలయాలు, ఆలయ శిఖరాలు చాల ఎత్తులో నిర్మింపబడి ఉంటాయి. దక్షిణ హిందూ దేవాలయ వాస్తు సంప్రదాయంలోని ఆలయాలు ప్రస్తవిస్తరణ దేవాలయాలు. వీటినే ద్రావిడ పద్ధతికి చైందిన దేవాలయాలుగా పరిగణిస్తున్నాము. ఈ పద్ధతికి చైందిన ఆలయాలలో విస్తీర్ణ మెక్కువగా కనిపిస్తుంది. దీనికి ఉదాహరణలుగా శ్రీకాళహస్తి, మధుర దేవాలయాలను తీసుకోవచ్చు. సహస్ర స్తంభ మండపాలు, అనేక ప్రాకారాలు, దాదాపు 200 అడుగుల ఎత్తుండే గోపురాలు, 15-20 ఎకరాల విస్తీర్ణం ఆక్రమించిన అంగణాలు, విశాల కల్యాణ మంటపాలు ఇత్యాది ఈ ఆలయ లక్షణాలుగా కనిపిస్తాయి. ఆంధ్రదేశంలో చాళుక్యులు, కాకతీయులు, విజయనగర రాజ వంశాలవారు దేవాలయ నిర్మాణానికి విశేష కృషి గావించారు. వీరి వాస్తుశిల్పం, దేవాలయ నిర్మాణం, వీటికి నిదర్శనం నేటికి చెక్కు చెదరక నిలిచి ఉన్న దెవాలయాలు.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />దేవాలయ నిర్మాణం<br />దేవాలయ నిర్మాణంలో మొట్టమొదటి అంశం ఆలయ నిర్మాణానికి భూమిని ఎన్నుకోవడం ఉంది. పవిత్రములైన దేవాలయాలు సాధారణంగా నదీతీరాల్లోకాని, నీటి బుగ్గలు ఉన్న పర్వతాగ్రాల మీద కానీ కట్టబడి వుండడాన్ని మనం గమనించవచ్చు. పుణ్యక్షేత్ర సమీపంలోను, నదీ తీరంలోను సముద్రతీరంలోను, నదీసంగమస్థానంలోను, పర్వతాగ్రంలోను, పర్వతపార్శ్వంలోను, వనంలోను, ఉపవనంలోను, ఉద్యానవనంలోను, సిధ్ధదుల ఆశ్రమంలోను, గొప్ప గ్రామంలోను, పురంలోను, పట్టణంలోను, రమ్య ప్రదేశాలలోను, దేవాలయాలను కట్టాడానుకి సంకల్పించాలట. ఈ ప్రదేశాలన్నీ ప్రకృతి పరిసరాలు, దేవాలయ నిర్మాణానికి అనువైన ప్రదేశాలు. అందు వల్లనే బృహత్సంహీత ఇలా చెప్తుంది.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />నదీ, శైల, నిర్ఘర, ప్రదేశాలలోని వనాల్లోను, పట్టన ఉద్యానవనాల్లోను, దేవతలు విహరిస్తారు. ఇవి భగవంతుడి వాసస్థానలే కాకుండా శుభం, శాంతిని కలిగించే ప్రదేశాలు.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />అలాగే “శిల్పప్రకాశ” ఇలా పేర్కోన్నది.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />- నదీ రహితమైన భూమి, పాషాణంతో కూడుకొన్న నేల దేవాలయ నిర్మాణానికి పనికిరావు. ఇసుకతో కూడుకొన్న భూమి అనువైనది, బురదగానున్న భూమిని, స్మశాన భూమిని పరిత్యజించాలి. దేవాలయ నిర్మాణానికి ఉపకరించే రాయి. రప్ప, శిల, లోహం ఇత్యాదులు మనుష్యరూపాన్ని నిర్మించే అస్తిపంజరాన్ని పోలి ఉంటాయి. ఈ శరీరానికెలా అలంకార ప్రాయంగా వస్థాభరణాలు అవసరమో, ఆలయానికి, విగ్రహానికి కూడ అలంకార ప్రాయమైన రచన అంతే అవసరం.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />ఆలయానికి అనువైన ప్రదేశాన్ని ఎంపిక చేసుకొన్న తర్వాత ఆలయ నిర్మాణం ఆరంభమవుతుంది. దేవాలయ నిర్మాణంలో అతి ముఖ్యమైన అంశం వాస్తు పురుష మండలాన్ని రచించడం. వాస్తు పురుషుడి చిత్రాన్ని వ్రాసి పూజించడంవల్ల, ఆ పురుషుడు మరియు అతనితో ఉన్న దేవతలు అక్కడె నెలకొని ఆలయ నిర్మాణ కార్యాన్ని నిర్విఘ్నంగా కొనసాగిస్తారట. భూమిని 81 లేక 64 చతురస్రాకార విభాగాలుగా విభజించి మధ్యలో స్తంభాన్ని కాని, అగ్నిని కాని స్తాపించి, పూజ చేస్తారు. మధ్యలో ఉన్న ఈ చదరాన్ని బ్రహ్మస్థాన మంటారు. ఒక్కొక్క చతురస్రాకార విభాగంలోను ఒక్కొక్క దేవతను ఆవాహన చేస్తారు. మధ్యనున్న చద రమే వాస్తు యొక్క కేంద్ర స్థానం. ఇక్కడే వాస్తు పురుషుడుంటాడు. వాస్తుపురుషమండలాన్ని స్థాపించిన తర్వాత “గర్భన్యాస” మనే విధిని మానవుల్లో “గర్భాదానా” నికి సమానంగా పూర్వులు విధించారు. భూమాత – అనుగ్రహం కోసం ఈ కర్మను ఆచరిస్తారు. గర్భగృహ ద్వారం వచ్చే ప్రదేశానికి వెనుక నిర్దిష్టస్థానంలో 25 చతురస్రాకార పల్లలు (తగ్గులు) ఉన్న రాగిపాత్రలో వివిధ శాస్త్ర సమ్మతాలైన వస్తువులను నేలలో పుడ్చడమే గర్భన్యాస కర్మం. నిర్మాణానికి ఉపయోగపడే వస్తోపకరణాలకు పూజ జరిగిన అనంతరం నిర్మాణ కార్యక్రమం సాగుతుంది.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />దేవాలయ ప్రధాన భగాలు<br />దేవాలయంలో ప్రధాన భాగం చతురస్రాకారంలో ఉన్న “గర్భ గృహం” లేదా “గర్భగుడి” ఇది దేవాలయానికి హృదయంలాంటిది. మనుష్య శరీరంలో ఆత్మ దాగి 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వుంటుంది. దీన్నే “అర్ధమంటపం” అని “శుకనాసి” అనీ అంటారు. ఇది చతుస్రాకారంలో కానీ, దీర్ఘ చతుస్రాకారంలో కానీ ఉండి ప్రక్కలలో గోపురం కానీ, శిఖరం కానీ కలిగి ఉంటుంది. గర్భగృహం ముఖమంటపాలను మహామంటపానికి (హాలు) కలిపే చిన్నమార్గాన్ని “అంతరాలం” అంటారు. కొన్ని ఆలయాల్లో ముఖమంటంపమే అంతరాళంగా ఉంతుంది. మహామంటపాన్ని “నృత్తమంటపం” లేదా “నవరంగ” అని కూడ అంటారు. అర్థ మంటపం ప్రవేశ ద్వారాల్లో ఇరువైపులా ద్వారపాలకులు ఉంటారు. గర్భగృహం లేదా అంతరాళం లేదా మంటపం ముందుభాగంలో ద్వజస్తంభం ఉంటుంది. దానిమీద వున్న లాంఛనం మూలదేవత వాహనం.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />ద్వజస్తంభం సమీపంలో దేవుడి పాదచిహ్నం లేదా పద్మం వున్నబలిపీఠం ఉంటుంది. బలిపీఠమ్మీద పరివార దేవతలకు బలి అన్నం పెడతారు. బలిపీఠానికి ఎదురుగా దీపస్తంభం వుంటుంది.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />సాధారణంగా, దేవాలయం ప్రాకారపు గోడలతో చుట్టబడి ఉంటుంది. దీనికి ప్రధానద్వారం, తక్కిన మూడు ద్వారాలు ఉంటాయి. ఈ ద్వరాలమీద ఆకాశాననంటే గోపురాలు ఆకర్షణీయంగా ఉంటాయి. ముఖ్యంగా ప్రాకారం మహద్వారం మీదన్న గోపురాలు అనేక అంతస్తులను కలిగి కళాత్మకంగా ఉంటాయి. కొన్ని 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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">We have some of the festivals that occurs during ashtami are Gokulaashtami, Durgaashtami, bheeshaashmtami and so on. Kaalabhairava ashtami occurs during karteeka masa krishna paksha ashtami . This is also termed as mahaadevaashtami and in panchangams it is stated like this only. This is the day bhairava avatara day.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The main meaning of this bhairava is to ward off the fears of all people and to create fear in those people who induce bad to others. The same bhairava is worshipped as bhairava in south india, annadaani in karnataka, bharon/bharathhiya/beroji in raajastan.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Bhairava appears to be in ugra swarupa in destroying the evils is being worshipped as graama devata/kaval deivam. He will save as from all the eight sides and being worshipped as ashta bhairavas. The sects following bhairava are called as kaalamuka, kaapaalika, aghora and so on.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The entire srushti is under the influence of kala/time. The bhairava is incarnation of Maha Deva and aatma sishya of mahadeva he reduces the force of ashtama sani, seven and half years sani and ardhaastama sani (i.e. sani transit in 8th house, 12th house, 1st house(rasi), second house, and fourth house to chandra rasi)</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">He will appear to us by wearing serpants as ear rings, bangles, anklets,and as upaveeta, wears tiger skin, having skull maala in neck, trisulam kapalam, paasam and damaruka as ayudam in hands with dog as vahana. Bhairava appears in many temples in yeesana side as nirvaana i.e. without any clothes having fire with jwala in upperside around his head , chandra vanka/pirai chandran in head and with two long teath.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The bhairava is one of the five sons to mahadeva, the others are ganesa, kumara, veerabhadra and saasta. The bhairava was initiated to kill the demon andhakaasura as a single entity from tatpurusha face and it became as eight and further to 64 finally killed the demon. The devas were very happy and gave 64 yogini devatas as wives to 64 bhairavas through marriage.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">The kaala bhairava has plucked one head of bramha deva and subjected to bramha hatya dosha and after visiting various kshetras finally settled in varanasi as kala bhairava as kshetra palaka to varanasi. The same kalabhairava was instrumental during the daksha yagnya to punish those who are doing siva ninda.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">HAASTE SULA KAPAALA PAASA DAMARUM LOKASYA RAKSHAAKARAM</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">VANDE BHUTA PISAACHANAATHA VATUKAM KSHETRASYAPAALAM SIVAM.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">On this day we should observe upavasa and worship bhairava in the evening and observe jaagarana (without sleep) throughout night. By observing this vrata we will not get any obstacles in our endeavours. Apart from it marriage, house construction, employment obstacles will be warded off. The fear complex, debt problems will also get relieved. The neivadyam to be offered is of curd bath, honey, red banana, aval payasam(atukula payasam). After puja the arghyam is to be offered with water.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">1. Bhairavaarghyam gruhanesa bheemarupa avyayaanagha</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Anenaarghya pradaanena tushto bhava sivapriya bhairavaaya namaha idamarghyam</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">2. Sahasraakshi siro baaho sahasra charanaajara</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Punararghyam gurhaanedam supushpam yaatanaapaha bhairavaaya namaha idamarghyam</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Those who do not able to do puja and upavaa can offer arghyam to bhairava and obtain the blessings.</span></div>
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<br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 17px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">In south India, at THIRUVISAINALLUR, a sacred place where the bhairava is worshipped in four forms i.e. gyaana bhairava, swarna aakarshana bhairava,unmatta bhairava and yoga bhairava. These four forms are related with human life with four ashramas and bless us.</span></div>
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BHAKTI PRAPAMCHAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00035921379676513637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587994501897235637.post-69949816675833791792012-11-29T21:32:00.002-08:002012-11-29T23:13:26.090-08:00మా మాట<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>పాశ్చత్య నాగరికత వ్యామోహంలొ,జనవరి 1 వ తేది ని జరుపుకునే వుత్సాహం,మన "ఉగాది"ని జరుపుకోవడం లో లేదు.మన పిల్లలకి మన సంస్కృతి , సాంప్రదాయల, పండుగల విలువలు మనం నేర్పలేక పోతూ,మమ్మీ, డాడి సంస్కృతి లో వారిని పెంచుతున్నాం.మన సంస్కృతి , సాంప్రదాయం,సనాతన ధర్మం మరియు పండుగల గురించి చిన్నప్పటి నుండే పిల్లలకి తెలిసేలా చేయడం మన అందరి భాద్యత. ఆధ్యాత్మికత... అంటే అసలు ఏమిటి? దైవ చింతన. అయితే మతాలకు అతీతంగా భక్తిని ఏర్పరుచుకోగలిగితే ఉన్నతమైన ఆధ్యాత్మిక స్థితిని సాధించినట్టవుతుంది.ఇలాంటి విషయాలన్నిటికి మరియు దేవుళ్ళకి సంబంధించిన ఇమేజస్, సాంగ్స్, స్త్రోత్రాలు,మొ!! ఆడియొ, వీడియో మరియు ఈ-బుక్స్ ....... అన్ని ఒక గొడుగు కింద కి తెచ్చే ప్రయత్నం చేస్తున్నాం. వీటికి సంబంధించినవి వివిధ వెబ్ సైట్ ల నుండి, స్నేహితులనుండి మరియు గ్రంధాల నుండి</b></span><b style="color: #38761d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> సేకరించడం జరుగుతోంది.ఇందులొ ఎక్కువ మంది భాగస్వాములు కావాలని కోరుతున్నాం.ఇక్కడ వుదహరించిన అంశాలలో మీ దగ్గర ఎటువంటి సమాచారం వున్నా,దిగువ తెలిపిన మా mail I D కి మీ వివరాలతో పాటు పంపితే, ఆ ఆర్టికల్ మీ వివరాలతో పోస్ట్ చేస్తాం.అలాగే జ్యోతిష్యం అత్యంత పురాతనమైన శాస్త్రం. జ్యోతిష్యం లో, పూజలు , వ్రతాలు చేస్తున్నప్పుడు కలిగే సందేహాలు, ఆధ్యాత్మికమైన ఎన్నో విషయాలలో కలిగే సందేహాలు .వీటిపై అవగాహన వున్న విశిష్ట వ్యక్తులు, గ్రంధాల ద్వారా నివృత్తి చేయబడుతుంది.మీరు మీ సందేహాలు మా గెస్ట్ బుక్ పేజి ద్వారా అడగవచ్చు.ఇలా మన సంస్కృతి, సాంప్రదాయలు, ఆధ్యాత్మిక , జ్యోతిష్య పరిజ్ఞానం కి సంభంధించిన ఒక చక్కటి వేదిక గా రూపుదిద్దాలనే సంకల్పం తో ఈ వేదిక ఏర్పటు చేయబడింది.ఇది కేవలం తొలి అడుగే . అందరి సహాయ సహకారాలతోసంస్కృతి, సంప్రదాయం, సనాతన హిందూ ధర్మం మరియు ఆధ్యాత్మికతల సమ్మేళనంతో ఒక విశిష్ట వేదిక అవ్వాలని ఆశిస్తున్నాం.</b><br />
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