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Sunday 8 November 2015

Shukla

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shukla

The thirteenth chapter of Skanda Purana describes the place of Shukla Tirtha to be the place where the great sage Bhrigu muni together with other bramanas and sages were chanting the four Vedas. Close by is the river Reva which is established through the middle of the entire universe.  By remembering it once, one can obtain happiness lasting for seven kalpas or 7x 4.300.000 years; and one who glorifies this river becomes sanctified by it.

Shukla tirtha destroys all the sins

There is one interesting story related to this place that is given in the Skande Purana. Once a washerman who was responsible to wash the cloths of important brahmanas, mistakenly put their cloths in the indigo after which the cloths became unwashable. Being very much afraid from the curse of the brahmanas he decided to leave with his whole family to some other place. When her daughter visited her girlfriend to tell about the reason of leaving and to say the last good-bye, she was told about one pond in the nearby forest. By the touch of the water from that pond everything immediately becomes white. Moreover, even the grass growing around that pond grows white or shukla. Giving to her father the proposal to try to wash the clothes in that pond, although doubtful about the outcome the washerman decided to go there since there was nothing to lose anyway. Without using here too many words, the whole story turned out to be true and the news about the miraculous water of that pond quickly spread far and wide. The benefits of taking bath with faith in the water of this Sukla Tirtha are many. One can attain purity; get the benefit of bathing in all holy places; deliver his forefathers from hellish condition. The benefit of performing a horse sacrifice or Shraddha ceremony at Gaya is also easily attained at Shukla Tirhta and ultimately one can attain liberation. How it came that the Shukla Tirtha is so powerful place for purification? The Skanda Purane says that Shvetadvipa was brought here by the powerful Lord Vishnu because He was concerned that this holy place doesn't lose its whiteness due to the influence of Kali. The color of Shvetadvipa doesn't become dark although in contact with Kali Kala. So, at this amazing holy place Shukla Tirtha one can have a darshan of Lord Vishnu's footprints, praying to which one can attain the His spiritual abode.

http://wikimapia.org/7331921/sri-siddeshwara-temple-shukla-teertha

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History

Wednesday 22 July 2015

Saturday 23 May 2015

Seven Sea Temples Bali

Bali has a number of important "sea temples" (Balinese: pura segara) which were founded in the 16th-century by a Majapahit Brahmin from Java named Nirartha to honour the gods of the sea. Each of the temples is traditionally said to be visible from the next, forming a 'chain' around the coast of Bali. Many of the most important sea temples are located along the south-west coast of the island. The temples' positions was meant to provides a chain of spiritual protection for the Bali island.
Listed counterclockwise from Nirartha's legendary point of arrival in Bali, some of the most prominent Balinese sea temples include:
  1. Pura Pulaki near Pemuteran, northeast of Gilimanuk (8°8′44″S 114°40′50″E).
  2. Pura Gede Perancak, to the south of Negara (8°24′5″S 114°36′40″E).
  3. Pura Rambut Siwi, to the east of Negara (8°24′11″S 114°45′59″EAt this site Nirartha is said[by whom?] to have made a gift of a lock of his hair, which was worshipped. Rambut Siwi translates as 'worship of the hair'[8] and the tale is reminiscent of the Buddhist story of Gautama giving eight hairs to Tapussa and Bhallika, which are now enshrined at Shwedagon.
  4. Pura Tanah Lot, west of Canggu and south of Tabanan city where two puras were built on a coastal rock overlooking the Indian Ocean as the shrine to honor sea deities. (8°37′16″S 115°5′12″E).
  5. Pura Luhur Uluwatu, at the southwestern extremity of the Bukit Peninsula (8°49′44″S 115°5′7″E). This is the only Balinese sea temple that is also one of the six Balinese directional temples.
  6. Pura Mas Suka, at the southern tip of the Bukit Peninsula, near Greenbowl Beach (8°50′52″S 115°10′11″E).
  7. Pura Sakenan on Serangan island, an island between Tanjung Benoa and Sanur (8°43′31″S 115°13′47″E).

http://bali.mehthesheep.com/bali-sea-temples/

Pics
http://www.lovethesepics.com/2012/11/7-sea-temples-of-beautiful-bali-the-island-paradise-of-1000-temples-51-pics/

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He also created a three-temple system for villages in Bali. 
  1. In the north of the village would be a temple for Brahma
  2. in the middle a temple for Vishnu and 
  3. at the south end of the village was a temple for Shiva. 

Friday 8 May 2015

Laws of Karma at work

Sudama was a firm believer in God being totally omnipresent and omnipotent. 
He believed, and lived accordingly, in God’s ability to do anything, at anytime, at any place.  God knows what is in our heart and minds.  God knows what we need vs what we want.  God knows what is in our interest and will do everything to help us !  God gives without telling us what He is doing for us.  It is for us to recognise this and be thankful for what we have received.  Why should we than “beg” in our prayers to God ?  Sudama told God how much he loved God in his prayers, never once did he beg – not even when he was face to face with God incarnate !!

Bhaktaraj Sudama was sent by his wife to attain material wealth from the divine ruler of Dwarka. Sudamaji came to the golden city as a beggar, but left it as a very wealthy man. Not just in the physical sense, but intellectually as well. When the Lord of all Dwarka, husband of the goddess of wealth Himself washed his feet, Sudama realised the truest nature of "wealth" he actually had.
That of friendship, patience, intellect, spirituality, knowledge of all the Vedas etc.

The Lord of all the universe did not wash Sudamaji's feet for nothing ! Realising all this, he felt rather foolish asking for a few gold coins ! How could he bargain his priceless "wealth" and friendship for a little bit of gold ? As soon as Sudamaji realised his true "worth", the Lord bestowed limitless material and spiritual wealth upon him. To Lakshmi-Pati, giving his friend material wealth was no great task at all. But, by washing his feet etc, God wanted Sudamaji to realise his true potential before giving him the material wealth.

Sudama led a blameless life.  Yet, the weight of his past karmas was such that though he was blessed with great intelligence, he was destined to be financially poor all his life.  Even God does not break the Laws of Karma !  Having set up laws, even an earthly king is expected to obey these laws.  The ruler of the universe is no different – though able, when interacting with mortals, God is expected to keep within the Laws of Karma.

God wanted to help Sudama.  The only way Shri Krushna could alter the balance of karmas, was to attribute some greater merit from new karmas to Sudama’s karmic balance.   These would have to be great enough to wipe out the “poverty” inducing karmas of Sudama.

Feeding the hungry accrues great merit.  Krushna decided to have Sudama feed the Universal form of the Lord ! 

By eating the "powa" Sudama brought for him, Shri Krushna fed all creatures, great and small, in His universal form.  The merit of this one act alone totally wiped out all negative karmas of Sudama’s past, and gave him enough credit to last him many a life times !!   Laxmiji had to stop Lord Krushna from eating any further, as any more merit would be too great a load of karma for any soul to bear !  
Afterall, the ideal thing is to release yourself from all karmas – good and bad.
Only than can you be free of this cycle of birth, death and rebirth !

http://pushti-marg.net/bhagwat/Sudama.htm

Monday 23 February 2015

Sage

Chapter 5. Karma-yoga--Action in Krsna Consciousness
TEXT 18

vidya-vinaya-sampanne
brahmane gavi hastini
suni caiva sva-pake ca
panditah sama-darsinah

SYNONYMS
vidya--education; vinaya--gentleness; sampanne--fully equipped;brahmane--in the brahmana; gavi--in the cow; hastini--in the elephant; suni--in the dog; ca--and; eva--certainly; sva-pake--in the dog-eater (the outcaste); ca--respectively; panditah--those who are so wise; sama-darsinah--do see with equal vision.

TRANSLATION
The humble sage, by virtue of true knowledge, sees with equal vision a learned and gentle brahmana, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a dog-eater [outcaste].

PURPORT
A Krsna conscious person does not make any distinction between species or castes. The brahmana and the outcaste may be different from the social point of view, or a dog, a cow, or an elephant may be different from the point of view of species, but these differences of body are meaningless from the viewpoint of a learned transcendentalist. 



This is due to their relationship to the Supreme, for the Supreme Lord, by His plenary portion as Paramatma, is present in everyone's heart. Such an understanding of the Supreme is real knowledge. As far as the bodies are concerned in different castes or different species of life, the Lord is equally kind to everyone because He treats every living being as a friend yet maintains Himself as Paramatma regardless of the circumstances of the living entities. The Lord as Paramatma is present both in the outcaste and in thebrahmana, although the body of a brahmana and that of an outcaste are not the same. The bodies are material productions of different modes of material nature, but the soul and the Supersoul within the body are of the same spiritual quality. The similarity in the quality of the soul and the Supersoul, however, does not make them equal in quantity, for the individual soul is present only in that particular body whereas the Paramatma is present in each and every body. A Krsna conscious person has full knowledge of this, and therefore he is truly learned and has equal vision. The similar characteristics of the soul and Supersoul are that they are both conscious, eternal and blissful. But the difference is that the individual soul is conscious within the limited jurisdiction of the body, whereas the Supersoul is conscious of all bodies. The Supersoul is present in all bodies without distinction.

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