Ganeshpooja 2016

Festival season has started now.India has lovely celebrations to add happiness to souls sinked in daily routine.I have woken up the happy kid in me to bring in the rituals at my new home.As ganapathi statue was not available in the streets of Noida,we tried to manage with chota ganpath at home.

I tried out fried mothak which is a maharashtian receipe along with moong sundal.There is a happiness quotient when we offer for our neighbors.That's a cool joy of giving.

Eat,Pray,love

There are places to visit,people to meet and books to read as simple the say.Made a sudden trip to Isha yoga center which lies calmly under the foothills of vellangiri,Coimbatore.Welcoming squirrels,chirping honeybirds with brightly colored floras,color changing vellangiri hillview,Lingering aumkara kriya with beautiful silence  made me feel home after a years time.dhyanalinga center has world's tallest shiv ling dipped in mercury and the feel is something electrifying even when we don't try to meditate.Linga Bhairavi shrine is something interesting with female form of bhairavar and has regular rituals .Holybath at chandrakund is impressive with shiv ling in the center and copperplates tiled over the roof as an energizing mechanism.
  Dead silence ,every soul practicing kriyas in their own pace at whatever space available.For me it was more of child-like sleep after a long time with few meditations ,prayers and more of nature in full amplitude with book to read.
     Less of a typical temple more of an energy house with rooted understanding on hardly questioned traditional process.

zen disciple in 2015

I have heard many zen stories preached by Buddha,the best part of it is moulding yourself,without blaming any creature.I can Say it as more of Buddha days now,I have spoken about buddha bhoi statue which I bought out of sentiments connected with Sri Ranganadhaswamy temple.As per hindu mythology,Buddha is an avatar of Lord Vishnu to bring in ahimsa and ecological balance. His preaching never failed to bring more of inner peace in me and most of my silly blames vanished.

   In my trek too I heard few stories about him and how mount Kailash too respected by Buddhist monks as it has a historical story connected with it,now excited to increase my booklist  bullets with zen religion core books to get the crux of it.

 

    

Buddha boy

Its not quite easier to make peace with the past,somehow in the verge of making it by focusing in much of physical workouts.gym workouts ,a good run and manageable sleep with small Buddha statue near my bed brings a Kind of let go feel.started to dwell with a plain feel with lesser moodswings.Every damn soul likes a proper checklist type of life with beings and material at right place.Rarely it happens for all and spill over should make peace with past .I started to make peace with everything, though its a harder phase to answer blunt questions by n number of folks of feudal society.Buddha boy  is my lucky charm when all other fails

bajan time

I like bajans for God,let it be in any form of faith.I visit sai temple nearby whenever I want to listen bajans .As I had a tough week , there is so much to spill out to Demigod and so I can smile with strength for forthcoming days.There is a small custom Which I feel amazing in this temple where we would fan the flame out of neem woods.I happily fan it as they try to remember  his one activity in his history.somehow history is remembered through small obligations .
 A serene peace bringing temple at BTM layout with mouthwatering prasadh and incense fragrance.

My acceptance

I rejected a lot before months from bedsheet colors to pens.Still choosy as of date from friends to attire but with good level of acceptance installed.I accept now whatever comes on my way.I have friends in all ages ,I learnt to start my dwelling in a new place,I accepted visible stitchmarks on my hand.I accepted death and changing colors.I accepted easy sorries and solo travels.I accept the word orphan.I accept my color,castes ,history and  my dogmatism.I accept a lot now but with few if's  and but's.Time to pat on my shoulders for accepting as it is.

temple for Brahma

Walking a lot in new streets.As I am interested in temples with grand stories and parks,hunting for it in my vicinity.I heard about Brahma temple at BTM.started my walk letting out memories to go in the air.Easily reached Brahma mandhir .Happy to see grand old idols for Brahma,Vishnu ,Uma maheswari and Hanuman with six heads.Remembered Sanskrit sloga on Brahma,Vishnu and Maheswar.Navagrahaa's are quiet different and I loved the place for its transcendence silence.Few images I managed to click

 

Temple for Brahma is rare in its kind.

Its a beautiful place where endless thoughts converge to a null point.

Faith behind shades-jainism

                  My faith never remained stationary,its as dynamic as pluffy clouds.Thank God,idol changes from time to time but the software "Faith" remains constant at times dormant.Apart from selecting a constant name for him ,every season I keep choosing  names for him till I explore the philosophy behind it.After Balaji,SriRam,Christ,Shrdi Sai andnow its  Bahubali(JainGod).

                  It was the time I learnt all philos and fast in Saism,when I was in the verge of getting captivated to Buddha Bronze statues,I landed up with my jet black "Bahu Bali" the first among trithankaras,adjacent to Buddhism "Jainism". My trip to Gomatheswara so called "Shravana Bellagola" temple added some more oil to my fire.One disclaimer is ,Iam not that cold to avoid roots from foodstuff.Iam a follower of "If it tempts,have it,ignore it".One more nandyoling temple at coorg preaches Buddhist principles,and here the display goes.

Now Iam addicted to voluminous incense fumes and oil lamp lit in my room.Exploring books behind it.very soon ,its on display

talk of the week-Ragigudda Temple

Temple visit is one of the beautiful feel I adore,can be anjali for Sai on Thursday or "om namo narayana" chant for Sri Balaji on Saturday with Tulsi leaves, or even a candle light for Christ on Sunday,till now Iam evolving each time when picking certain facts from each.As I do have always some attraction towards Balaji,somehow I will make sometime on saturdays amidst other stuffs.This week we felt like exploring some other new home of Balaji,hence my friend came up with Ragigudda.More than the fact of faith "a feel which shouldnt be questioned",Iam crazy in hearing stories plastered with the spot ,as each sthala has some rituals.Without a question,human brain does, really I exclaim for it.
After couple of hours of travel from Kundanahalli to Ragigudda,we reached the temple ,it says "Iam ancient to the core" in all sign boards where kannada letters alone been seen till the shrine.The speciality of temple architecture  is ,common hindu god and goddess sitting  in the plains and Ram-Sita ,Hanuman ,Siva sitting at the top of a hill.The story behind the name is "Ragi-heap of grain transformed to pillar of faith".I could feel a good vibration at the top of hill where complete karbagraha reverberating with sanskrit mantras.Each time ,temples remind me "my  roots are always here" .