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Monday, December 21, 2020

Famine

 O Muni! After you had gone to practise Tapasyâ, the dire famine raged; and my sons, 

  1. exhausted of hunger, became very anxious for food. 
  2. I became very anxious to see the sons hungry; 
  3. I then went out to the forest in quest of wild rice; and I got some fruits. Thus I spent some months by collecting the rice growing wildly in the forest; then in times these also could not be got and I became again anxious. The Nibâra rice, too, is now not available and nothing is obtained also by begging; there are no fruits on the trees and no roots are found under the earth. The sons are crying in agony of hunger. 
  4. What to do? And where to go? What am I to say now to the hungry boys? Oh God! Thus thinking on various ways, I at last came to this conclusion that I would sell one of my sons

Thursday, April 2, 2020

Mudras


It is prescribed that 24 mudras(hand guestures) are to be displayed before commencing the Gayatri Japa. They are called "Japa purvaka mudras", i.e pre-japa mudras. Every one of these mudras have independent effects. The combination 24 such independent mudras is used as the japa purvaka mudras. The last line of the shloka for these mudras also says,

"Eta mudra na janati, gayatri nishphala bhavet", meaning "May the gayatri mantra be fruitless to he who does not know these mudras".

A regular practice of these mudras is recommended for all those who have undergone the Upanayanam & are performing the sandhyavandanam regularly. Most sandhyavandanam books do not include pictures of these mudras. (NOTE: The shloka to be recited for each mudra is given in the picture. They are to be recited while displaying these mudras.)

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Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Thirukkadigai

Vishnu Purana and Padma Purana refer this place as Kadigai and since Vishwamitra got his Brahmarishi title here

https://www.google.com/search?q=Thirukkadigai

Koshi

Vishwamitra is also referred to as Kaushika, because he attained Brahmajnana on the banks of the river Koshi.

http://eightinformation.blogspot.com/search/label/Koshi

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