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Wednesday, 20 January 2010 |
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 Vasant is the season when nature is at its beautiful, bountiful best. Flowers are in full bloom and trees sprout shoots. It is a season when nature regenerates and everything is fresh and new. The cool morning air is laden with the faint smell of mango blossoms. Mustard fields turn into a heady mix of yellow and green as they add color, poetry and romance to life. The goddess Saraswati is dressed in yellow garments and people wear yellow clothing to mark the occasion of Vasant Panchami.
The constant interplay between our inner seeking and the innate state of knowledge within which we are unaware – the dialectic between becoming and being which is the cornerstone of the Upanishads – takes on a mystical and devotional hue in tradition in the personification of Goddess Saraswati as the muse of learning and knowledge. Whether in her river form or swarupa as she is exalted in the Rig Veda – nourishing an entire civilization on her banks – or in her shubhra vasana or in white attire, the feminine form inspiring all creative energies, Saraswati represents the ever flowing stream of consciousness within. |
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Friday, 30 October 2009 |
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Diwali Cheer Members of the Sri Krishna Mandir, located at Gay Park, Greater New Amsterdam, caused many gloomy faces to light up with joy when they shared out food hampers to the poor and needy throughout Berbice as part of their observances of the “Festival of Lights”.
Adviser to the Mandir and Hindi Teacher Mrs Chandrawattie Maraj disclosed that the Mandir filled over six hundred hampers with a range of twenty-six food items and distributed them to the poor and needy in both East and West Berbice earlier this week.
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Friday, 30 October 2009 |
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 Jai Sri Krishna. We extend our sincere gratitude to the supporters in Guyana, USA, and Canada for their once again generous contribution towards the distribution of grocery hampers on the occasion of Diwali. Through your kindness, over 600 families were given a week of groceries. 2009 marks the 5th anniversary of our Diwali Seva program. We thank you very much for your kindness. May Sri Krishna bless each of you and your family in abundance and thank you for extending your charitable heart.
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Tuesday, 22 September 2009 |
Hey Naam Re - Sabse Bada Tera Naam Sherovaali
Your name is the most powerful of all Maa Durga.
September 19th - 27th - Navratri
September 26th - Durga Ashtami
September 28th - Vijaya Dashmi
.jpg "Image") Durga Puja is the greatest Hindu festival in which God is adored as Mother. Hinduism is the only religion in the world which has emphasized to such an extent the motherhood of God. One’s relationship with one’s mother is the dearest and the sweetest of all human relations. Hence, it is proper to look upon God as mother.
Durga represents the Divine Mother. She is the energy aspect of the Lord. Without Durga, Shiva has no expression and without Shiva, Durga has no existence. Shakti is the omnipotent power of the Lord, or the Cosmic Energy.
Devi worship is, therefore, worship of God’s glory, of God’s greatness and supremacy. It is adoration of the Almighty. It is unfortunate that Devi is ignorantly understood by many as a mere blood-thirsty Hindu Goddess. No! Devi is not a vicious demoness nor is She the property of the Hindus alone. Devi does not belong to any religion. Devi is that conscious power of God. The words Devi, Shakti, etc., and the ideas of different forms connected with these names are concessions granted by the sages due to the limitations of the human intellect; they are by no means the ultimate definitions of Shakti. |
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009 |
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 Karaar vindain padaarvindam, mukhaar vinde vinivaishayantam
Vatasya patrasya pute shayaanam, baalam mukundam manasaa smaraami
I remember with my heart Bhagwan Sri Krishna in the form of a child
Entering His lotus like foot into His lotus like mouth
With the help of His lotus like hand and sleeping on the leaf of a banyan tree
Sanatan Dharma is the most democratic religion in existence. Tremendous freedom is given in worship. The Supreme entity makes it's self accessible to the devotee according to each devotee's mental and spiritual capacity.
The Supreme can be adored with a form (Saguna) or without a form (Nirguna). One can closes his eyes and visualize that internal source of energy or one can open his eyes and feast off the beauty of the Lord in the form of an icon (murti - pratima). The Supreme can be both a mother and a father. The Supreme can be a God or a Goddess (Devata or Devi). The Supreme makes itself accessible to all. There are various relationship we can have with God, for example:
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