God is sleeping - Wake him up!

God sleeps only in India. Here, as we know that God is sleeping, we don’t have any fear. We believe that since God is sleeping, we can get away with anything.

Have you ever thought about this? This is a very deep topic. God is sleeping, and you are awake. Here people follow rituals to wake up God by wishing him good morning, singing Suprabhatams, Balaji Suprabhatam, doing Devi jagran singings, ringing bells etc. This seems so crazy, how can we wake up God? Is not it his duty to wake us up? 

Scholars have established this – Humanity wakes up first and then they awaken God. This is a unique ritual among humans. Yet, there is something very subtle in this.

A PM we miss - Lal Bahadur Shastri

Lal Bahadur Shastri was the Prime Minister of India at a crucial time in India's history. 

He was in office from 9 June 1964 – 11 January 1966, just for 18 months as PM. He died a death of conspiracy which remains hidden in history even today...

After the Chinese aggression of 1962, when India's confidence in her strength had been shaken, Pakistan was creating trouble along the borders.

In September 1965 there was a large-scale invasion of the territory by Pakistani soldiers in the Chhamb area. War broke out all along the Cease-fire Line on the Kashmir border.In addition to this, there was the threat posed by the Chinese on the northern borders of India.

Ramayana - The spiritual side

Though Ramayana is history, it is also an eternal phenomenon happening all the time.

Ra means radiance, Ma means myself. Rama means ‘the light inside me’. 

Rama was born to Dasharath and Kousalya. Dasharath means ‘Ten Chariots’. The ten chariots symbolize  the five organs of perception (the five senses) and five organs of knowledge and action (For instance: reproduction, legs, hands and so on). Kousalya means ‘skill’.

 Ayodhya means ‘a society in which there is no violence’. If you skillfully observe what goes on inside the body, light dawns inside you. That is meditation. You need some skill to relax the tension. Then you start expanding.

Devi/shakti lives in lemon?

It is said devi/energy/shakti lives in lemon. Lemon is associated with Mother Divine whose job is to destroy rakshasas. Lemon sustains life and destroys enemies, that is, harmful toxins, viruses, bacteria in our body.

330 million Gods?

The Vedas refer to not millions of deities but 33 supreme deities.

33 crore Gods?

A popular but unfounded belief has been spread that Hindus have 33 crore gods. It is a misunderstanding of the Vedic concept of the State, and hence a misinterpretation of the word koti. 

33 divinities are mentioned in the Yajur-veda, Atharva-veda, Satapatha-brahmana, and in several other Vedic and later texts. The number thirty-three occurs with reference to divinities in the Parsi scriptures of Avesta as well.The expression trayastrimsa deva is found in the list of classes of gods in Sanskrit Buddhist texts like the Divyavadana and Suvarnaprabhasa-sutra.

The word koti in 'trayastrimsati koti' does not mean the number '33 crore' or '330 million'. Here koti means 'supreme', pre-eminent, excellent, that is, the 33 'supreme' divinities.

Ohh Bhagavad Gita, but...

1. Is it some kind of preaching?

Well, its just Krishna and Arjuna talking to each other. The reader is the third person. Aren't you curious what they were up to?

Shivaji Maharaj

Shivaji Maharaj (1630 - 1680)

“Shivaji is one of the greatest national saviours who emancipated our society and our Hindu dharma when they were faced with the threat of total destruction. He was a peerless hero, a pious and God-fearing king and verily a manifestation of all the virtues of a born leader of men described in our ancient scriptures. He also embodied the deathless spirit of our land and stood as the light of hope for our future.”
- Swami Vivekananda

He inspired and united the masses to fight the tyranny of unjust rulers, by inculcating a sense of pride and nationality in them. Shivaji Maharaj successfully built, led and marshalled his forces to cope and overcome several major enemy invasions of his territories.