Vinayaka temple in Kanipakam
Ganapati is first lord of the Hindus to do puja.
Kanipakam located in south Andhra Pradesh, India. Kanipakam is a famous Hindu temple for lord of Ganapati constructed in the eleventh century by Chola king Kulothunga Chola-I. It was further extended in year 1336 by the emperors of Vijayanagar Hampi.
Name Siddhi Vinayaka is the elephant headed God. He is son goddess of Parvati. Parvati is wife of lord Parameswara. Vinayaka is highly popular Indian subcontinent – wise irrespective of religions or regions. It is strongly believed that the certain have been stared with Om, a Bing bang, which in fact has taken the shape of lord Ganapati. Every Hindu compulsory offer his first worship to Ganapati alone, to new opens first pray of him. That is the specialty of lord. The Kanipakam vinayaka is the upholder of truth and any oath taken in his presence will be a gospel truth.
Kanipakam means the wetland. Lord Vinayaka emerged here from a well as swaymbhu. It is an acknowledge fact that this self-existed idol of lord, is continually growing in size. The well water is being used as thirtham. Even today the idol is in the original well that has no doubt a number of perennial and eternal spings. During the rainy seasons, the holy water from the well overflows. People strongly believe this as the miracle of Lord.
The lord Ganapati silently and invisible makes the sinners to feel guilty and repent for their sinful deeds. Thus the story vinayaka had spread far and wide. Ultimately he has become synonymous for Pramanam.
Tirupati is a great pilgrim center. Daily Lakhs together devotees are visiting there to Lord Venkatewsara.
Tirupati is one of the holy places of India. It is known as abode of Venkateswara swamy, lord of seven hills. It is situated in Chittoor district. About 10 kilometers North West of Tirupati, at an elevation of 2,500 feet, is the sacred hill of Tirumala. At the summit of the sacred hill of Tirumala is a temple dedicated to Venkateswara. This temple is located among sacred waterfalls and tanks. The temple gopuram is endowed with gold coated cover. It is one of the most important pilgrimage centers in India.
Many rituals are performed to lord Venkateswara every day. Different festivals are celebrated through out the year. Brahmotsava is the most important festival amongst these.
Lakhs of devotees visit this holy temple every day to have a darshanam of the lord and to take in the festivities.
Tirumala hills are endowed with natural beauty. Papavinasham waterfalls are on the hill.
Srisailam is situated on the banks of the river Krishna in Kurnool district. It is a well-known ancient Shaiva temple. In the puranas it is referred as srigri, sriparvatha and rudraparvata. The river ` Krishna ‘is called here as `
Patala Ganga’. This area is famous for plants of medical value. Pilgrims and tourists from all parts of the country visit srisailam.
Srisailam is located in dense forests of Nallamalla. The forest is inhabited by tribal. They regard the temple as very sacred.
Mahasivaratri is celebrated here on a grand scale. During Dasara days a festival is celebrated in Bhramaraba Devi temple.
The main deity of this temple is Mallikarjuna swamy. Bhramaraba is his consort. There are separate temples for these two deities.
The compound wall of the temple is very high. It is full of beautiful carvings of puranic stories.
Many historical inscriptions were found here. There is a belief that in the ancient times Chandragupta Maurya visited this place.
Lepakshi is situated about 15 kilometers from Hindupur in Anantapur district. It was here that Jatayuvu had fought with Ravana and Sri Rama consoled it saying, `` wake up, oh! Bird’’. This gave it the name Lepakshi.
Lepakshi is famous for its huge bull made of a single stone. It is 8.1 meters in length and 4.5 meters in breadth. It is famous for its ornamentation and life- like expression. It is considered as the most prominent Nandi statue in India.
Five – headed Mahalingam is another important sculpture of this place.
Lepakshi is also famous for its paintings. The painting depicts the life of Virupanna who was a subordinate to Vijayanagar kings.
Amaravati is also a holy place for Hindus. The temple of Amaralingewsara swamy is considered to be one of the five aramas of Andhra Pradesh. The other temples found here are the kondana Ramaswamy temple and the Ramalingeswara swamy temple. Amaravati is a very famous tourist center.
Amaravati is situated on the banks of river Krishna. It is 30 kilometers from Guntur. It was a Buddhist center in the ancient times. The Buddhist stupa at amaravati was on of the largest in India, though only traces of it now remain.
Grand Lie
Lie saying bad habit. Lie form the happy is not permanent. No satisfy from this live to every man. It is bad to the man. It is one of the bad characters to the man. Some merchants say some of lie in the business for the profits. That is the common for sales, all most all like this in sales unit. Some body is going to earn more in business with high lie. It is treating under cheating. It’s called pure lie.
Some people are says lie for jokes. They enjoying from the comedy of entertainment.
Don’t say lie, talk true. It is useful to you. Lie spoiled your life, dangers in feature.
Similarly, when `I’ it self is a lie, every role the `I’ takes, every speech `I’ makes, every action that `I’ initiates or owns, has its root in ``the grand lie’’ called `I’ itself. So, sitting down with somebody, one may say ``I’’ belong to you,’’ but the body belongs to where `I’ and the thoughts belong, but not to where the body is at this moment. When the thought to change, no more the body belongs to that place where previously the thoughts belonged to, living with a person you no more live with him. Being around no more means a living presence, but a lifeless shadow dragged around.
We much can we then rely on others? The most important question is: how much can we rely on ourselves? If the self is not known as it is, then it is a grand deception, a total lie, and all of us are living with in deceptions galore in the land of truth. Nothing will change until we are aware of ourselves. When we are aware, we shall see through the deceptions and no more shall we fall a victim to the original lie to victimize others.
Jnana yoga
Jnana yoga is anandaboga, not happy only satisfy, silent and nil in the mind.
That is the path of knowledge is the shortest but very difficult path to attain enlightenment. Through constant discrimination between the real and real, one has to deny the existence of the body, constantly thinking of the spirit within.
Knowledge originated from lord Siva, whose dwelling place is the Himalayas. From time immemorial, great sages of India, renouncing every thing for the sake of truth, discovered in their deep meditation innumerable spiritual truths about man and the universe. Even emperors and kings used to seek their advice and blessings.
Totapuri- who had realized the ultimate truth taught Sri Ramakrishna advaita sadhaka. When he was staying at Dakshineswar, he saw a disembodied spirit climbing down from a tree. He requested that spirit to sit with him for meditation, since he saw no difference between them, both of them being manifestations of Brahman.
Sankaracarya, a great teacher of advaita, who expounded the path of knowledge, preached Mayavada. According to him, the sun of knowledge, that is Atman, is always self-effulgent. It is the cloud of ignorance or Maya which hides the self.
Then we have Ramana maharshi, who was always in thought of the self, for him the whole universe, appeared like a reflection in a mirror, which is only appearance and not realty. Then, there was swami Vivekananda, who carried the thoughts of the eastern sages to the western world, in the present age. He proclaimed the truth oh Vedanta first at the parliament of religions at Chicago.
Rainwater may flow or get collected naturally in a lake. Artificial tanks and reservoirs may be built to store it. Besides rainfall, the other source of fresh water is melting snow. India is lucky to have a number of rivers that have their source in the Himalayas glaciers. The peninsular rivers, however depend upon rainfall which in uneven and erratic.
The Himalayan Rivers have plenty of water throughout the year. The Sutlej, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra are the most important rivers of the northern plains.
The Ganga River is very holy to Hindu’s. They do bath in that river with prayer. The famous Kumbha mela is held here every twelve years. The Ganga River is first place of in India to all over of the rivers, in purity. Many big temples are there on the side of river.
The Sutlej basin lies in the western part of tee northern plain.
The second part the northern plain is the basin of the Ganga. The Ganga basin lies between the Sutlej in the west and the Brahmaputra in the east. The Ganga is a wide and long river. It is also a holy river for the Hindus. The Ganga rises in the Himalayas at the Gangotri and through Haridwar, it enters the northern plains. The main tributaries of the Ganga are the Yamuna, the Gomati, the Ghaghra, the Gandak and the Kosi. The Ganga and Yamuna meet at Allahabad. The meeting place of the two rivers is known as Sangam.
Many rivers join the Ganga as it flows towards west Bengal. The Ganga flows slowly as it reaches west Bengal. The sediment becomes too heavy for the river to carry. So the sediment settles down and small islands are formed. A region having such islands and steams around them is called a delta. The Ganga splits into two branches Hugli and Padma. The Hugli flows through Kolkata. The Padma flows through Bangladesh, where it joins the Brahmaputra before entering the Bay of Bengal. The Ganga basin is called the food bowl of India because the soil is so rich and fertile crops grow easily in this region. The main crops of this region are rice, sugarcane, wheat and jute.
I defy the jaws of a crocodile
and leap for your heart,
my love,
my breathe befriends infinity
and my mind denies consciousness
as my heartbeat
encircles itself in the duet
of dreams,
visions of you,
the touch of your lips
My soul refuses
to sink in a melancholic quicksand,
it rebels against gravity
and leaps for your heart,
my love,
for you
I shall laugh with the shark,
and wear sting ray textiles
this is not violence,
but not roar of my heart
as I do leap for yours
My world goes astray
by the acid rain of loneliness
but this amore is umbrageous,
your smile,
my umbrella, as destiny sheds
tears of magma,
do me the favor,
and let me leap for your heart
For you,
I shall dance in a furnace,
swagger with the heat,
when you accept me,
I shall be the ice
that never melts in
the belly of a thousands ovens,
I shall be unstoppable,
as I leap for your heart,
the gem that makes me wealthier
than happiness
You are the one for me,
so let me leap for your heart
babe.
By Kakraba Afful
Devotee of lord
Purandardas was a great devotee of lord. He prayed always God Ponduranga Vittol. He wrote some songs about on Sanghsamaj and some on philosophy. His location was on the river side and near village of Anegonde.
He belongs to humpi Vijayanagar (Karnataka) in the period of Tuluvasha emperors ruling.
Purandardas was a good poet. Purandardas sung keerthans on Lord Srimannarayan.
` Hamsa ninnaline nodo, bhava basamukta nagi hari anu sero’ this is really a wonderful it is the great popular sankeerthana in Kannada language
` Nambadiru ee deha nitya valla, ambujkshana bhajisi sukhi yago manave’. This song is an eye opener to those who believe that sensual pleasure is alone the supreme bliss. Purandardas makes it clear that neither the youth nor the body is eternal. He advocates worshiping lord is eternal, omniscient and omnipresent. Purandardas explain that the body is just a blanket of skin covered on bones, flesh and blood. With in the digestive tract there may be worms, bacteria and excretory products. This seems to be the real nature of body. One should not think that the beauty of body is the real beauty. The body will be decayed if once the hamsa leaves it. More or less the same kind of opinions have been expressed by Purandardas in one more his song.
In the first song Purandardas expressed his devote to words Vyasarayaru, the master of king Krishna devaraya; whereas in the second sankeerthana he paid his rich tributes to Madhvacharya the founder of Dwaita siddhantam. Thus, Purandardas snakeerthans reflect several aspects of life. They all center over an eternal fact i.e., the lord Vishnu himself.
Almost all the available snakeerthans of Purandardas are popular. Quite a few of them are absolutely devotional. Some snakeerthans act as eye openers for sadhaka. Purandardas criticized those who believe that the idols in the temples were alone gods. He preferred service to devotion.
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