SarvaShiva

Calling Krishna

SarvaShiva — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:58:25 +0000

Krishna, like Meera and Chaitanya I too long for you to fill my spaces with your radiance and peace and dispel all the hurt that I brought into my life my forging relationships of pain. You are all I want so let me deserve you:

Mahishasura Mardini

SarvaShiva — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 03:12:03 +0000

Mahishasura Mardini is about Durga slaying the demon Mahishasura and a form of Chandi paath:

An Old New Bhajan

SarvaShiva — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:44:06 +0000

Gobind bolo, Harigopal bolo, Radha Raman, Harigopal bolo – a modern treatment of a tradition bhajan – no matter the clothes or the looks God is fine if approached with love:

A Krishna Bhajan

SarvaShiva — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:10:51 +0000

Krishna – The Supreme One, some say the Ultimate Hindu God – is fun, joyful, playful, happy and this bhajan is about his childhood:

Happy Independence Day India

SarvaShiva — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:29:18 +0000

Wishing India the best with wishes that it finds its idealist roots again, those of Gandhi and Nehru, of bringing progress to villages and not villagers into urban slums, of tolerance not destroying temples and mosques.

On the midnight of August 14, 1947 Nehru said:

“Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance” Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru

That India of freedom, aspirations, ideals Rabindranath Tagore best describes in India’s National Anthem:

SarvaShiva — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:47:38 +0000

Aarti is offered as a token of highest love for God at the conclusion of most pujas.

According to some “Aa” means “towards or to”, and “rati” means “right or virtue”, and Om Jai Jagdish is one of the most popular Aartis in North India:

Vishnu Sahasranama

SarvaShiva — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:52:19 +0000

These are the 1000 names of Vishnu, also called Narayana, the sustainer of life and universe, Consort of Lakshmi and born as Rama and Krishna, and also as the Dashavatar:

To Krishna

SarvaShiva — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 04:33:52 +0000

ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय

Literally meaning, “Offering my obeisances unto Vāsudeva” is the mighty mantra for Krishna, and one of the most significant and sacred Hindu prayers.

On Wisdom

SarvaShiva — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 03:22:19 +0000

“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something” – Plato

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest” – Confucius

“It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things” – Henry David Thoreau

“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom” – Bertrand Russell

“Wisdom outweighs any wealth” – Sophocles

“Patience is the companion of wisdom” – Saint Augustine

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer” – Albert Einstein

Universally and across ages; patience, perseverance, discretion, courage; are held as building blocks and evidence of wisdom. The road map is obvious and obviously tough to follow going by the evidence of strife in life in general. So to get ahead a door needs to open to let out the self, and let sense in – the self that gets in the way of you and you, you and them.

On Anger

SarvaShiva — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:42:34 +0000

“Anger is a short madness” – Horace

“If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size” – Sydney J. Harris

“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame” – Benjamin Franklin

“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret” – Ambrose Bierce

“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools” – Albert Enstein

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured” – Mark Twain

“Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts” – Ovid

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it” – Marcus Aurelius

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned” – Buddha

Need any more convincing that anger kills the angry? It’s not that its new news, its our recurringly amazing propensity to ignore it that makes us perfectly and hurtfully foolish.