October 2017 - Yoga, Meditation and Hinduism

Oct242017 by tatvamaseeNo Comments

Om Purnamadah Purnamidam – Shanti Mantram

ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात्पुर्णमुदच्यते पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ॥ ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥ Om Puurnnam-Adah Puurnnam-Idam Puurnnaat-Purnnam-Udacyate Puurnnasya Puurnnam-Aadaaya Puurnnam-Eva-Avashissyate | Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih Simple Meaning of this Shanti Manthra is as follows:- "You are the fullness. There is fullness, here is fullness. From the fullness, the fullness is born. Remove the fullness from the fullness and the fullness alone remains. Om Peace! Peace! Peace!" The Implied meaning is :- "That (Brahman) is infinite, and this (universe) is infinite. The infinite proceeds from the infinite. (Then) taking the infinitude of the infinite (universe), it remains as the infinite (Brahman) alone. Explanation :- The Ocean is full of wa

Oct242017 by tatvamaseeNo Comments

Ashtalakshmis singing Ashtalakshmi Stothram

Bhakti Yoga, Hinduism, Indic Religions, Spiritual Traditions

Source: Kuldeep M Pai YouTube Channel. Vande Guru Paramparaam - A spiritual Musical Series. Music Produced, Composed, Recorded, Mixed, Mastered, Video Edited, Transliterated, Sub-titles, Meaning & Harmonium by Kuldeep M Pai. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET8aS4KBerg

Oct242017 by tatvamasee3 Comments

Ayigiri Nandini – Navadurgas singing Mahishasura Marddini Sthothram

Bhakti Yoga, Hinduism, Indic Religions, Shakta, Spiritual Traditions

Source: - Kuldeep M Pai in YouTube. Part of 'Vande Guru Paramparaam' spiritual musical series. Music Produced by Kuldeep M Pai. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np28O3Y_P2o

Oct232017 by tatvamaseeNo Comments

Neuroplasticity of Vedic Pandits (Excerpts)

Hinduism, Indic Religions

Source: Varnam - A Blog on Indian History It is not easy to be a Vedic Pandit. Professional Vedic Pandits undergo rigorous training in exact pronunciation and invariant content of these oral texts for 7 or more years, with 8–10 h of daily practice (totaling ~10,080 h over the course of the initial training), starting in their childhood, and mastering multiple 40,000 to 100,000 word oral texts (compared to ~ 38,000 in the book of Genesis). The training methods strongly emphasize traditional face- to-face oral learning, and the Yajurveda recitation practice includes right hand and arm gestures to mark prosodic elements. There are special exercises to ensure that the Vedas are chanted without mistakes. Now a new study shows that such intensive study changes the brain both in the whit

Oct212017 by Rahul DewanNo Comments

Hindu Nectar: Spiritual Wanderings in India

Hinduism, Indic Religions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLvr80ZrCqo&t=1898s

Oct202017 by Rahul DewanNo Comments

Wide-spread love for Dr. Kalam among Hindus, absence of it in Muslim discourse, and the connection with Hindu revivalism

Miscellaneous

Dr. Kalam has been one of the most loved President the country has seen. The joy on him becoming the President during Vajpayee’s term and later the outpouring of grief on social media on his passing away is testimony to the love that an average Indian carried for him. After Barrack Obama became President of the United States, articles appeared in Indian media on whether Hindu majority India would ever be able to cross the barrier of having a Muslim Prime Minister largely because of the legacy of the religion-based partition of India in 1947 with Jinnah-led Muslims demanding a separate homeland for themselves. While the Presidential post is a ceremonial one and has seen many Muslims in the past, getting a Muslim Prime Minister to lead the country sounds surely like a tall order. Or

Oct192017 by tatvamaseeNo Comments

How effective has the Sudarshan Kriya been for people who did the Art of Living course? Are there any health issues to be concerned about when doing this? (Excerpt)

Hinduism, Karma Yoga, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Yoga

Source: - Swami Purnachaitanya / Quora. First of all I would like to mention that the Sudarshan Kriya is mainly effective for those who have done the Art of Living course, as there is no other place to learn this technique properly, and it only affects other people indirectly - as in, when you become a more healthy, happy, caring and responsible person it will indirectly affect the people around you, but you breathing in a different manner will not directly affect the people around you (unless you make a lot of noise or have a smelly breath ;-)). As for the Sudarshan Kriya being effective, it again depends on what you mean it to be effective for: if you are asking if it is effective in cleaning your house or paying your debts, then probably not. However, if you are asking how effective i...

Oct72017 by tatvamaseeNo Comments

Dattatreya Parvatikar: The Musician as a Mystic (Excerpt)

Miscellaneous

Source:- http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/DjnP4LCD9jTBYQ20t8ci8H/Dattatreya-Parvatikar-The-musician-as-a-mystic.html Encased in a glass cabinet at the Sangeet Natak Akademi’s headquarters in New Delhi is a unique instrument. The Datta veena, which was once played by the country’s first president, Rajendra Prasad, is the only known piece of its kind today. It bears the inscription “1961”. The instrument appears to be a hybrid between the vichitra veena and the swarmandal, attached to a Rudra veena—fitted with a built-in harp at the base and a gourd at the top. While there is no known living performer of the Datta veena today, the instrument narrates a fascinating tale of its inventor, Pandit Dattatreya Parvatikar, a musician and a mystic, who has been forgotten over time. Parvatikar wa