Phalguna moon

Shiwa Shiwa
Pashyanti samam
Shri Kamakshi katakshita ha purusha ha

wipinam bhavanam   
amitram mitram
loshtam ca yuvathi bimboshtam
Pashanti samam


Shiwa, the auspicious,
Men who earn a sidelong glance, of the turtle-eyed goddess
they look the same upon

punishing woods and plush villas
foe and friend
clod of terracotta and luscious lips of a young lass
they look the same upon

- Arya's 100,    Verse  48

Maundy Thursday

Chandrayaan austerity attempts to sync it's pitch with moon phases.

One may start with a full meal, on a full moon day - and reduce intake with each passing day.

On the thirteenth day of waning, one may subsist with just liquids, water or even less. And hold a full emptiness on the 14th waning.

The tapering is reversed from the new moon, to enjoy a full meal on the full moon.
A difficult austerity to do, but some people do it for it's merit.

Vichar Chandrodaya,  Amrit Warsha

Dewi damanam '20

We know this world only through our mind.
It is mind that has taught us about the world - with inputs from five senses.

World is in flux, moment to moment.
And mind that follows the world, is in flux.

It is the nature of the mind, to be in flux.
Because it is soaked with the world.

That which moves, is the world - Samsara.

Changeless Stillness that contains all this movement, is the Supreme Self.


- Amrit Warsha    March 29 & 30, 2020

dumb's 500

He was into intense austerities.
Aspiring for divine grace, so he could compose poems on Dewi.

Poems  that would propel people who recite, to ultimate well being.

A gaping docile dumb man was also sitting, at the temple corridor.

Dewi had to respond, to the intensity of austerities.
But she knew - capacity was yet to grow, to receive her grace.
Still, she came over to him -  as a woman with, mouthful of chewed tamboola juice.
'Open your mouth', she said with brimming red lips.

He swore, called her a *****, shooed her away.

Being a deity of unreasonable compassion, - Awyaaja Karuna Murti - she walked across to the dumb man. And squirted the gift, into his gaping mouth.
Tamboola juices flowed. Tongue came alive. The dumb  broke into verse.

- Shrfi Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, kanchi

Prana Tishta - grounding of Chi

Prana Pratishta refers to installation of an image and it's consecration.

It involves reciting of hymns and chants that invite a life energy - Prana - to be the resident guest, in the idol.

It is followed by Nyasa or grounding.

Through texts such as Tantra Tattwa, esoteric tantric traditions follow elaborate rituals to infuse life to a deity.

-WikiMili 

Seventh verse

Narayana Karuna-maya Sharanam Karawani Tawakau Charanau
      Iti Shatpadimadeeye Wadana Saroje Sadaa Wasatu

- Shat-padi

O compassionate Narayana I am choice-less at your feet
      May these six footfalls ever hover upon lip lotuses

- Shat-padi

Being choice-less is the fragrance of being devout.
Six footfalls could be taken as, the six verses.
Shat-pada could also mean the six words  -  Compassionate Narayana I am choice-less at your feet.

- Shri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Kanchi

plucked head of Brahma- Brahma Capaala

Severed fifth head stuck to Shiva, began gobbling food, robbing the host of all nourishment.
Dewi approached Wishnu for remedy; and prepared delicacies as counselled.

She fed the head - it ate out of her palm.
When it was sufficiently addicted, she dropped a morsel - and another, and another.

The head dropped down to savor.

Shiva seized the moment, transformed into a limbless linga. The head could not reattach. Dewi scaled up her form, trampled the Capaala deep into earth.

Fed up with her 'me-too' allegations, Wishnu scaled up his form and trampled Dewi - deep into earth. And she surfaced, through a termite hill.

- Traditional narrative of Malayanur