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SAPTA-MATRIKAS. By Diti were born to Kasyapa two sons known as Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakasipu. They were respectively killed by Vishnu in his Varaha-avatara and Nrisimha-Avatara. Prahlada,the son of Hiranyakasipu,became a devotee of Vishnu and renounced all concerns of worldly life.

After him Andhakasura began to rule over the Asuras. By piously practicing a long series of austerities,he obtained several boons from Brahma and became very powerful. He then began to cause annoyance to the Devas; and they ran to Kailasas to complain Siva about the troubles caused by the Asura chief. When Siva was listening to their complaint, Andhakasura appeared at Kailasa with a view to carry away Parvathi.  Siva thereupon got ready to fight the Asura; he made three well-known snakes Vasuki,Takshaka and Dhananjaya serve as his belt and bracelets. An Asura named Nila, who had secretly planned to kill Siva came out in the meanwhile in the form of an elephant. Nandi came to know of this and informed Virabhadra;and he took the shape of the lion(the natural enemy of the elephant) and attacked and killed Nila. The skin of this elephant was presented by Virabhadra to Siva. It was worn by Siva as his upper garment. Clad with this curious garment and ornamented with the serpents and wielding his powerful Trisula, Siva started out on his expedition against Andhakasura taking with him his army consisting of the Ganas. Vishnu and the other Gods also went with him to offer help. But in the struggle that ensured Vishnu and other Devas had to run away.

FOUR-SQUARE FAÇADE FOCUSSED ON FATHER

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FOUR-SQUARE FAÇADE FOCUSSED ON FATHER.

with special reference to:-

COMMUNAL COMMUNION WITH THE CREATOR.

 

ONCE his immediate wants were satisfied, and a modicum of physical well-being, and social security were secured, man yielded to his natural predilection of speculative thought, and wondered what it was all about: ‘Who was he ?

From where did he come ? Whither was he going? Who made him? Who made the world? And where was HE, who made the world? Did HE make more than one world? Who made the SUN, the MOON, the WIND, the OCEAN, and the SKY?.........’ And in the course of his life, man came across OLD AGE, SICKNESS, AND DEATH. He came across LOVE and the ecstasies of the joys of love; Friendship and the happy glow of the warmth of friendship. He came across Greed and Delusion, Anger and Hatred, Lust and Fear. He came across the love of the Immediate Ephemeral, with its passing joys, its flitting glitters, and the sorrow of its passing. He speculated on The Eternal, Sublime and Glorious, Guiding Light and Lustrous Delight, beckoning dimly from a distance, demanding a sacrifice, and a renunciation of the ephemeral, a disciplining of the soul, before It would become a tangible and fulfilling experience. 

Baalaa Chakram Symbol Abode & Vehicle Of The Most High

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The embodied Jeeva is like a bottled quantum of elixir cast into an ocean of elixir. There are many such bottles so cast into the ocean by a playful Divinity.

The ocean is also subject to the play of waves, and unseen sub-surface currents. These bottles then, sometimes bump into one another, and move about together for a time, to be tossed apart later; perhaps to meet again, perhaps not. Sometimes too the bottles clash – one group against another; - or even an isolated bottle against another, and get broken in the clash. Often the bottles are helpless in these movements, though they may be under the elusion that they are independent in their volition, sometimes the elixir, imprisoned, (or housed and protected, according to the point of view, ) in the bottle, may have become somewhat ripe and mature, and so eager and able to participate in the movements of the ocean. Such bottles possibly enjoy a modicum of discretion in their volition.