For a True Devotee, Everything is Good 🙏
A devotee accepts the hell of this material world as a wonderful reminder from the unlimitedly merciful Bhagwaan Sri Krishna that this material world is not our actual home. 1/n
Everyone is punished and rewarded according to their previous pious and sinful activities. You cannot change that with prayer. Prayer is for awakening the pure love of God within our hearts so that we can get out of this material world.
Prayers are not for getting better facilities in this material world. Krishna has rubber stamped this material world as "dukhalayam ashashvatam" - in other words place of temporariness and misery. (BG 8.15).
Who would like to come to such a place? miserable people definitely. So even the wisest seeming person on this planet (except a bonafide spiritual master) is a miser. And that includes you and me too!
The divine loves everybody, however, they are. If the happening of bad things takes your faith away, then it is no longer faith. But if faith stays in spite of all the bad things that are happening, then the end result will always be great and wonderful.
Also This is not difficult to explain from the Karma and rebirth doctrine of Hinduism.
When something bad happened to a good person, you are only seeing the conducts and acts of the person in the current life.
This is in the scripture is known as the Vartamana Karma.
But, there are Sanchita Karmas (accumulated over previous births) as well as Prarabdha (which are commenced or ready to bear fruits).
So along with our destiny, the bad things going to happen with us are also predetermined.
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Words of wisdom from Sri Ramana Maharishi about Desire and Aatma :
Atman is verily what you call your Self. It is pure Consciousness / Awareness. It is the source within you. It has no other attributes.
You are identified with the body and the mind (ego) and hence you think you are limited. When you transcend this body/mind complex, you'll see you are pure awareness.
Ambitions, love, fear etc. are all extensions of desire. Desire comes from ignorance - of the fact that by nature (as your true Self) you are complete.
The incompleteness stems from identifying with the body, mind, ego and are not attributes of the Self (Atman).
Kumbhabhishekam is a Hindu temple consecration ceremony that involves sprinkling (abhishekam) the temple with sacred waters brought in a water pot (kumbha).
It also is the process of restoring the depleted power of the deity in the temple. 1/5
The consecration ceremony takes several days and begins with honoring Ganesha and praying to the Earth.
The central events take place in a large tent by the temple and include a fire altar ceremony, offerings of words and goods, and a closing ceremony, purnahuti or completion.
Kumbhabhishekham is widely celebrated as a festival in South India.
Ashtabandhanam is the process of affixing an icon to its pedestal (peetham) with a clay-like paste made of 8 specific herbs mixed with wood lac, limestone powder, resin, red ochre, beeswax and butter.
DAITYAS were greatly devoted to their deities followed Vedic rituals, undertook severe penance, and offered incredible offerings to Deties. Hiranyakashipu,
Sishupala, Virochana and Bali were some (renowned!) daityas.
Daityas often Raise a war against the Devas and Distrubed their religious ceremonies. They often winning and the gods had to ask divine dispensation to get back power.
All the TV series You have seen so far depicted Bhagavan Indra in a very wrong way. In fact, sometimes his crimes are as far as to be malevolent to saintly beings. That is not true about Bhagavan Indra.
This thread traverse reality 1/16
The characteristics of Bhagavan Indra is found in Rig Veda 2.12
1. HE who, just born, chief God of lofty spirit by power and might became the Gods’ protector, Before whose breath through greatness of his valour the two worlds trembled, He, O men, is Indra.
2. He who fixed fast and firm the earth that staggered, and set at rest the agitated mountains, Who measured out the air's wide middle region and gave the heaven support, He, men, is Indra.
"Verily, all this universe is Brahman. From Him do all things originate, into Him do they dissolve and by Him are they sustained. On Him should one meditate in tranquility... 1/5
For as is one's faith, such indeed one is; and as is one's faith in this world, such one becomes on departing hence. Let one, therefore, cultivate faith.
-Chandogya Upanishad 3.14.1
'On Him should one meditate in tranquility' is talking of Bhakti Yoga since one cannot meditate on Nirguna Brahman.
Another example of recommending Bhakti Yoga is given in Svetasvatara Upanishad.