Some glimpses of my city #Cuttack (Katak). A city more than a thousand years old and still keeping its spirit alive. Here life moves around Devi and Nadi (river)
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Maa Katak Chandi, adhistatri (presiding deity) Devi of Katak
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Maa Gada Chandi, the protecting deity of Barabati fort
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Maa Jhaanjiri Mangalaa, one of the many consecrated Devisthanam deities of the city
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Durga Puja murti
Whatever yellow you see is made of GOLD and all the shining white are made of pure SILVER. This intrinsic craft of gold and silver is called filigree or Taarakashi, for which Cuttack is world famous.
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Netaji's birth place
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Barabati Stadium
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Indoor Stadium
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The Maritime Museum
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Deer park
Yes we have a beautiful deer park in the heart of the city
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The iconic Balijatra ground
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Barabati Fort
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Beautiful Mahanadi
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The Ranihat Clock tower
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The Church of Epiphany
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Cuttack Railway station
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Famous Dahibara-Aaloodum
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A beautiful summer morning of Cuttack
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Iconic Ravenshaw University (my alma mater)
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Cuttack : The silver city of culture and brotherhood
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जिस तरह देवता 33 हैं उसी तरह दैत्यों,दानवों, गंधर्वों,नागों आदि की गणना भी की गई है। देवताओं के गुरु बृहस्पति हैं,जो हिन्दू धर्म के संस्थापक 4 ऋषियों में से एक अंगिरा के पुत्र हैं। बृहस्पति के पुत्र कच थे जिन्होंने शुक्राचार्य से संजीवनी विद्या सीखी।शुक्राचार्य
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दैत्यों (असुरों) के गुरु हैं। भृगु ऋषि तथा हिरण्यकशिपु की पुत्री दिव्या के पुत्र शुक्राचार्य की कन्या का नाम देवयानी तथा पुत्र का नाम शंद और अमर्क था। देवयानी ने ययाति से विवाह किया था।
ऋषि कश्यप की पत्नी अदिति से जन्मे पुत्रों को आदित्य कहा गया है। वेदों में जहां अदिति के
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पुत्रों को आदित्य कहा गया है,वहीं सूर्य को भी आदित्य कहा गया है। वैदिक लोग दोनों की ही स्तुति करते थे। इसका यह मतलब नहीं कि आदित्य ही सूर्य है या सूर्य ही आदित्य है। हालांकि आदित्यों को सौर-देवताओं में शामिल किया गया है और उन्हें सौर मंडल का कार्य सौंपा गया है।कश्यप ऋषि की
All the festivals and their rituals in #SanatanaDharma carries deep scientific cause and effect.We need to know these. One such ritual is growing 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎.Let's explore its significance in this thread
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Both Chitra and Sharadiya Navratri is celebrated just before the Kharif and Ravi season of agricultural activities respectively. It's the time when the quality of #soil needs to be determined,so that plans for the next season can be done effectively. And accordingly taxed too
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were decided by the local governing bodies during ancient times.
The ritual goes like this...People bring soil from their agricultural fields and while doing 𝑮𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒂𝑺𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒂 for Navratri on first day,they sow the 𝑺𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒂𝑫𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒂 i.e. the 7 types of grain
Neither Einstein nor Newton discovered concept of Gravity.
Indian Mathematician Brahmagupta (c.628 CE) said:
"All heavy things fall down to earth by a law of nature. It is the nature of the earth to attract things. Thrown object always returns. Earth on all its sides
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is same"
Brahmagupta was only reiterating the ideas of his predecessor Aryabhata (c. 5th cent CE) who states "the earthly globe remains suspended in the sky just as a piece of iron is held in the grip of magnet".
Here, Aryabhata actually seems to allude to planetary and
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celestial gravity
From Kanaada (5th cent BC) onwards, an elementary concept of gravity was known to philosophers and mathematicians of ancient India, although it was not as Advanced as the concept of gravity formulated by Newton.
Sanskrit is the oldest language that is based on sounds and vibrations.Every alphabet and its pronounciation have specific meaning; like ku is earth,khE is sky. Mantras are frequencies emerging from those sounds.
AUM is the first and
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foremost of all mantras.
AUM is the sound of cosmic energy and contains all the sounds in itself.The spiritual efficacy of AUM is heard,not by the ears but by the heart. It surcharges the innermost being of man with vibrations of the highest reality.
All galaxies (including
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ours) are rotating and they sound they make is AUM.
Frequency of AUM is 7.83 Hz, which in inaudible to us as the human ear with 2 strand DNA cannot discern sounds of frequency less than 20 hertz.Birds, Dogs and few other animals can hear it.