I retell Hindu legends-making ancient wisdom playful, visual, and meaningful for all ages. Physio by profession. A mother. Rooted in yoga, nourished by Ayurved!
If there is food in your body, in two hours’ time your energies will age by approximately twenty-eight days. Does that mean you can eat a raw food diet on such a day? No, because the moment food goes into your body, the juices in your stomach attack and kill it. It becomes like semi-cooked food and will still have the same impact. This subtle shift can cause dullness, sleepiness—even a symbolic “death” of awareness.
2. The year was 1191. The First Battle of Tarain.
Long ago, in the golden age of Dwaraka, there existed a jewel so radiant it seemed to carry the sun’s own breath. This was the Syamantaka, a divine gem gifted by Surya, the sun god, to his devotee Satrajit. It wasn’t just beautiful—it was miraculous. Wherever it rested, it produced gold daily, and its glow was said to ward off misfortune.
2/ But explaining the reason to a 7 yr old was not easy. I tried to keep it very simple. 
2/ Days passed. Then weeks. Then years.
For a middle class this is nothing less than a calamity. but even hard times become easy to bear if we give it a touch of humor☺️, isn't it? 
When people realized they are past a certain age and within the next year or two they may pass, they would walk all the way to a sacred space by themselves to die. They did not want their relatives, children, or spouse around them, because they wanted to realize that all these things are just arrangements that you make for your comfort and convenience here; this is not ultimate nature of life. 
🌘It is a significant day observed in Kerala, to honor departed ancestors. It falls on the Amavasya (new moon) day in the Malayalam month of Karkidakam.
Take a step back from moral lensing and observe how nature functions:
📜 Anekāntavāda enters the picture here, sipping chai thoughtfully...
there is something known as ‘consecration’. Now what’s that? It is like this, if you transform mud into food, we call this agriculture. If you make food into flesh and bone, we call this digestion, integration. If you make flesh into mud, we call this cremation. If you can make this flesh or even a stone or an empty space into a divine possibility, that is called consecration.
The ancient Indian tradition of Vāstu Śāstra and ritual practices encompasses detailed guidance for maintaining harmony between humans and their environment. Among the various omens and their remedies discussed in classical texts, the unexpected entry of a pigeon into one’s home holds particular significance. 
In Kerala, there are two very important centres of serpent worship: 'Mannarasala temple' and 'Vetticode temple'. Both the temples are believed to be consecrated by Lord Parasuram after he created the land of Kerala.
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For those who do not know, Shasta is a Hindu deity of Dravidian origin, associated with Shiva and Vishnu, described as the offspring of Shiva and Mohini. His principal function is to act as a kuladevata of a given clan, known as Ayyanar in TN & Ayyappan in Kerala.
✔️A prominent Indian diplomat, politician, writer, official in government of India and three times elected Parliamentarian from Thiruvananthapuram.
A Man of Courage and Conviction
Pandavas along with their spouse Panchali had a sojourn there at time of one-year exile. Hence the place got its name Panchalimedu which derived from the words "Panchali" (Draupadi) and "medu" (hill). The local tribes there offered selfless helps to the Kuru princes. 
He saw a group of cows surrounding a dead cowherd. The cows were smelling the dead body and crying. This cowherd, who had the name Moolan, was from a nearby village called Sathanur and had been bitten by a snake, and died. 
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