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Decoding the Supreme Force: Cosmic Dance of Shiva

Arijit Bose
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Lucknow: Is Shiva the god of destruction? Is it auspicious to keep icon of Nataraja in one’s house? Is Shiva’s Tandava a representation of destruction? These are some of the questions that arise in our minds. Let us see what they actually mean. Symbolism of Nataraja `Siva’ means `the auspicious’.According to Hindu philosophy, the dance of Nataraja is a symbolic representation of the pañcakŗtya – the five main activities of the Supreme Being, which constitute the cosmic process – Sŗṣṭi (creation or evolution), Sthiti (preservation or continuation), Samhāra (conclusion), Tirobhāva…

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Temple Trees – the Sthala Vriksha

Arijit Bose
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Lucknow: To fully understand the concept of a temple tree, we must understand the connection between forests, trees and worship in early times and how the concept of sacred groves has developed over the centuries. We know that in very early times in India, deities were first worshipped in the open, sometimes with stone or wood images. Hero stones were also quite popular in the worship of the common people. There is much evidence for the fact that many temples came up in locations long considered sacred with specific deities…

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