Happy Deepawali

Maha Lakashmi

Wishing all a very happy and prosperous Diwali. Deepawali/ Diwali is the Hindu festival of lights. Its one of the major festival of Hinduism. It spiritually signifies the victory of light over darkness, good over evil, knowledge over ignorance and hope over despair.
Goddess Lakshmi is prayed on this day to bring prosperity and wealth. While performing Maha Lakshmi Pujan, we worship Lord Ganesha, Maha Saraswati and Maha Lakshmi. Lord Ganesha is the God of wisdom, Saraswati is the Goddess of knowledge. Hence, always a Sri word is added with the name of Goddess Lakshmi. It means, if a person gets wealth then he should use the money in good works/causes.

                                                        Goddess Lakshmi

Lakshmi signifies the wealth and prosperity which is both material and spiritual. In Hinduism she is the divine spouse of Lord Vishnu, or the active energy of Vishnu and also referred as Lakshmi-Narayan.

Goddess Lakshmi is always associated with lotus flower and also with gold coins coming out of her hand. It spiritually signifies that while living in this world, one should enjoy its wealth, but not be obsessed with it. One should be like a lotus that although grows in water but is not wetted by water.
Lotus blooms signifies spiritual awakening, spiritual understanding as well.

Some of other well known names of Lakshmi are Kamla, Shri, Padmavati, Padma, Ambuja, Bhagyashri, Daridriyanashini, Jalaranjiniya, Jaya, Padamahasta, Padmini, Vimala. Vishnupatni, Varalakshmi, Ramaa.

Cosmic Womb

Cosmic Womb

Mahadeva

Shiva the most benevolent

Pashupatinaath; the lord of all beings

Shiva as Pashupatinaath (Lord of all beings)

Chant: Om Mani Padme Hum

Om Mani Padme Hum

Play of Infinity: dance of Shiva and Shakti

Dance of Infinity

Shiva and Uma are dancing lost in the passion for each other.Their energies create a delicate balance in the universe. This dance  at the end of the cycle/time of destruction, is called the dance of death known as Thandava. At the time of creation it is known as Aananda Thandava(dance of bliss)/Lasya the dance of creation.This creation and destruction forms the cycle of birth, the death and the rebirth. It's an eternal dance of Infinity.
This rhythmic play  is the source of all movement within the universe. Shiva on his own remains unmoved. Only the love of Uma makes Shiva to indulge in this playful dance time and again.
At the end of every age the universe is destroyed by Shiva's dance of Thandava along with his beloved in the form of Mahakali and he takes the form of Mahakaal.
 Then with goddess Tripura Sundari/Parvati he begins the process of creation by performing the dance of creation know as Lasya.

Bhakti Marg (devotional Way), Meera Bai

Meera Bai

Trayambakam Shiva

Triyambaka Shiva, Three Eyed Lord

Tatpursha

                                                                       Tatpursha Shiva

Some call him Siva - the auspicious one. Some have known him as Rudra - the vedic god. He is the Adiyogi - the first among the yogis. The one who rules and takes care of numerous universes. He is the creator and also the creation. 

Shivoham -I am Shiva or he is the one who resides in all the beings as super soul.He is the eternal one, the meaning of Vedas. The pure blissful consciousness. As he is unshakable and forever stable. 

He is the one who creates and also the one who destroys everything to be created again. Shiva is the transcendental knowledge, and the very essence of Vedas. He is the lord of all the doctors –the one known as Baidhanaatha/ Vaidnaatha. He is the Mahadev, the lord of Gods, as he consumed poison to save the creation, for only he could have survived such an act. He is Mritunjaya, conqueror of death. He is the kaal of death known as mahakala.He is the time , the death and also the rebirth.

Shiva is often depicted as holding trident, which represents the threefold qualities of nature: creation, preservation and destruction. Hence it also represent the Hindu trinity Brahma(creator), Vishnu(preserver), Mahesh(destroyer). Also the three Guna(attributes) Satvic-Tattva, Rajasic-Tattva, Tamasic-Tattva.

He is the Omnipotent, the subtle, yet the Supreme; the manifested, the unmanifested and that which is both; the external and the internal; the eternal and also the non-eternal; wakefulness, dream and deep sleep; the past, present and the future; the visible and the invisible; the instrument of knowledge, the knower and the known; the knowledge and the ignorance; the light and the darkness.

Lord Siva is all that and much more that cannot be expressed by mere words. He can be experienced through meditation.

🙏🌺🌼🌻OM NAMAH SHIVAYA🙏🌺🌼🌻

 

Stories of hindu mythology

Shri mata Tripurasundari

 

 

Shiva and Shakti

 

 

Goddess Uma

 

 

Ganesha and Parvati

 

 

Goddess Yami