Ashta Siddhi

Ashta Siddhi is mentioned in Patanjali Yog sutra and can be obtained by very few through countless years of practice and devotion to all eight limbs of Ashtanga Yoga.

Siddhi can loosely be translated as accomplishment or a special power or unusual skill.

The eight Siddhis are:

1. Anima: Reducing one’s physical self to the size of an atom.

2. Mahima: Expanding one’s physical self to infinite level

3. Garima: Making one’s physical self so heavy as immovable by others

4. Laghima: Becoming almost weightless

5. Prapti: Being able travel anywhere in the Universe

6. Prakamya: Can know & understand what is going on in one’s mind. Can understand other person’s min.

7. Ishitva: Possessing title of Bhagwan

8. Vashitva: A seeker can subdue any person/thing

(Hanuman Jayanti is coming)

Hanumanji not only possessed all eight siddhis, but was also blessed by Sita mata as “Ashta Siddhi Nau Nidhi Ke Daata”.

When Hanumanji first reaches to Lanka on his mission to find Sita, he makes use of anima so as to be discrete in enemy territory.

He uses it again when he approaches Sita mata for the first time – reducing his size to that of a schoolboy, to avoid scaring her. He uses mahima to outwit & overpowers
the demons.

#Thread on Toolkit for Hindus

1. Connect yourself to a Hindu cause irrespective of the state, language, caste or creed. Remember that day isn't far when we might become minority without minority status.

2. Since we are all called Sanghis, no harm visiting the nearest RSS shakha once.

3. Countering Radic@l Isl@m is a must. They are spreading like termites.

Please visit my pinned thread on J!hadists. Be alert and cautious.

Check @jihadwatchRS and his videos for detailed information.

4. Reading about our past scriptures, vedas and countering false propaganda with proper logic and evidence.

Some of us have already started digging real history, vedas, Gita, etc. Please read the complete thread and then RT. Remember FOLLOWERS IS NOT THE MAIN GOAL.

5. Celebrating all Hindu festivals openly and without any guilt and following the rituals. Wearing a thread around the wrist, using rudraksh malas, wearing bindis, should be made as a trend.

I wear a small ganesha pendant around my neck. Show your identity openly.

DR RAMENDRA LAL MUKHERJEE @ramendralalmukh

Four-year-old Ramendra was at his grandfather’s home, taking an afternoon nap, during one summer holiday. All the doors were closed, and the curtains had been drawn, leaving the room drenched in darkness,

but for a single beam of sunlight streaming in through the crack in the door. The wall, like a cinema screen, came alive to depict the noisy world outside. As Ramendra’s family slept—lorries, cows, people and trees—everything was visible. The room had become a pin-hole camera.

The afternoon siesta was now all but forgotten, as Ramendra rushed to see if what he saw could be replicated on a smaller scale. He picked up his grandmother’s white coloured cough syrup box and a safety pin from his mother.

He punched one small hole on one side of the box for the light to be able to enter and made a larger hole on top to see inside the box. Lo and behold, he could see the trees, people, lorries and cows inside this tiny camera.

Dr Mukherjee lives in Howrah with his wife and son and is known as a “serial inventor”, with over 30 internationally patented inventions to his name so far. Some of these include a lie detector, a stone analyser, an electronic ENT scope,

@BhaktiSaamrajya @AadhySanatani @Sassy_Pharm @ragiing_bull @SriramKannan77 @IndicKartavya @dpbol @Anaamikaa9999 @tushar_kn @sucheta1317 @noconversion Where do you think I can save my threads?

Jassa Singh - The man who rebuilt Sri Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple)

In 1762, Punjab was fighting for freedom. Ahmad Shah Abdali (Durrani) was the karta dharta of Punjab in those days.

1762 was known for Sikh genocide/massacre as 25k - 30k sikhs (expected either 1/3rd or half the population of Sikhs) were slaughtered at Kup.

Ahmad Shah Durrani was part of a long line of conquerors that invaded Punjab since Mahmud of Ghazni in 1001.

Ahmad Shah then marched to Sri Harmandir Sahib & blew it up using gunpowder without leaving a single brick intact.

Too sprinkle salt on their wounds he filled the holy tank with the carcasses of dead cows. (Can Sikhs of today forget this?)

This boosted Ahmad Shah's confidence.

Around Diwali, he decided to finish off the Sikhs at Lahore with his 50000 Afghan soldiers.

The Sikhs were waiting to take revenge. They charged the Afghans with their war cry "Waheguru ji ka khalsa, Waheguruji ki fateh" and forced Ahmad Shah to draw off his army.

Once in 1761, Ahmad Shah was returning triumphant after winning the third battle of Panipat against Marathas. He was taking his booty of 22000 hindu and muslim women to be sold in Afghanistan.

Jassa Singh rescued these women and gallantly escorted them to their families.

Indians are famouspfor Jugaad.

Most parents are worried about their child and always make sure that they aren't addicted to drugs.

Each one listed below is addictive and has several side effects.

So let me tell you the 'jugaad'

1. Iodex Sandwiches

Applying a generous amount of Iodex balm on a slice of bread making the grossest sandwich ever! But they eat it as it gives them a certain high & makes them feel light headed.

2. Drinking hand sanitizer/after shave lotions

One large bottle of hand sanitiser contains alcohol equivalent to 32 vodka shots!

3. Inhaling whiteners (liquid)/ink/deodorants

Again it gives a high. The habit might begin with a friend suggesting a way to relax after a rigorous period of studying or from information gleaned online or from the peer group.

Have anyone heard of Savarkar working for untouchables and opening a temple in Ratnagiri?

When Savarkar was under house arrest at Ratnagiri (Maharashtra), he toiled hard and persistently, for decades, to eliminate casteism (Jaat-based discrimination).

Result? Well, as Ambedkar himself noted, because of Savarkar's work Ratnagiri district and parts of Konkan were totally free of caste-based discrimination.

(We were always taught of Gandhi fighting for untouchables 😏)

He organised community feasts where people of all castes sat together and ate, he got temples opened for all castes, where properly trained priests from, what were traditionally considered, lower castes presided, he got thread-ceremony (Upanayana) performed on

thousands of ex-untouchable children, to raise the status of women in their own eyes and those of the society, he organized gatherings for women. There are hundred other things Savarkar did to end casteism.

Savarkar had said, "The Kashi Vishweshwara, Jagannath Puri, Dwarka, Rameshwar and other temples should be subject to certain rules and regulations, open to darshan for all Hindus of all castes. No Hindu shall be denied access on the basis of birth - based caste distinction.

Thread on #RealHeroesofIndia

Murlidhar Devidas Amte was the eldest son of Devidas and Laxmibai Amte. His father Devidas was a powerful bureaucrat with the pre-independence British administration and a wealthy landowner in the Wardha district.

Being the first child of an affluent family, Muralidhar was never denied a single thing by his parents since childhood.

His parents lovingly called him ‘Baba’ and the name stuck with him. At a very young age, Baba owned a gun and used to hunt wild boar and deer.

Later, he went on to own an expensive sports car, cushioned with panther skin.

Baba studied law and earned his LLB degree from Law College in Wardha. He set up a law practice in his native town which soon became successful.

One day, he stumbled upon a a bundle of rags which was moving. On closer inspection, he was a human in his last stage of leprosy. Rotting mass of human flesh, only holes instead of nostrils, no trace of fingers or toes.

At first, Baba fled in fear; later, he returned, realizing that the only way to mitigate the fear he felt was to replace it with love. It was a turning point in his life.

He had no idea about leprosy and its treatment.

Flamingos

Thousands of flamingos migrate to Mumbai every year between the months of October & March before flying out around June.

They arrive from the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat and Sambhar Lake in Rajasthan, some even from Iran and Israel.

A census by the Bombay Natural History Society in January 2019 had counted 1,21,000  flamingos in Mumbai then.

Besides the Navi Mumbai creek, environmentalists have noticed a huge flock of flamingos at Thane Creek, Uran, Panju Island and Vasai, as well.

One major problem is obviously the destruction of wetlands. This thread isn't about that.

From around 2016 onwards, the local fishermen started spotting injured and wounded flamingos mainly in the parts of Uran, ( Raigad) and Palghar (infamously famous).

Flamingos with broken legs, broken body parts, clipped wings, etc. The aim is to make them handicapped. Once they become handicapped, it's easy to capture them and sell their meat. They are considered to be a great delicacy.

And most of these are killed and sold as 'special chicken meat'.

Flamingos are our guests and in India, we believe in अतिथि देवो भवः!

#Thread on #Savarkar

Most historians - British as well as Indian, have described and dismissed the rising of 1857 as a ‘Sepoy Mutiny’ or at best ‘The Indian Mutiny’.

We all have read it in the similar fashion in our History Textbooks too.

Whereas several revolutionaries and freedom fighters regarded this as a strategy that was well planned, & organised to destroy the British power in India.

#Savarkar was the one who looked at it from the Indian perspective.

Being a revolutionary himself, he was inspired by the bravery, heroism, the burning passion, suffering and the unfortunate tragic fate of the leaders in 1857.

He decided to change the British and the Indian narrative about 1857.

He spent days and months in the 'India Office' library in London and accordingly wrote a book in Marathi in 1908.

He found it impossible to publish this in India and the original manuscript was returned to him back. He tried publishing the same in Germany but in vain.

Some Indian students at India House translated this in English and he could finally publish it in Holland in 1909 (almoat a year after he finished writing the book) under the title :

“THE INDIAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE –1857”

Brutal truth about Aur@ngzeb!

1. He was a religious bigøt, cunning and cruel to H!ndus.

He was keen that the sh@ri@ or Isl@mic law be followed everywhere.

H!ndu religious fairs were outlawed in 1668, and an edict of the following year prohibited construction of Hindu temples as well as the repair of old ones. 

The duty (internal customs fees) paid on goods was 2.5%, double the amount was levied on H!ndu merchants from 1665 onwards

2. According to one historical source, elephants were deployed to crush the resistance in the area surrounding the Red Fort of H!ndus who refused to submit to jiziya collectors.

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3. Aurangzeb’s ultimate aim was conversion of non-Musl!ms to Isl@m. Whenever possible the emperor gave out robes of honor, cash gifts, and promotions to converts. It quickly became known that conversion was a sure way to the emperor’s favor.

4. Aurangzeb as a ferocious destroyer of H!ndu temples and idols.

He did not just build an isolated mosque on a destroyed temple, he ordered all temples to be destroyed, among them the Kashi Vishwanath temple, one of the most sacred places of H!nduism.

#SnanaJatra

Jagannath Bhagwan symbolises Bhagwan Krishna/Bhagwan Vishnu. He is the Ishtadevta/Kuldevta for many.

After all who's he? Jagannath is a combination of two words - Jagat (world) and nath (Bhagwan/master); in short Bhagwan of the Universe.

He's also known as "Sarbam Rahasyam Purusottamasya” which denotes the origin of Purusottama Jagannath is mysterious and enigmatic.

His black face represents the void and he dwells in Mahashunya.

He's a simple crude wooden idol with two wooden stumps as hands, conspicuous absence of legs with two big round eyes indicating sun and moon emerging from a big black face which symbolizes the Universe. He is worshiped as the Daru-Brahma.

The word Daru is derived from Da-Dukha or sorrow and Ru-to give.

During the #SNANAPURNIMA , 108 copper and gold pots are filled with water from suna kuan (golden well) and kept on the bhoga mandap. These vessels are brought to snana bedi on this day.

This ritual is called Jalad Hibasa. The dieties are first offered red powder, & then taken to #snana bedi, their bodies covered with silk clothes. Pouring of water is accompanied by chanting of Pavamana.

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A poet, philosopher, metaphysician, bhakti song writer, establishing 4 peethas and what not : all this in just 32 years.

He wrote Bhashyas on ten major Upanishads, the Brahman sutras and commented on Bhagavad Gita.

#ShankaraJayanti

To unite all kinds of people, he created two types:

1. Those who believed in 🌺Saguna Brahman🌺

When Brahman does the work of creation, preservation and destruction with the help of his maya (माया), Brahman (ब्रह्म) is called as saguna brahman.

People from different parts worshipped different deities. To create harmony between all, he created Panchayatan, in which only 5 main forms of dieties will be worshipped, that is, Ganpati, Shiva, Vishnu, Devi (Ambika), and Surya.

2. Those who believed in 💮Nirguna Brahman (निर्गुण ब्रह्म)💮

Nirguna brahman is a considered as formless, indivisible, unchanging, attributeless, beyond maya and peaceful. Brahman is Sat-Chit-Anand. And for those who believe this, all dieties combine into one Brahman.

🌼Advaita🌼

The word 'Advaita' ( अद्वैत ) means non-duality. It is a philosophy which describes that there is only one reality and one truth i.e. Brahman. All else is not real, not eternal and is of transient nature.

#Shankarajayanthi

MYTH AND MYTHOLOGY:

All religions and all ideologies (eg: communism, liberalism and so on) are a part history and a part myth.

As for religious myths, the academic types might want to read Joseph Campbell's book, "The Power of Myth".

I put down below some quotes of his :

1. Each myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

2. Myth is much more important & true than history. History is just journalism & you know how reliable it is.

As far as ideologies are concerned, their mythology lies in their tall claims about their success in the real world. As we all are aware, this whole ideology of communism has proved to be just a myth as it has failed everywhere.

Even Mother Russia has forsaken Communism and mobocracy rules there now! Liberalism's self-proclaimed victories are a pure myth too because there's no liberal state.

Even the liberal dreamlands such as the Scandinavian countries have had to adopt non-liberal policies to check jihadism and Islamism brought in by the migrants.

Besides the above, today's Mythology becomes tomorrow's history as

One of the five Maha-Vrats in Jainism is Non-attachment/Aparihraha.

Jainism believes that the more worldly wealth a person possesses, the more he is likely to commit sin to acquire and maintain the possession, and in a long run he may be unhappy.

#HappyMahavirJayanti

The worldly wealth creates attachments, which will continuously result in greed, jealousy, selfishness, ego, hatred, violence, etc.

Bhagwan Mahavir has said that wants and desires have no end, and only the sky is the limit for them.

An attachment to worldly objects results in the bondage to the cycle of birth and death. Therefore, one who desires of spiritual liberation should withdraw from all attachments to pleasing objects of all the five senses.

Monks observe this vow by giving up attachments to all things such as:

Material things:  Wealth, property, grains, house, books, clothes, etc

.Relationships:  Father, mother, spouse, children, friends, enemies, other monks, disciples, etc

Pleasure of Five Senses:  The five senses are touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing.

Feelings:  Pleasure and painful feelings towards any objects.

They have the equanimity towards music & noise, good & bad smells, soft & hard objects for touch, beautiful & dirty sights, etc

Devi/Devtas at the spiritual level, are forms or manifestations of God or Ishvara, the Cosmic Lord and Creator, representing his powers, qualities or various ways of imagining him. They are the principles of Bhakti Yoga.

There exists a yet higher level of Consciousness, all Devis and Devtas are forms or aspects of Brahman, the impersonal Godhead (Cosmic Intelligence /Aakashik field) behind and beyond the manifest universe. They are powers of Gyana Yoga.

The divine trinity are the Creator (Brahma), Perserver (Vishnu) and Dissolver (Shiva) or the three aspects of Ishvara relative to the gunas of rajas, Sattva and tamas.

Yet of the three, it is Shiva that is the closest to Brahman.

In this regard, Shiva is Nirguna Brahman, beyond all manifestation, Vishnu is Ishvara, God or Saguna Brahman as the ruler of the universe, and Brahma is Mahat Tattva or cosmic mind.

Similar is for Sarasvati, Lakshmi and Kali, it is Kali that is the closest to Brahman and a personification of it.

Kali is Brahman’s supreme power or unlimited Shakti – the power of pure power of existence, which as the infinite and eternal exists behind space and time.