First temple is Thirumalai Mahadevar Temple,Munchirai
During the run,they take holy dips in temple tanks.
Heard about a Marathan run that is conducted as part of Maha Shivarathri celebrations -Shivalaya Oottam
Marathan run by devotees covering 12 Shiva Alayams/ Temples chanting Govinda..Gopala...
This practice is related to an legend #story of #Mahabharata
Do read this #Thread
First temple is Thirumalai Mahadevar Temple,Munchirai
During the run,they take holy dips in temple tanks.
After darshan in Thirumalai temple,they go to 2nd temple Tikkurichi Mahadeva Temple.
Interestingly,in each of these temples,prasad is Vibuthi or bhasma & at Thirunattalam Sankara Narayan Temple the prasad is sandal paste/Chandan symbolic of unity of Shiva &Vishnu.
Legend #story 👇
Yudhishtra said that the body of Bhima be split into two halves & one half be given to Purusha Mirugham as one leg was outside kingdom.PurushaMirugam was overvelmed to hear the judgment At that moment,Shiva gave Darshan as Sankara Narayan.
Shivalaya Oottam is conducted to re-emphasis the fact Hari &Haran are same.
Unique thing-chanting name of Vishnu & visiting Shiva temples
Source text - based articles about Shivaya oottam in various news articles/blogs
There a beautiful article about Shivaya Oottam in Swarajya 👇
https://t.co/jugsGSvkj9
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A #story from #Thiruvilayadal puranam-one of divine leelas of Bhagwan Shiva
#threadseries #Madurai
Story 11- it about birth of Ukkira Pandyan-son of Meenakshi devi &Sundareswarar - incarnation of Murugan/Subrahmanya/Kartikeya
உக்கிரபாண்டியன் திருஅவதாரப் படலம்
Under the governance of Sundareshwarar/Sundara Pandyan- kingdom flourished. Shiva Bhagwan & Meenakshi devi wished that dynasty should flourish further.His will made Muruga himself to manifest as baby of Meenakshi devi. Meenakshi devi cherished the pregnancy at every stage.
All customs were followed & ceremonies were held& people were awaiting birth of child of Meenakshi devi.On an auspicious day - Thiruvathirai star a boy baby was born.Meenakshi devi & Sundareswarar were very happy &also the joy of people of Madurai Kingdom was endless.
All devas,rishis and kings from various Kingdoms arrived to see the beautiful child of Meenakshi devi & Sundareswarar.All were very happy.Sundara Pandyan named his son as 'Ukkira Pandyan'.
Ukkira Pandyan grew under great care of Meenakshi devi.
SundaraPandyan performed his Upanayanam at the age of 5. Bhrahaspati,devaguru himself became Ukkira Pandyan's guru.He taught him all sastras.Also trained him in usage of weapons.He mastered all art https://t.co/6v40Jh3y3a the age of 16,he was excelled in vidya, sastras &weaponary
#threadseries #Madurai
Story 11- it about birth of Ukkira Pandyan-son of Meenakshi devi &Sundareswarar - incarnation of Murugan/Subrahmanya/Kartikeya
உக்கிரபாண்டியன் திருஅவதாரப் படலம்
Under the governance of Sundareshwarar/Sundara Pandyan- kingdom flourished. Shiva Bhagwan & Meenakshi devi wished that dynasty should flourish further.His will made Muruga himself to manifest as baby of Meenakshi devi. Meenakshi devi cherished the pregnancy at every stage.
All customs were followed & ceremonies were held& people were awaiting birth of child of Meenakshi devi.On an auspicious day - Thiruvathirai star a boy baby was born.Meenakshi devi & Sundareswarar were very happy &also the joy of people of Madurai Kingdom was endless.
All devas,rishis and kings from various Kingdoms arrived to see the beautiful child of Meenakshi devi & Sundareswarar.All were very happy.Sundara Pandyan named his son as 'Ukkira Pandyan'.
Ukkira Pandyan grew under great care of Meenakshi devi.
SundaraPandyan performed his Upanayanam at the age of 5. Bhrahaspati,devaguru himself became Ukkira Pandyan's guru.He taught him all sastras.Also trained him in usage of weapons.He mastered all art https://t.co/6v40Jh3y3a the age of 16,he was excelled in vidya, sastras &weaponary
Margatha Natarajar murthi - Uthirakosamangai temple near Ramanathapuram,TN
#ArudraDarisanam
Unique Natarajar made of emerlad is abt 6 feet tall.
It is always covered with sandal paste.Only on Thriuvadhirai Star in month Margazhi-Nataraja can be worshipped without sandal paste.
After removing the sandal paste,day long rituals & various abhishekam will be https://t.co/e1Ye8DrNWb day Maragatha Nataraja sannandhi will be closed after anointing the murthi with fresh sandal paste.Maragatha Natarajar is covered with sandal paste throughout the year
as Emerald has scientific property of its molecules getting disturbed when exposed to light/water/sound.This is an ancient Shiva temple considered to be 3000 years old -believed to be where Bhagwan Shiva gave Veda gyaana to Parvati Devi.This temple has some stunning sculptures.
#ArudraDarisanam
Unique Natarajar made of emerlad is abt 6 feet tall.
It is always covered with sandal paste.Only on Thriuvadhirai Star in month Margazhi-Nataraja can be worshipped without sandal paste.
After removing the sandal paste,day long rituals & various abhishekam will be https://t.co/e1Ye8DrNWb day Maragatha Nataraja sannandhi will be closed after anointing the murthi with fresh sandal paste.Maragatha Natarajar is covered with sandal paste throughout the year
as Emerald has scientific property of its molecules getting disturbed when exposed to light/water/sound.This is an ancient Shiva temple considered to be 3000 years old -believed to be where Bhagwan Shiva gave Veda gyaana to Parvati Devi.This temple has some stunning sculptures.
#sculpture #story
Kirata-Arjuniyam episode in Vana Parva - of #Mahabharata serves as a proof of the persistence & focus of Arjuna & the playfulness,generosity of Bhagawan Shiva.Also Shiva wished to test Arjuna,so appears as Kirata/hunter along with Devi as a huntress.
📸 1 - Sculpture in the gopuram of Kapaleeshwarar Temple, Chennai,TN
📸 2 - A panel in Beautiful Amruteshwara Temple, Amruthapura,Karnataka
Sculptures depicts Arjuna doing tapas,Killing of boar,battle between Kirata(Shiva) &Arjun after which Arjuna obtained Pashupatastra.
#story #Thread -In Vana Parva,Arjun sets out to attain the Pashupatastra from Shiva.He was doing tapas,was distracted as he saw a wild boar(asura) rushing towards him to slay him.Arjun took his Gandiva & pointed it at the boar.A hunter(kirata)&his wife were present at that spot.
Both #Arjun & Kirata shot an arrow at the boar & it fell dead.The boar revealed its true form,which was a rakshasa named https://t.co/Ptq7Q6FsmQ argument erupted between hunter & Arjuna as to who shot the boar first.Arjun showered arrows at the hunter & a fierce battle started.
📸 -Sculpture depicting the battle of Kirata & Arjuna at Kailasanathar Temple, Kanchipuram TN
Arjuna kept showering arrows towards kirata.Awestruck as his arrows had no effect on the hunter,Arjuna stood still.He soon realised that this must be none other than - Shiva himself.
Kirata-Arjuniyam episode in Vana Parva - of #Mahabharata serves as a proof of the persistence & focus of Arjuna & the playfulness,generosity of Bhagawan Shiva.Also Shiva wished to test Arjuna,so appears as Kirata/hunter along with Devi as a huntress.
📸 1 - Sculpture in the gopuram of Kapaleeshwarar Temple, Chennai,TN
📸 2 - A panel in Beautiful Amruteshwara Temple, Amruthapura,Karnataka
Sculptures depicts Arjuna doing tapas,Killing of boar,battle between Kirata(Shiva) &Arjun after which Arjuna obtained Pashupatastra.
#story #Thread -In Vana Parva,Arjun sets out to attain the Pashupatastra from Shiva.He was doing tapas,was distracted as he saw a wild boar(asura) rushing towards him to slay him.Arjun took his Gandiva & pointed it at the boar.A hunter(kirata)&his wife were present at that spot.
Both #Arjun & Kirata shot an arrow at the boar & it fell dead.The boar revealed its true form,which was a rakshasa named https://t.co/Ptq7Q6FsmQ argument erupted between hunter & Arjuna as to who shot the boar first.Arjun showered arrows at the hunter & a fierce battle started.
📸 -Sculpture depicting the battle of Kirata & Arjuna at Kailasanathar Temple, Kanchipuram TN
Arjuna kept showering arrows towards kirata.Awestruck as his arrows had no effect on the hunter,Arjuna stood still.He soon realised that this must be none other than - Shiva himself.
A #story from #Thiruvilayadal puranam-one of divine leelas of Bhagwan Shiva
#threadseries #madurai
Koodal Kaandam
Story 24 - it is about why Nataraja in Velliyambalam/Silver Dance Hall changed his pose to stand on left leg & raise right leg.
கால் மாறி ஆடிய படலம்
Earlier,Bhagwan Shiva performed Sadhya thadavam as per requests of Pathajali & Vyaghrapada Rishis after Wedding as the convyed to Sundareswarar that they usually have food only after seeing the dance of Thillai https://t.co/VIpzT0n0Kc see this story 👇
After Vikrama Pandyan, his son Rajasekara Pandyan ruled Madurai Kingdom.Rajsekaran mastered various art forms.Out of 64 art form,except for Natyam- he mastered 63 art forms.
He was very devoted towards Chokkanathar & Velliyambalam Nataraja who is Supreme master of Dance/Bharatam
He didn't attempt to learn Bharatam. He considered it will be a disrespect to practice due to his bhakti towards Nataraja/Bhagwan shiva.
During that time,Chola kingdom was ruled by Karikala Cholan.He was a great king&he patronized all art forms.He has learnt all 64 art forms.
Once a poet from Chola kingdom visited the court of Rajasekara Pandyan.After paying tributes,the poet said that his Raja was master of 64 arts,but pandyan knew only 63.Pandyan felt insulted,but realised that it might be God's will to make him learn Natyam.
#threadseries #madurai
Koodal Kaandam
Story 24 - it is about why Nataraja in Velliyambalam/Silver Dance Hall changed his pose to stand on left leg & raise right leg.
கால் மாறி ஆடிய படலம்
Earlier,Bhagwan Shiva performed Sadhya thadavam as per requests of Pathajali & Vyaghrapada Rishis after Wedding as the convyed to Sundareswarar that they usually have food only after seeing the dance of Thillai https://t.co/VIpzT0n0Kc see this story 👇
After Vikrama Pandyan, his son Rajasekara Pandyan ruled Madurai Kingdom.Rajsekaran mastered various art forms.Out of 64 art form,except for Natyam- he mastered 63 art forms.
He was very devoted towards Chokkanathar & Velliyambalam Nataraja who is Supreme master of Dance/Bharatam
He didn't attempt to learn Bharatam. He considered it will be a disrespect to practice due to his bhakti towards Nataraja/Bhagwan shiva.
During that time,Chola kingdom was ruled by Karikala Cholan.He was a great king&he patronized all art forms.He has learnt all 64 art forms.
Once a poet from Chola kingdom visited the court of Rajasekara Pandyan.After paying tributes,the poet said that his Raja was master of 64 arts,but pandyan knew only 63.Pandyan felt insulted,but realised that it might be God's will to make him learn Natyam.
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Microorganisms in biofilms are enclosed by an extracellular matrix that confers protection and improves survival. Previous studies have shown that viruses can secondarily colonize preexisting biofilms, and viral biofilms have also been described.
...we raise the perspective that CoVs can persistently infect bats due to their association with biofilm structures. This phenomenon potentially provides an optimal environment for nonpathogenic & well-adapted viruses to interact with the host, as well as for viral recombination.
Biofilms can also enhance virion viability in extracellular environments, such as on fomites and in aquatic sediments, allowing viral persistence and dissemination.
Viruses and other pathogens are often studied as stand-alone entities, despite that, in nature, they mostly live in multispecies associations called biofilms—both externally and within the host.
https://t.co/FBfXhUrH5d
Microorganisms in biofilms are enclosed by an extracellular matrix that confers protection and improves survival. Previous studies have shown that viruses can secondarily colonize preexisting biofilms, and viral biofilms have also been described.
...we raise the perspective that CoVs can persistently infect bats due to their association with biofilm structures. This phenomenon potentially provides an optimal environment for nonpathogenic & well-adapted viruses to interact with the host, as well as for viral recombination.
Biofilms can also enhance virion viability in extracellular environments, such as on fomites and in aquatic sediments, allowing viral persistence and dissemination.
How can we use language supervision to learn better visual representations for robotics?
Introducing Voltron: Language-Driven Representation Learning for Robotics!
Paper: https://t.co/gIsRPtSjKz
Models: https://t.co/NOB3cpATYG
Evaluation: https://t.co/aOzQu95J8z
🧵👇(1 / 12)
Videos of humans performing everyday tasks (Something-Something-v2, Ego4D) offer a rich and diverse resource for learning representations for robotic manipulation.
Yet, an underused part of these datasets are the rich, natural language annotations accompanying each video. (2/12)
The Voltron framework offers a simple way to use language supervision to shape representation learning, building off of prior work in representations for robotics like MVP (https://t.co/Pb0mk9hb4i) and R3M (https://t.co/o2Fkc3fP0e).
The secret is *balance* (3/12)
Starting with a masked autoencoder over frames from these video clips, make a choice:
1) Condition on language and improve our ability to reconstruct the scene.
2) Generate language given the visual representation and improve our ability to describe what's happening. (4/12)
By trading off *conditioning* and *generation* we show that we can learn 1) better representations than prior methods, and 2) explicitly shape the balance of low and high-level features captured.
Why is the ability to shape this balance important? (5/12)
Introducing Voltron: Language-Driven Representation Learning for Robotics!
Paper: https://t.co/gIsRPtSjKz
Models: https://t.co/NOB3cpATYG
Evaluation: https://t.co/aOzQu95J8z
🧵👇(1 / 12)
Videos of humans performing everyday tasks (Something-Something-v2, Ego4D) offer a rich and diverse resource for learning representations for robotic manipulation.
Yet, an underused part of these datasets are the rich, natural language annotations accompanying each video. (2/12)
The Voltron framework offers a simple way to use language supervision to shape representation learning, building off of prior work in representations for robotics like MVP (https://t.co/Pb0mk9hb4i) and R3M (https://t.co/o2Fkc3fP0e).
The secret is *balance* (3/12)
Starting with a masked autoencoder over frames from these video clips, make a choice:
1) Condition on language and improve our ability to reconstruct the scene.
2) Generate language given the visual representation and improve our ability to describe what's happening. (4/12)
By trading off *conditioning* and *generation* we show that we can learn 1) better representations than prior methods, and 2) explicitly shape the balance of low and high-level features captured.
Why is the ability to shape this balance important? (5/12)
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Democrats & DNC Media are going to LITERALLY have nothing coherent to say in response to that.
Mueller's team was 100% partisan.
That's why it's brilliant. NOBODY will be able to claim this team of partisan Democrats didn't go the EXTRA 20 MILES looking for ANY evidence they could find of Trump campaign/Russian collusion during the 2016 election
They looked high.
They looked low.
They looked underneath every rock, behind every tree, into every bush.
And they found...NOTHING.
Those saying Mueller will file obstruction charges against Trump: laughable.
What documents did Trump tell the Mueller team it couldn't have? What witnesses were withheld and never interviewed?
THERE WEREN'T ANY.
Mueller got full 100% cooperation as the record will show.
BREAKING: President Donald Trump has submitted his answers to questions from special counsel Robert Mueller
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) November 20, 2018
Mueller's officially end his investigation all on his own and he's gonna say he found no evidence of Trump campaign/Russian collusion during the 2016 election.
Democrats & DNC Media are going to LITERALLY have nothing coherent to say in response to that.
Mueller's team was 100% partisan.
That's why it's brilliant. NOBODY will be able to claim this team of partisan Democrats didn't go the EXTRA 20 MILES looking for ANY evidence they could find of Trump campaign/Russian collusion during the 2016 election
They looked high.
They looked low.
They looked underneath every rock, behind every tree, into every bush.
And they found...NOTHING.
Those saying Mueller will file obstruction charges against Trump: laughable.
What documents did Trump tell the Mueller team it couldn't have? What witnesses were withheld and never interviewed?
THERE WEREN'T ANY.
Mueller got full 100% cooperation as the record will show.
