Hi All, Good Morning 🌼🌼 Today I want to share something I read about the temple ritual "Ashtabandham" which is done every few years to bond the idol to the pedestal. This ritual is mostly seen only in Kerala temples. "

Ashtabandham" means a mix (bandham) of eight (ashta) ingredients, a natural adhesive mixed with oil to fix if any corrosion forms between the pedestal and the idol through milk, water, curd or honey used during abhishekam. If the idol falls off from the pedestal,
it is considered as inauspicious, hence to prevent such an eventuality, usually once in every 12 years new Ashtabandam is applied and the bonding ceremony is known as Ashtabandakalasham. In Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple, this ritual was done in 1985 during the reign of
Sri Chithira Thirunal at the Thiruvambadi Sri Krishna temple. The preparation of the adhesive mixture takes a long period of 41 days. The eight ingredients which go into the mixture are 1) powdered conch (Shankhu podi) - 6 palam (1 palam = 60 gm), 2)
powdered chenchalyam or gum secreted from country pine - 4 palam, 3) Kadukka - 2 palam, 4) Kolarakku - 1 palam 5) Kozhipparal - 1 palam 6) River sand from Bharathappuzha - 1 palam 7) Amla - 0.5 palam 8) Cotton used for making sacred thread.
All the items except cotton get fine powdered with the cotton mixed only on the final day. The powder is mixed into a lump and becomes paste when little oil is added. After becoming lump, it is hammered by 4 or 5 men alternatively using hammers made of tamarind wood.
The weight of the hammer should be 8 to 10 kilos. The lump is very soft initially and becomes hot during the hammering and finally hard like stone when the hammering is stopped. The cotton is added only when the bonding material has become a hard lump.
Immediately after adding the cotton the material, the mixture is used for bonding the idol. The prep.of the bonding adhesive is done by people from the Brahmin community who are well-accustomed with temple rituals and hammering is done by people from the "Siva dwaja" community 🙏

More from All

The best morning routine?

Starts the night before.

9 evening habits that make all the difference:

1. Write down tomorrow's 3:3:3 plan

• 3 hours on your most important project
• 3 shorter tasks
• 3 maintenance activities

Defining a "productive day" is crucial.

Or else you'll never be at peace (even with excellent output).

Learn more


2. End the workday with a shutdown ritual

Create a short shutdown ritual (hat-tip to Cal Newport). Close your laptop, plug in the charger, spend 2 minutes tidying your desk. Then say, "shutdown."

Separating your life and work is key.

3. Journal 1 beautiful life moment

Delicious tacos, presentation you crushed, a moment of inner peace. Write it down.

Gratitude programs a mindset of abundance.

4. Lay out clothes

Get exercise clothes ready for tomorrow. Upon waking up, jump rope for 2 mins. It will activate your mind + body.

You May Also Like

A THREAD ON @SarangSood

Decoded his way of analysis/logics for everyone to easily understand.

Have covered:
1. Analysis of volatility, how to foresee/signs.
2. Workbook
3. When to sell options
4. Diff category of days
5. How movement of option prices tell us what will happen

1. Keeps following volatility super closely.

Makes 7-8 different strategies to give him a sense of what's going on.

Whichever gives highest profit he trades in.


2. Theta falls when market moves.
Falls where market is headed towards not on our original position.


3. If you're an options seller then sell only when volatility is dropping, there is a high probability of you making the right trade and getting profit as a result

He believes in a market operator, if market mover sells volatility Sarang Sir joins him.


4. Theta decay vs Fall in vega

Sell when Vega is falling rather than for theta decay. You won't be trapped and higher probability of making profit.
THE MEANING, SIGNIFICANCE AND HISTORY OF SWASTIK

The Swastik is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon. Swastik has been Sanatan Dharma’s symbol of auspiciousness – mangalya since time immemorial.


The name swastika comes from Sanskrit (Devanagari: स्वस्तिक, pronounced: swastik) &denotes “conducive to wellbeing or auspicious”.
The word Swastik has a definite etymological origin in Sanskrit. It is derived from the roots su – meaning “well or auspicious” & as meaning “being”.


"सु अस्ति येन तत स्वस्तिकं"
Swastik is de symbol through which everything auspicios occurs

Scholars believe word’s origin in Vedas,known as Swasti mantra;

"🕉स्वस्ति ना इन्द्रो वृधश्रवाहा
स्वस्ति ना पूषा विश्ववेदाहा
स्वस्तिनास्तरक्ष्यो अरिश्तनेमिही
स्वस्तिनो बृहस्पतिर्दधातु"


It translates to," O famed Indra, redeem us. O Pusha, the beholder of all knowledge, redeem us. Redeem us O Garudji, of limitless speed and O Bruhaspati, redeem us".

SWASTIK’s COSMIC ORIGIN

The Swastika represents the living creation in the whole Cosmos.


Hindu astronomers divide the ecliptic circle of cosmos in 27 divisions called
https://t.co/sLeuV1R2eQ this manner a cross forms in 4 directions in the celestial sky. At centre of this cross is Dhruva(Polestar). In a line from Dhruva, the stars known as Saptarishi can be observed.