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BHAKTI MARG ACCORDING TO SHIVAPURAN

There Nothing is more pleasurable than the Path of Bhakti in all the Loka's and in all the four Yuga, whoever dives in this sacred ocean of Ishwara's Bhakti , can definitely attain Mokshā and get relief from BhavaSagara ,

#Thread on Manvantaras (मन्वंतर)!

In Sanatan tradition, time is divided into several parts to ease its calculation, one of them is Manvantara (Manu + Antar) which means Manu's age, each Manvantara is governed by a particular Manu created by Brahma. Present  Manvantara is being conducted by Manu वैवस्वत,

Indra is Purandar and the names of Saptaris are as follows,...
•Kashyap,
•Atri,
•Vashisht,
•Vishwamitra,
•Gautam,
•Jamadagni and,
•Bhardwaj

According to the Puranas, there are 14 Manvantaras, out of which 6 Manvantaras have passed...

Manvantaras also change,

  The names of 14 Manu and Rishis of the present Kalpa are as follows.

15 Nimesh = 1 Kastha (काष्ठा)
  •30 kastha = 1 kala
  •30 Kala = 1 Muhurta
  •30 Muhurta = 1 Ahoratra (one day and night)
  •15 Ahoratra = 2 Paksha (Shukla Paksha, Krishna Paksha)
  •2 Paksha= 1 month
  •6 months = 1 Ayan
  •2 Ayan = 1 year
One year = One day and night of

#Thread on PanchDev Upasana!

For गृहस्थ Worship of Ganapati, Mahadev, Srihari Vishnu, SuryaDev and Devi  is said to be very fruitful.Presiding Bhagwan (as per their आस्था) should be established in the middle & other deities should be installed in all the four angles or in all the four directions accordingly.

These five Devi/Devtas represent Panchatattva. 

आकाशस्याधिपो विष्णु रग्नेश्चैय महेश्वरी ।
वायोः सूर्यः क्षितेरीशो जीवनस्य गणाधिपः ॥

That is,
1.Srihari Vishnu, the ruler of Akashtattva.
2.Maheshwari Shakti, the presiding deity of the AgniTattva,

3. Surya Dev, the ruler of the Vayu Tattva,
4. Mahadev,the presiding deity of the Prithvi Tattva. and
5.  The ruler of the JalTattva is Ganapati.

This Panchatattvamayi proceeds Creation (सृष्टि)in a safe and gentle form

The scriptures have described these five deities in many forms, and have done that worshiping them collectively is beneficial for every householder.

Their worship is considered necessary even in specific Devopasana, and if they have an inseparable vision from each other, only

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{Why did Shri Krishna have 16thousand wives?}

After performing Tapasya at an exquisite place called Badrikashram on Mount Himachal,The divine glory of Bhagwan Shrihari's अंशावतार Nara- Narayana(considered to be superior among munivar's) was spreading all over the world.

After seeing this, jealousy arose in Indra Deva's Mind.

He started thinking that Nar Narayana may take his Raja Singhasana away from him , after completing Tapasya, and I have to stop them from doing so.

After which, with the intention of stopping the penance of Nara-Narayana

Devraj Indra went to Gandhamadhan parvat,

And he saw that the body of Nar-Narayana due to the grace of tapasya looks like a brightened sun.

Indra create many disturbance during the tapasya like heat, maya, Luring them with many kinds of boons, etc.

but there was no movement in Nara Narayana, He failed because Nara Narayana was engaged in the worship of Goddess Bhagwati at that time and Goddess Bhagwati who herself is the goddess of great Maya, no matter how much maya anyone's know, they cannot succeed in breaking the ..

tapasya of her worshipper .

After returning from there, Indra Called Kāmadev & वसंत ऋतु (spring season) he ordered them to subdue Nar - Narayana & dissolve their austerity, and the Apsaras will also help them in this task, in return for which, he will give them a great boon.

#Thread on { Primacy of Positivity to attain #Moksha }

योगे॑योगे त॒वस्त॑रं॒ वाजे॑वाजे हवामहे।
सखा॑य॒ इंद्र॑मू॒तये॑॥ -RV 1.30.7

There may be good deeds/conflicts/Wars but,we have to keep our mind stable and be in a state of eternal happiness without any prejudices & negativity

पता॑ति कुंडृ॒णाच्या॑ दू॒रं वातो॒ वना॒दधि॑।
आ तू न॑ इंद्र शंसय॒ गोष्वश्वे॑।
-RV 1.29.6

This verse teaches us to that if we want to attain moksha it is very necessary to stay away from the Negative people's, thoughts or behaviour. No matter how positive you are ,

they can effect your life, unless you take take the right step to keep yourself unaffected,because they love bringing others down .

घ्नंतो॑ वृ॒त्रम॑तर॒न्रोद॑सी अ॒प उ॒रु क्षया॑य चक्रिरे।
भुव॒त्कण्वे॒ वृषा॑ द्यु॒म्न्याहु॑तः॒ क्रंद॒दश्वो॒ गवि॑ष्टिषु॥
-RV 1.36.8

And once our inner

inclinations are strong and healthy, then our body and mind also become healthy, which means that now we are free every evils and vices.

And our mind is free from all the negativity, which enabled us to perform good deeds

In keeping with year-end tradition, I wanted to share the best books I read in 2020 – a year unlike any other - with a list of reads heavily influenced by global events including…

…Race and social justice. While not a planned reading theme as I started the year, social injustices that have plagued our nation for centuries rose up in a jolting manner. May we pass on to our children and grandchildren a more socially just world than we received.

Frederick Douglass, David Blight

Douglass was a self-educated slave who freed himself to become a tireless speaker, political leader & passionate reformer. Even reading his speeches today, you feel drawn to the power, drama & personal suffering of this great man.

Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas & Timothy Keller

Theologian, Pastor, Church Leader & spy/traitor. Quite a resume for an influential young German aristocrat. Details the rise of Hitler & pure evil unleashed in the face of the pure good of Christ as seen through Bonhoeffer’s eyes.

So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo

Jarring. We have so far to go as we confront the realities of systemic racism. Since reading I've sought out reverse mentors to try and learn more. Get comfortable with being uncomfortable. (Much profanity for those sensitive to such)

(a thread)
My favorite tv show is Adventure Time. I am here to argue that if you look at the show from an angle of mental health and managing it, Finn and Jake are not the lead characters. Princess Bubblegum is. 1

The most compelling character on the show, to me anyway, is Lemongrab. He was created by PB, the first of the candy people she created to “go wrong”. Lemongrab has devastating anxiety. He doesn’t know and can’t learn how to interact with the world. 2

When he’s lonely, he sneaks into the castle to stare at people while they sleep. PB tries to teach him to cuddle and play with a candy person but he can only poke and slap. He screams, he calls things “unacceptable”, he sentences folks to the dungeon. 3

When given a castle of his own and a clone to keep him company, everything gets donked up. He and his clone make living messed-up people out of their food, they eat each other, it’s a horrifying place. 4

Lemongrab just CAN’T with other people. The more he tries, the more frustrating it gets, so the more he screams.
For the purpose of this thread, Lemongrab represents ANXIETY. 5

At it's #NewYearsEve we're going to end the year by playing the Agatha Christie game!

I'll show you the book cover artwork by Tom Adams, and you guess the Fontana edition Agatha Christie novel it's from.

Here's your first one...

A little bit trickier for question 2...

A lot trickier for number 3, but the clues are there if you know your Christie...

And here's your last Agatha Christie cover for this round - quite a famous one.

I'll post the answers in a bit, so get your guesses in now please!

Here are the answers to round 1 of the Agatha Christie game. I hope you got a few right, as round 2 will exercise your little grey cells a little bit more...

Welcome back to #Y4SJBookClub

Today we are going through Chapter 1 of "Sexing the Caribbean" by Kerala Kempadoo

Please share widely and contribute your own thoughts about the chapter.

The convention is:

No brackets are paraphrases from the book (brackets is tweeter opinion)

Global media often portrays the Caribbean as exotic and "backward"

A sex crazed and not advanced society.

This book aims at undoing this Colonial view of the Caribbean.

(some Caribbean people share that colonial view 😒)

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As Frantz Fanon (we should be reading his work soon as well) said:

"Colonial Discourses are deeply embedded in the psyche and behaviour of the colonised"

(we see this frequently in how we police women like its the early 20th century still)

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Caribbean sexuality is of significance to understanding the past, present and future of the Caribbean

(one YSJ member highlighted how 🇹🇹 has not done a proper post colonial introspection. Hopefully works like this help)

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The book uses the broadest definition of the Caribbean as possible, but indicates that some sections would only apply to sub definitions of the Caribbean.

For this book
Caribbean = all the islands plus Belize, Suriname, Guyana and French Guiana

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Today’s game supplement is Death in Freeport (2000) from Green Ronin Publishing. I haven’t really featured my own work on #CuratedQuarantine to date but it is relevant to the d20 story.

D&D 3E, which I talked about yesterday, was released with two attached licenses: the Open Game License and the d20 System Trademark License. #CuratedQuarantine

The basic idea was to give other publishers a legal way to release D&D compatible material and to be able to indicate that with a special d20 System logo. This would eliminate a lot of legal headaches that TSR and then WotC had to deal with. #CuratedQuarantine

It was also hoped that certain types of support books that WotC had difficulty selling in large numbers—short adventures in particular—could be taken up by third party companies. I remember the work meeting where all this was pitched to the staff. #CuratedQuarantine

WotC was too big to be agile, it was argued, so let other companies provide support material. The more people kept playing D&D, the more WotC would benefit. #CuratedQuarantine