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It’s Siddhars time of the week! Last week I shared story of Guru (Machamuni or Yogi Matsyendranath), this week I bring you information on his Shishya.

#Thread on Gorakanathar Siddhar.

@LostTemple7

His origin story is interesting, though I couldn’t verify it’s authenticity, so not sharing the story here. He’s shishya of Machamuni Siddhar and also learnt from Agasthiya Siddhar.

@HelloNNewman @RajiIndustani @Kishoreciyer1

Unlike other Siddhars, he is depicted as either with a Tiger or seated & wearing Tiger skin. While I couldn’t find any explanation for this. My interpretation is as follows:

Tiger is a predator that lurks around and attacks unexpectedly.

Our 5 indriyas and 5 vikitis also similar to Tiger, they lurk around and attacks our thoughts when we’re least expecting. Gorakkar is said to have mastered these aspects, thus to denote this, he shown with Tiger.

@Itishree001 @VarierSangitha @jananisampath

Gorakanathar or Gorakshnath (as he’s known in the Nath Sampraday) is celebrated Guru in both Northern and Southern part of India. He’s one of the NavNath in Nath Sampraday and also 18 Siddhars of Tamil tradition. During his life, he’s travelled Indian subcontinent extensively +

[THREAD: HISTORY OF THE HINDU TEMPLE]
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Four hours south of Aswan in Lower Nubia, right by the Nile, is a region dotted with temple complexes built more than 3,000 years ago. Some like the temples of Amada, Derr, and Beit el-Wali go as far back as 1500 BC.

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A little further south, not far from the border with Sudan, is another complex dedicated to Ramses II, Hathor, and Nefertari in the village of Ipsambul, better known locally as Abu Sunbul and internationally as Abu Simbel. These go back to the 13th century BC.

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Djeser-Djeseru, also known as the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut in Upper Egypt also dates to 1400 BC. Over 500 years older is the nearby Mentuhotep II, also a mortuary temple. Both were dedicated to the cult of Amun Ra, besides their respective pharaohs.

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Far older is the Ġgantija complex of Malta. Going as far back as 3600 BC, this one comprises of two temples entirely made of stone and enclosed in a stone wall. From the figures therein, it's understood to be a site of some kind of a fertility cult worship.

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Dating from the same period are the limestone megaliths of Ħaġar Qim and Mnajdra, both said to have once hosted ritualistic sacrifices as part of the same fertility cult worship as found in the Ġgantija complex. Malta has some of the oldest temple complexes in Europe.

#SatiSavitri #RealLifeExperiences #BharatDarshana

Bharat Darshana publishes a small monthly magazine which has some very interesting puranic anecdotes and snippets.

When I picked up this month's magazine, I was intrigued by a story which I want to share as below

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This is a real-life incident as narrated by Prof. Krishna Bihari Pandey titled "Sati Savitri"

Sati Savitri is a well known puranic figure from Srimad DeviBhagwatham and Mahabharatha as one of those who fought with Yama to save her husband.

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This story is a modern real-life experience which mimics the puranic account in it's own unique way.

The story occurs in 1975 with Prof and his wife in Delhi with professor working as a researcher in university. Prof's family is in Allahabad in a large joint family

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Once Prof gets to know that his mother is not keeping well. He goes to his native and brings his mother. With dedicated care of his wife, his mother recovers quite remarkably and regains full stamina and strength

Mother-in-law & Daughter-in-law go out for shopping frequently

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Life's going smooth until one day when they receive a telegram that Prof's father is not keeping well.

His mother is distressed about the situation and requests her son to take her to the native. Prof is a little angry due to frequent travels and turns it down

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The title is Tandav. The eternal dance of Shiva. That, first, should be the point of your obsession with offensia (no word like that) series dedicated to OTT crap load. Appropriation of 'Tandav' - the word itself should be the precursor to any examination of the so called content

When the classical arts and the folk forms, especially the dance forms, involve the depiction of Shiva's Tandav, there is a separate, exclusive, special treatment to the movement, approach, sound, music, and vision. Many approach it as a sacred episode in performance.

I don't know what crap load are you people objecting to in the name of offensia. It's your eye balls that gives us unwanted crap load like this series. Time and again. Time and again. Baar Baar. Bakwas. You outrage too much. You don't believe in the positive. Negative. Negative.

Who gives a dead fish to what an idiot fading actor churns out to keep his bank balance going. Shift to the fine. Encourage fine. Educate yourself to incline with the fine and positive. And dare you call the Indian performing arts "naach gaana". That's where Shiva's Tandav lives.

It's because of your distracted set of eye balls that people who don't want the crap or shun it, have to live with the crap in the narrative. The coward "critics" hide in their down feather quilts when it comes to content like this. Why? Sochna? Kyonki tum ho na business dene ko.

Some of the remaining prominent Hindu temples & Hindu Maths of Barisal, Bangladesh.

1. Mukunda Das Kalibari - The most famous Kali Temple in Barisal. It was built by poet Mukunda Das a big Shakta & a great poet of Bengal.

2. Pasanamayi Kali Temple.

3. Shree Shree Kali & Shitala Mata Temple.

4. Ramkrishna Math Barisal.

5. Shri Shankar Math - This Math was the hub of all revolutionary activities of Anushilan Samiti in Barisal. The Math was a safe refuge for revolutionaries.