Many of us get annoyed with people and their situations when they fail to live up to our expectations, as if their reality isn’t enough for us and never will be.

Many of us get annoyed with people and their situations when they fail to live up to our expectations, as if their reality isn’t enough for us and never will be. We reject these people and their problems because they somehow seem different than our own. We feel like we need something better. We let our emotions and anxieties get the best of us.

As human beings, we all have an idea in our heads about how things are supposed to be, and sadly this is what often messes us up the most. We all get frustrated when things don’t play out the way we expect them to, and people don’t behave like they’re “supposed” to. And when reality hits us, and everyone and everything seems to be doing the opposite of what we want, we feel pressure inside and then we overreact.

Calmness is a human superpower. Regardless of the situation, the ultimate measure of our wisdom and strength is how calm we are when facing the situation. The ability to not overreact or take things personally keeps our mind clear and our heart at peace, which instantly gives us the upper hand.

Breathe and think better. You can’t control how other people behave. You can’t control everything that happens to you. What you can control is how you respond to it all. When you feel like your lid is about to blow, take a long deep breath. Deep breathing releases tension, calms down our fight or flight reactions, and allows us to quiet our anxious nerves so we choose more considerate and constructive responses, no matter the situation.

So do your best to inhale and exhale next time. There’s no doubt that it can drive us crazy when we don’t get what we expect from people. But trying to change the unchangeable, wanting others to be exactly the way we want them to be, just doesn’t work. The alternative, though, is to breathe, to let go and to accept people as they are.

Be truly present, breathe deeply, and often. Remind yourselves that we can’t control other people. Do not take their behaviour personally. Let go of the ideals and expectations we have about others, and life in general, that causes unnecessary frustration, drama, and bouts of anger. Remember that when others are being difficult, they are often going through a difficult time we know nothing about. And to give them empathy, love, and space.!

Love, Light & Peace ✨🕉👁🌷🔱💀⏳🐍🌸🌙🌿🐚🌀🔆📿💖🔔💙🌈✨

Hari Om Tat Sat ~ Om Namah Shivaya ~ Blessed Thursday Lovely Souls ✨🕉👁🌷🔱💀⏳🐍🌸🌙🌿🐚🌀🔆📿💖🔔💙🌈✨

The Bhagavad Gita describes three paths of yoga taught by Krishna.

Om Namo Bhagwate Vasudevaya Namah!

Krishna who is known as the all attractive one, is an avatar of Lord Vishnu. Lord Vishnu is the preserver of life and brings balance when the world is in need. He is known by thousands of names, which help us remember God and our connection to him. When we connect, we link things together or as say “we are in the state where we miss nothing”. This is yoga.

The word namo (namas) means salutation, bhagavate means “to God”, or to the divine, Vasudevaya is another name for Krishna. In the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna calls Krishna Vasudeva many times. Vasu means “life” and deva means “God or light”, so Vasudevaya means that Supreme God who resides in all of life. Krishna explains that to chant his name putting your heart and mind into it, he will respond to that calling. This mantra is known as a mukti, liberation mantra, and it has a magical spell for spiritual freedom.

Krishna has a great plan to take us back home, he is eager for us to remember the art of non-forgetting. When we are born we remember our divine nature but as our lives unfold we forget who we are and where we come from.

In ancient teachings, it is said we are given three boons as we incarnate into our body. The first is to remember God, the second is to allow his will to move through us and the third is to find our way back home to him. Make me an instrument for thy will, not mine but thine be done is a reminder of those boons.

The Bhagavad Gita describes three paths of yoga taught by Krishna. Karma yoga (the yoga of selfless service), Jnana yoga (the yoga of self-knowledge) and Bhakti yoga (the yoga of devotion or your personal connection to God). Bhakti yoga is seen as going straight to the top. Bhakti means devotion and of all the steps and paths Krishna says this is the ultimate perfection of yoga. Bhagavad Gita describes a Bhakti yogi as the greatest.

Through the practice of Bhakti yoga, chanting the names of the divine we begin to surrender our ego. We begin to know God and his presence is our life. This process deepens as our relationship to the divine becomes more intense. Devotion is love and love is the most powerful quality in our life. We can imagine the love we have for our parents, partner, child, dog and see the divine presence in them. Beginning each day with Gratitude, including blessings in our meditation practice. When we remember the presence of God, the power of love it enhances the quality of our lives and brings us closer to finding our way back home. 🦚🌈💙🌸🌷🍃🕉💚🍂🌈🦚💙💕🦚🕉🌈🦚

Om Namo Bhagwate Vasudevaya Namah ~ Shubh Prabhat! 🦚🌈💙🌸🌷🍃🕉💚🍂🌈🦚💙💕🦚🕉🌈🦚

Maa Durga - the goddess of power and strength, is perhaps the most important goddess.

Maa Durga - the goddess of power and strength, is perhaps the most important goddess. She is a multi-dimensional Goddess, with many names, many personas, and many facets. As Mahishasuramardini or Shakti, she is the destroyer of evil - with her ten mighty arms carrying lethal weapons she triumphantly slays the demon Mahishasura.

She is the embodiement of purity, knowledge, truth and self-realization. The highest form of truth present in any being or Jiva is known as "Aatman" or supreme consciousness. This supreme consciousness or the absolute soul is infinite, birthless, deathless, beyond time and space, and beyond the law of causation. Goddess Durga is the inherent dynamic energy through which this supreme consciousness manifests itself.

Goddess Durga represents the power of the Supreme Being that preserves moral order and righteousness in the universe. She is the energy aspect of the Lord. Without Durga, Lord Shiva has no expression and without Shiva, Durga has no existence. The Divine Mother is beyond all material attributes, eternal and ever omniscient. She is beyond any change, immutable and unattainable but by yoga. She is the refuge of the universe and her nature is of pure consciousness.

Durga, the Mother Goddess is the symbol of all the auspicious and true qualities which define the Supreme Being. Of all her forms, Devi Durga is the ultimate representation of infinite power, purity and strength of purpose, which resides within the divine essence of every being. 💕💖❤️🦁🔱❤️🌈

Jai Maa Durga 💖❤️🦁🔱❤️🌈💕

Focus on your skills today, upskill your self so that you are ready to meet the challenges.!

Once, Lord Indra got upset with Farmers and he announced there will be no rain for 12 years and farmers would not be able to produce crops.

Farmers begged for clemency from Lord Indra , who then said: Rain will be possible only if Lord Shiva plays his Damru. But he secretly requested Lord Shiva not to agree to the Farmers request. When Farmers reached Lord Shiva he informed them that he would play Damru only after 12 years.

Disappointed Farmers decided to wait for 12 years.

But one Farmer was regularly digging, treating & kept the soil well manured. He kept sowing the seeds even though there was no crop. Other Farmers made fun of him . After 3 years all Farmers asked him that why was he wasting his time and energy when he knew that it would not rain for 12 years.

He replied “I know that crop won’t grow but I’m doing it as a matter of “practice”. After 12 years I will forget the process of growing crops and working in the field so I must keep doing it so that I’m fit to produce the crop the moment it rains after 12 years.”

Hearing his argument Goddess Parvati praised his version before Lord Shiva & said “You may also forget playing the Damru after 12 years!”

The all forgiving Bholenath tried to play the Damru. Hearing the sound of Damru immediately there was rain and the farmer who was regularly working in the field got his crop, while others were disappointed.

It is the practice which keeps on making you perfect. If we don't practice we can only get lazy, even diseased or old. Practice is an essential quality of survival.

So, let there be lockdown. Whatever trade or profession we are in, keep sharpening the skills, practice with what you have, upgrade your knowledge. Don’t wait for rain, that is the lockdown to be lifted and then start something. Focus on your skills today, upskill your self so that you are ready to meet the challenges.! Love, light & Peace ✨🌈👁🌅🍃🔱🌀🌷📿🔆💙🕉💀🌙⏳🐍🐚🌸🔔🙏🎨💟✨🌈💙🌅

Hari Om Tat Sat ~ Om Namah Shivaya ~ Jai Bholenath ✨🌈👁🌅🌿🔱🌀🌷📿🔆💙🕉💀🌙⏳🐍🐚🌸🔔🙏🎨💟✨🌈💙🌅

GOD OF ALL THINGS

GOD OF ALL THINGS

He loved mountains. He loved to dance. He loved to wear His hair long. He was a simple hillbilly: good at heart, and He loved his fellow mountain men. But He was not considered in turn, a fellow man.
It was said of Him that He was God Himself—The Primal One.
He was said to be the Timeless Lord of the mountains and also the men He so loved.
He was Shiva, the Auspicious. Shiva, whose very presence was able to transform humans into demigods.
He, Shiva, was supposed to be the ultimate spiritual alchemist.
But whatever He could see of Himself, was plainly human.
He felt like a human; fond of the forest life, and like all the other creatures that roamed in the forest, always looking forward to more of it. Gods were said to be without desire, but He loved life!
Gods were timeless, but He was always contemporary, always in the present.
Gods were supposed to have some subtle form of body, or then none at all, but He was the most earthily magnetic mountain man.
Yet, legend insisted that He was no ordinary forest dweller.
“He is the Supreme, in the midst of all beings,” ancient Seers noted in their historic notes.
“He is The God,” they emphasized, and in their tedious manuscripts, added, “Ultimately, of All things.”
~ SHIVA, The Ultimate Time Traveller. by Shail Gulhati

KEDARNATH TEMPLE ( with recent videos)

Below are two recent videos taken by well-wishers to the Kedarnath Temple :

A brief write-up of the Kedarnath Temple :

KEDARNATH DHAM

Kedarnath Dham, located in the Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand, is one of the most paramount locations for worshipers of Shiva. The air appears to be reverberating with the name of Lord Shiva amid the mighty snow-clad peaks, enchanting meadows and forests of the lower mountain range of Himalayas. Situated in a breathtaking location, near the source of Mandakini River and at the height of 3,584 meters, Kedarnath Dham celebrates the greatness of Lord Shiva. Kedarnath temple is one of the 12 Jyotir Lingams and is also the most important temple among the Panch Kedars (group of 5 Shiva temples in Garhwal Himalayas). It is also one of the significant temples of the sacred Chota Char Dham Yatra in Uttarakhand, raising the glory of the place to further heights.

Accessible from major destinations of Uttarakhand, the motorable road towards Kedarnath temple stretches till Gauri Kund. After that one needs to take a 14 km trek towards Kedarnath temple. Ponies and palanquins (doli) are easily available; one can also avail helicopter services during peak season of yatra.

The hard journey till the great shrine of Shiva is well compensated with the spiritual atmosphere which is created by the unruffled, tranquil and splendid beauty of the region. The majestic Kedarnath peak (6,940 meters) stands behind the temple along with other peaks, forming a perfect setting for the holy land of the supreme deity. The conical-shaped Shiva lingam in the Kedarnath temple is a unique feature of the temple among all Shiva shrines.

Kedarnath Temple Opening Dates 2020

The date for the opening of the portals of the holy Kedarnath Dham in 2020 will be declared on the Hindu festival of Mahashivratri, which was held on February 21, 2020.

LEGEND BEHIND THE KEDARNATH TEMPLE

Burdened with the guilt of killing their blood relatives, Pandavas sought Lord Shiva to absolve themselves of their sins. Shiva didn't want to release them from their wrongdoings so easily and disguised himself as a bull to roam in Garhwal Himalayas. On being discovered by Pandavas, Shiva dived into the ground. Bhim tried to catch him and could only get hold of the hump. Other body parts of Shiva (in the form of bull), came up at different places. Hump of the bull was found in Kedarnath, navel emerged at Madhya-Maheshwar, two forelegs appeared at Tunganath, face in Rudranath, and hair came up at Kalpeshwar. Together these five sacred places are called Panch Kedar. It is believed that originally Pandavas built the temple of Kedarnath; the present temple was established by Adi Shankaracharya who restored and revived the glory of the shrine.

WHAT TO SEE IN KEDARNATH DHAM?

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  KEDARNATH TEMPLE

  The grand and impressive structure of Lord Shiva's shrine is made of grey stone. Steep climb stretching to 14 km from Gauri Kund brims with abundant beauty of nature. The paved and steep path gifts the pilgrims the fantastic views of snowy-peaks, alpine meadows and delightful forests of rhododendrons. A large stone statue of Nandi Bull stares at the shrine, guarding it, sitting right opposite it.

  There is one Garbha Griha which houses the primary idol (pyramid shaped rock) of Lord Shiva. The idols of Lord Krishna, Pandavas, Draupadi and Kunti find a space in the Mandapa section of the shrine. The temple has withstood natural calamities like avalanches, earthquakes and floods for over thousand years and still stands as strong and elegant as it must have originally been.

  With the onset of winters, the portals of the temple are closed on the 1st day of Karthik (Oct/Nov) amid elaborate rituals, and a moveable idol of Shiva is shifted to Omkareshwar temple in Ukhimath (Rudraprayag district). The Shiva idol is welcomed back and the temple is opened again after 6 months in the Vaisakh (Apr/May) period of Hindu calendar.
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  GAURIKUND

  It is the starting point of the trek towards the temple of Kedarnath. As per a legend, Goddess Parvati (also known as Gauri) meditated over here in order to marry Lord Shiva. It consists of natural thermal springs and offer refreshing bath to pilgrims before they embark for the holy darshan of Kedareshwar (the Lord of Kedar, Shiva).

  There is also an ancient Gauri Devi temple over here, honouring the goddess. Half Kilometre from Gauri Kund is the temple of Sirkata (headless) Ganesha. According to Skanda Purana, this was the place where Shiva beheaded Ganesha and then attached the head of an elephant on his headless body.
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  CHORABARI TAL

  Fed by Chorabari glacier, the serene and pristine Chorabari Lake can be reached after undertaking a trek of less than 4 km from the Kedarnath town. It is also known as Gandhi Sarovar as some of the ashes of Mahatma Gandhi were immersed in its waters. On the way, there is a waterfall which one needs to cross. It looks amusing but care should be taken while going across it.
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  BHAIRAV TEMPLE

  In the temple complex, to the south side, there is another ancient and important temple. It is dedicated to Bhairav Nath, who is believed to be the one who guards the temple compound when the shrine is closed in the winter season.
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  VASUKI TAL

  Located at 3,135 meters, the crystal clear blue-water lake of Vasuki is about 8 km from Kedarnath. It is quite a difficult trek and involves going across glaciers, but the walk among the untouched Himalayas is worth every bit of effort.

Kottu Malai Pillayar Temple, Pudu, Kuala Lumpur - Prayers for the Hindu festival to mark the first day of Medam today - 14 April 2020

Prayers for the Hindu festival to mark the first day of Medam today  (14 April 2020) at the Kottu Malai Pillayar Temple at Pudu in the heart of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.