Another one email today.....

The Women folk going to bring holy water from the river for bathing the Shiva Linga in the temple...

Another one from a friend today. ....
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Hi Shashi,
So good to hear from you. What a spiritual adventure you've been on, hope you will be sharing more of this with all of us and not only that the photo's are really great. I'll be visiting the blog page more often now.
Thanks for inviting me again to the program and yes, I would be interested to do it again. I'm excited because in many ways I had breakthru's in my own consciousness, in regards to how I was dealing with the world of daily affairs and not properly goal setting. On another level I experienced 2 very powerful dreams a few days apart prior to just about where we left off in the program. Its a bit like accessing new dimensions in one's self, a perpetuation of awareness. Overall I was very pleased and amazed with the results.
Let me know when you plan to start this again, I have another friend that i just met recently that might share an interest in this and I will gladly tell her about the program.
Best Regards,

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Om Namah Shivaya
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Some feed back on 11days program on "indriya vidya"....

Here is something that one of our group member replied to me after the email ...

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Feb 25, 2007 12:19 PM

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Re: I am back... I was away for a month making a temple in Rural India and it was great...

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Hi Shashi

Thanks for remembering to invite me once again for the program. I am in the process of winding up my establishment here in delhi and relocating at Kanpur where my husband is posted. Since I will have very limited access to a pc/internet for almost a month from now, I will need to excuse myself from this program this time as well.

But if it is of any relevance, I would like to let you(and may be the group) know that my main aim last time when I began the program was to arrive at some kind of a decision regarding this relocation and there were several factors including my job that were quite hanging as loose ends without any direction. Believe me within just a few days of my participating in this program, things kinda sorted out (probably it was the intervention of Provience or it was my inner strenght that was brought out). Whatever it was, today I am a much more contented person at peace with myself and I would definitely associate a major part of that to the thoughts that this program evoked in me.

Thanks once agin and all the very best to everyone.
regards
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The image above is one of the devotees having bath in the holy river ganges in Ardha Kumbha Fair that happens once in 6 years where I was recently...

Om Namah Shivaya


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The story of an inner journey....

I was away for almost three weeks, for the temple consecration, the ardha kumbha mela (the most pious fair where bathing in river ganges, which comes every 6 years) and then going to a famous temple in maharashtra gave me lot of inner energy. The making of the temple which made me feel attunded to the inner self as well as the supreme consciousness is one very good experiences that I have had for many years.

I am going to write about it in these pages in coming days, if you have free time and want to know about these events in my life, please visit this blog where I am going to post that story and also going to share some amazing pictures that I have had taken in these places. Have a look at it and enjoy. As I feel that these images, the story and the experience when shared will also make you look at your self inwards and may give you lot of positive energy.

The image here is of Lord Shiva (in south Indian style) which was worshipped till the time the main Idol in the temple was consecrated. The Maha Abhishek, and the Prana Pratishthan is something of a ritual where when a new temple is made, we invite the presiding deity of the temple to come and live in the temple. This is a very elaborate event and stretches over few days. This image made by the sthapathis was the face of the idol before it was consecrated and once that was done, this image was removed to reveal the original Shiva Linga that was brought from a very powerful source of Shiva Lingas called Baan Linga from the bed of a famous river in north India.

Om Namah Shivaya

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And Shiva watched it all ....

The beautiful image created in the serial electric light is a specialty from South India. This was more than 50 foot high and was specially brought over from Chennai in parts. Most of the times when a function that happens in South India, the artisans create various images of Idols in the serial small bulbs of different colors to create an impressive effect in the dark of the night. This particular image is called the Ardha Narishwar, where the lord Shiva is shown as both male and female combination of Shiva and Shakti. This is also very closely related to the Tantra Yoga where it is assumed that the mating of Shiva and Shakti provides the ground for enlightenment. The base chakra at the lower portion of the spine (Shakti) when rises up to meet Shiva (the crown chakra) at the top of our head, one realizes the most profound sensation of the enlightenment. This image stood over all the functions in the consecration of the Shiva Temple watching over all the ceremony with His benign eyes.

Om Namah Shivaya
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The making of a amazing Temple in a remote village in north india...

The Shiva Temple I was involved in making in one of the most remote villages in India in state of Bihar. Its based on the temple architectural style of south india and from Madurai's famous temple architecture heritage this came about. this was in the making for an year by artisans from Madurai and we brought in the priests of Kumbakkonam (Thanjavur) to consecrate it. I was there for the same for some time and hence could not be online for some time ... and then I left for the sacred bath in one of the most prominent fairs in the world which comes after 6 years called Ardha Kumbha... and in those holy waters of the confluence of Ganges, Yamuna and Sarawati, I felt the achievement of life time.... I will write about the whole experience in detail following this ... Please read this blog occasionally if you would like to know more about it...

Om Namah Shivaya

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