SHRAVANA - The AUSPICIOUS MONTH

The most auspicious month of the Chaturmas and is considered the holiest month of the year. 
Each monday of this month, known as Shravana Somvar, is a special day in Shiva temples where the dharanatra hangs over the linga .
The nandadeep (24 hour lamp) burns steadily in the temples.

The calender of festivals that one should observe in " SHRAVANA" month, with faith & fervor :
In this month of shravana, the rains raise their tempo and the nature in the form of crops blossoms with rich greenery and the farmers are busy with their crop schedules and women folk used to prepare the houses with "rangavalli s and toranas "  as the part of sanatana traditional customs.

• first tuesday of this shravana month 2-8-2011 : married ladies observe and enrich their confidence on hindu marriage concept by devoting their mind to " MANGALA GOURI" and perform the vrata.

• 3-8-2011-chaviti -naga chaviti : & 4-8-11,panchami- garuda panchami :

Budhi is represented by garuda and sensuous mind is represented by nagas. after prolonged conflict between these two units, at last on this garuda panchami day ,budhi and mind compromised to live in harmonious state. so,on these two days we have to observe pure devotion and surrender of self towards naga god and garuda, the conveyor of atma .

•   5-8-11,    on shashti - devotion towards "SIVA".

• 6-8-11 , ON SAPTAMI OTHER WISE CALLED AS BHANU SAPTAMI - a ritual in honour of the god ADITYA, performed either at home or in the mandir (temple) .

• 10-8-11,EKAADASI -  Observe ekaadasi vrata.

• 11-8-11,  damodar dwaadasi - devotion towards "sri maha vishnu" .

• 12-8-11, Friday, trayodasi, varaha jayanti - to protect the  EARTH, Vishnu in the form of varaha killed Hiranyaaksha.

• Another auspicios event -friday before shravana poornami,  12-8-11 ,shravana lakshmi vrata-  

What is pooja? A puja may be performed for a specific purpose or simply as an act of devotion.
any act with complete surrender of mind with out any iota of doubt will be  fruitful in physical or meta-physical ways.



During this month people practice many rules and regulations while praying and also fast.

• Each day in the month of Shravan has a special significance and has its own ritual.
  Monday: is the day of Lord Shiva worship.
  Tuesday: Gauri is worshipped in every home, by women for the good health of their family.
  Wednesday: are dedicated to Vithala, a form of Vishnu or Krishna.
  Thursday: are also days for worshipping Buddh and Guru.
  Friday: every home worships Lakshmi and Tulsi.
  Saturday: are for Saturn (Shani). It is also known as Shravan Saturdays, with the object of object of obtaining wealth. These days are known as Sampat Sanivara (wealth Saturdays).
  Sundays: are meant worshipping the Sun god. Sun worship was general in the Vedic period and even now it is so. Especially in Shravan, every Sunday the Sun is worshipped without fail.
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• Things to do during Shravan month
  
  • Wear Rudraksh, and also use a Rudraksh mala for Japa.
  • Offer Lord Shiva Bhibhuti and place some on your forehead.
  • Make offerings of Bel leaves, Panchamrut (milk, yoghurt, clarified butter, honey and jaggery) on Shiva Ling.
  • Recite Shiv Chalisa and Aarti.
  • Chant Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra.
  • Fasting on Mondays. Girls who fast on all Mondays of Shravan get a good husband. 

"Babaji's Kriya Yoga"

1. What is "kriya yoga" - Kriya Yoga is “Action with Awareness.” It is a means of self-knowledge, of knowing the truth of our being.

It was revived by a great Master of India, Babaji Nagaraj, as a synthesis of ancient teachings of the 18 Siddha tradition. It includes a series of techniques or "Kriyas" grouped into five phases .

HOW THESE TECHNIQUES USEFUL FOR MANKIND ?

• Hatha YOGA- is for deep physical and mental relaxation. 
• kundalini pranayama - to purify the nervous system and to circulate life energy through all the nerves and subtle energy channels without obstruction .
• Kriya Yoga Dhyana - to learn the scientific art of mastering the mind - to cleanse the subconscious, to develop concentration, mental clarity and vision, to awaken the intellectual, intuitive and creative faculties.
• Kriya Mantra Yoga -  to awaken the intuition, the intellect and the chakras; the mantra becomes a substitute for the "I" - centered mental chatter and facilitates the accumulation of great amounts of energy. The mantra also cleanses habitual subconscious tendencies. 
• Kriya Bhakti Yoga - to  cultivate the soul’s aspiration for the Divine. 

Through the practice of Babaji's Kriya Yoga , one clears  of negative habits, desires, fears and other forms of disturbances. One gradually establishes  full of peace and joy.
 old egoistic perspective will be wiped out and  one’s personality is transformed, and one begins to experience  as an instrument of love and as a superior creative intelligence, engaged in bringing joy to others and making the world a better place.

Know your mother.... "TELUNGU"

 It is impossible to confirm the origin of a culture and the date of its origin. Different tribes, classes, and societies gradually combined over a period of time and a transformed society had evolved. This is the evolution of a society.

Andhras were nomads for several centuries. Earlier periods,theu used to habitate on the banks of yamuna river.Some of those Andhras who came to the south settled on the west side of Vindhya mountains (present Northern regions of Hyderabad). Another tribe crossed the Eastern Ghats over Orissa and reached the Kalinga Desam.  Jataka tale explains that Andhras built the "ANDHAKAPURAM" on the banks of "Tel" (tEl) river.Tel river is a subriver of Mahanadi in Orissa. The people in this tribe are Kalingas (ka'Limgulu). Thus the Andhras and Kalingas as two different branches of a single tribe. Sometimes these two words (Andhras and Kalingas) are used as synonyms interchangeably.

Andhra tribes established relationships with Naga, Yaksha, and Dravida tribes of Vindhya mountains who already were living there then. Tenugu (tenugu) is the meaning for those who travel towards south. In Tamil and Kannada "ten" means south side (dakshina dikku).

Andhra society is one of the ancient societies of India. One can encounter several tales about Andhras in epics like Mahabharatam and Ramayanam, in great puranas, and Budhdhist Jataka Tales. This confirms the ancient nature of Andhra society.

Once upon a time Andhra province was described as the territory between Kalahasthi in the South, Srisailam in the West and DRAKSHARAMA  or Kotilinga Kshethram in the North.

The Telugu language gives prominence to 'Shiva' and unlike in other parts of India, the Telugu children start their Vidyabhiyasam, by reciting the 'Shivapanchaksharam ' which is an invocation to Lord Shiva.

Another peculiarity of the Andhra lipi, is unlike the Tamil lipi, the curvatures of the letters are towards the Vamabhagam or the left. And since Parasakthi is on the left side of Parameshwara, the letters used in the Srichakram for Parasakthi is always in Telugu.

Telugu (తెలుగు telugu, ) is a Dravidian language  with the third largest number of native speakers in India (10crore ) and thirteenth in the Ethnologue list of most-spoken languages worldwide.

Telu means white and unga means plural in Gondi. So, telunga means people who are white in complexion.

Telugu was more influenced by Sanskrit and Prakrit during the period  of 6th. A.D.,which corresponded to the advent of Telugu literature .

Onamaalu, or the Telugu alphabet consist of 60 symbols - 16 vowels, 3 vowel modifiers, and 41 consonants. Sanskrit and Telugu alphabets are similar and exhibit one-one correspondence. Telugu has complete set of letters which follows scientific system to express sounds. It is highly conducive for Phonetics. It has more letters than any Indian language. Some of them are introduced to express fine shades of difference in sounds.

Telugu has full-Zero or anusvāra( ం ), half-zero or arthanusvāra or Chandrabindu (ఁ) and Visarga to convey various shades of nasal sounds. la and La, ra and Ra are differentiated. Telugu has .CH and .JH which are not represented in Sanskrit, and S, SH, and KSH which are not found in Tamil.

Telugu script can reproduce the full range of Sanskrit phonetics without losing any of the text's originality.

Telugu, a language ending with vowels, giving it a mellifluous quality, was also considered suitable for musical expression. Of the trinity of Carnatic music composers, compositions of Tyagaraja and Syama Sastri compositions were largely in Telugu.

In writing, the sentence ends with either a single bar | (“purna viramam”) or a double bar || (“deergha viramam”).
There is a set of symbols for numerals, though Arabic numbers are typically used.

The first treatise on Telugu grammar, the "Andhra Sabda Chintamani" was written in Sanskrit by Nannayya and he  divided his work into five chapters, covering samjnā, sandhi, ajanta, halanta and kriya.  Every telugu grammatical rule is derived from Pāṇinian concepts.

In 19th century, Chinnaya Suri wrote a simplified work on Telugu grammar called "Bāla Vyākaranam" by borrowing concepts and ideas from Nannayya's grammar.

"The primary word order of Telugu is SOV (Subject-Object-Verb) "

Telugu incorporates a high percentage of Sanskrit and English words. It also contains, to a lesser extent, Arabic and Persian words.


Telugu is assigned Unicode codepoints: 0C00-0C7F (3072–3199).[25]

kshatriya Kings Done it again....

Gold treasure at India temple could be the largest in the world - its possible only with sincere devotion and unflinched  commitment towards the god and the religious traditions of india by royal family of travancore.

The kings of Travancore   built The Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple   in the 16th century and   The descendents of the royal family who have formed a trust are maintaining this temple and protecting the royal treasure vaults since 400years.

Sree Anantha Padmanabhaswamy Temple is one of the 108 Divya Desams of Lord Vishnu and is also one of the seven Parasurama kshetras in Kerala.
The idol of Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple is made up of 12008 salagramams that compose the reclining lord.