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Sri Shivabalayogi Text Formatted
SRI SHIVABALAYOGI by Prof. S. K. Ramachandra Rao FIRST EDITION – 1968 (Publishing Rights Reserved) Price Re. 1=00 Printed by G. Srinivasan, Proprietor Orient Power Press. 54, Lal Bagh Road, Bangalore -27 Table of Contents Foreword........................................................................................................................................................1 THE LIFE ......................................................................................................................................................2 Early Life...............................................................................................................................................2 Poverty...................................................................................................................................................3 The Touch..............................................................................................................................................4 Tapoleela..............................................................................................................................................11 Dhyanayogi..........................................................................................................................................12 IMPORTANT EVENTS IN THE YOGI’S LIFE........................................................................................14 THE TAPOLEELA .....................................................................................................................................15 -
Arsha Sep. 2012 Final Dps.Pmd
Swami Paripoornananda conducts mammoth Hindu Sammelana - Sep 21, 2012 Swami Paripoornananda assembled a massive declined and advised him to do the service congregation of people in the city of to community. Kakinada to bring awareness among all Hindus about the greatness of Hinduism He also announced that he would organize and need to preserve and protect it by a project called “AMMA VODI” (Mother’s working together. The whole city was made Lap) that will invite all the converted into a sea of saffron flags. As many as 35, Hindus back to the lap of their mother. No 000 people assembled to hear the message religion should take advantage of the of peace, truth, dharma, tolerance, love, conditions of the people and convert them accommodation, adaptation, nonviolence, with bribes and allurements. freedom and independence – the unique Swami Paripoornananda said that Hindus characteristics of Hindu religion. The spiritual respect other religions, respect the people climate pervaded the entire city as who do namaz three times a day as well as thousands and thousands of Hindus people, who go to churches every week. ascended the scene from many parts of the Hinduism has been generous and invited State. other religions such as Christianity, Islam, Swami Paripoornananda delivered a Buddhism and even atheists with open hands thundering message of Swami Vivekananda to India. Similarly it is should be the and others who spoke eloquently about the responsibility of other religions to respect importance of our culture across the globe the people who worship their deities every and asked the assembled people to follow day. -
Name of the Element: Durga Puja in West Bengal
IGNCA INVENTORY ON THE INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE Edited and Maintained by Prof. Molly Kaushal Janapada Sampada Division IGNCA Name of the element: Durga Puja in West Bengal. Community: Bengalis of all religious denominations residing in the state of West Bengal. Region: Durga Puja is celebrated not only in West Bengal but in other regions such as Bihar (Biharis), Odisha (Oriyas) and Assam (Ahomiyas) as well as in other states of India where Bengali community reside. Bengali migrants residing in Europe, America and Australia also celebrate this festival. Brief Description: Durga Puja is the most important socio-cultural and religious event in the Bengali festival calendar, celebrated in autumn. The festival is to propitiate the Goddess Durga for her blessings as also celebrate her victory over the demon Mahishasur. It is also believed that Lord Rama had worshipped the goddess Durga to seek divine blessings before undertaking the battle against Ravana. Durga Puja is a ten-day festival, usually in October, which starts from Mahalaya, the inaugural day of the event. Mahalaya is celebrated by Agomoni or songs of welcome. Festivities start five days later with the observance of Shashti, Shaptami, Ashtami, and Nabami. An elaborate community bhog or food-offerings to the Goddess, is prepared and then partaken by congregations on each day of the festivities. On the tenth day, or Bijoya Dashami, the goddess is borne away to the sounds of the dhak, or traditional drum for immersion in nearby rivers or water bodies. The puja mandap or the main altar is essentially a platform inside a makeshift bamboo structure called a pandal. -
Durga Pujas of Contemporary Kolkata∗
Modern Asian Studies: page 1 of 39 C Cambridge University Press 2017 doi:10.1017/S0026749X16000913 REVIEW ARTICLE Goddess in the City: Durga pujas of contemporary Kolkata∗ MANAS RAY Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India Email: [email protected] Tapati Guha-Thakurta, In the Name of the Goddess: The Durga Pujas of Contemporary Kolkata (Primus Books, Delhi, 2015). The goddess can be recognized by her step. Virgil, The Aeneid,I,405. Introduction Durga puja, or the worship of goddess Durga, is the single most important festival in Bengal’s rich and diverse religious calendar. It is not just that her temples are strewn all over this part of the world. In fact, goddess Kali, with whom she shares a complementary history, is easily more popular in this regard. But as a one-off festivity, Durga puja outstrips anything that happens in Bengali life in terms of pomp, glamour, and popularity. And with huge diasporic populations spread across the world, she is now also a squarely international phenomenon, with her puja being celebrated wherever there are even a score or so of Hindu Bengali families in one place. This is one Bengali festival that has people participating across religions and languages. In that ∗ Acknowledgements: Apart from the two anonymous reviewers who made meticulous suggestions, I would like to thank the following: Sandhya Devesan Nambiar, Richa Gupta, Piya Srinivasan, Kamalika Mukherjee, Ian Hunter, John Frow, Peter Fitzpatrick, Sumanta Banjerjee, Uday Kumar, Regina Ganter, and Sharmila Ray. Thanks are also due to Friso Maecker, director, and Sharmistha Sarkar, programme officer, of the Goethe Institute/Max Mueller Bhavan, Kolkata, for arranging a conversation on the book between Tapati Guha-Thakurta and myself in September 2015. -
MAP:East Godavari(Andhra Pradesh)
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East Godavari and West Godavari Districts Andhra Pradesh
कᴂ द्रीय भूमि जल बो셍ड जल संसाधन, नदी विकास और गंगा संरक्षण विभाग, जल श啍ति मंत्रालय भारि सरकार Central Ground Water Board Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Ministry of Jal Shakti Government of India AQUIFER MAPPING AND MANAGEMENT OF GROUND WATER RESOURCES EAST GODAVARI AND WEST GODAVARI DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH दक्षक्षणी क्षेत्र, हैदराबाद Southern Region, Hyderabad REPORT ON AQUIFER MAPPING AND MANAGEMENT PLAN OF GODAVARI DELTAIC AREA PARTS OF EAST GODAVARI AND WEST GODAVARI DISTRICTS ANDHRA PRADESH CONTENTS P.No Area at a Glance 1 INTRODUCTION 1 – 10 Study Area Climate and Rainfall Drainage Geomorphology Soils Land Use, Irrigation & Cropping Pattern Previous Work 2 DATA COLLECTION AND GENERATION 11- 30 Geology Hydrogeology Ground Water Levels Ground Water Quality 3 DATA INTERPRETATION, INTEGRATION AND AQUIFER 31 – 38 MAPPING 4 GROUND WATER RESOURCES 39 – 43 5 GROUND WATER RELATED ISSUES 44 – 49 6 MANAGEMENT PLAN 50 – 52 7 SUM UP 53 – 54 Figures 1 Location and Administrative Divisions 2 2 Normal Rainfall Map 3 3 Drainage Map 5 4 Geomorphological Map 6 5 Topographic Elevation Map 7 6 Shoreline Development 7 7 Pedological Map 8 8 Land Use Pattern and Principal Crops 9 9 Area Irrigated by Different Sources 10 10 Geological Map 13 11 Geological (Schematic) Cross Section 13 12 Geological Cross Section 14 13 Schematic Map of Depth to Sand Stone 14 14 Hydrogeological Map 16 15 Depth to Water Level - Pre-Monsoon (2016) 17 16 Depth to Water Level - Post-Monsoon (2016) 17 17 Water Table Elevation Map 18 18 -
Teacher Feature and Ashtanga Yoga Standing Poses by Caroline
TEACHER OF THE MONTH I’ve been practicing and teaching Ashtanga yoga for almost 20 years and have taught workshops, retreats and teacher trainings across the world. I started teaching workshops internationally in Caroline 2002 and taught workshops in Vienna, Prague, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, the UK, Barcelona, Singapore, Bangkok, Kenya and other locations around the world. The first yoga retreat I lead was Klebl a yoga safari retreat in Tanzania. Additionally, I led yoga retreats in Ibiza and Bali. When yoga centres requested I teach yoga teacher training courses, I developed a week-long program, which I taught in South Africa, Jakarta, Dubai and Kuala Lumpur. In 2008, I developed 200 and 500-hour yoga teacher training programs, which meet the international yoga teacher training standards of the yoga alliance. I conducted my first yoga teacher training retreat in Bali. Since this course was a wonderful success, I continued teaching yoga teacher training programs in Bali, Costa Rica, Hawaii, Brazil, Jamaica, Greece, Italy, India, Mexico, San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles. My yoga teacher trainings are open to yoga teachers, aspiring teachers and to those who would like to learn Ashtanga yoga or improve their yoga practice. I’ve trained over 200 yoga teachers in Los Angeles, in addition to the 250 yoga teachers I trained on retreat courses. Graduates of my courses teach yoga all over the world. I teach Ashtanga yoga, a Vinyasa based yoga asana practice, which includes hundreds of yoga poses that are divided into the primary, intermediate and advanced series. Vinyasa are breath-initiated movements, which connect one pose to the next. -
Mahisamardhini in Indian Art
TRADITIONAL ART Mahisamardhini in Indian Art Amit Guha Independent Scholar Abstract This paper considers the evolving iconography of the Devi in Mahisamardhini form, especially in Bengal where the annual Durga Puja is increasingly marked by experimentation in artistic forms of both the idol and her surrounding ornamentation. This recent evolution is placed in the context of historical origins and evolution of the deity and her iconography is traced since her 5th century origins. Introduction The Devi stands astride her simha Figure 1. Modern Durga Image in Kolkata (lion) vahana and holds a spear to slay Mahisasura, who has just emerged from his buffalo disguise. In her other hands she holds the various astras (weapons) that the gods have lent her to fight the asuras (demons). This is perhaps the most popular and enduring of the various forms of Devi, the Great Goddess of Hindus. Durga as Mahisamardhini (slayer of Mahisasura) is an ancient deity. An important 5th century Sanskrit text, the Devimahatmya, contains the story of Durga in great detail including her various forms, exploits, and her iconography. By the 8th century, the Mahisamardhini cult was known throughout the subcontinent as evidenced by architectural remains from Afghanistan to Tamil Nadu. Today, she is still popular throughout India but particularly loved and revered in Bengal in an annual four-day autumn festival, the Durga Puja. Here, Durga while retaining her war-like iconography, is depicted in a more benign form, and seen by worshippers as a daughter visiting her parents for a few days. Thus, she is surrounded by her children, Ganesa, Lakshmi, Saraswati, and Karthik, who have joined her on their own vahanas, in this final moment of triumph over the asura. -
Mapping Land Subsidence of Krishna – Godavari Basin Using Persistent Scatterer Interferometry Technique
Mapping Land Subsidence of Krishna – Godavari Basin using Persistent Scatterer Interferometry Technique Lokhande Rohith Kumar, Divya Sekhar Vaka, Y. S. Rao Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering, IIT Bombay, Powai-400076, Mumbai, India Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] KEYWORDS: Interferometry, subsidence, PALSAR, oil and gas wells ABSTRACT SAR Interferometry (InSAR) is a technique by which a wide area can be mapped for surface deformation. The conventional InSAR technique has limitations due to baseline restriction, atmospheric phase delay and temporal decorrelation. Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) technique is an advanced InSAR technique, and it mitigates the atmospheric phase delay effect and geometric decorrelation to a large extent by utilizing a stack of interferograms and gives time series deformation with high accuracy. Extraction of oil and natural gas from underground deposits leads to land subsidence. The East coast of Andhra Pradesh (AP) state in Krishna-Godavari basin is most likely to be affected by this phenomena because of extraction of oil and natural gas from its underground reservoirs for the last two decades. In this paper, an attempt is made to know how the urban cities in this region are affected due to land subsidence using PSI technique. For this, two coastal test areas are selected and ALOS-1 PALSAR datasets from 2007 to 2011 comprising of 11 and 13 scenes are processed using PSI technique. Although the area predominantly agriculture, small villages, towns and cities provide adequate Persistent Scatterers (PS). From the results, land deformation rates of different cities in test area are observed. -
Encounters on the Opposite Coast European Expansion and Indigenous Response
Encounters on the Opposite Coast European Expansion and Indigenous Response Editor-in-Chief George Bryan Souza (University of Texas, San Antonio) Editorial Board Catia Antunes (Leiden University) Joao Paulo Oliveira e Costa (Cham, Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Frank Dutra (University of California, Santa Barbara) Kris Lane (Tulane University) Pedro Machado (Indiana University, Bloomington) Malyn Newitt (King’s College, London) Michael Pearson (University of New South Wales) VOLUME 17 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/euro Encounters on the Opposite Coast The Dutch East India Company and the Nayaka State of Madurai in the Seventeenth Century By Markus P.M. Vink LEIDEN | BOSTON Cover illustration: Skirmishes between the Dutch and Nayaka troops at Tiruchendur during the ‘punitive expedition’ of 1649. Mural painting by Sri Ganesan Kalaikkoodam. Photo provided by Patrick Harrigan. Sri Subrahmanya Swamy Devasthanam, Tiruchendur. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Vink, Markus P. M. Encounters on the opposite coast : the Dutch East India Company and the Nayaka State of Madurai in the seventeenth century / by Markus P.M. Vink. pages cm. -- (European expansion and indigenous response, ISSN 1873-8974 ; volume 17) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-27263-7 (hardback : acid-free paper) -- ISBN 978-90-04-27262-0 (e-book) 1. Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie--History--17th century. 2. Netherlands--Commerce--India--Madurai (District)-- History--17th century. 3. Madurai (India : District)--Commerce--Netherlands--History--17th century. 4. Netherlands--Relations--India--Madurai (District) 5. Madurai (India : District)--Relations--Netherlands. 6. Acculturation--India--Madurai (District)--History--17th century. 7. Culture conflict--India--Madurai (District)--History--17th century. -
The Yin and Yang of Yoga Tend Toward Emotion, Which Distorts Our Perceptions of Part 2 of a Series by Gyandev Mccord Reality
Newsletter of the Ananda Yoga® Teachers Association Vol. 12 No. 3 • Autumn 2007 I emphasize “potential,” because feeling, too, can be misled. To the degree that we cling tightly to the ego, we The Yin and Yang of Yoga tend toward emotion, which distorts our perceptions of Part 2 of a Series by Gyandev McCord reality. (See Figure 1 on page 2: “The Lens of Feeling.”) ast time, I discussed willpower, the “yang” element of But as we calm, refine and clarify our feeling nature, we Lyoga practice, and offered simple exercises that you get a progressively more accurate picture of reality, until can use to help students develop it. at last we see reality as it truly is. This higher expression Now I’ll do the same for the “yin” of our feeling nature is what I will call “deep feeling.” element: “feeling.” Both Paramhansa In contrast to willpower, which you can develop sim- Yogananda and Swami Kriyananda ply by doing (although as we saw last time, there’s much have long emphasized its impor- more to it than that), feeling is less about doing and tance, and I’ve come to realize from more about awareness. It’s subtle, but not mysterious. It experience how absolutely vital it simply requires increasingly sensitive listening, from a is to success in yoga. It also offers place of increasing calmness, expansiveness, receptivity, and above all, impersonal love. excellent potential content for more Gyandev McCord Let’s now explore how to use Ananda Yoga as a vehicle meaningful yoga classes. Director to refine these qualities, and deepen our feeling capacity. -
Effects of a 12-Week Hatha Yoga Intervention on Cardiorespiratory Endurance, Muscular Strength
Hindawi Publishing Corporation Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Volume 2015, Article ID 958727, 12 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/958727 Research Article Effects of a 12-Week Hatha Yoga Intervention on Cardiorespiratory Endurance, Muscular Strength and Endurance, and Flexibility in Hong Kong Chinese Adults: A Controlled Clinical Trial Caren Lau, Ruby Yu, and Jean Woo Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, Hong Kong Correspondence should be addressed to Ruby Yu; [email protected] Received 20 November 2014; Revised 15 March 2015; Accepted 18 March 2015 Academic Editor: Mariangela Rondanelli Copyright © 2015 Caren Lau et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective. To examine the effects of a 12-week Hatha yoga intervention on cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, and flexibility in Chinese adults. Methods.173adults(aged52.0± 7.5 years) were assigned to either the yoga intervention group (=87) or the waitlist control group (=86). 19 dropped out from the study. Primary outcomes were changes in cardiorespiratory endurance (resting heart rate (HR) and maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max)), muscular strength and endurance (curl-up and push-up tests), and lower back and hamstring flexibility (the modified back-saver sit-and-reach (MBS) test). Results. < 0.01 < 0.05 Compared to controls, the yoga group achieved significant improvements in VO2max ( ), curl-up ( )andpush-up ( < 0.001) tests, and the MBS left and right leg tests (both < 0.001) in both genders.