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Sunday, June 08, 2008
Tirumala by Walk - Climb the hills from Alipiri to Tirumala to fulfil a vow!
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108 Names of Lord Shiva - ॐ शिवाय नमः। Om Shivaya Namah।
108 Names of Lord Shiva
Lord Shiva is known by several names. The Shiva Purana, one of the oldest Hindu religious texts dedicated to the Hindu deity Shiva , ...
OM SHIVAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Auspicious One
OM MAHESHVARAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Great God Shiva
OM SHAMBHAVE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God who exists for our happiness alone
OM PINAKINE NAMAHA
Obeisances to Shiva, who guards the path of dharma
OM SHASHISHEKHARAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God who wears the crescent moon in his hair
OM VAMADEVAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God who is pleasing and auspicious in every way
OM VIRUPAKSHAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God of spotless form
OM KAPARDINE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord with thickly matted hair
OM NILALOHITAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God splendid as the red sun at daybreak
OM SHANKARAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the source of all prosperity
OM SHULAPANAYE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God who carries a spear
OM KHATVANGINE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God who carries a knurled club
OM VISHNUVALLABHAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to Shiva, who is dear to Lord Vishnu
OM SHIPIVISHTAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord whose form emits great rays of light
OM AMBIKANATHAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to Ambika's Lord
OM SHRIKANTAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to he whose throat is shining blue
OM BHAKTAVATSALAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord who loves His devotees like new born calves
OM BHAVAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God who is existence itself
OM SARVAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to Shiva who is all
OM TRILOKESHAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to Shiva who is the Lord of all the three worlds
OM SHITAKANTHAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the primal soul whose throat is deep blue
OM SHIVAPRIYAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the god who is dear to Shakti
OM UGRAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to Shiva whose presence is awesome and overwhelming
OM KAPALINE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God whose begging bowl is a human skull
OM KAMARAYE NAMAHA
Obeisances to Shiva who conquers all passions
OM ANDHAKASURA SUDANAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord who killed the asura Andhaka
OM GANGADHARAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God who holds the Ganges River in his hair
OM LALATAKSHAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord whose sport is creation
OM KALAKALAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to Shiva who is the death of death
OM KRIPANIDHAYE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God who is the treasure of compassion
OM BHIMAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to Shiva whose strength is awesome
OM PARASHU HASTAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God who wields an axe in his hands
OM MRIGAPANAYAE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord who looks after the soul in the wilderness
OM JATADHARAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to Shiva who bears a mass of matted hair
OM KAILASAVASINE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God who abides on Mount Kailas
OM KAVACHINE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord who is wrapped in armor
OM KATHORAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to Shiva who causes all growth
OM TRIPURANTAKAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord who destroyed the three demonic cities
OM VRISHANKAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God whose emblem is a bull (Nandi)
OM VRISHABHARUDHAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to Shiva who rides a bull
OM BHASMODDHULITA VIGRAHAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord covered with holy ash
OM SAMAPRIYAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God exceedingly fond of hymns from the Sama Veda
OM SVARAMAYAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to Shiva who creates through sound
OM TRAYIMURTAYE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord who is worshiped in three forms
OM ANISHVARAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the undisputed Lord
OM SARVAGYAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God who knows all things
OM PARAMATMANE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Supreme Self
OM SOMASURAGNI LOCHANAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the light of the eyes of Soma, Surya and Agni
OM HAVISHE NAMAHA
Obeisances to Shiva who receives oblations of ghee
OM YAGYAMAYAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the architect of all sacrificial rites
OM SOMAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Moon-glow of the mystic's vision
OM PANCHAVAKTRAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God of the five activities
OM SADASHIVAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the eternally auspicious benevolent Shiva
OM VISHVESHVARAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the all-pervading ruler of the cosmos
OM VIRABHADRAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to Shiva the foremost of heroes
OM GANANATHAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God of the Ganas
OM PRAJAPATAYE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Creator
OM HIRANYARETASE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God who emanates golden souls
OM DURDHARSHAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the unconquerable being
OM GIRISHAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the monarch of the holy mountain Kailas
OM GIRISHAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord of the Himalayas
OM ANAGHAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to Shiva who can inspire no fear
OM BUJANGABHUSHANAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord adorned with golden snakes
OM BHARGAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the foremost of rishis
OM GIRIDHANVANE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God whose weapon is a mountain
OM GIRIPRIYAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord who is fond of mountains
OM KRITTIVASASE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God who wears clothes of hide
OM PURARATAYE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord who is thoroughly at home in the wilderness
OM BHAGAVATE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord of prosperity
OM PRAMATHADHIPAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God who is served by goblins
OM MRITUNJAYAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the conqueror of death
OM SUKSHMATANAVE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the subtlest of the subtle
OM JAGADVYAPINE NAMAHA
Obeisances to Shiva who fills the whole world
OM JAGADGURAVE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the guru of all the worlds
OM VYOMAKESHAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God whose hair is the spreading sky above
OM MAHASENAJANAKAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the origin of Mahasena
OM CHARUVIKRAMAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to Shiva, the guardian of wandering pilgrims
OM RUDRAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord who is fit to be praised
OM BHUTAPATAYE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the source of living creatures, including the Bhutas, or ghostly creatures
OM STHANAVE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the firm and immovable deity
OM AHIRBUDHNYAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord who waits for the sleeping kundalini
OM DIGAMBARAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to Shiva whose robes is the cosmos
OM ASHTAMURTAYE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord who has eight forms
OM ANEKATMANE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God who is the one soul
OM SATVIKAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord of boundless energy
OM SHUDDHA VIGRAHAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to him who is free of all doubt and dissension
OM SHASHVATAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to Shiva, endless and eternal
OM KHANDAPARASHAVE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God who cuts through the mind's despair
OM AJAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the instigator of all that occurs
OM PAPAVIMOCHAKAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord who releases all fetters
OM MRIDAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord who shows only mercy
OM PASHUPATAYE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the ruler of all evolving souls, the animals
OM DEVAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the foremost of devas, demigods
OM MAHADEVAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the greatest of the gods
OM AVYAYAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the one never subject to change
OM HARAYE NAMAHA
Obeisances to Shiva who dissolves all bondage
OM PASHUDANTABHIDE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the one who punished Pushan
OM AVYAGRAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord who is steady and unwavering
OM DAKSHADHVARAHARAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the destroyer of Daksha's conceited sacrifice
OM HARAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord who withdraws the cosmos
OM BHAGANETRABHIDE NAMAHA
Obeisances to Shiva who taught Bhaga to see more clearly
OM AVYAKTAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to Shiva who is subtle and unseen
OM SAHASRAKSHAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord of limitless forms
OM SAHASRAPADE NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God who is standing and walking everywhere
OM APAVARGAPRADAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the Lord who gives and takes all things
OM ANANTAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the God who is unending
OM TARAKAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the great liberator of mankind
OM PARAMESHVARAYA NAMAHA
Obeisances to the great God
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Thanks Giving Day
Thanks Giving Day
How FDR (Franklin D. Roosevelt) Changed Thanksgiving
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had a lot to think about in 1939. The world had been suffering from the Great Depression for a decade and the Second World War had just erupted in Europe. On top of that, the U.S. economy continued to look bleak. So when U.S. retailers begged him to move Thanksgiving up a week to increase the shopping days before Christmas, he agreed. He probably considered it a small change; however, when FDR issued his Thanksgiving Proclamation with the new date, there was an uproar throughout the country.
The First Thanksgiving
As most schoolchildren know, the history of Thanksgiving began when Pilgrims and Native Americans gathered together to celebrate a successful harvest. The first Thanksgiving was held in the fall of 1621, sometime between September 21 and November 11, and was a three-day feast. The Pilgrims were joined by approximately 90 of the local Wampanoag tribe, including Chief Massasoit, in celebration. They ate fowl and deer for certain and most likely also ate berries, fish, clams, plums, and boiled pumpkin.
Sporadic Thanksgivings
Though the current holiday of Thanksgiving was based on the 1621 feast, it did not immediately become an annual celebration or holiday. Sporadic days of Thanksgiving followed, usually declared locally to give thanks for a specific event such as the end of a drought, victory in a specific battle, or after a harvest.
It wasn't until October 1777 that all 13 colonies celebrated a day of Thanksgiving. The very first national day of Thanksgiving was held in 1789, when President George Washington proclaimed Thursday, November 26 to be "a day of public thanksgiving and prayer," to especially give thanks for the opportunity to form a new nation and the establishment of a new constitution.
Yet even after a national day of Thanksgiving was declared in 1789, Thanksgiving was not an annual celebration.
Mother of Thanksgiving
We owe the modern concept of Thanksgiving to a woman named Sarah Josepha Hale. Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book and author of the famous "Mary Had a Little Lamb" nursery rhyme, spent 40 years advocating for a national, annual Thanksgiving holiday. In the years leading up to the Civil War, she saw the holiday as a way to infuse hope and belief in the nation and the constitution. So, when the United States was torn in half during the Civil War and Lincoln was searching for a way to bring the nation together, he discussed the matter with Hale.
Lincoln Sets Date
On October 3, 1863, Lincoln issued a Thanksgiving Proclamation that declared the last Thursday in November (based on Washington's date) to be a day of "thanksgiving and praise." For the first time, Thanksgiving became a national, annual holiday with a specific date.
FDR Changes It
For 75 years after Lincoln issued his Thanksgiving Proclamation, succeeding presidents honored the tradition and annually issued their own Thanksgiving Proclamation, declaring the last Thursday in November as the day of Thanksgiving. However, in 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt did not. In 1939, the last Thursday of November was going to be November 30. Retailers complained to FDR that this only left 24 shopping days to Christmas and begged him to push Thanksgiving just one week earlier. It was determined that most people do their Christmas shopping after Thanksgiving and retailers hoped that with an extra week of shopping, people would buy more.
So when FDR announced his Thanksgiving Proclamation in 1939, he declared the date of Thanksgiving to be Thursday, November 23, the second-to-last Thursday of the month.
Controversy
The new date for Thanksgiving caused a lot of confusion. Calendars were now incorrect. Schools who had planned vacations and tests now had to reschedule. Thanksgiving had been a big day for football games, as it is today, so the game schedule had to be examined.
Political opponents of FDR and many others questioned the president's right to change the holiday and stressed the breaking of precedent and disregard for tradition. Many believed that changing a cherished holiday just to appease businesses was not a sufficient reason for change. Atlantic City's mayor derogatorily called November 23 as "Franksgiving."
Two Thanksgivings in 1939?
Before 1939, the president annually announced his Thanksgiving Proclamation and then governors followed the president in officially proclaiming the same day as Thanksgiving for their state. In 1939, many governors did not agree with FDR's decision to change the date and refused to follow him. The country became split on which Thanksgiving they should observe.
Twenty-three states followed FDR's change and declared Thanksgiving to be November 23. Twenty-three other states disagreed with FDR and kept the traditional date for Thanksgiving, November 30. Two states, Colorado and Texas, decided to honor both dates.
This idea of two Thanksgiving days split some families, because not everyone had the same day off work.
Did It Work?
Though the confusion caused many frustrations across the country, the question remained as to whether the extended holiday shopping season caused people to spend more, thus helping the economy. The answer was no. Businesses reported that the spending was approximately the same, but the distribution of the shopping was changed. For those states who celebrated the earlier Thanksgiving date, the shopping was evenly distributed throughout the season. For those states that kept the traditional date, businesses experienced a bulk of shopping in the last week before Christmas.
1940
In 1940, FDR again announced Thanksgiving to be the second-to-last Thursday of the month. This time, 31 states followed him with the earlier date and 17 kept the traditional date. Confusion over two Thanksgivings continued.
Congress Fixes It
Lincoln had established the Thanksgiving holiday to bring the country together, but the confusion over the date change was tearing it apart. On December 26, 1941, Congress passed a law declaring that Thanksgiving would occur every year on the fourth Thursday of November.
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