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The Great Trichur Pooram !

In Kerala festival dates are determined by the Malayalam Astro Calender. Delta Leonis or Pooram day of Mesha or Aries is the day of Thrissur Pooram, one of the greatest festivals in India. 10 temples participate and it is a glorious sight in Trichur.

A heady mixture of pomp and pageantry, Trichur Pooram is arguably the most popular festival in India. More than 50 elephants and lakhs of people gather around the central Thekkinkattu Maidan. A spectacular pageant of 30 caparisoned elephants and Kudamattom, a swift changing of the colored parasols mark the event. Great fireworks light up the sky to  provide a grand finale to 36 hours of classic entertainment.

Here we are giving some photos and videos of the event and it is for you to judge about this grand event ! 
                           
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The Chamravattom Regulator Bridge !

Today the Chamravattom Regulator Bridge will be dedicated to the nation. It
is a 148 cr project. It will block the waters from Bharatapuzha from flowing
into the sea. 13 kms long and 869 hectares will be directly benefited. The
transporters save 30 kms. We need more infra projects like these, as Agri India
do not have sufficient water ! Water scarcity has been reported in Cherpu, where
women stand in queue for hours to get a bucket of water ! It will save 15 mm
cubics of water in the first phase and 25 mm cubics in the second phase.

The Temple on the banks of Nila, at Chamravattom. Nearly 10000 hectares
can be irrigated by the Regulator Bridge. Inauguration by the CM at 0400
PM.


The great mathematical genius, Aryabhata was born on the banks of Nila.
Another Jain Siddha practised the 64 liberal arts at this place. Astronomy,
Astrology, Music etc was practised on the banks of this river. This river is the
Ganges of the Keralites. It is said that Kerala culture came from Nila !
For the passengers travelling from Ekm to Calicut, there is a gain of 40 kms. Previously the road was 225 kms and now travel is reduced to 185 kms. 20 rupees gain monetarily. 
Ten multi crore Tourism projects have been planned on the banks of the Nila. This will be a boon not only to this area, but to entire Kerala !
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The Sevenfold Ignorance !

Man is ‘blessed’ with seven types of ignorance. 






Cosmic Ignorance 


Ignorant we are about the origin, purpose and becoming of our existence in this Cosmos.

Absolute Ignorance

The Absolute is the source of all being and becoming. and we are ignorant of the Absolute.

Egotistic Ignorance

Egotistic Ignorance is that we are ignorant of the spaceless timeless and immortal self. We have only a short life.

Temporal Ignorance

We are ignorant of our eternal becoming in time; that is the fourth temporal ignorance.

Psychological Ignorance

This prevents us from knowing who we really are.

Constitutional Ignorance

We are also ignorant of the true constitution of our becoming..

Practical Ignorance

Because of greed and fear, we commit many a blunder and this is our Practical Ignorance.

We have to transcend this sevenfold Ignorance and rise to Integral Knowledge, which is needed for Enlightenment.

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Karthika Njattuvela, the Solar Transit of the Pleiades strikes !


The Indian Astro Calender was proved right, as
when Karthika Njattuvela began on 10th, it heralded the rains. It started
raining at 0700 PM yesterday and rained continously for 12 hours ! I couldnt
even work on FB, because of the heavy thunder and lightning. I stopped working
on FB at 0900 PM.

Our Astro Calender says that it will start raining from
10th May and rains will intensify after 29th, when the Solar Transit of 15th
degree of Taurus or Edavam takes place.

While this is Astro Meteorology’s
perspective, Meteorlogy will say that rains are due to depressions in the Indian
Ocean or the Bay of Bengal, giving it some fancy names such as La Nina or El
Nino !

Here is a photo of paddy fields inundated by yesterday’s rains
!


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One yearn for rains !


It is a very hot day today and one
yearns for the rains. The South West Monsoon will begin on 29th May, but before
that rains are expected to appear after May 10th, when the Solar transit of the
Pleiades or Karthika Njattuvela begins.

May there be plenty of rains and
may be land become fertile, Kale Varshe thu parjanya prithvee sasya shalini
!

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The Three Definitions

The definitions of Mind, Overmind & Supermind in Aurobindonian Dialectic

Mind ( Mana )

Mind is a clumsy interlude between Nature’s vast and precise
subconscient action and the vaster and infallible superconscient action
of the Godhead.… There is nothing Mind can do which cannot be better done by the Mind’s immobility of thought free stillness.

Overmind ( Vijnana )

In its power of origination and in the process of its executive
dynamis, Overmind is the vast organiser of many potentialities of
existence, a magician craftsman empowered to weave the multi colored
warp and woof of manifestation of a single entity in a complex universe.

Supermind ( Prajnana )

Supermind is the Alpha and the Omega, the instrument of all
unification, of all origination, originative, executive and
consummative in all realised and realisable harmonies !

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The Lunar Calendar !










Vaisakha is the second month of the Hindu Lunar Calender.

The Full Moon of Vrishabha ( Taurus ) occurs near the constellation Beta Librae (Vishakha ) and hence is called Vaishakha. It begins from April 21 and ends on May 20.

Vaishakha… begins from today, the New Moon of April. The Sikh Harverst Festival, Baisakhi, is celebrated this month. It is the second month of the Tamil Solar Calender.

The Full Moon of Vaisakha is celebrated as Buddha Pournima or the birthday of Lord Buddha.

In Guruvayur, the Holy Month of Vaisakha begins. Pilgrims from TN, Karnataka and AP rush to Guruvayur to have a glimpse of the Lord during this Holy Month.



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The 10th Rising !

In the 10th degree of Aries, the Sun is in a state of deep exaltation, Athi Uccha. This is the 10th day of Mesha, Medam. Today the longitude of the Sun is 6 degree and today is the Aram Udayam. 

So Tenth Rising, Patham Udayam of the Sun is on 23rd. On this great day, all Hindus worship the Lord as Surya Narayana, when the Sun reaches his Athyuccha Point.

Happy Patham Udayam greetings in advance to all our brethren.

Grahanam Adir adithyo
Loka rakshana karaka
Vishama sthana sambhootham
Peedam Harathu me Ravi


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Patience is the greatest virtue !





Patience is the strength of the weak
Also the ornament of the strong !

Kshama balam ashakthanam
Shakthanam bhooshanam Kshama !
 … Many are the teachings of the wise
In ancient and in modern books enrolled
Extolling Patience as the truest fortitude
And to the bearing end of all calamities
All chances incident to man’s frail life !

Kshantavyam purusheneva
Sarvapatsu sushobhane
Thasyabhavaya bhavathi
Krodha Paramadaruna !

The patient will be extolled
As it is he who triumphs
He conquers, who endures
He who suffers, conquers !
The end of Anger is
A great disaster indeed !

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Quantum Mysticism enhances Indian Wisdom !






We said earlier that the Gnostics enriched Western Philosophy with the doctrines of the East. Similarly Indian Philosophy is enriched by Mahesh Yogi’s Quantum Mysticism and Aurobindonian Supramental Dialectic. 


Three disciples of Mahesh Yogi are still centre stage – Dr Deepak Chopra, Ravi Shankar and Rishi Prabhakar. Scientists like Dr Capra and Gary Zukav support Quantum Mysticism.

Modern astronomical theories support Indian Astro Physics and Dr Carl Sagan has testified to this fact.

Dr Robert Keith Wallace, a TM er, said

“It is appropriate to recognise India as the home of the most profound knowledge and procedures for the development of Physiology.”

in his ” Neurophysiology of Enlightenment “

Nobel Laureate Dr Prigogine, another TM er, said that more and more scientists will be visiting India, as Modern Science validates Indian philosophic verities !