Saturday, September 04, 2021

GHANTA - The Ritual Bell



Adapted from Sanskrit Magazine (with changes):
The Ghanta or temple bell is extraordinary. The bell and/or clapper may be panchaloha (panchadhatu) or gold, silver, copper, zinc / brass and meteoric iron, with perhaps cadmium, lead, nickel, chromium or manganese. The scientific mix of proportions produces a distinct sound unifying the left & right brain. The instant you ring the bell, it generates a sharp and lasting sound - minimum seven seconds of echo to touch your seven healing centers or chakras.

The moment the bell sounds your brain is emptied of all thoughts. You enter a trance state: receptive and aware. You are normally so occupied in mind that only way to awaken you is with a Shock! And trust me Bell works as Antidote to your mind.

Before you enter temple – to awake you and prepare you for taste of awareness is the real reason behind temple bell. In other words “it helps to ring to wake yourself Up!” . To an extent Fragrant generators, Low light lamps all form Ecosystem to create awareness.

Bell or Ghanta is an indispensable part in most Hindu pujas. Ghanta is sounded before the actual puja and worship begins. A well-designed Ghanta or bell produce long strains of the sound ‘OM.’ 

A bell is rung in a Hindu temple, during the waving of light in front of the deity, while bathing the deity and while offering food. Hindu devotees on entering the temple also hit the ghanta hung in front of the sanctum sanctorum.

The most widespread belief is that the ghanta is sounded to invite the deity to accept the worship and prayers. Another belief is that it is to drive away the evil forces.

The sound made from a well-designed Ghanta is uninterrupted, reverberating, deep and sonorous.

Symbolically, the body of the bell represents time – Ananta. The tongue of the bell symbolically represents Goddess Saraswathi. The handle of the Ghanta is considered to be the vital principle (Prana Shakti) and symbolically represents Hanuman, Garuda, Nandi or Chakra.

Even while doing the ritualistic aarati, we ring the bell. It is sometimes accompanied by the auspicious sounds of the conch and other musical instruments. An added significance of ringing the bell, conch and other instruments is that they mask irrelevant noise that might disturb or distract the worshiper from devotion, concentration, and inner peace.

Start daily rituali puja (worship). Ring the bell, chanting:
Aagamaarthamtu devaanaam
gamanaarthamtu rakshasaam
Kurve ghantaaravam tatra
devataahvaahna lakshanam
Translation:
This bell ring invokes GOD. Virtuous & noble forces welcome - NOW oust ignorance & every darkness.



Never Forget Genocide by the USA

It's criminally misleading designating 20-years in Afghanistan as "America's Longest War." 

 𝘽𝙪𝙡𝙡𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙩! 

The US waged continuous active genocidal war on native Americans from 1775 to 1924, stealing land & resources. 

From 1492 to today, indigenous people remain under attack. 

https://www.redlakenationnews.com/story/2021/09/01/opinion/from-the-left-lawrence-odonnell-of-msnbc-to-right-wall-street-journal-agree-today/100488.html

 



Friday, September 03, 2021

Sunday, August 29, 2021

Cheat me, I'm Yankee

Each of us is afflicted by efforts to deceive: email and phone scams, Facebook 'news' & wider media tropes. 

Legacies of US imperialism, Native American genocide, Hawai'i's forced military occupation, slavery reparations, etc., remain unresolved. 

Deregulation & market choice invite fraud. 

As the dispossessed & battered seek justice, stolen wealth is protected by distractions.


 

Saturday, August 28, 2021

"Murder Hornet" !!

"Murder Hornet" !!

𝘝𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢 or オオスズメバチ are danger if disturbed & a threat to beehives. 

But as with the scare 20 years back of KILLER BEES!!!, media yanks your chain. 

Our Japanese farmhouse had a huge nest. Told not to disturb them, we didn't; six years, All OK.


 

Friday, August 27, 2021

Hawaiian Morgue Trailers

𝗛𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗶𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁? 

Hawai'i chills COVID corpses in three mobile mortuaries = morgue trailers. My Hawaiian auntie strongly advises tourists "Don't Visit Hawai'i!" with a grim edge of fear: "We don't want to end up in the morgue trailer ..." 

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2021/08/27/green-warns-life-preserving-restrictions-are-looming-city-deploys-mortuary-trailer-morgue/


Chillin' in Texas. Rest in Peace!
Chillin' in Texas.   Rest in Peace!


 

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

The Upsetting Truth

The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects ...

-- George Orwell, 1948


Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Is America RACIST?

"Sorry!" can't excuse enslavement, profiteering, continued violence, American racism.

American guilt.

Better education opportunity in the USA would be a helpful step. High-priced education maintains upper class domination and racism.


 

Monday, August 23, 2021

Don't Kill Locals - Finally!

Did YOU Know? LAST WEEK (17 Aug 2021) in Colorado USA:
Gov. Jared Polis officially rescinded the 1864 Proclamations, which ordering that "friendly" indians must gather at designated camps in Colorado; "hostile" indians were killed and their property taken. 
 
 


Thursday, August 19, 2021

Military Myth-making & Save-My-Buddy

American Global Militarism = Waste + murder

US military myth-making is a lurid industry behind corporate imperialism. US rulers disregard our soldiers, and care nothing for the locals in US-occupied lands. 
 
Recognize This Fact: Some PROFIT from War.
 

 

Sunday, August 15, 2021

Yankee in Hawai'i -- Time to GIT

Yankee took too much Hawai'i. 

Time to GIT


 

Speculators BLEED Workers... 🩸🩸🩸

Non-resident housing speculators BLEED local workers... 🩸🩸🩸

(Hawai'i, Cape Cod, Lake Placid, etc.)  🩸🩸🩸🩸