...Lord Shiva is the Destroyer, the most important of the 3 gods. He is the one ho ill arise the Divyajyoti, the Hindu apocalypse, the end of the orld. Hindus believe in reincarnation, so the ones that ill go to haven and the ones ho ill go to hell are the ones ho made good deeds and bad deeds during their life until the Divyajyotis time hen there ill be too much sin on this orld. hen this ill happen, he ill open his third eye, and the orld ill burn. He is represented usually in the meditation position, ith his third eye opened that he gained through meditation. Thats hy Hindus ear a coloured dot beteen their eyes. It represents orshipping the intellect, the poer of reason and ill. Lord Shiva has an eye instead of a dot because he took the meditation to such level that a third eye opened, the eye of the mind.Actually, it is ith his third eye that he killed Kaam Dev, the god of love, because it as affecting him too much.There are many gods in the Hindu religion. Everything that exists has it on got. There are about 63.000 gods. Some of the most knon are Varun Dev, the god of air, Arun Dev, the sun god, Agni Dev, the god of fire and Kaam Dev, the god of love, ho as killed by lord Shiva. It is useless to pray to him because hes dead. Still, there is a mantra that can invoke Kaam Dev into ones life and ask for his help. Mantras are prayers addressed to different gods.There are many legends in the Hindu mythology and many of them have similarities ith the ancient Greek myths. One of them is hen devils attacked the haven, the ay the titans attacked Olympus. hen this happened, Indr, the king of haven, ent to ask Shiva hat to do because the orld as in danger. And Shiva told him that only by throing into the devils ith the bones of a holly man the devils ould die. And this holly man vas Dadhichi, the yoghin. Indr left to find Dadhichi and the found him meditating. His level of meditation as so high that he as able to make his soul leave his body. So, the gods could take his bones and thro them into the devils, thus saving the orld, thanks to the old mans sacrifice.It is a knon thing that the oman is seen as the most fragile and delicate thing is all the societies of the orld. Still, ithin the oman lies a great poer. A poer big enough to save the orld, as Hindus say. hen the orld is in real danger, the 3 divine poers the Generator, the Operator and the Destroyer, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, join together, thus generating 4 poers, That take the shape of 4 omen, 4 goddesses Durga, Khali, Sarssaty and Lakshmi. Goddess Durga is the enemy of all the evil and the bad things in the orld. The ones ho orship Durga never forgive their enemies. Khali is the some like Durga. She is the enemy of all the evil in the orld and she is a destroyer, like Shiva, but she only destroys the evil. Shes represented as being completely black, like the earth, hose rage she represents, earing a garland of human skulls and she bas her tongue alays outside her month. She can also be invoked in black magic practices, but she is one of the 4 poers that can save the orld in time of need. hen the mother earth is angry, she takes the shape of goddess Khali to revenge herself. The image of Khali presented in the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is completely fake and it has nothing to do ith goddess Khali. Actually, the Indian people took the movie as in insult and it as forbidden in India. Sarssaty is the goddess of intelligence and knoledge. Anybody ho is student or learning something should orship Sarssaty and ask her to make them keep their intelligence in their heads, unless it ill vanish. They should ask her for the poer of the concentration and of learning.And finally, Lakshmi, ho is the goddess of ealth and money. These are the 4 omen, the 4 poers generated by the union of the 3 divine lords Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.Unlike other religions, Hindus are born into Hindu religion. In Christianity, e baptise our children in the church of Jesus. Muslims and Jes circumcised their children in order to make them members of the Muslim or Jeish religious society. Unlike these, Hindus are born into their religion. They are members of the religious society strait from birth. They dont need a consecration like e need the baptise. All the children, regardless of sex, receive their mothers name until she decides to give them a name around the age of 4 years hen the legal papers are completed as ell. The marriage ritual is also very different. There are 3 types of ceremony in the jungle, in the society and in the temple. The ceremony that takes place in the jungle, is secret, only the bride and the groom kno hat happens. It is forbidden no and considered illegal because it is thought to be a devils ceremony, due to its secret nature.The most common one is the social marriage but the rituals are very different depending on religions. India is a very big country and big countries mean many different traditions. It is the girls parents that go to ask the boys hand in marriage from his parents. The ceremony has 3 stages, hich happened during in a night. In the first phase, the girl is taken from her house here she aits for the groom to come for her. She stays on a throne, earing a red dress. During the night, the bride, the groom and the brides parents cant eat anything. hen they arrive at his place, she changes her dress and ears a yello one. A ood fire is set in the house. The girls parents put her hand into the grooms hand, they are tied, and they surround the fire 7 times. Each time they surround the fire they take an oath. The first 4 times, the man is leading the oman and he takes the first 4 oaths. Than the last 3 times, the oman leads the man and it is her ho takes the last 3 oaths. He sears alays to protect her, to take all responsibility of her, never to let her cry, and she sears to let death take her first and also to make him happy, and take care of him. Than there is a feast ith food and music and dance here everybody participates and she ears a red dress again.Finally the ritual of death. If the one ho dies is a child, a single girl or a single boy, or somebody ho died because of a snakebite, he or she is droned into a sacred river. All the rivers are believed to be sacred because all of them have their on god. If the one ho died as married he or she is dressed as a groom or a bride and they are burned on a pyre. hen the hair has burned and they can see his skull, they break it ith a stick named copalcria to release the soul of the dead from its body. omen are not alloed to itness the ceremony. If the dead is a man, the one ho ill release the soul is his father, his eldest son or his brother. If the dead is a oman, it ill be her husband or her eldest son. After the body is burned, there is 13 days ceremony.After 10 days, the men of the family shaves their heads in order to purify the house hich isnt pure anymore because of the presence of the deads soul. They say that the soul of the dead stays around the h...
Download