The Bach

Courtesy: Mani – the room mate.
Place - mysore

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I am not good at mythology, I have tried naming cherecters. suggest me good names to the sculptures ( if you dint like my nomenclature). these are the images of walls of cave temples in mahabalipuram.

GovardhanaGiridhari.: To protect a town called “nandagopa”, krishna lifts a mountain called “govardhana giri” with his small finer. All living creature take protection under that.

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Good morning… Then afternoon …..And now …

Friends complain for me not mentioning the place I click the photos. Most of the time it is not worth telling, sometimes I too don’t know them. So let me try from this time.

The location I clicked this is called “Narahari Parvatha”. It’s not a big mountain (as its name says) , but surely is a hill which has “sadashiva” temple built on the top of it. As usual people don’t like to climb a lot just to see god, unless he is a powerful god like thirupathi. Temple was empty, not a great trekking spot , but still…500 steps !!!

I tried to shoot Netravathi River, dint come up well. Look at the satellite image,

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In India believers have some undefined dislike towards animal products into places of worship. They are not allowed into temples and places of worships. I really don’t buy the idea of we all started as vegetarians and animal lovers, but I feel they are introduced into the religion to convince the followers to show god loves animals too.

Major three or four religions in India want its followers to be vegetarians. Most of the followers successfully convince their gods, that they will be vegetarians on specific days of the week (Fridays Lakshmi, Saturdays Vishnu etc).I saw so many of them while ordering in a hotel “two Rotis … and then …hmm… today what ..??Tuesday… alright … Butter chicken!”.

People don’t enter temples if they had taken any non-veg that day, and most of them can’t explain why?

These all confusing rules, people made them and the same people find loopholes not to follow them, Then why to have them at all. Why restrict only to temples.

There are some more of them

• Kerosene are not supposed be used in any of places of worships. They are considered to be animal product, came into form by tones of animals and plants died billions of years ago.
• Sugar is not used in any of the Hindu religious ceremonies. The reason is sugar is prepared from Jaggery, and while doing it they polish jaggery with some animal product (I guess it is leather). So any sweet is cooked is using Jaggery directly.

I have listed certain things which are missing in those rules.

• All gods and goddesses wear silk. All Shwethambaras and Peethambaras presented to gods are silk, which are results of boiling thousands of silkworms. Similarly honey, which is obtained killing or burning thousands of honeybees.

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