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How to Use Pyramids in Vastu Shastra | Bangalore Niranjan Babu It is a fact that the shape of structures influence the flow of energy from the universe. The energy from Shikara or Pyramid help in enhancing the overall quality of our life.

Traditional Indian architecture is extremely simple and straight forward. The simple techniques of construction were utilized to build some of the glorious and magnificent buildings that have with stood the test of time.

Structural elements like columns and beams were carefully integrated within the buildings to meet the needs of religious and cultural traditions. The vast freedom available to the sthapaka and sthapathi in the design of temples and other spiritual buildings resulted in the development of overwhelming wealth of architectural elements, variety of sculptural forms and decorative exuberances that has become the everlasting symbol of Indian Temple Architecture.

Shikara - The doorway to divine energy The shikhara remains the most outstanding element of the temple. The prakaras or the walls surrounding the garbhagriha were built around the whole complex and were oriented to the cardinal directions. These enclosures had elaborate and magnificent gateways (gopurams) that led the devotees into the sacred courtyard.

A temple is the seat of divinity and is also a sacred institution that aims at giving mental and physical solace to the devotee. The Garbhagruha (Garbhagudi) or sanctum sanctorum encompasses the center or the nabhi of the superstructure. From the square shape of the Garbhagruha to the finial (which is a point) is the shikara.

This curved form is identified in modern times as the pyramid. The shikara normally refers to the superstructure of the sanctum sanctorum and is the most important part of the temple. The pyramidal superstructure has a number of storeys. The shikara can be a square, circular, hexagonal (6 sides) or octagonal (8 sides).

The vertical growth of Shikara is also sometimes used to designate the whole superstructure of the temple. The term Shikara is frequently mentioned at several places in the great epics Ramayana and Mahabharatha when referring to the 'Prasada' or temple. While the shikara generally refers to the curvilinear vertical growth of the sanctum sanctorum, the gopurams or gate towers refer to the gateways to the various enclosures and a temple.

These are also pyramid shaped and the cross-section is reduced as they go up.

Three Important Parts of a Shikara Generally the pyramidal superstructure has four or eight triangles joined if the garbhagriha was square (or rectangular) and round shaped if the sanctum sanctorum was circular. The superstructure was solid or hollow.

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27th July 2018 TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE The longest Lunar Eclipse of the 21st Century This is a rare phenomenon, where lunar eclipse will happen during apogee, where Moon is at the farthest distance from the earth. The eclipse is said to be the longest - totality lasts about 103 minutes - 1 hour and 43 minutes. This is described in Wikipedia as central lunar eclipse which last occurred on 15th June 2011. It is said that the Moon will appear deep orange or red in color. It will be longest lunar eclipse in the 21 stcentury.

It will start at 17:14(UTC) and finish at 23:28 (UTC)

Visibility of the Total Lunar Eclipse

According to Wikipedia, it will be completely visible over Eastern Africa, and Central Asia, seen rising over South America, Western Africa, and Europe, and setting over Eastern Asia, and Australia.

According to furnished data by Wikipedia, the visibility is shaded white in the map of the globe The lunar eclipse happens on Friday. It will occur in the constellation of Sravana 1stpada in the sign of Capricorn.

The eclipse takes placewhen Mars is at opposition to the earth which will occur on 27-28 July 2018, Mars will appear comparably brighter than before. Mars will be at exact opposition to Sun. This Total Lunar eclipse is very peculiar in sense that Mars/Moon/ Ketu will be in almost close longitude. The difference only being with Ketu which will be at 11deg 46 min in Capricorn while Moon and Mars will be at exact conjunction at 10 deg 38 min and 10 deg 02 min in Capricorn.

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Srila Prabhupada Reflecting on Half a Century Tattvavit Dasa

Tattvavit Dāsa recently edited a history of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s Kåñëa-Balarāma Temple in Vrindavana, entitled Vrindavana Is My Home, by Daivīśakti Dāsī. He also helped Jayādvaita Swami with the e-book version of the book Vanity Karma: Ecclesiastes, the Bhagavad-gītā and the Meaning of Life, published this September. Tattvavit blogs at tvdas.tumblr.com and has compiled his written articles and book reviews on his blog.

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ho was Srila Prabhupada, new in America fifty years ago? A hero. Who is he now for me?

feel like doing research, putting his father’s name into Google or delving into archives. What he wanted, rather, was to assemble a picture of his father” from memory. Disciples ought to be able to say what their guru is for them,what part of their personality they owe him. How did our separate cultures interface?

How did my background shape my involvement in and understanding of his movement?

Prabhupada turned sixty-nine going to America by sea. In my town in Minnesota, it was summer and I was nearly fifteen. Our baseball team practiced most mornings. The town has a golf course and a public swimming area next to an arrow river. After seeing the Beatles on TV, in 1964, we boys grew longhair. I delivered a Minneapolis newspaper to houses, sometimes stopping at St. Mary’s Villa to see my maternal grandmother, who, after outliving my grandfather,would die there.

In Tim Parks’s story Reverend, I read about a sixtyyear-old Englishman looking back thirty years to recall his deceased father, a clergyman: “He didn’t

Prabhupada’s thirty-five-day ocean crossing brought on two heart attacks. He dreamed of Lord Krishna telling him not to fear,assuring him of protection. In his diary he wrote about coming to the West to teach in English,just to execute his guru’s order. On September 19 he reached New York, a grandfatherly gentleman far from home, and so poorly accommodated in Manhattan for nine months that today people admire his patience and valor.

Reprinted from Back to Godhead, the magazine of the Hare Krishna Movement, November/December 2015.

By risking his life when most men retire, Prabhupada demonstrated a devotee’s unselfishness. A devotee – happy having Krishna – knows perfect happiness

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder - Acharya of International Society for Krishna Consciousness

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| Datta Vijayananda Theertha Swamiji (Sri Datta Vijayananda Teertha Swamiji, the junior pontiff of Datta Peetham, referred as Bala Swam ji by Datta devotees is born in a traditional Brahmin family on 14th January, 1977 in Mysore. The boy named Harsha Vardhana Sharma had his Vedic education in Sri Ganapathy Sachidananda Veda Patashala. He entered the Mysore Ashram in the year 1985 and studied the Sastras and the Vedas. While serving Guru, he acquired the M.A. degree in Sanskrit. In 1999 he received mantra initiation from His Holiness Sadguru Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji. In 2004 he received the orders to become an ascetic (Sanyasa Deeksha) and was announced as the spiritual successor of Avadoota Datta Peetham on 30th May, 2004. With collosal knowledge of the shastras Sri Swamiji has been interpreting Vedas in simple language to influence many lives. He observes Chaturmasya Deeksha every year.

In the year 2014 during the sacred period of Chaturmasya Deeksha Sri Bala Swamiji discoursed on the Yoga Vashista. These discourses are brought to you, as a series of articles. Due credit is given to Smt. Hira Duvvuri and Miss Madhu Gopi, both sincere and dedicated devotees of Datta Peetham, for translating and editing the discourses from telugu to english.

Yoga Vasishta is one of the greater spiritual texts and is said to be the conversation between Lord Sri Rama and Sage Vasishta. This text goes into much details of the subtle intricacies of the mind and is said to answer all questions that arise in one’s mind.)

Discourse delivered on August 9th, 2014 Jaya Guru Datta Sri GanesayaNamaha, Sri SaraswatyaiNamaha | SripadaVallabhaNarasimhaSaraswati Sri Guru DattatreyayaNamaha | Sri Ganapati SachchidanandaSadgurubhyoNamaha | Asato ma Sadgamaya, Tamaso ma jyotirgamaya | Mrityor ma AmrtamGamaya, Om Santissantissantihi ||

Yoga Vashishta DhyanaS lokas Yatassarvāi Bhūtāni Pratibhānti Sthitāni Ca Yatraivōpaśama Yānti Tasmai Satyātmanē Nama || 1 JñātāJñāna Tathā Jñēya Dra ādarśana Dr Śyabhū Kartā Hētu Kriyā Yasmāt Tasmai Jñaptyātmanē Nama|| 2 Sphuranti Sīkarā Yasmāt Ānanandasyābarē Vanau Sarvēām Jīvanam Tasmai Brahmānandātmanē Nama || 3

Aham (‘a’ to ‘ha’ like A-Z) encompasses the entire Creation. It is God’s property. We have claimed it as The astrological emagazine

our own. We have hung our name board/signboard upon it. It has become the cause of all misfortunes.

Rama is praying to Gurus Vasishtha and Visvamitra to help him to get rid of his ego. He says that he having studied so much and yet feels so inferior. Ego is the cause of all mental frailties and failures.

Children keep a big target of scoring 99 marks and get only 19. When they lose confidence, you must give them courage. Tell them it is all in God’s hands and the next time they will do better. If you blame them that they are responsible for the failure, they will go into depression. In business, studies, profession one can face failure. The reason for failure is ego. Once the person develops the conviction that God is in charge and he is only a tool in God’s hands, he succeeds in his efforts. Does a car, camera, or automobile ever shed tears that it has been set aside for not functioning properly? Do not think that you have to behave like a lifeless object. No. There is great happiness in that feeling. The greatness of all functioning belongs to the conscious energy within us.

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