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Amongst the many tribal art traditions of India, Warli Art stands out for its fine lines, texture, and scenes from the Indian countryside. The Warli painters are from Maharashtra, in western India. Their white line paintings with simple, direct figures have a close link to the cave paintings of their ancestors. For example, there are paintings in Ajanta and Ellora from many centuries ago.
For the Warli painters who execute these masterpieces, daily life still involves the rigors of subsistence farming in the foothills of the Sahyadri range in the district of Thane. Working in the fields with the village in the background, their art is a reflection of the simple beauty of their agrarian lives.
Each tribe or community in India has a special deity whom they hold dear. Though they believe in polytheistic religion, one god or goddess usually holds pride of place as the protector of the community. For the Warlis, the main goddess is Palghat, who oversees the bounty of nature. She is responsible for fertility of mankind as well and therefore invoked at the time of marriage.
Given their agrarian lifestyle, and spiritual beliefs, Warli paintings depict scenes from their everyday worlds. Scenes from nature, farming activities, and jungle lore are a source of inspiration for these tribal painters. Each painting has exquisite details of the trees, animals, and people of the countryside.
Some of the most dramatic of these linear rice paste paintings are actually inside the huts of the Warlis. They dwell in square windowless huts made of wood, straw and mud. These dull and dreary brown huts are brightened up by the contrast of exquisite white line paintings.
Today, Warli painters continue to pursue their traditional artwork, despite their exposure to modern, urbanized lifestyles. Their humble and reserved outlook allows them to focus on their beautiful paintings, while also drawing on the benefits of new income opportunities that have opened up to them due to the expanding Indian economy.
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The most important teaching of the Buddha is the four noble truths. This was the first sermon that the Buddha preached after his enlightenment. The first noble truth is that life is frustrating and painful. Sometimes it is downright miserable! Look around and see other people also in the most appalling conditions: children starving, terrorism, hatred, wars, intolerance, people being tortured. Pain and suffering are all pervasive.
The second noble truth is that suffering has a cause. We suffer because we are constantly struggling to survive and prove our existence. The harder we struggle to establish ourselves and our relationships, the more painful our experience becomes.
The third noble truth is that the cause of suffering can be ended. Our effort to prove ourselves and solidify our relationships is unnecessary. Buddha teaches us to be simple, straight-forward people. We do this by abandoning our expectations about how we think things should be.
The fourth noble truth concerns the path to end this suffering. The way is through meditation. Meditation, here, means mindfulness and awareness. Being mindful of all the things that we torture ourselves with, we can end the suffering. Out of our mindfulness we develop an awareness of the way things really are.
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Accounts of Hanuman’s birth and parentage in the Ramayana, Skanda Purana, Bhavishyottara Purana, Brahmananda Purana and some other texts are almost identical. The myth in the Brahmananda Purana begins with Anjana’s father Kesari, a demon.
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The childless Kesari underwent rigorous penance for a son. Pleased by
it Shiva appeared and asked him to name anything he wanted. Kesari
asked him to grant him a son who was unparalleled on warfront and in
might, wisdom and steadfastness. Shiva showed his inability for
Providence had not allowed him a son. He, however, granted him a
daughter who would bear a mighty son. In due course his wife bore a
girl with exceptional beauty. Kesari named her Anjana. When fully
grown, she was married to a mighty monkey, also named Kesari. For quite
long they had no child. One day, Dharma, god of Righteousness,
disguised as a low-born woman adept in astrology, came to their place.
She told Anjana that if she performed penance for seven thousand years
on mount Venkatachala, she would have a mighty son. She underwent seven
thousand years long penance. Afterwards she bore a son with no one like
him in valor, wisdom and might.
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Hanuman, the redeemer, is hence more widely
worshipped and has a larger number of shrines dedicated to him than
even Rama, his master. Hanuman’s power to redeem is not a mere
theological conceptualisation or a believer’s hypothesis, his life, as
it reveals in different sources, is its example. In Rama-katha – story
of Rama’s life, which is broadly also the story of Hanuman’s life, this
emissary and servant of Rama often rises above his master at least in
the face of a crisis.
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Some other texts also allude to Anjana’s journey to Venkatachala for a
son but on the advice of sage Matanga, not Dharma. Sage Matanga saw
Anjana engaged in rigorous austerities at mount Kishkindha. He asked
her the object of her penance. A sad Anjana revealed her heart and
entreated the holy saint to tell how she would get a son. Sage Matanga
advised her to go to Venkatachala. There she should first worship
Venkateshvara and then take a holy dip at the sacred Akashaganga and
drink a handful of its water. So purified she should stand and pray the
wind-god who would bless her with a son invincible against men, gods
and demons. Anjana did as advised. When she was engaged in rigorous
penance, the wind-god appeared. She asked him for a son as mighty as
him. The wind-god thereupon assured her that he himself would be born
to her as her son. Thus, Anjana’s son was born by wind-god and was
himself the wind-god. Hanuman is hence lauded as both Maruti and
Maruti-nandana.
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Goddess Durga represents a united front of all Divine forces against the negative forces of evil and wickedness. The gods in heaven decided to create an all-powerful being to kill the demon king Mahishasur who was ready to attack them.
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At that very moment a stream of lightning dazzled forth from the mouths of Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh and it turned into a beautiful, magnificent woman with ten hands. Then all the gods furnished her with their special weapons. The image of Durga, the Eternal Mother destroying the demon, Mahishasur is symbolic of the final confrontation of the spiritual urge of man with his baser passions.
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As per our great epic Mahabharat, Pandavas after wandering in the forest for 12 years, hung their weapons on a Shami tree before entering the court of king Virat to spend the last one year in disguise. After the completion of that year on Vijayadashmi the day of Dassera they brought down the weapons from the Shami tree and declared their true identity. Since that day the exchange of Shami leaves on Dassera day became symbols of good, will and victory.
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This festival has immense mythological significance. As per Ramayan, Ram did "chandi-puja and invoked the blessings of Durga to kill Ravana, the ten-headed king of Lanka who had abducted Seeta and had charmed life. Durga divulged the secret to Ram how he could kill Ravana. Then after vanquishing him, Ram with Seeta and Laxman returned victorious to his kingdom of Ayodhya on Diwali day.
Kautsa, the young son of Devdatt, insisted on his guru Varatantu to accept "gurudakshina", after finishing his education. After lots of persistence his Guru, finally asked for 14 crore gold coins, one crore for each of the 14 sciences he taught Kautsa. Kautsa went to king Raghuraj, who was known for his genorisity and was an ancestor of Rama. But just at that time he had emptied all his coffers on the Brahmins, after performing the Vishvajit sacrifice. So, the king went to Lord Indra and asked for the gold coins. Indra summoned Kuber, the god of wealth. Indra told Kuber, "Make a rain of gold coins fall on the "shanu" and "apati" trees round Raghuraja's city of Ayodhya." The rain of coins began to fall. The king Raghu gave all the coins to Kautsa, who gave 14 crores gold coins to his guru. The remaining coins were lavishly distributed to the people of Ayodhya city. This happened on the day of Dussehra. In remembrance of this event the custom is kept of looting the leaves of the "apati" trees and people present each other these leaves as "sone" (gold).
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Hindu mythology offers some interesting stories giving reasons for this pre-eminence to Ganesh Ji. One such story is as follows.
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Once when Ganesh Ji's mother, goddess Parvati Ji desired to have bath
and have privacy for that purpose, she created Ganesh Ji from her sweat
and asked him to keep guard.
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After sometime, Parvati Jis's husband Shiv
ji returned but was denied entry by this guard Ganesh Ji since he was
not aware of Shiv Ji's identity. This infuriated Shiv Ji who cut-off
Ganesh Ji's head. When Parvati Ji arrived on the scene and explained
that Ganesh Ji was her off-spring, Shiv Ji felt sorry.
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He sent his
attendants to search for a child's head, a child whose mother should be
asleep so that she does not have to go through the torture of
separation from her child, a child whose mother should be asleep sot
that in such a position and brought it to Shiv Ji, who then
transplanted this young elephant's head onto Ganesh Ji's body also
arrived on the scene and granted a very special boon in favor of
Ganesh Ji, to please Parvati Ji, that Ganesh Ji will henceforth be the
first among all gods and will receive top eminence in case of worship.
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The population of Ladakh is predominantly Buddhist and Ladakh has been deeply influenced by Tibetan Buddhism, which follows the Mahayana and Vajrayana schools. In these forms of Buddhism, Buddha is worshipped a deity who has attained Nirvana (freedom from the cycle of birth and death). Various incarnations of Buddha, known as Bodhisattvas, are also worshipped in Gompas in Ladakh.

Dalai Lama: The Buddhists of Ladakh regard His Holiness the Dalai Lama, as their supreme spiritual leader and as living incarnation of Buddha. The present Dalai Lama, who is the 14 Dalai Lama was originally known as Tenzin Gyatso. As a child he was recognized as an incarnation of the previous Dalai Lama, who had passed away in 1933. Tenzing Gyatso was brought to Lhasa and proclaimed the new spiritual leader of the Tibetan people on Feb 22nd 1940.
Due his resistance to the Chinese occupation Tibet, the Dalai Lama became an icon of political as well as spiritual leadership for the Tibetans. The Dalai Lama left Tibet and came to India in March, 1959. Ever since, he has led an international campaign against the Chinese occupation of Tibet. He received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1989 for his leadership of the struggle for the peaceful liberation of Tibet.
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