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    Dev Deepawali The festival which also some time referred as Diwali of Gods is greatly, and celebrated on a surprisingly huge scale with deep devotion   in the Ghats of our Kashi/Varanasi(Banaras) India. If to be believed the story behind this is that with the help of Tarak and Viduynmali, a daemon by the name Muy Daanav constructed 3 aerial purs which he gave to the daemons. With this unbelievable power at their hand the daemons become mad with greed, lust and did many horrific things that a normal person wouldn’t dare even to think. Seeing these havoc, all the devas approached Lord Shiva to put to   a stop to it, then an angered Shiva rose and destroyed all the tree purs showing his immense strength and power, thus the name Tripurari(An epithet of Lord Rudra). The devas rejoice their victory, hence the Dev Deepawali . In earlier days, the celebration for the Dev Diwali started from the day of Ekadishi TIthi of Kratik Shukla Paksha and it went till the 5 ...

  Aum( ॐ ) The sound Aum( ॐ ) is a combination of 3 sound “a”(pronounced as in first “a” afar) ,”u”(pronounced as “oo” as in moon),”m”(pronounced as first m in “mother”). It is said to be the fundamental sound, all the millions/billions of sounds can be uttered/made just by varying these three sound. Aum( ॐ ) like any other sound is just a reverberation of waves the only difference being a fundamental one. It is also believed this was the sound that occurred during the big bang(Creation of Universe according to modern science), thus being also names as the Cosmic Sound. The notes of the first “AUM” are higher, and should be sung loudly. The second note-sequence is a little lower, and is sung more softly. The third sequence is lowest, and is the softest of the three. It is not only present in Hindi and Sanskrit language it is present in all the other known languages present all over the world. It is said the three sounds “a”, ”u”, ”m” have different meaning and have differe...

  ओम नमः शिवाय     om, tryambakaṁ yajāmahe sugandhiṁ puṣṭi-vardhanam urvā-rukamiva bandhanān mṛtyor-mukṣīya mā'mṛtāt   MahaMrityunjaya, one of the oldest mantras in Hindu Scriptures which is mentioned in RigVeda, Yagur Veda,   Atharva Veda and bears a very special significance. The lines in the mantra address the Rudra avatar of Lord Shiva(The first yogi the “Adiyogi”). MahaMrityunjaya is a unification of three hindi words. Maha +   Mrityun +   Jaya All the three words having specific meaning Maha meaning ‘Great’, Mrityun meaning ‘Death’ with Jaya meaning ‘Victory’, it also goes by different names like Mrita-Sanjivini , because of its life-restoring practice thus combining 3 words we get ‘The one who has Victory over Death’. Let us understand the term MANTRAS. Mantra is a pure form of sound, not in terms of something being pure & impure but in the context of sound, reverberation, it’s a pure sound, pure reverberation, a...