05-02-2007, 09:00 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> Nowadays Gayatri Mantra has been hard-coded into mass produced chips and a continuously repeated recitation of the same by a mellifluous female voice can be heard in all sorts of places - particularly shops. The chip is built into vigrahas/images of deities and embellished with flashing lights.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That's <!--emo&:cool--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/specool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='specool.gif' /><!--endemo-->. Do we need to press the feet of the idol? Can't press the tummy of the idol, that would be irreverent for some <!--emo&<_<--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='dry.gif' /><!--endemo-->
2000 years from now, those chips will have "significance" to people then.
How long before some one really creates a dancing Nataraja powered by 4 1.5v batteries <!--emo&:bhappy--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/b_woot.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='b_woot.gif' /><!--endemo-->
That's <!--emo&:cool--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/specool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='specool.gif' /><!--endemo-->. Do we need to press the feet of the idol? Can't press the tummy of the idol, that would be irreverent for some <!--emo&<_<--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='dry.gif' /><!--endemo-->
2000 years from now, those chips will have "significance" to people then.
How long before some one really creates a dancing Nataraja powered by 4 1.5v batteries <!--emo&:bhappy--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/b_woot.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='b_woot.gif' /><!--endemo-->