1. Christo MSN "India" wants to associate Deepavali with death, so it puts these two headings side by side:
<b>Diwali celebrations: Pics | 32 killed in cracker shop blaze</b>
2. More psyops (i.e. christianism) timed for Lakshmi puja:
How christo/communitwits don't know what they're talking about and display their ignorance for all the world to laugh at.
Example of another one lying its head off:
news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3300755
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->17/10/2009
<b>A gender bender in the worship of Goddess Lakshmi</b>
New Delhi: The rites of invoking Goddess Lakshmi, the consort of Vishnu whom millions worship on Diwali, is also mired in several "gender loopholes", says writer-researcher R. Mahalakshmi, a professor of ancient history at Jawaharlal Nehru University here.
"Who was this goddess, the female counterpart of male deities, who did not allow mortal women to worship her freely without the mediation of men?
(Never mind such obviously minor and inconvenient facts like how for instance Varalakshmi pooja is done entirely by women. But JNU is not going for facts here, after all. It's going for christianisation.)
It was only as I became a serious student of social sciences that I began to see the linkages between social perceptions of gender and the gods and goddesses that were part of the Brahminical religious traditions. Caste and community were major factors in her worship," she says in her religious non-fiction volume, "The Book of Lakshmi", published by Penguin-Books India this week.
(Social sciences: How to 'scientifically' yell "Idolator!", "Polytheist!", "Worshipper of Godd<i>esses</i>!" at the heathens, before calling for the communist revolution to save said heathens for christ. Not to forget stabbing the heathen Hindoos with "castes, brahminicalism and gender" to make sure they're completely good and dead. Opus Dei's Deus Volt. And in jesuitry, The End Justifies The Means, after all.)
The slim non-fiction book retells the myths surrounding the goddess through a series of illustrations and short stories and poses questions "on the gender bias in the worship rituals of the most feminine of all deities".
"My interest in studying and understanding the goddesses can be traced back to the time, when as a young child I noticed numerous festivals that centred on the family's 'kula devi'. <b>Kanchi Kamakshi, a variation of Lakshmi,</b> generated much excitement among all members of the household," the writer said, explaining what made her explore the deity.
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Can someone else smell an arch-liar? It's like some really cheap perfume.
Any <i>Hindu</i> would know - but not christos and communitwits of course: Kanchi Kamakshi is <i>Parvati</i>, not Lakshmi. And her husband is Shiva, here as Ekambranatha. The Sthala Purana concerning Kanchi Kamakshi is known well to Hindus of the region, so the scribbler is obviously lying.
And the above also shows how there is no "research" - and in fact no brain either - in the crypto writing for Penguin-Books. But does one even need to read the rest of her nonsense.
Penguin is a famous anti-Hindu publishing house - also famous for its ignorance and for hiring subversives - so no surprises there. Nor any surprises concerning the very <i>christian</i> timing of the release/coverage of the book.)
"Why was my mother not allowed to be a part of the festivities on certain occasions and not allowed in the sacred areas? Why was it that all the 'paattis' (grandmothers) with shaven heads and crisp ochre-coloured 'saris' were not allowed to enter the kitchen on these days? I was also affronted to see my favourite household help severely admonished for entering the house on such occasions," she said, listing that subtle gender and class faultlines.
"Interestingly, in a number of folk rituals that I have seen, women have no male mediation at all in invoking Lakshmi. So much of female bonding happens on these occasions that the women forget about men," she said.
<b>According to the writer, "the Brahminical patriarchy creates problems for the goddess".</b>
(Cryptochristos aka communitwits create problems for Hindus and the world at large with their compulsive lying. They should move to TSP where christos are happiest and BD where communitwits were happiest - or so I heard.)
In several Tamil Brahmin families, "a ritual called Pendukal is practised. Women in the family, who have died as 'sumangaliks', that is before being widowed, all called from their heavenly abodes to bless the women of the family so that they may also also die before their husbands as 'sumangaliks'," she said.
(And that's thoroughly understandable.
Death rites in Hindu Dharma are crucial and are performed by male family members. IIRC, the wives would like to die first since their husbands could organise the death rites for them if there are no sons; and they won't lead a harsh life on their own without a husband to look after them. In any case, the matter of death rites was/is a very important consideration for Hindu women, see for instance how worried Adi Shankaracharya's mother was about who would perform her death rites if he became a sannyasin.
Also - as anyone with older Hindu family members will testify - old people still in love with their spouse find it very hard to not keep thinking about their spouse after the latter's passing. This pain too, the Hindu husbands don't mind taking upon themselves and would spare their wives from the pain of separation at the expense of themselves having to live through it. Of course, no Hindu wants their spouse to die before them, but someone has to swallow it and the old Hindu men would rather take the sour end of the deal for themselves as long as their wives got the better end.
Hard, isn't it, for christoterrorists/communitwits to understand the heathen infidels? But no need for all the christolying though. The truth is rather simple and any heathen of any kind would understand instantly.
Christomen would rather burn christowomen, as history has shown. It's known as christian love. Where's JNU's book on that?)
Anthropological studies reveal that in several parts of the Indian subcontinent, "women like to be identified more as Parvathi, Shiva's consort", she said.
(What? Must be more of christocommunimoronic insinuation, aka "speculative research".
Obviously they're all wrong again. Here's a very nice and rather apt example that I learnt of this Deepavali:
Lingayat friend's sister-in-law's Ishtadevam is Lakshmi - her other ishtadevam is Hanuman, btw. She does daily puja to her Lakshmi mukham which she inherited from her mother. Oh and she is a Lingayat too - well, <i>of course</i>. OMGs, Shiva was not listed in her personal shortlist! Gasp! Not another Hindooooooo!!!!!! The Hindoos are all so tragically unpredictable, so how can the christoanthrax, I mean the anthropologists, box and label them all properly if they will not conform to desired 'expected' behaviour? Oh what to do about the dratted inconvertible heathens who are clearly ignoring all them anthropological studies and just continue to be themselves?
Anyway, the example merely illustrates how Hindus love Mother Lakshmi - she is incredibly beloved among Hindu men and women. She is everything to Hindus. Parabrahmam herself.
But I don't expect christoislamicommunits to understand. They should continue worshipping the non-existent jeebus' non-virgin mary.)
"In the most popular of myths, Lakshmi is presented seated on a full blown lotus. She is the daughter of the ocean. She holds unfading lotus flowers in her hands," Mahalakshmi said.
The mascot of the goddess is the owl.Â
(<!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> What is a mascot????
I have seen Lakshmi with one or more Elephants surrounding her, I've seen her with her husband's Garuda as Vahanam. But I have not seen any owl in any of my Kovils. Did I miss something? Or is this more a North Indian thing?
In any case, I've never seen Lakshmi - or any Hindu God - with a "mascot". "Mascots" must just be more of the JNU writer's delirium.)
The book, which is almost childlike in the lucidity of its "arguments and style",
(That's not what's childlike about the book. It's the "research" - i.e. the non-existence of the same.)
is divided into seven chapters -- "Lakshmi as the embodiment of wealth and beauty", "Lakshmi as the daughter of the ocean", "Sri Lakshmi and other deities", "Symbols of Lakshmi", "The Iconography of Lakshmi", "Lakshmi Festival and Worship" and the "Ashta Lakshmi Stotram and the Kanakdhara Stotram sacred mantra".
(Now, now. After distorting Hindu Dharma into non-recognition, after getting it all hysterically <i>christomoronically</i> wrong - after telling a Big Lie a la that catholic hitler - there's no need for the scribbler to mention Varadacharya's AshtaLakshmi Stotram and Adi Shankaracharya's Kanakadhara Stotram as if it would know anything about either. It was never speaking before about any Lakshmi known to any Hindu, so it need not try to start now and embarrass itself further.)
Source: Indo-Asian News Service
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->There's a lot more nonsense in there, but my Purple was getting out of hand already.
Well, at least I'm not the only one going <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> over the mention of the owl with ref to Lakshmi:
http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archiv.../0187.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->3. What is Goddess Lakshmi's Vahanam, people in North India say
>that
> Aandhai (Owl) is Her Vahanam. Is it true or a rumour ??
It is a rumour. Whatever vAhanma He takes, She also takes the same thing. So Her primary vAhanam is garudan. ref. "vAhanam vEdAtmA vihagESwarO" of Alawandar in kAntA chatuSSlOkI.
Lakshmi Sahasranamam from Skanda purAnam also describes Her as "garudOpari samsthitA". It also says "simhagA vyAghragA dEvI vAyugA cha mahAdrigA" wherein lion, tiger, air and mountain are mentioned as Her vAhanams. I have also heard priests saying "rAjahamsAdhirUdhAyai rAjyalakshmaicha mangaLam" which makes Her hamsa vAhinI. Interestingly perumAL also has hamsa vAhanam during brahmOtsavam.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Of course, the more important question remains: what do "mascots" have to do with Lakshmi? (I obviously never really got beyond that statement <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> , christocommunist verbiage being too ... uhhh ... intense for me.)
<b>Diwali celebrations: Pics | 32 killed in cracker shop blaze</b>
2. More psyops (i.e. christianism) timed for Lakshmi puja:
How christo/communitwits don't know what they're talking about and display their ignorance for all the world to laugh at.
Example of another one lying its head off:
news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3300755
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->17/10/2009
<b>A gender bender in the worship of Goddess Lakshmi</b>
New Delhi: The rites of invoking Goddess Lakshmi, the consort of Vishnu whom millions worship on Diwali, is also mired in several "gender loopholes", says writer-researcher R. Mahalakshmi, a professor of ancient history at Jawaharlal Nehru University here.
"Who was this goddess, the female counterpart of male deities, who did not allow mortal women to worship her freely without the mediation of men?
(Never mind such obviously minor and inconvenient facts like how for instance Varalakshmi pooja is done entirely by women. But JNU is not going for facts here, after all. It's going for christianisation.)
It was only as I became a serious student of social sciences that I began to see the linkages between social perceptions of gender and the gods and goddesses that were part of the Brahminical religious traditions. Caste and community were major factors in her worship," she says in her religious non-fiction volume, "The Book of Lakshmi", published by Penguin-Books India this week.
(Social sciences: How to 'scientifically' yell "Idolator!", "Polytheist!", "Worshipper of Godd<i>esses</i>!" at the heathens, before calling for the communist revolution to save said heathens for christ. Not to forget stabbing the heathen Hindoos with "castes, brahminicalism and gender" to make sure they're completely good and dead. Opus Dei's Deus Volt. And in jesuitry, The End Justifies The Means, after all.)
The slim non-fiction book retells the myths surrounding the goddess through a series of illustrations and short stories and poses questions "on the gender bias in the worship rituals of the most feminine of all deities".
"My interest in studying and understanding the goddesses can be traced back to the time, when as a young child I noticed numerous festivals that centred on the family's 'kula devi'. <b>Kanchi Kamakshi, a variation of Lakshmi,</b> generated much excitement among all members of the household," the writer said, explaining what made her explore the deity.
( <!--emo&:roll--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ROTFL.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ROTFL.gif' /><!--endemo-->Â <!--emo&:roll--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ROTFL.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ROTFL.gif' /><!--endemo-->Â <!--emo&:roll--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ROTFL.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='ROTFL.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Can someone else smell an arch-liar? It's like some really cheap perfume.
Any <i>Hindu</i> would know - but not christos and communitwits of course: Kanchi Kamakshi is <i>Parvati</i>, not Lakshmi. And her husband is Shiva, here as Ekambranatha. The Sthala Purana concerning Kanchi Kamakshi is known well to Hindus of the region, so the scribbler is obviously lying.
And the above also shows how there is no "research" - and in fact no brain either - in the crypto writing for Penguin-Books. But does one even need to read the rest of her nonsense.
Penguin is a famous anti-Hindu publishing house - also famous for its ignorance and for hiring subversives - so no surprises there. Nor any surprises concerning the very <i>christian</i> timing of the release/coverage of the book.)
"Why was my mother not allowed to be a part of the festivities on certain occasions and not allowed in the sacred areas? Why was it that all the 'paattis' (grandmothers) with shaven heads and crisp ochre-coloured 'saris' were not allowed to enter the kitchen on these days? I was also affronted to see my favourite household help severely admonished for entering the house on such occasions," she said, listing that subtle gender and class faultlines.
"Interestingly, in a number of folk rituals that I have seen, women have no male mediation at all in invoking Lakshmi. So much of female bonding happens on these occasions that the women forget about men," she said.
<b>According to the writer, "the Brahminical patriarchy creates problems for the goddess".</b>
(Cryptochristos aka communitwits create problems for Hindus and the world at large with their compulsive lying. They should move to TSP where christos are happiest and BD where communitwits were happiest - or so I heard.)
In several Tamil Brahmin families, "a ritual called Pendukal is practised. Women in the family, who have died as 'sumangaliks', that is before being widowed, all called from their heavenly abodes to bless the women of the family so that they may also also die before their husbands as 'sumangaliks'," she said.
(And that's thoroughly understandable.
Death rites in Hindu Dharma are crucial and are performed by male family members. IIRC, the wives would like to die first since their husbands could organise the death rites for them if there are no sons; and they won't lead a harsh life on their own without a husband to look after them. In any case, the matter of death rites was/is a very important consideration for Hindu women, see for instance how worried Adi Shankaracharya's mother was about who would perform her death rites if he became a sannyasin.
Also - as anyone with older Hindu family members will testify - old people still in love with their spouse find it very hard to not keep thinking about their spouse after the latter's passing. This pain too, the Hindu husbands don't mind taking upon themselves and would spare their wives from the pain of separation at the expense of themselves having to live through it. Of course, no Hindu wants their spouse to die before them, but someone has to swallow it and the old Hindu men would rather take the sour end of the deal for themselves as long as their wives got the better end.
Hard, isn't it, for christoterrorists/communitwits to understand the heathen infidels? But no need for all the christolying though. The truth is rather simple and any heathen of any kind would understand instantly.
Christomen would rather burn christowomen, as history has shown. It's known as christian love. Where's JNU's book on that?)
Anthropological studies reveal that in several parts of the Indian subcontinent, "women like to be identified more as Parvathi, Shiva's consort", she said.
(What? Must be more of christocommunimoronic insinuation, aka "speculative research".
Obviously they're all wrong again. Here's a very nice and rather apt example that I learnt of this Deepavali:
Lingayat friend's sister-in-law's Ishtadevam is Lakshmi - her other ishtadevam is Hanuman, btw. She does daily puja to her Lakshmi mukham which she inherited from her mother. Oh and she is a Lingayat too - well, <i>of course</i>. OMGs, Shiva was not listed in her personal shortlist! Gasp! Not another Hindooooooo!!!!!! The Hindoos are all so tragically unpredictable, so how can the christoanthrax, I mean the anthropologists, box and label them all properly if they will not conform to desired 'expected' behaviour? Oh what to do about the dratted inconvertible heathens who are clearly ignoring all them anthropological studies and just continue to be themselves?
Anyway, the example merely illustrates how Hindus love Mother Lakshmi - she is incredibly beloved among Hindu men and women. She is everything to Hindus. Parabrahmam herself.
But I don't expect christoislamicommunits to understand. They should continue worshipping the non-existent jeebus' non-virgin mary.)
"In the most popular of myths, Lakshmi is presented seated on a full blown lotus. She is the daughter of the ocean. She holds unfading lotus flowers in her hands," Mahalakshmi said.
The mascot of the goddess is the owl.Â
(<!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> What is a mascot????
I have seen Lakshmi with one or more Elephants surrounding her, I've seen her with her husband's Garuda as Vahanam. But I have not seen any owl in any of my Kovils. Did I miss something? Or is this more a North Indian thing?
In any case, I've never seen Lakshmi - or any Hindu God - with a "mascot". "Mascots" must just be more of the JNU writer's delirium.)
The book, which is almost childlike in the lucidity of its "arguments and style",
(That's not what's childlike about the book. It's the "research" - i.e. the non-existence of the same.)
is divided into seven chapters -- "Lakshmi as the embodiment of wealth and beauty", "Lakshmi as the daughter of the ocean", "Sri Lakshmi and other deities", "Symbols of Lakshmi", "The Iconography of Lakshmi", "Lakshmi Festival and Worship" and the "Ashta Lakshmi Stotram and the Kanakdhara Stotram sacred mantra".
(Now, now. After distorting Hindu Dharma into non-recognition, after getting it all hysterically <i>christomoronically</i> wrong - after telling a Big Lie a la that catholic hitler - there's no need for the scribbler to mention Varadacharya's AshtaLakshmi Stotram and Adi Shankaracharya's Kanakadhara Stotram as if it would know anything about either. It was never speaking before about any Lakshmi known to any Hindu, so it need not try to start now and embarrass itself further.)
Source: Indo-Asian News Service
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->There's a lot more nonsense in there, but my Purple was getting out of hand already.
Well, at least I'm not the only one going <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> over the mention of the owl with ref to Lakshmi:
http://www.ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archiv.../0187.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->3. What is Goddess Lakshmi's Vahanam, people in North India say
>that
> Aandhai (Owl) is Her Vahanam. Is it true or a rumour ??
It is a rumour. Whatever vAhanma He takes, She also takes the same thing. So Her primary vAhanam is garudan. ref. "vAhanam vEdAtmA vihagESwarO" of Alawandar in kAntA chatuSSlOkI.
Lakshmi Sahasranamam from Skanda purAnam also describes Her as "garudOpari samsthitA". It also says "simhagA vyAghragA dEvI vAyugA cha mahAdrigA" wherein lion, tiger, air and mountain are mentioned as Her vAhanams. I have also heard priests saying "rAjahamsAdhirUdhAyai rAjyalakshmaicha mangaLam" which makes Her hamsa vAhinI. Interestingly perumAL also has hamsa vAhanam during brahmOtsavam.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Of course, the more important question remains: what do "mascots" have to do with Lakshmi? (I obviously never really got beyond that statement <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> , christocommunist verbiage being too ... uhhh ... intense for me.)