So the ash signifies that our body is going to turn to ash. What does the ash symbolise? Hindus cremate. Only during a puja is the ash sanctified. You can buy a packet of it at Serangoon Road for about $3. It is imported to Singapore by the metric tonne. Anyway, since it’s all burnt, the bacteria are killed. Cows are herbivores, so their dung is relatively clean. It’s basically cow dung, burnt with herbs, wood, ghee, and honey. For example, if you visit someone sickly in the hospital, you can pray for them and give them the ash to protect them from further ill-health. Devotees who want a sense of security may carry ash from an elaborate puja or a sacred place, like a holy temple in India, around in their wallet - or they may give it to people who need blessings. Vishnu Vishnu is the third deity within the Hindu Trinity. Shiva is most often depicted with blue skin, in a similar fashion to many other ancient Hindu gods and goddesses. He is known by many other names as well including Bhole Nath, Mahadeva, Nataraja, Pashupati, and Vishwanath. Many Hindus apply ash on their forehead after participating in pujas, whether at home or in temples. Shiva is one of three god-heads within the Hindu Trinity. Sometimes the astrologer will tell you, “Oh, you had a bad time from this period to this period.” This is how we authenticate if the astrologer is good or pulling a fast one on you! This is what the astrologer is doing when he is reading your horoscope. People began using the position of planets and stars to read the course of someone’s life. It started with astronomy, but the Jyotisha led to astrology. It instructed devotees when an auspicious time for a ritual is, based on the movement of astronomical bodies. One discipline of the Vedanga, known as Jyotisha, focused on astronomy.
To help them interpret the Vedas, Hindus of that time developed supporting texts known as the Vedanga. As they were composed approximately three to four millennia ago, later readers started having difficulty understanding the Vedas. What are the Vedas? They are a body of literature that form the basis of sacred Hindu scriptures. Thus, through Death's work, the distinction between mortals and gods was preserved forever.To understand the history and use of the navaratna, which means “9 gems”, we have to go back to the Vedas. So Death, still sobbing, performed her duties bringing endless night to all things when their time came and her tears fell to the earth and became diseases.
At first Death continued her protests by performing various extraordinary acts of asceticism such as standing in water in complete silence for 8,000 years and standing on one toe on the top of the Himalaya mountains for 8,000 million years but Brahma would not be swayed. Death wept and begged Brahma to be released from this terrible task but Brahma remained unmoved and sent her on her way to perform her duty. The figure of Death is picturesquely described in the Mahabharata as "a dark woman, wearing red garments, with red eyes and red palms and soles, adorned with divine ear-rings and ornaments" and she is given the job of "destroying all creatures, imbeciles and scholars" without exception ( Mahabharata in Hindu Myths, 40). In another myth Brahma's first female is also Death, the evil force that brings balance to the universe and which ensures there is no over-crowding of it. Besides Daksa, Brahma had other notable sons including the Seven Sages (of whom Daksa was one), and the four famous Prajapatis (deities): Kardama, Pancasikha, Vodhu, and Narada, the latter being the messenger between gods and men. Brahma then appointed Shiva to rule over humanity although in later myths Brahma becomes a servant of Shiva.īrahma had several wives, the most important being his daughter Sarasvati who, after the Creation, bore Brahma the four Vedas (holy books of Hinduism), all branches of knowledge, the 36 Raginis and 6 Ragas of music, ideas such as Memory and Victory, yogas, religious acts, speech, Sanskrit, and the various units of measurement and time. This process of creation repeats itself in every aeon. Brahma then created ancestors and men, each time again abandoning his body so that they became Dusk and Dawn respectively. After Brahma created good gods he abandoned his body once again, which then became Day, hence demons gain the ascendancy at night and gods, the forces of goodness, rule the day. In the process of creating, perhaps in a moment of distraction, the demons were born from Brahma's thigh and so he abandoned his own body which then became Night. Brahma then made all living creatures upon the earth (although in some myths Brahma's son Daksa is responsible for this). He also created the four types: gods, demons, ancestors, and men (the first being Manu).
In the beginning, Brahma sprang from the cosmic golden egg and he then created good & evil and light & dark from his own person. Brahma created the four types: gods, demons, ancestors, & men.
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