OFF THE RECORD-EPISODE 33 2 (3) – PADMASHRI ARUNA SAIRAM & PADMASHRI U SHRINIVAS – NDTV HINDU
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OFF THE RECORD-EPISODE 33 2 (3) – PADMASHRI ARUNA SAIRAM & PADMASHRI U SHRINIVAS – NDTV HINDU
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NDTV-Hindu’s Features Editor Anuradha Ananth in conversation with author of Pleasure Seekers, Tishani Doshi
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The Hindu Times (Cd:UK)
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Highlights of Hindu wedding filmed at Bhaktivedanta Manor Temple & VIP Lounge, London on 28 July 2007. Produced by Bloomsbury Films ® | UK’s Finest Event Filming. Visit www.bloomsburyfilms.com.
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The special bond of love is celebrated to define the relationship with the most sacred ritual known as marriage. It is observed as the most auspicious occasion in every person’s life. India being a multi-cultural country with diverse languages the marriage practices rituals and traditions also differ from one another. They also vary depending on the caste, religion, community of the bride and groom. What rituals take place during a hindu marriage ceremony and What is so special about Indian Marriage? This article answers all the questions surrounding Hindu marriage.
Hindu matrimonial ceremonies are usually conducted partly in Sanskrit the language in which most of the Hindu holy ceremonies are performed and the local language. Hindus attach a lot of importance to marriages and the rituals which are very vivid in nature and can extend for several days. Some of the pre-wedding ceremonies include engagement and lagna-patra or written declaration of the marriage which is distributed amongst friends and relatives to invite them for the occasion.
The Hindu marriage ceremony is a very elaborate and lengthy, with every step are embedded with Vedic customs, symbolizing various aspects of life that is to follow after the wedding by the couple. “Mandap” or marriage stage is where the rituals are conducted is often decorated with flowers and with a sacred fire as witness, the Hindu wedding ceremony begins. The groom arrives for the wedding with the family and friends and they are all greeted by the bride’s family. The mother of the bride performs the welcoming customs and led the groom to the mandap.
This auspicious occasion begins by worshipping a prayer Hindu Lord Ganesha. Since it is believed that he may remove all obstacles, blessing the bride and groom for their journey ahead. After the pooja the bride is accompanied down the aisle to the mandap by her father. The bride and groom are divided by a curtain also known as antarpat, it is lowered once the priest recite a prayer for the couple. It is then followed by an ageold ritual that is considered very important while giving the bride away. It is called as “KanyaDaan” & “Hastmelap”. In the hindu religion Kanyadaan symbolizes the Groom as Lord Narayana and bride in the form of Goddess Laxmi. The next sacrament allows the bride and groom to exchange “varmala” also known as “jaimala” and is crafted with flowers. Exchanging of the jaimala signifies the approval of one another and to pledge admiration for one another as partners in life.
The next Hindu matrimonial ritual is Saat-Pehraa in which the bride and the groom circle the holy fire with the wedding scarves tied together. The bride and groom seek blessing from God as they take seven sacred vows together during this sacrament. Then the groom ties Mangal-sutra a sanctified necklace made from black beads around the bride’s neck. He then applies sindoor in the center-parting forehead of the bride’s hair as a promise to fulfill her every desire. Finally the wedding is concluded by the priest and the married couple is offered blessings by their family and friend for their journey ahead. The last marriage tradition is vidai where the bride’s family bids farewell to her family.
These wedding traditions are considered as holy affairs and couples have been happily following them with great significance.
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I find the basic difference between the Hinduism and its basic Hindu fundamentalism with its extremism too. I do not blame all the good, like in any religion along with the bad people. My references always intend to address the Hindu terrorism and its fundamentalism. At the same time I find the further basic difference between the Hinduism and its rig Vedic civilization which was hijacked by those with selfish and worldly things from its real purpose of making the people more oriented to the spiritualism which does not cause any harm and damage to the broad Indian society in attaining the knowledge for the self only. A descendent of the beef eaters from the period of rig Veda can deny seeing their black back history before speaking anything about them but the facts would never become lies. At least two examples are followed here to know. But I do not believe these facts are useful to those who are engaged as professional type writers repeating the same like a typing machine without having the sense to understand what the others say about them. Where as the religious thoughts from the mind once goes out to the leadership for the power, the real troubles would start to surround the society, as it is seen only after the independence in India.
“[Mahatma] Gandhi himself says, “I know there are scholars who tell us that cow-sacrifice is mentioned in the Vedas. I… read a sentence in our Sanskrit text-book to the effect that Brahmins of old [period] used to eat beef” [M.K. Gandhi, Hindu Dharma, New Delhi, 1991, p. 120]“.
7 Shield thee with flesh against the flames of Agni; encompass thee about with fat and marrow,
So will the Bold One, eager to attack thee with fierce glow fail to girdle and consume thee. (10.16).
If (you) could understand the meaning of “vrtra”, whose name was how many times repeated in 10 books of rig Veda, and could keep it in mind while typing anything about the Indian history, no virtual man can write lie about those things that have been discussed in rig Veda in a decorative manner. Animal sacrifices were the food of those Brahmans by getting the cows of the native tribes from their surrounding habitations, to perform animal sacrifices, at that initial state of practicing the new religion rig Vedic society which was not known to those native tribes at that time.
So it is better to understand not to repeat like a CD in public forum, about the newly found practice of Hindu terrorism against the Indian Muslims. Moreover, the character of every individual is based on his own actions and his behavior only that adjudicates the character of every individual. If it was not correct, Gandhi and gadse could be best friends in killing the Muslims as their policy while partisan period.
So it is also wrong in the lengthy tottering against Indian Muslims. How many Hindus are there in Pakistan is not a question to ask in offence against the Indian Muslims, dalits, native tribes, and other minorities including Sikhs, but it is result just I see the rule under the fundamentalist Hindus in their period of rule. In hundreds and thousands, of Buddhists were killed in the hands of pushya mitra, a king of Hindu religious mindset against the growing strength of the Buddhists in his territory in ancient Indian history. So no rightful claim over them is a lie and these lies only useful to those who have been engaged to repeat as paid workers, in the public forums. Generalization of particularities of the Muslim practices in the issues of the polity in at least south Asian states would never be helpful to your claim to prove the Islam as wrong one in all these states in one stroke. Because the bamiyan was the case of Afghanistan’s’ government which was under the command of Taliban’s there, and the Indian Muslims did not have any relation with them in such a case to generalize all the Muslims of the two states. Moreover, the Pakistani Muslims are no way concerned with the Indian Muslims. If any body want to unite them in any case, on active version against single cause, it is not possible. So it is not the case of blind man who would identify the known persons through their voice and he also identifies them with his common sense to identify them. Is it not the common sense to identify the Muslims on the basis of the states that lives there in their own states, like Indian Muslim, Pakistani Muslim, afghani Muslim, Sri Lankan Muslim, Chinese Muslim and Bangladeshi Muslim?
The kings whose duties were to win the territories of other neighboring kings like any other kings in all the civilizations in the world. The house of David was attacked by Babylonian, Egyptian, and Assyrian and other kings only due to plunder the gold and other precious ornaments from there. Gazni Mohammed and Aurangzeb plundered the temples where the tones of gold were deposited inside the temples. Varanasi temple was plundered many times, due to gold. Just why the temples did was filling in with the gold, diamonds and jewelry when the people were dying under poverty is not a question to all those who accuse the foreign rule since 3500 years. Temple is the mark of culture of the people of certain area only. And if these are become the godowns of the gold and diamonds, should you want to see them worship without plundering that for their booty. How innocence is shown in attacking the others in foxy manner is to focus the minds on these facts. Kings and kingdoms were the royal sport of the life and death at that time irrespective of the religions in ancient India.
If the Indians could live in a jungle law in such a condition when the Aryans arrived and reduced the native tribes in their own lands and now calling themselves Hindu, despite sindu, which is carved out to Pakistan now. In the own place, those people who wanted to have freedom from the discrimination and inequalities within the religion under the names of shudra, vaishya, Kshatriya and Brahman, first of those who vexed with such awesome treatment in Hinduism, formed Buddhism, next Jainism, then Islam and next Sikhism. So why did all these religions emerge from the people of native India is not a question, to understand how was the treatment in the past. Before accusing other religious people, these Hindu fundamentalist should look inside of past and in present while criticizing the Muslims and Islam. British arrived in Indian through east India Company in 1650AD, and the Islamic king Mohammed bin qasim, invaded Sind, in 712AD. And Alexander was invaded India in 326BC. The Aryans arrived, invaded, and the whole system of the tribes in local region dragged under the religious system, of varnadharma. In total calculation of the period of history, who claim the Hinduism history on these lands is nothing but a myth and hype to claim like a warrior of the nation which was passing through many hands in ruling these areas, from time to time. So it is better not to claim any heroic actions from the history in the account of Hindu terrorism, because it has been originated only after the vinayak damodar sawarkar and golmal guru in late 20′s of the last century. These elements did not play any role against the British during the freedom struggle. VD sawarkar was in compromise in Andaman jail with British to cooperate with them. And the same history had been repeated by those who were alive after wards in following the way of cooperation with the British. The present voice on the name of Hindu terrorism could never be found prior to the late 30s of last century. And I can call them as coward’s breed, because the philosophy of terrorism did not create the heroes to the nation but the created only leaders to rob the people on the name of the government. And no Hindu voter was in happy with the policies of the BJP in the country in parliamentary elections.
Because, the policy of the BJP government was to follow, raam naam japna, paraaya maal apna, in all the fronts, in India, No philosophy, no ideal government, no ideal and model leader, have the Hindu terrorist, philosophy, in India to project before the world claiming on credible basis. Hence in all the way ideological base of the Hindu terrorism in India flows from communal organizations in India in support of the Hindu political party BJP. Now it the need of hour is to ban the Rashtriya swayam sevak sangh, and vishva Hindu parishad in India for peace and harmony in India, as well as progress and development of the Indian society.
What about the laws of Manu, which were composed and practiced in past by the Brahmans, now, have not to verify its credibility in the light of other laws in the world on Indian soil since the days of its practice in India, is a question in finding the facts behind hiding the black history of the sanatana and puratana dharma. I want to implement it first in whole India, and then only the Indian Muslims would decide about the sharia or uniform civil code where the common civil code could be practiced by the Hindu religion in its own society. How you would want the Muslims to follow the criminal law. Whose majority is not in Indian population to introduce these laws is not a question of common sense to ask the Muslims to introduce shariya law, I say, the Hindu terrorist propagators must introduce the Laws of Manu in India in both civil and criminal fronts by replacing the Indian civil and penal code as well as criminal procedure code, in the interest of all Indians where no one should be speared by anyway, before asking the Muslims to implement the other laws against the Muslims in India. Of course when the sense itself has lost in repeating such content everyday, how would I see common sense in those who never like to think like a human, but always wants to act like a mad bull of the Spain Nation? The burning or believing quran is not a question of Hindu extremists in India, but u can play more than in action against the Islam between the two religions of Islam and Christianity like a Narada Muni. Sanatana dharma have its another, version of puratana side of the same coin, which would never represent the whole Hindu society on the religious basis, if I exactly ask the question what book is ideological one acceptable to all believers of the Hindu terrorism in India to you, I am sure u never be able to answer me in straight way, without adding “but” and “if” words in your reply.
Because all the Hindu people are not the Hindu terrorist in India as to claim them against the Indian Muslims in India who were not in compulsory option to opt only one state like Hindu people India, because the Indian Muslims were chosen India as their option only, so that the Indian Muslims occupy more than the Pakistani population. I think it is enough in replying like a human to a machine, and I never reply again, if these points would not reply in next reply.
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Enna Thavam – Hindu Devotional song
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