June topic: mAyA in the Vedas: RV. X..177/ anandamayee

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Kenji comments

> For Adiji with her little gems...I hope you like that,

> you are not forgotten,

 

Yes! right now Life is 'ananda-mayee'- full of Ananda (bliss) with

an over-active Toddler and an ever-inquiring four year old who wants

to know the why and how of everything in the Universe! from the

web world to the real world of Barney, wiggles, tele-tubbies,

winnie the pooh, etc.... life is a different kind of excitement and

thrills with these two kids keeping me on my toes - time and space

have taken on a new meaning!

 

My four year old is now able to read full sentences and is very much

interested in the origin of words !

 

Speaking of origin of words,

 

PatangA - another meaning for PatHang is "KITE"

 

PATH - TO FALL

 

GA - TO MOVE FORWARD OR RISE (gati represents movement)

 

have you ever seen Kite -flying , a popular sport during the spring

season in india? specially during 'vasant panchami'? (bengalees call

it basant panchami substituting 'b' for 'v' - that was an ingenious

interpretation -kenji - calling vedanta 'bedanta' - the end of

differences) !

 

well, personally i like kenji's interpretation of comparing Pathanga

to a bird - the soaring high and falling down!(like a kite -pathang)

 

Yes, the IMAGERY of a BraHman as a BIRD is fascinating

 

Thou art the dark-blue bird and the green parrot with red eyes,

Thou hast the lightning as thy child.

Thou art the seasons and the seas. [svetasvatara 4.2.4]

 

and kenji, Have you seen the Icon of Sree Meenakshi devi, the

powerful goddess?

 

on her shoulder is perched a Green parrot! and the green parrot

reprsents the 'vedas' , it is said!

 

are we to repeat the vedic dictums parrot like or understand

the 'TATPARYA' behind these vedic suktas?

 

Ekam sad VIPRAH bahudah vadanti?

 

Gotta to go , little one wants to play with me!

 

love and regards

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--- adi_shakthi16 <adi_shakthi16 wrote:

> Yes, the IMAGERY of a BraHman as a BIRD is

> fascinating

>

> Thou art the dark-blue bird and the green parrot

> with red eyes,

> Thou hast the lightning as thy child.

> Thou art the seasons and the seas. [svetasvatara

> 4.2.4]

>

> Have you seen the Icon of Sree Meenakshi

> devi, the

> powerful goddess?

>

> on her shoulder is perched a Green parrot! and the

> green parrot

> represents the 'vedas' , it is said!

 

Namaste Adi-ji,

I googled to find images but none were clear

enough....but....is this spooky or not???

We do not have wild parrots in this country but

occasionally one ( presumably two ) escape from

aviaries and survive our winters until a cold one

kills them.

With five warm winters here in UK we have a few

colonies of green parrakeets that have developed and a

couple live about a mile from our home around a golf

course. Occasionally they screech overhead.

 

About three weeks ago two settled in a large beech

tree in our garden and gradually some of their friends

joined them.

We sleep in a glass sided shed at the end of the

garden and as I walk to the house, early in the

morning, I am greeted by a screeching from the flashes

of green settled amongst the copper leaves of a beech

tree. They go off with their friends during the day

and return for the evening screech.

Life is full of coincidences.

>

>

> Gotta to go , little one wants to play with me!

 

So does the Big One!!!!

 

Ken Knight

 

 

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‘From this Supreme Self are all these, indeed, breathed forth.’