Guest guest Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 KANPUR (July 25, 2006): Devotees going to a police station to offer prayers! Sounds bizarre, but this happened at Rajpur police station on Monday. A Goddess Lakshmi statue and an owl transformed the place in Kanpur Dehat into a virtual temple, giving the cops a harried time in controlling the over 25,000 crowd of villagers that gathered there to pay obeisance. As faith would have it, in the wee hours of Monday an owl, considered to be the 'vahan' of Lakshmi, landed near a Rs 2.5- crore 'ashta dhatu' statue of the Goddess kept in the police station for the last two days. On sighting the bird, the station officer and the diwan tried to chase it away. But despite cracking of belts and hurling of lathis, the stubborn bird refused to budge. The news spread like wildfire, and by morning there was a deluge of devotees thronging the place. Prayers were offered to Goddess Laxmi and the 'holy' owl. As the day progressed, devotees kept pouring in and by afternoon, thousands from nearby areas of Dherapur, Rasoolabad, Akbarpur, Mungisapur Rura and Mangalpur landed at the police station. Milk was offered, garland and flowers showered on the bird and statue alike, and hymns chanted as mark of reverence. Traffic came to a standstill. SOURCE: The Times of India URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1803145.cms Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 That's sooo awesome. Why doesn't that happen here? And why do I find it so annoying when people find the V. Mary in a tree trunk and hork traffic up that way. Hmmmm. I guess I prefer Laxmi. BTW. I understand that another word for idiot in Hindi is the same as the word for owl. Is that true? What's the connection? namaste, prainbow , "Devi Bhakta" <devi_bhakta wrote: > > KANPUR (July 25, 2006): Devotees going to a police station to offer > prayers! Sounds bizarre, but this happened at Rajpur police station > on Monday. A Goddess Lakshmi statue and an owl transformed the place > in Kanpur Dehat into a virtual temple, giving the cops a harried > time in controlling the over 25,000 crowd of villagers that gathered > there to pay obeisance. > > As faith would have it, in the wee hours of Monday an owl, > considered to be the 'vahan' of Lakshmi, landed near a Rs 2.5- > crore 'ashta dhatu' statue of the Goddess kept in the police station > for the last two days. On sighting the bird, the station officer and > the diwan tried to chase it away. But despite cracking of belts and > hurling of lathis, the stubborn bird refused to budge. > > The news spread like wildfire, and by morning there was a deluge of > devotees thronging the place. Prayers were offered to Goddess Laxmi > and the 'holy' owl. As the day progressed, devotees kept pouring in > and by afternoon, thousands from nearby areas of Dherapur, > Rasoolabad, Akbarpur, Mungisapur Rura and Mangalpur landed at the > police station. Milk was offered, garland and flowers showered on > the bird and statue alike, and hymns chanted as mark of reverence. > Traffic came to a standstill. > > SOURCE: The Times of India > URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1803145.cms > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 It *does* happen here [in the U.S.], and not just in those cases where someone sees the Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich or whatever: Shiva in GG Park (Short downloadable/streaming video; 1998) How a shrine to Shiva emerged in Golden Gate Park in the form of a cement pylon. http://www.archive.org/details/ssforgsiva more on the topic (see second article) http://tinyurl.com/mnjxl , "prainbow61" <paulie-rainbow wrote: > > That's sooo awesome. Why doesn't that happen here? > > And why do I find it so annoying when people find the V. Mary in a > tree trunk and hork traffic up that way. Hmmmm. I guess I prefer > Laxmi. > >[....] > namaste, > prainbow > > , "Devi Bhakta" > <devi_bhakta@> wrote: > > > > KANPUR (July 25, 2006): Devotees going to a police station to offer > > prayers! [....] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 By the way, I can't get more than the first couple of seconds of the video to play. I don't know if it's just me, or if the video is truncated. I did see the "shrine" a few years ago; the bollard (traffic barrier) had at that point been wrapped in colorful scarves, and I seem to recall offerings, too. You can see a bit of the bollard in the video--no scarves, though. And an explanation of my grilled cheese reference: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4034787.stm , "msbauju" <msbauju wrote: > > > It *does* happen here [in the U.S.], > and not just in those cases where > someone sees the Virgin Mary in > a grilled cheese sandwich or whatever: > > Shiva in GG Park (Short downloadable/streaming video; 1998) > > How a shrine to Shiva emerged in Golden Gate Park in the form of a > cement pylon. > http://www.archive.org/details/ssforgsiva > > more on the topic (see second article) > http://tinyurl.com/mnjxl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 The clip is only 9 seconds in length. , "msbauju" <msbauju wrote: > > > By the way, I can't get more than the first couple of seconds of the > video to play. I don't know if it's just me, or if the video is > truncated. > > I did see the "shrine" a few years ago; the bollard (traffic barrier) > had at that point been wrapped in colorful scarves, and I seem to > recall offerings, too. You can see a bit of the bollard in the > video--no scarves, though. > > And an explanation of my grilled cheese reference: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4034787.stm > > , "msbauju" <msbauju@> wrote: > > > > > > It *does* happen here [in the U.S.], > > and not just in those cases where > > someone sees the Virgin Mary in > > a grilled cheese sandwich or whatever: > > > > Shiva in GG Park (Short downloadable/streaming video; 1998) > > > > How a shrine to Shiva emerged in Golden Gate Park in the form of a > > cement pylon. > > http://www.archive.org/details/ssforgsiva > > > > more on the topic (see second article) > > http://tinyurl.com/mnjxl > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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