robb7thurston@...: Poison Named Halaahala: Grammar

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Namaste and pranams! I am new here and feel honored in your collective

presence. Shanti!

A slight background might assure you concerning my huimble self. I have

prpacticed varieties of yoga for forty years, first under Dr. Ramamurti

Mishra (Shri Brahmananda Saraswati), and then i brancghed out into Tai Chi,

macrobiotics, Bhakti, Adwaita a,d Jainism.

Again, shanti!

I hope that some amongst my honorable readers might know

a bit more Sanskrit than I do. There is the story of the churning of

the ocean of milk, and from the produce of the churning, a strong poison

named halaahala was made and immediately consumed by Sri Shivaji. His

Divine Neck grew blue and hence one of the names of Sri Shivaji is

Nilakantha (Blue Neck).

My concern here is with archetypal psychology and also philosophy. May

I enquire, learnwed friends, what hallahala means, where all it is mentioned

in Veda, and if there are resonnances to it across cukltures?

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

robb7thurston: My last letter.

Dear Advaitin;

I apologize, the last email escaped accidentally before I could clean

it up from stray

errors, and no insult in intended or implied.

You are respected!

Robb Thurston

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

advaitin , robb thurston <robb7thurston wrote:

>

> There is the story of the churning of

> the ocean of milk, and from the produce of the churning, a strong poison

> named halaahala was made and immediately consumed by Sri Shiva-ji. His

> Divine Neck grew blue and hence one of the names of Sri Shiva-ji is

> Nilakantha (Blue Neck).

> My concern here is with archetypal psychology and also philosophy. May

> I enquire, what hallahala means, where all it is mentioned

> in Veda, and if there are resonances to it across cukltures?

>

 

Namaste,

 

The mythology is explained in the article at:

 

http://www.agasthiar.org/AUMzine/0022-Vasuki-Anugraha-Shiva-Thandava.htm

 

 

A reference to poison in Persian mythology is at:

 

http://www.archive.org/stream/mythologyofallra06gray/mythologyofallra06gray_djvu\

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Regards,

 

Sunder