Faith Matters: Vedic Rituals En Masse

'Faith' is a science of bodily-powers which transcends the confine of human body and finally acts as desired/projected.

'Particle Physics' too believes that the 'Graviton' are the only closed 'String' form (particle/energy:the duality) which has capacity to move through all other 11 known dimensions.

Such is the human spirit that one fine morning we found out that villagers are busy in erecting a huge podium for their faith sake to observe the oldest known rituals of Indian civilization, that is 'Vedic' observation and offerings to 'Agni' the 'Fire'.

Temporary tents were erected in the field by the villagers for the participants..

And a temporary covered-podium for the sermon of the Saints, who were gathering from the different parts of this huge nation..

And a temporary staying-utility-there-in the field too for the guest who shall share their insight with audience..

A central canopied structure made purely of Bamboo stem & leaves with native decorations.

This centrally erected structure shall be the place of worship with a place of 'sanctum sanctorum' in the most central to it.

And the Vedic rituals of worshiping 'Fire' with various 'Mantras' from 'Rig Veda' and other age-old scriptures would contain a wish for the well-being of all humans including the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms with the crucial balance of Nature with everything.

More references for the 'Yajna' (the sacred fire worshiping):

 (courtesy:Wikipedia)
In Hinduism, yajna (Sanskrit यज्ञ wikt:yajna; also Anglicized as Yajna, Yadna) is a ritual of sacrifice (also "worship, prayer, praise, offering and oblation, sacrifice" according to Monier-Williams) derived from the practice in Vedic times. Yajna is a ritual of sacrificing and sublimating the havana sámagri (herbal preparations) in the fire accompanied by the chanting of the Vedic mantras. The sublime meaning of the word yajna is derived from the Sanskrit verb yaj, which has a three-fold meaning of worship of deities (devapujana), unity (saògatikaraña) and charity (dána). An essential element is the sacrificial fire - the divine Agni - into which oblations are poured, as everything that is offered into the fire is believed to reach God. As the name of the service, the term yajna is linguistically (but not functionally) cognate with Zoroastrian (Ahura) Yasna. Unlike Vedic Yajna, Zoroastrian Yasna has "to do with water rather than fire".(Drower, 1944:78; Boyce, 1975:147-191)
Rituals associated with temple worship in Hinduism are called agamic, while those involving communication with divinity through Agni are considered to be Vedic. Temple rites in modern-day Hinduism are a combination of both Vedic and agamic rituals. The ritualistic portion of the Hindu scriptures is called Karma-Kanda. Parts of Vedas which describe or discuss Yajnas or sacrifices fall into this portion. The Nambudiri Brahmins of Kerala are among the most famous Śrauta Brahmins who maintain these ancient rituals.
Today, only a few hundred individuals know how to perform these sacrifices and even fewer are able to maintain the sacred fires continuously and perform the Śrauta rituals. Only a few thousand perform the Agnihotra or basic Aupasana fire sacrifice daily .

#place:Bhitthi, Ambikapur, India.
#date:11th February, 2012

The Cyclists

Free cycles to every girl child in Chhattisgarh state of India
Picture: Government High School Saraitikra, Ambikapur

And cycle is still the easy mode of movement....

In the race of modern bikes, cycle has maintained it's shadowy presence..

A biker: Greater Noida, India

The cycle economics is so simple

Bikers of remote villages: Ambikapur, India

Bikes:Kota, Rajasthan, India

 Bike & Bikers: New Delhi, India

New Found Festivity: School Admission

'Right To Education' being added as a fundamental right of a child in 'Indian Constitution' (which was passed by the Indian parliament on 4 August 2009, describes the modalities of the provision of free and compulsory education for children between 6 and 14 in India under Article 21A of the Indian Constitution. India became one of 135 countries to make education a fundamental right of every child when the act came into force on 1 April 2010.) up to 'High School' level of education has taken a new dimension of a mass awareness in 'Chhattisgarh' state of India. Elected representatives are invited on the fist day of the school session to appeal the village masses and welcome the kids in a festival mood.
Picture: Government High School Saraitikra, Ambikapur

Admission of students from the previous class of 'Middle School' made compulsory by the state administration has resulted the kids and parents gathering a special occasion on the fist working day of July as an 'Admission Festival'.
Picture: Government High School Saraitikra, Ambikapur

Elected representative of the village were one to start this day with traditional worshiping of 'Learning Goddess' 'Sarswati'.
Picture: Government High School Saraitikra, Ambikapur

Admission seekers were welcomed with the 'Sweet' offers..
Picture: Government High School Saraitikra, Ambikapur

..and applying 'Bindi' on the forehead of students as part of an auspicious Indian gesture

#picture: Mrs. Sihaniya, vice chairperson of local elected body (Up-Sarpanch); Mrs. Misri Rajwade, elected member for the district body (Jila Panchayat Sadasya) representing village; participating in the program on 2nd July Monday 2012. 
 Picture: Government High School Saraitikra, Ambikapur

..free books were given to each & one of the students. And thus we began our fist day of the school for the new academic session 2012-2013.
Picture: Government High School Saraitikra, Ambikapur

Media is also playing a very supportive role to spread this message to the masses (picture:Dainik Bhaskar, Bilaspur, 3rd July 2012, Tuesday).
Picture: publication about Government High School Saraitikra, Ambikapur

Time: Mystical Thy Ways

The plaque on an Indian Railway Station (Ayodhya)  inscribed in 'Hindi' reads: "birth-death, happy-sad, loss-profit, meeting with love-separation; is a 'Dance Of Time', passing like night-day as by itself."(from the writings of 'Tulsidas', a 16th century Hindu poet-saint, reformer and philosopher renowned for his devotion for the god Rama.)

A Dance to the Music of Time - Nicolas Poussin - 1640 - The Wallace Collection
This 16th century French painter has to say the destiny of human lives in the classical style through almost bare bodies.

Funny Faces

Image: freshly cut stem of a mango tree transversely.
           # It seems a frog with a big soul patch

Train Through The Hill

©Anjani Kumar Tripathi/Indian Railways/Ambikapur

©Anjani Kumar Tripathi/Indian Railways/Ambikapur

©Anjani Kumar Tripathi/Indian Railways/Ambikapur

©Anjani Kumar Tripathi/Indian Railways/Ambikapur

We who have looked each other in the eyes
This journey long, and trundled with the train,
Now to our separate purposes must rise,
Becoming decent strangers once again.
The little chamber we have made our home
In which we so conveniently abode,
The complicated journey we have come,
Must be an unremembered episode.
Our common purpose made us all like friends.
How suddenly it ends!
A nod, a murmur, or a little smile,
Or often nothing, and away we file.
I hate to leave you, comrades. I will stay
To watch you drift apart and pass away.
It seems impossible to go and meet
All those strange eyes of people in the street.
But, like some proud unconsious god, the train
Gathers us up and scatters us again.

A poem written by:
HAROLD MONRO

My Sun, My Hills

I'll tell you how the sun rose,-

A ribbon at a time.

The steeples swam in amethyst,

The news like squirrels ran.



The hills untied their bonnets,

The bobolinks begun.

Then I said softly to myself,

"That must have been the sun !"


# poem shared from Emily Dickinson