Gods and Goddesses- Shani Puja

(shinni- SHANIDEV'S favourite offering)

Frnds !!!
I have this oppotunity to share with you the knowledge of some Hindu Gods and goddesses worshipped with due reverence in Eastern parts of India. While i'm no student of THEOLOGY, but it was just a feeling to share this knowledge. Besides it will also t serve the pupose of cultural exchange. Here i am going to discuss about Shani dev....
For starters Shani(Sanskrit Śani शनि) is one of the Navagraha which are the nine primary celestial beings in Hindu astrology, or Jyotiṣa. Shani is embodied in the planet Saturn. Shani is the Lord of Saturday; the word Shani also denotes the seventh day or Saturday in most Indian languages. He is the son of the Sun God SURYA and his wife CHHAYYA ( the shadow goddess). In modern times the name SHANI is attributed to Pluto. He is worshipped with due reverence all through India. He is known to have a short temper in popular culture. However in most of the Religious scriptures SRI SHANI DEV himself mentions that HE never intends to harm anybody...and if any He does it is only against those who only show off their reverence without having any such feelings actually. In my opinion ShaniDev rules over the cycles of good and bad times in human life.
Unlike other Gods SHANI DEV is not worshipped at any particular time of the year. Being a GRAHADEVTA, Saturday is dedicated to him. So reverence to him can be showed on every Saturday evening. The 'Puja-vidhi' is quite simple, just chant his mantras before a clean deep-blue cloth placed on a small platform of wood, then make offerings of fruits and most importantly a mixture of flour, honey, milk, jaggery and bananas ( it his supposedly his favourite offering).
Yesterday i made offeings to the God. Photographs of that are shared here.
However the most interesting thing about ShaniDev is that whilepeople do pray to HIM for HIS blessings, more people actually want to evade his attention. It is said that the time SHANIDEV opened his eyes after his birth, SURYADEV (THE SUN GOD) was eclipsed !!!!
Well whatever be the reason, ShaniDev is the embodiment of justness in Religion. Being a student of Law what more can be a better reason for me to worship, revere and respect Him from the core of my heart.
Jai Shani Dev...

Of Controversies And Apologies

Hi frnds !!!
My last post did ruffle up a few feathers though it was quite not the intention yet it did not fail to hurt some sentiments. Nevertheless i would maintain that my blogs have never been a deliberate attempt to defame or defile anybody's reputation or i wud bever like putting question marks on anybody's talents or any other personal cahrecteristics that one may posses. Nevertheless, the matter's all sorted out now and it's ok between me(the offender) and she(the victim).
Well my apologies extended to anyone else who may have been hurt by my statements.....but i do not own any responsibility towards anybody who may not have owned my statements.......because my statements are totally an outcome of my thoughts and one should never be sorry for thinking in a particular way. And that is what is most acceptable.
However one thing which is in quite in vogue in the Glam-world is that CONTROVERSIES MAKE A STAR OUT OF NO-ONE.....well for the sake of you guys i maintain strongly that writing blogs, for me is just a productive pass-time (it does iprove your language skills)...and i have no intention to buy any CHEAP fame out of writing silly things. I am here to win friends....and in that if i make a light hearted fun out of someone i do not think it would be a bad thing to do.

That's all folks !!!!!!

The Last Exam !!!

Hi frnds...
Its me the lazy blogger again with another round of a long and monotonous blog of non -sensible writing...Well if you think so, then it's your problem and you are the one who should see a specialist.
Well jokes apart, the title of this post is somewhat rather mysterious, or should i say somewhat intriguing on my current status...Whether this is the last post of my life...no it is not....The last exam in this context means...Read On....

Frnds, we all have faced exams at some point of our lives....Exams i mean those ones which are basically your passports to next level of the Game called EDUCATION....All my life i am going through these...and yet the game is not getting over yet....the worst part being that you cant get the help of CHEAT CODES in this game...even if you do be prepared to be thrown out of the Game altogether.. But just look at the way these level-qualifiers control our position in a bigger map called life.....so much so that one of my friends has already changed her name to Exams..in her Orkut profile....no she's perfectly alright...her motive is only to let the world know that she's going through another level-qualifier !!! But she has actually added a 'surname' too which goes like this..."the Greatest Tormentor"....so this makes her full name EXAMS..THE GREATEST TORMENTOR..!!!

These are basically some of the most creative ways that todays people curse those great souls who created this sytem altogether... But just look at it this way, "Are'nt Exams the greatest tormentors."

Take my case for example...I have been taking exams all my life. I got into my first school in the year 1992 and now i just completed the 3rd year of my Law course in the University after another round of...u guessed it.....EXAMS !!! From 1992 to 2009 it's 17 years and 2 nos of big exams each year makes 2x17= 34 exams...a little figure, do you insist. Then add to it atleast 2 more sessional tests, some class tests and a sprinkle of other tests here and there.....apart from the two great hurdles called Board exams which greet you in your 10th and 12th year of schooling...then there are the Entrance tests, then you enter another level where you move through an ordeal every six months...I have moved through six semesters through all those seminars and internals and....but its still not over yet...coz i have 4 more to go...What then 'being educated' means...a qualifier of all exams..That's it.

But i am not complaining. I have become more accustomed to it now. It is just like you gain immunity against some diseases after getting continually infected..or atleast you can take the suffering much easily. But the most amazing part is that exams never fail to give that unique experience each time it comes...either in the form of a class test or a big sem-exam. That stomach-churning experience is every time the same thing...

Such was the experience in my last exam in the just concluded 6th Sem exams....the last one was scheduled 7 days after it's preceeding one...and thats when the trouble starts...you know you have to undergo yet another hurdle to cross over to that paradise called Summer Vacation...but there are still 7 days to that which seem like 7 years or should i say 70 years, no 700, neither it's like 7000... You start hating your course even more...3 days go like this...from the fourth day you gain enough strength to lift your book with a single hand and then you realise you have forgotten all...next butterflies in the stomach...!! So you take up your pen and paper and start to write all that you can remember from your course (n.b: actually i study in this method only..i practise writing my answers, that keeps up the speed and also acts as an organser as to how you will be approaching five 15 mark questions)...And then there is yet anothet problem...you know that the last exam is your last chance to increase your average at least a bit more if one of your prior paper did'nt go to well...and there is the vast course material....finally after waking upto 2 in the preceeding night and waking up at 7 the next morning, you still are not satisfied...The codified provisions, the precedents of the Supreme Court and also the Privy Council and the American Supreme court..
But as they say, IF SOMETHING HAS TO GO BAD IT WILL, vice-versa IS SOMETHING DOESNT HAVE TO, IT WON'T...

The question paper was mercifully not that hard and now i pray that my answer script is impressive enough....

But still i would say - LONG LIVE EXAMS, LIVE LONGER TO TORMENT EACH OF MY JUNIOR BATCHES..


Bye !!!

Back Again

Well Frnds. After mugging up two posts i think i m back to normalcy. I will soon resume with my cool persona.
Watch this space to read some exciting reviews of certain movies, books etc that have come to my vicinity in recent times.
Mind you i wont let you down this time.
Sorry for being rude un my last posts.....
Bye.
Take very good care of yourselves !!!

LIFE IS FUN TOO

My earlier post was a vent out of my emotions about my life which has somewhat lost all its finest glory. I am losing my vigour. I find somthing is missing all the time. I guess if i could hit on that, i would have been invincible. But that's never to happen with me.
Well may be for first time in my life i am feeling a bit downtrodden. And i dont know why? Even the crap-grades in the High School exams didnt bother me......i had always been more of a fighter. But that spirit is leaving me now. And i have no other options left. Or so i think.....
Well may be.....
But life is not that bad at all....
Thankfully the net provides you enough options to unwind yourself...there's Orkut and there's Youtube.
And i also read the book called THE WHITE TIGER.....and watched SLUMDOG 5 times- enough
of feel-good stuff to lift your spirits....but still life seems to play strange games on the living...
If the 'frustoo' thing is getting an extension to this post too... then i m sorry...just cant help it....i am stressed out and i am writing all this to remove this stress.... i know this post is not a diary but i dont mind........

The thing is that we expect to happen from a single lifetime...but other plans are awaiting their execution upon you....so planning is perhaps the worst of sins......

Well, i dont mind whether you like this post or not. Coz its this one single time when i am writing for myself and its hardly got to be meaningful....i do not want to convey any messages....i do not want anyone to listen..... If you understand me you will get this post too..... and most some readers close to me may perhaps know why i wrote this one.............

Life is Busy

Frnds. Its some minutes left to one a.m of 22nd of March, 2009. That is to say that its the intervening night between 21st and 22nd March. This could be the best possible time for dedicated bloggers who never fail to write up their virtual spaces. But frnds the word is DEDICATION. And its one thing you guys won't find in miles radius of this blog. My blog still remains an unkempt one and i remain the laziest of bloggers....
But this time i am not giving any reasons of any silly nature. The main thing that is discouraging me from writing is that one I-word. Its 'inspiration'. But still my efforts are on.
And another thing is that, i had been busy these days doing a whole lot of things....had to write internal tests (which are curiosly not going well) and preparing assignments..... So this post is more of a escapism for me......i am venting out my frustoo here.....and looking for some fresh air here....
However the days are not as bad.....
But i think a total rescheduling may help me in this regard......but i dont know where to start from...
Its not the exams that are screwing me up...
There are a whole lot of other issues.....
Well i think that's enough of it....a massive revolution is about to come in the life of yours' truly.
Till then WISH ME LUCK !!!

Valentinism - Vandalism

Hi frnds, first of all a Happy Valentines Day to all of you. Due to the 'Acute interested damsels (shortage) syndrome' or AIDS that i am actually suffering from i have not actually lost my heart and i have found out someone who always yearned for me but i hardly ever knew that love, until to this day when i felt so lonely like anything with no-one ready to be my Valentine....and then i heard her call.... and i could'nt wait anymore or even keep her waiting...... i decided to dedicate this very important day to her.....
Frnds !!! before you can actually jump to any 'exciting and juicy' conclusions i hereby solemnly declare that the 'she' mentioned here is none other than the most beautiful woman in my life......it's this my blog.
Ha ha ha...
Well, if you are still interested in brushing up your reading skills by reading this blog then please know that my intention is not to bore you to oblivion, rather i would like to fast forward to the Cover story of this blog-post.
(Well, for starters i am writing this blog in two parts, first i would like to share my thoughts on all that and second i will be bringing the happenings of the day a i move through the city like the 'common-man' of R.K Laxman)

Valentines Day- well we all know what's this day is all about or do we??
Its a day for loving and being loved. Its a day to spread love and its a day to make the most special person in your life, feel how much you love her/him....Oh! the red cards, the red gifts, the red-roses...anything and everything we can think of comes in red- all that we know about Valentines day. (i don't declare that i know anything more). To me the day is same too. But in India it's being celebrated in ways opposite to this ones. Here we have Moral-Policemen ready with their weapons to teach us a thing or two on morality. They say we are going astray and it's high time to beat us up !! Did you ask WHY??? Then you probably dont know how much destruction you have caused to your culture by meeting up a girl on this day....!!! That's what they say...and if it's so then fine!! we readily accept it.....
But can those Officers of Morality kindly define what is culture....more specifically The Great Indian Book of Cultures.
Well let me some of the illustraions- beating up of the women......women as young as 16-17 to carry out soliciting not by choice but by force......making children work up in factories and homes till the last drop of their sweat.......and then -- annoying tourists coming to our country to the extent of raping and dumping them in the sea....killing people in the name of (a) religion, (b) caste, (c) Gotra, (d) place of birth................xxx
That is what we have as our culture....
Frnds we are living in an era where we only live to be killed at some point of time or other just because we have not being living according to the rules set by people who call themselves our brethren and the saviors of this land...in actuality they do clean the society but use human-blood as the detegent.
My question is, in the face of so many hostilities, when a festival of love is coming underway then what is all that crap thing on its opposition....?? Turning around lets just ask one question to ourselves- how many options are still left to us as means of recreation?? We cant step out of our homes without that wrinkle of brow....we cant work up late....we cant go to a movie....even our homes are not safe.....finally we the youth of the nation are left with two options either to accept this, sit in our homes and lead a life of lifeless stones or leave this country altogether(which given the huge youth population of this country is only a Juggernaut excercise).
Valentine's day is only but an option let to us to bloom flowers amidst a desert of lifelessness...other than this what else can we do.
And what is all this non-sense about our culture being tampered with 'foriegn' influences..?? We the people of new India have always accepted things from the west- the best ones being - Democracy, the Legal system etc.
So what is the problem on Valentine's Day?? By celebrating it we can atleast send some signals to the vandals that enough is enough......we can gradually change their thought-process and we can in this manner regain and rebuild the India of Lord Shri Krishna and the countless of his worshippers and make this land a land of love....once again (contd.)