Written by Narottam Das

- The Lakshmi Lamp - It's Significance… LIGHT A LAMP - Brighten your life... The Gaja Lakshmi Lamp Oil lamps have represented spirit and spiritual ideas since ancient times. They have continued to burn in temples, cathedrals, mosques, synagogues, churches, and other locations where the faithful gather for worship, prayer or meditation. The lamp contains an oil and a wick and, when lit, it provides a source of life for several hours or even days. The light produced by the lamp may illustrate the illumination provided by spiritual insight, the presence of divinity or it may symbolize the continuation of life. Regardless of its meaning, the oil lamp has a place in all of the world's major religions. The Oil Lamp in Hinduism is considered as a female form of God. In India the Oil Lamp represents Mother Lakshmi. The Lakshmi Lamp that's used in most Hindu homes in South Africa is called the Gaja Lakshmi Lamp (like the picture above). In Hindu Dharma, Elephants are symbols of wealth. Gaja-Lakshmi, that is the Lakshmi form with elephants, is one of the most significant aspects of Mother Lakshmi. In this aspect, Ma is depicted seated on a lotus, flanked on both side by an elephant (gaja). Ma is shown as seated in Padma-asana (lotus position) yogic posture, and has four arms. In each of Her upper pair of arms, She carries a lotus, and the lower hands are in ABHYA i.e the gesture of reassurance and safety, is a hand pose, which dispels fear and accords divine protection and bliss to Her devotee, and varada-mudra i.e. a gesture by the hand and symbolizes dispensing of boons. For varada-mudra, the left hand is used. It is held out, with Her palm uppermost and the fingers pointing downwards. The elephants flanking Ma are shown as pouring water from their trunk over Ma Lakshmi. This aspect like most other aspects of Mother Lakshmi is representative of prosperity, good luck, and abundance; and the Gaja-Lakshmi motifs are very common in Hindu iconography. The lamp also signifies light over darkness. So when you are in a prayer room or temple, you are trying to clear your clouded mind, and hence, the lighting of lamp is symbolic. Light symbolizes the absence of darkness and unhappiness and shows us a way out of problems, difficulties and tensions and brings us luck, wealth and happiness. Light a lamp daily AND drive out evil and invite different kinds of all conceivable wealth to yourself and you North:- You will be blessed with 8 kinds of wealth or Ashta-ishwaryas. Ensures success in everything you do. FYI the 8 Lakshmi forms are as follows:- Adi Lakshmi (The main goddess), Dhanya Lakshmi (Granary wealth), Dhairya Lakshmi (Wealth of patience), Gaja Lakshmi (Elephants, symbols of wealth), Santana Lakshmi (Wealth of progeny), Vijaya Lakshmi (Wealth of victory), Vidya Lakshmi (Wealth of knowledge), Dhana Lakshmi (Monetary wealth).

VASTHUSHATHRAM !!!!

ലക്ഷണമൊത്ത ഭൂമിയില്‍ വസിച്ചാല്‍ സുഖവും സമ്പത്തും താനേ വന്നുകൊള്ളും ,വീട് വയ്കാന്‍ വാങ്ങുന്ന ഭൂമി സമച്ചതുരമായാല്‍ ഉത്തമം ,വടക്ക് കിഴക്ക് മൂല മുറിഞ്ഞിരുന്നാല്‍,ധാരാളം നാശങ്ങള്‍ സംഭവിക്കും കുടുംബതിലുള്ളവര്‍ക്ക് അസുഖങ്ങള്‍ മാറുകയില്ല ,പെണ്‍കുട്ടികള്‍ അധികരിച്ചും പൊതുവേ ആരോഗ്യവും സമ്പത്തും ക്രമേണ നശിക്കും !!!!

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In what direction is your head facing when you
sleep may well decide the course of your life. . . . .
Just as, the numbers of widows in your house
may blow the winds of destiny a little too vividly
in the courtyard of your life.

OFFICE SET UP ACCORDING TO VASTHU

Office

If office faces the east, entrance door is to be from the northeast, and head of office should face the east or north at southwest corner. If office faces the north, entrance door is to be from the northeast and head of institution should face the east or north If office faces the west, entrance should be from the northwest corner, head of office may sit facing any direction leaving space on northeast corner. But it is better to sit facing the nearest junction. If office faces the south, the head of institution must face the east at southwest corner with entrance from the southeast corner

Reckoning of time for Brahma

• 1000 Mahayugas = 1 kalpa = 1 day (day only) of Brahma

(Two kalpas constitute a day and night of Brahma)

• 30 days of Brahma = 1 month of Brahma (259.2 billion human years)
• 12 months of Brahma = 1 year of Brahma (3.1104 trillion human years)
• 50 years of Brahma = 1 Pararddha
• 2 parardhas = 100 years of Brahma = 1 Para = 1 Mahakalpa (the lifespan of Brahma)(311.04 trillion human years)

One day of Brahma is divided into 10,000 parts called charanas. The charanas are divided as follows:

YUGAAS

The Four Yugas4 charanas (1,728,000 solar years)Satya Yuga3 charanas (1,296,000 solar years)Treta Yuga2 charanas (864,000 solar years)Dwapar Yuga1 charanas (432,000 solar years)Kali Yuga