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How to type Sanskrit diacritics in Mac OS X


The following instructions make it very easy for you to type Sanskrit diacritical characters on your Mac computer running OS X.

1. Download “DiacWinUnicode.keylayout” at:

http://krishna.org/diac/DiacWinUnicode.keylayout

2. Move “DiacWinUnicode.keylayout” to “/Library/Keyboard Layouts/“

3. Click apple icon in upper-left corner of screen ->
“System Preferences” ->
“Language & Text” ->
“Input Sources”

4. Check “DiacWinUnicode” box

5. Click Input Source icon (i.e. American flag icon for U.S.) near upper-right corner of screen ->
check “DiacWinUnicode“

6. Now you can type Sanskrit characters (ā ḷ ṇ ś ḍ ṁ ṛ ṭ ḥ ṅ ṝ ū ī ñ ṣ ḹ):
Opt+a long-a
Opt+l l-dot
Opt+n n-dot
Opt+c s-accent
Opt+d d-dot
Opt+m m-dot
Opt+r r-dot
Opt+t t-dot
Opt+h h-dot
Opt+g n-super-dot
Opt+z long-r-dot
Opt+u long-u
Opt+i long-i
Opt+y n-tilde
Opt+s s-dot
Opt+’ long-l-dot
For CAPITALIZED characters add “Shift” (Ā Ḷ Ṇ Ś Ḍ Ṁ Ṛ Ṭ Ḥ Ṅ Ṝ Ū Ī Ñ Ṣ Ḹ):
Opt+Shift+<character>

For additional help, see “Transliterated Text in Mac OS X.pdf”:

http://krishna.org/diac/TypingTransliteratedTextinMacOSX.pdf






Hadaga Festival

Hadaga Festival
The Hadaga festival in Maharashtra is to pray for a good monsoon and a good harvest. As Indra is the god of rain, people sing songs to Indra and pray for rain. Pictures of the elephant which is Indra's vehicle are drawn everywhere to invite the God. the festival of Makar Sankranti is marked by the flying of kites in the sky. The entire sky becomes a showcase of colorful kites of various sizes and shapes. In rural Maharashtra, feasts of the new harvest mark the festival.

People exchange multi-colored tilguds made from til (sesame seeds) and sugar and til-laddus made from til and jaggery. Til-polis are offered for lunch. While exchanging tilguls as tokens of goodwill people greet each other saying - 'til-gul ghya, god god bola' meaning 'accept these tilguls and speak sweet words'. The under-lying thought in the exchange of tilguls is to forget the past ill-feelings and hostilities and resolve to speak sweetly and remain friends.

This is a special day for the women in Maharashtra when married women are invited for a get-together called 'Haldi-Kumkum' and given gifts of any utensil, which the woman of the house purchases on that day. A newly wed woman gives away oil, cotton and sesame seeds to mark this auspicious day of Makar Sankranti. This is believed to bestow upon her and her family long life and prosperity.

Thai Pongal Festival

Thai Pongal is celebrated on the first day of the month Thai of the Tamil calendar. The day normally falls between 12th and 15th of the month of January in the Christian calendar. Thus, Thai is the first month of the Tamil Almanac, and Pongal is a dish of sweet concoction of rice, moong dal, jaggery and milk. This festival is celebrated by one and all as it is non-relevance to any particular religious faith. The whole Tamil population of the world celebrate it without any differences. Therefore it is widely known as "Tamil Thai Pongal" or the "Festival of the Tamils".

The Tamil festival of Thai Pongal is a thanks giving ceremony in which the farmers celebrate the event to thank the spirits of nature spirit, the Sun and the farm animals for their assistance in providing a successful harvest. The rest of the people celebrate the festival to pay their thanks to the farmers for the production of food. Overall, it is a festival to encourage social cohesiveness and unite people by bringing them together in a common function. There are many songs about Thai Pongal and there is much Tamil literature about it.

Customs & Celebrations
Thai Pongal generally includes customs & celebrations that are the expression of jubilation over life's renewal. On Thai Pongal, the family begins the day early. Every member of the family gets up early in the morning, bathes, puts on new clothes and gathers in the front of the garden (muttram) to cook the traditional Pongal (rice pudding). The front garden is pre-prepared for this ceremonious cooking. A flat square pitch is made and decorated with kolam drawings, and it is exposed to the direct sun light. A fire wood hearth will be set up using three bricks. The cooking begins by putting a clay pot with water on the hearth.

A senior member of the family conduct the cooking and the rest of the family dutifully assists him or her or watches the event. When the water has boiled the rice is put into the pot - after a member the family ceremoniously puts three handful of rice in first. The other ingredients of this special dish are chakkarai (brown cane sugar) or katkandu (sugar candy), milk (cow's milk or coconut milk), roasted green gram (payaru), raisins, cashew nuts and few pods of cardamom.

When the meal is ready it is first put on a banana leaf and the family pray for few minutes to thank the nature sprit, the sun and farmers. 

Then the meal (Pongal) is served with fruits (banana and mango) among the family. Later it will be shared with neighbors, friends and relatives. Although every household makes the food, sharing each others 'Pongal' is the one of the important features of the event. Some Hindu scholars believe that the rice is ceremoniously cooked on the Thai Pongal day because of its importance as a potent symbol of auspiciousness and fertility. The evenings are spent attending cultural events or visiting relatives and friends.

Thanksgiving Day
The day of the Thai Pongal is devoted to thanksgiving to cattle. The farmers pay great attention to the animals which have ploughed the fields and drawn the carts throughout the year. To show his gratitude for this invaluable service the animals are bathed, their horns are painted in red, blue, yellow and green. Their foreheads are smeared with turmeric and kumkum. Their necks are adorned with colorful garlands. Pooja is offered to them and Pongal is given in plenty. This is called Mattu Pongal.

Meaning & Significance
Thai Pongal is an occasion for family re-unions and get-together. Old enmities, personal animosities and rivalries are forgotten. Estrangements are healed and reconciliation effected.

Indeed, Thai Pongal is a festival of freedom, peace, unity and compassion crystallized in the last hymn on unity in the Indian spiritual text the Rig Veda. Thus, love and peace are the central theme of Thai Pongal.

What is TARA - YANTRA ?

TARA YANTRA
Tara is the simplest and most powerful of  yantras . Her bhupur  has a beautiful blue-green, the color of green leaves, which occurs in the  Ganesha Yantra  and  the Sri Yantra . Green is the color of balance, which is necessary to cross the ocean  of samsara (bhava-sagara) . Meditation on the green generates complementary color red - the color of inspiration, and the free movement of revolt against the approved values ​​(rules and regulations).
lotus petals are painted pale pink. Pink symbolizes modesty. Meditation on this color makes a sincere person. The symbolism of the eight petals of the lotus has been previously described in the "Kali Yantra."
Inverted triangle pointing upwards painted crimson color - the color of rage (as the image of Tara's appearance is similar to Kali). Tara is a goddess, gets rid of the fear of the sea storms and floods.

Her connection with the speech contains overlapping crimson or purple triangle on purple background Akasha  - the element of the fifth chakra, which is considered to be the abode of the goddess of knowledge Saraswati.  Saraswati Nadi  is one of the fourteen major  nadis described in the tantric texts, it ends in a language organ of speech. It is often said that the language of the wise man sits Saraswati. Meditation on the crimson triangle, which is placed against the background of golden  Bindu generates green. So meditation on green  bhupure  creates a crimson color, and meditation on the crimson triangle - green. This balance is the key to understanding Tara - this balance  cockroaches  (ship). Due to this equilibrium boat  (Tarini)  is able to float and cross the water spaces. Green color is neutral - it neither hot nor cold, as it is a combination of warm yellow and cool blue.

Bright red color is the color of violence, but the green calms him. Held at the beginning meditation on green  bhupure  generates vitality (survival of the fittest, which is based on violence), and the subsequent meditation on a bright red (crimson) creates a green color and sets the balance. All completed meditation on the  bindu  - the most  shakti  Tara.

Tara

Name  Tara  comes from the Sanskrit root  tr , meaning "bear." This goddess carries a person through the ocean of relative existence  (samsara)  . She is the  shakti  Akshobhya (one of the incarnations of Lord Shiva).

There is a famous legend about how the gods and demons have joined forces in order to get out of the ocean  Amrita  (elixir of life). For the churning of the ocean, they used Mount Meru (the central axis  Bhuloka , the earthly plane of existence) as well as a rope - the king of snakes Vasuki. Great serpent Vasuki's head kept the demons, and the tail - the gods. Head of the serpent was a the place from which came the fiery breath, while the tail was harmless. The poison snakes found in her mouth, so that the demons had to hold on to the fire, poisonous part of the body, and the gods were pulling a snake for a peaceful part of the body. They began to churn the ocean, from which emerged one after the other eleven famous and priceless items  (PATH)  , and after them from the bottom of the sea rose the most deadly of all poisons  (halahala)  . All the gods and demons were excited, and calm was only the god Shiva. On the advice of his  shakti  Gauri he absorbed all the poison of his throat, causing his throat became blue. The day Shiva got two new names: Akshobhya or Akshobhya - Timeless (pleasure and pain, poisons and nectars) and Nilakantha - Sinegorly. Tara is a  tactical  Shiva-Akshobhya and like Mahakali, represents another aspect of the Divine Mother Gauri. After Shiva drank the poison, troubled gods and demons of excitement and discomfort are gone. In the end, on the surface of the ocean appeared divine physician and alchemist Dhanvantari with the elixir in a pot  (Kalat)  .

Tara-Tarini called bhava (the transfer through the ocean of relative existence,  samsara ) and bhai-Harini (get rid of the fear of the raging waters.) Seafarers should pray to her to escape the storm, and residents of coastal areas - in order to avoid flooding. Water is generated  Tanmatra race  (sense of taste). In Sanskrit, the word "water" is synonymous with the word "life." Water really is the life, as it takes eighty percent of the material composition of the body. Furthermore, water is the best solvent, since it dissolves almost all substances. Among other things, water is the source of all binder components. Adoration of Tara eliminates the problems associated with water, although the water itself is neutral, it is able to absorb it all and then turns into a dissolved substance. Abode of water in our body is the second chakra, and home to a taste of  (race)  - the language, which is also connected with the water, but at the same time associated with speech. For this reason, Tara is the goddess of speech. In Tibet, it is worshiped as the Nile-Tara, or Blue Saraswathi. It is an original sound,  nada , from which originated the entire phenomenal world. First  shakti Adya is filled with the energy of consciousness, and the second  shakti  Dvitiya -  nada . Tara is the second of the ten  Mahavidyas , and it is sometimes called Dvitiya. Its shape resembles the look of Cali - but, unlike Cali, its language is not peeping out of his mouth, and in her hand she is not holding a severed head. Around his neck hangs a garland of Tara human heads, while in Cali, this garland is made ​​from human skulls. And Kali and Tara are depicted standing on a corpse  (Shava) . Dead human body symbolizes the center of the phenomenal world, having exhausted its  supply of race  (the essence of life.)
as Tara  Mahavidya  is the embodiment of  race  (emotions) and the means of expression, that is the question. In  "Brahmanda Purana"  it is mentioned that it protects the lake from the nectar of  Manas . This lake is called: Manas, or "mind." No one can cross it without her permission. Goddess accompanied by a lot of girls, going for a drive around the lake with songs, dances and hymns in honor of Tara. These girls represent her  sakti crossing the lake of nectar  Manas . The text does not say that Tara is a  Mahavidya , but clearly states that it is the supreme deity who helps her with  Shakti  protects the lake with the elixir of life.

in Tantra is that  Siddhi  Tara can be achieved without meditation,  japa , worship , sacrifices, ritual practices and cleansing elements  (bhuta-shuddhi) , described in the following  mantra :
Japa Dhyana BINA BINA BINA  PUDZHADI Phi Priya  BINA BINA Balima Abhiasa  BHUTSHUDDHIADIBHIR BINA  BINA KLESHADIBHIRDEVIDEHA  DUHKHADIBHIR BINA  SIDDHIRASHU  BHAVEDSMATSMATSARVOTTMA MATA.  
Without  dhyana  (meditation) without  japa  (repetition of her name or  mantra)  , without the ritual of worship

without sacrifice, without constant practice, without purification elements,
without dealing with psychological problems (that must be resolved in order to achieve focus on one goal), without getting rid of the difficulties associated with the physical body  (asana, pranayama) ,  Siddhi  Tara may occur due to one only remembrance of her with genuine faith. If you say her name in a moment of trouble, she will come and help you.  Anyone who has devoted himself to Tara, do not necessarily comply with rules and regulations ( the pit  and  niyama ). He does not need to follow the self-discipline - just enough to remember Tara. This makes the goddess Tara for everyone.








Kali - Yantra

KALI YANTRA
The appearance of this  yantra  is described in  "Shakti Pramod" , very popular in Shaktas scripture.
External square ( bhupur , the abode of  the yantra ) looks the same as in other  Yantra : its gate facing east, west, north and south.

Two lines around  bhupura  and its gates - one gold, the other yellow - form two layers, and the blue color of the  bhupura  becomes the third layer. These layers correspond to the three states of matter: solid, liquid and gaseous. Each layer inside and outside  bhupura (monastery) delineated a gold line, which helps to keep the geometrical structure of the circuit.

Between  bhupurom  and a circular pattern is a triangle, a noticeable only in part - because of the circle just look out the base, and the two corners. This triangle represents the Cosmic Mother (Tripurambu) which contains in itself all the phenomenal world, which is represented by a lotus with eight petals. This is partially visible triangle symbolizes the infinity of the Divine Mother, only a small portion of which is shown as Kali.

Lotus with eight petals is vosmeritsu  Prakriti , the manifest:  Akasa , air, fire, water, earth, reason, a higher understanding and self-awareness.
three golden circle inside the lotus symbolize the three aspects of time, which include the  karma  of eight petals of phenomenal existence. These aspects are the past, present and future: the corresponding concentric circles, that is, have a common center.

three nested triangles represent the three  gunas: sattva, rajas, tamas  - three quality or state of energy,  shakti . The triangles are connected to the three-ring time.

At the center is the  Bindu , the point of meditation - the very Divine Mother Kali.
Among the flowers  of this yantra  blue predominates. Meditation on this color creates complementary orange color that gives inspiration, makes a man a sociable and receptive to the ideas of others, and also eliminates the depression and depression.
raspberry with a touch of blue - the color of the central triangle, in which the gold  bindu - is the color of love and faith.

                                                                   Kali

In  "Devi-Bhagavata Purana,"  a history of the incarnation of Kali. One day, two Danava  (demon), and Shumbha Nishumbha, imposed on itself a severe penance to please Brahma the Creator, and for that he got from the "invulnerability from any man." Having this ability, they have become, as they thought, it is invincible and began to conquer the three worlds:  Bhuloka  (ground)  Bhuvarloka  (astral plane) and  Svargaloka (heavenly plan, the abode of the gods and demigods, Indra). They were expelled from  Svargaloka  all the gods and demigods. Knowing that no male energy is not able to tame these demonic forces, gods and demigods, including Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Keeper and Shiva, the destroyer, gathered on the banks of the Ganges River (also referred to as Dzhanhvi) and appealed to the Divine Mother by the  mantra  NAMO devaya .
Upon hearing their prayers. The Divine Mother rejoiced and sent to the aid of the gods of his  shakti . Mother Gauri. Gauri's mother appeared before the gods, and listened to their story about the power of Shumbha and Nishumbhi. Then she took a fierce look of Cali and destroyed the evil force and Shumbha Nishumbhi, and their two generals - Chanda and Munda.
thus. Kali is the Mother Gauri, the wife of Lord Shiva. Shiva in his destructive aspect is called Mahakala, and the Divine Mother Gauri - Kali or Mahakali.

Sanskrit word  kala  means, on the one hand, the "death", and the other - "time." In the phenomenal world is limited by time. In due time  shakti  any creature leaves him, and the creature dies. In other words, death is the end of the lifetime of the life force ( prana ). Matter can not be created nor dies, it just changes form. For this reason, death is an alteration or conversion. Kali is the goddess of the changes that are absolutely necessary to update the energy (life force) and spiritual development.
Attachment to material form (physical body) causes the fear of death. This is the underlying fear, the roots of which lie in the brain stem, a primitive brain, that fear is the main obstacle to spiritual development. Shumbha and Nishumbha are demonic forces of affection that threaten our spiritual helpers, who cast them out of the sublime abode.
end this threat can put the invocation of Kali to the aid of these forces. Thus. Kali free from the fear of death - the underlying anxiety of the first chakra. It is cruel to ignorant people clinging to their physical bodies and eternally scared, but to the gods (spiritual forces), it manifests itself as Gauri, which took the form of Kali, to assist them. In his ferocious aspect it tames the demonic forces false attachments - Shumbha and Nishumbhu, Chanda and Munda.

Tantric  sadhak  should meet face to face with their own Shumbha and Nishumbhoy and overcome the grip of fear of death, calling Kali  (kundalini)  . Love Kali destroys this fear and opens the door to knowledge, comprehension  (Mahavidya)  eternity.
physical body depends on  prana , which penetrates it through the left and right nostril, that is, through the  go and  Pingala  - nostrils were such names because their activity stimulates activity channels  (nadi) ida  and pingala. Ida Nadi  and  Pingala Nadi  begin in the muladhara chakra  (first chakra) together with the sushumna  and end at the left and right nostrils, respectively.  Pranayama  allows you to control the flow  of prana  and open channel  of sushumna. Prana  individual is his breathing, but it's the same pranic force that pervades all space in the forms of time, motion and frequencies. Mastering the  prana , the yogi is released from the shackles of time.  Ida  and Pingala , the flow of the lunar and solar energy, keep the  sadhaka within the time and cause him fear death.  Sushumna  is outside of time. It runs from the brain stem to its crust, the seat of consciousness in which matter is transformed into consciousness. When  prana  is directed through  the sushumna , the forces of evil flows lunar and solar energy (Shumbha and Nishumbha) become fixed and the  Kundalini  is awakened from his deep sleep. It rises on the  brahma nadi  - subtlest channel within  sushumna  - and pierces the six chakras, simultaneously dissolving the five basic elements at their source,  Mahato . These basic elements are the material components of the physical body. Any attachment (the desire) to these elements in the rise of kundalini is a frightening feeling. When the material attachment removed by "cleaning elements"  (Bhuta-shuddhi) *  , Cali (Kundalini, Primal Force) is granted, and the sadhak  feels when raising  the kundalini  pleasant sensations that will take him beyond the  tattvas  and the  gun  to the realm  of ananda  (bliss) and will transfer it to the abode of eternity (beyond the limited time consciousness), where there can be no fear of death.

So Cali is a  Mahavidya , get rid of  avidya  (ignorance), which causes a person to fear death. Kali is the first Mahavidya . Its other name: Adya (first-born), this name is sometimes called  kundalini shakti .









 
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