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Image 1 — Yatā Kāli Tatha Tārā, There is no difference between the two
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Yatā Kāli Tatha Tārā, There is no difference between the two

There is no principle difference between Kali and Tara. They manifest as the two primordial faces of the same reality. As is ordained by Maheshwara “ Yo Narah Kurute Bhedam Sa Eva Misha Dheer Narah”, which essentially means that the Sadhana who perceives Kali and Tara as different indeed is the best of fools.

What exactly then is the difference? The Shastras say “the difference is essentially the Mantras and Paddhati”.

Devi Kali, Her Upasana provides a direct experience of the Raw, Rapidly Transformative and Immediately effective Spiritual Enlightenment. It’s the most admired yet highly sophisticated path which may not be very comfortable to many.

On the Contrary, Devi Tara’s Upasana is designed to gradually, but at a fast pace, guide the seeker to the transformative reality through “Knowledge” attainment and consequent realisation.

u/drabss0224 — 6 hours ago
Novice attempt at clay art to sculpt. Jai Jai Ganesh Mangal Ganesh.

Novice attempt at clay art to sculpt. Jai Jai Ganesh Mangal Ganesh.

I bow to Lord Ganesha with utmost humility while sharing this. Inspired by yesterday's attempt to sculpt and share the result, I am back here with yet another novice attempt at sculpting the divine presence and essence.

Please do let me know if this can be made better. Sharing also because I'd like to learn from your eyes, vicariously what to do better next time.

Jai Jai Ganesh Mangal Ganesh 🙏🏻

u/Akshayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy — 2 hours ago
This is what happens before Death.. Must read
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This is what happens before Death.. Must read

Namaste.. Jai Shree Ram

Okay, so this is not just a random idea or imagination this is a personal experience from my life that I witnessed a few years ago when my father passed away. He had cancer, and it was in the last stage. We tried everything we could to save him, but we couldn't.

Something very strange and intense happened before his death. About 30 to 40 minutes before he passed away, he started looking up toward the sky repeatedly. He was constantly asking for forgiveness, he was folding his handsmaking gestures as if he was touching someone's feet, as if he was begging in front of someone. (Mujhe maaf krdo) In whispering sounds There was fear clearly visible on his face. His face had turned pale, and it felt like he was seeing something in the sky.

But whenever we asked him what was happening or what he was seeing, he would clearly deny it and say, "Nothing." This kept happening continuously. He look up, beg, apologize, appear terrified and when asked, He kept saying "Nothing."

It is often said that when a person is about to die, they start seeing Yamdoots, and they feel fear, they beg for their life, asking for more time. I had heard about this before, but when I saw it with my own eyes, I started believing that it is true. And also he wasn't able to speak anything even a single word.

It is also said that at that moment, a person is not in a state where they can explain what they are seeing or fully accept it themselves. They are not able to express it, even if they want to. And that is exactly what I witnessed.

This continued for quite some time... and then the moment came when he took his last breath and left us forever.

u/BowlerIntrepid4545 — 11 hours ago
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"Himalayan Diety Celebration with Music and Devotion" 🙏 I have been working on miniature painting inspired by this beautiful glimpse ☺️

u/horhun56 — 7 hours ago

How do I convert to Hinduism?

Im a Caucasian American if that matters. I find myself drawn to Hinduism, Advaita Vedanta in particular intrigues me, as does Krishna and the Bhagavad Gita. I feel strong resonance with the quote "I am the Self, O Arjuna, seated in the hearts of all beings; I am the Beginning, the Middle and also the End of all beings." from the Gita and "tat tvam asi" from the upanishads. they basically sum up what I believe.

How do I convert? Should I convert? any and all feedback is welcome!

I also venerate Santa Muerte if that's a problem and I won't stop her veneration. though my interpretation of her puts her as another face of the divine.

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u/KaffeDreamer — 4 hours ago
Image 1 — This is how my altar looks at night.
Image 2 — This is how my altar looks at night.
Image 3 — This is how my altar looks at night.
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This is how my altar looks at night.

My phone camera isn't the best, but I wanted to share these.

u/MantisPsycho — 18 hours ago
Sri Prasanna Thimmarayaswamy Temple, Gudichettulu, Tamil Nadu
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Sri Prasanna Thimmarayaswamy Temple, Gudichettulu, Tamil Nadu

Sri Prasanna Thimmarayaswamy Temple, Gudichettulu, Tamil Nadu

u/Accountant_Nerd — 10 hours ago

How to deal with being a hated minority?

I have been trying to consume less of social media due to the amount of racist/transphobic/discriminatory things I see there. When I see a hateful comment online I try to not let it affect me but it does. I’m wondering if there is anything Hinduism or krishna says on what to do when you feel hated by the world or society. For things you cannot control. How to not let it consume your life

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u/ArmAccording7357 — 4 hours ago

A beer party was hosted on a boat in the Ganga River in Varanasi with DJ music being played.

u/Notalabel_4566 — 4 hours ago
Hey looking for some info

Hey looking for some info

I'm Aryan from Bangalore and I'm looking for someone who knows or who can tell tell me someone who knows to make thomala or flower decoration for my temple.

u/Aryan_Bhairava64 — 6 hours ago

Hindi crash course for American dating an Indian

Hello, I am looking for the best crash type course for an American dating a Hindi. He says he is not very religious, but has a shrine at his house. I want to be respectful and not completely ignorant so would like some information. Also, how would courtship work in this situation? He says his family is open to interracial relationships and I shouldn’t worry.

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u/Fickle_Situation9059 — 9 hours ago
Image 1 — Has anyone read the Vigyan Bhairava Tantra? What effect did the practices have on you? Which edition is considered the most accurate?
Image 2 — Has anyone read the Vigyan Bhairava Tantra? What effect did the practices have on you? Which edition is considered the most accurate?

Has anyone read the Vigyan Bhairava Tantra? What effect did the practices have on you? Which edition is considered the most accurate?

u/questionalternateacc — 16 hours ago
Why do many commentaries of the Bhagavad Gita diminish and look down upon murti and devatā worship?

Why do many commentaries of the Bhagavad Gita diminish and look down upon murti and devatā worship?

i'm reading Swami Mukunandana's commentary, and although I appreciate that it acknowledges that no teacher holds the right to say they have ultimate truth and the only correct commentary, this goes down the toilet when he looks down upon devatā worship.

I look at devatā worship as a way in which one can realize the ultimate. However, this and other commentaries look at it as a mere waste of time for people merely seeking material benefit when it many cases it's not the motivation behind it.

How do you deal with this?

u/Cold_Advertising_709 — 16 hours ago
The Mahamrityunjaya Mantra saved me during one of the darkest periods of my life.Here is everything you need to know about it

The Mahamrityunjaya Mantra saved me during one of the darkest periods of my life.Here is everything you need to know about it

A few years ago I was going through a health scare in my family. Someone suggested chanting the Mahamrityunjaya Mantra 108 times every morning. I had heard of it but never taken it seriously. Three weeks in, something shifted. I can't explain it rationally - but the fear reduced. The clarity came back. Whether that was the mantra, the routine, or just the act of focusing the mind on something bigger than the problem - I don't know. But I kept going. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What is the Mahamrityunjaya Mantra? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Om Tryambakam Yajamahe Sugandhim Pushti-Vardhanam Urvarukamiva Bandhanan Mrityor Mukshiya Maamritat It's one of the most ancient mantras from the Rigveda. Dedicated to Lord Shiva in his form as the healer and conqueror of death (Mrityunjaya - one who has conquered death). Meaning: We worship the three-eyed one (Shiva) who is fragrant and nourishes all beings. May he liberate us from death, just as a ripe cucumber is severed from the vine - and lead us toward immortality. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Benefits people report from regular chanting: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  • Reduced anxiety and fear (especially around illness/death)
  • Mental clarity during stressful periods
  • Deep sense of protection
  • Better sleep when chanted before bed
  • Feeling of surrender - which paradoxically brings strength ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ How to chant it properly: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  1. Early morning is ideal (brahma muhurta - 4-6am) but any quiet time works
  2. Sit facing east or north
  3. Use a rudraksha mala if possible - 108 beads, one chant per bead
  4. Chant slowly and clearly, feeling each word
  5. Don't rush. 108 times takes about 15-20 minutes ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ For those who want to hear it: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Here's a recording with 18 million+ listens - this is the version I started with: https://youtube.com/shorts/_R9OROSLCkU If anyone here has a personal story with this mantra, I'd genuinely love to hear it. It's one of those things where the more you learn, the deeper it gets. 🙏
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u/New_Group489 — 1 hour ago
Image 1 — What Does Saturn Signify in Your Vedic Chart? Remedies for a Weak or Afflicted Saturn
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What Does Saturn Signify in Your Vedic Chart? Remedies for a Weak or Afflicted Saturn

Heyy everyone, Jai mahakaal

This is the 3rd post in the series, after discussing about the soul and mind [sun and moon respectively] we are now moving towards the karaka of grief, balance, justice, patience and most importantly time.... Saturn aka Shani. [Please note that grahas only bring u stuff they are not the reason the stuff is being brought to u]

Saturn's Roles

Saturn gives you reality checks whenever ur ego starts inflating. Saturn has loads of time basically, saturn won't give u fame or money but it gives you time... time to rejuvenate, time to get back on ur feet and time to do the hardwork. Saturn is also a planet responsible for giving your pressure, and it keeps on giving the pressure like the earth gives to carbon until it turns into diamond or gets crushed. Now its your choice whether u wanna handle the pressure and come out a diamond or u wanna be crushed.

Saturn govern's

  • Hardwork, persistence and patience
  • Delays
  • Justice and consequences of actions
  • Longetivity, endurance and maturity
  • Servants, People working for you in general, Marginalized people

Saturn is also one of the most popular grahas, with its mahadasha, sadesati and what not. Its not something to be feared of though and its definitely not something to sit and cry about. Saturn only delivers you consequences of your actions. Even when you see the signs ruled by saturn, capricorn : deals entirely with your actions, practicality and is basically like a warzone [hence mars the warrior feels really expressive here and gets exalted] and aquarius : deals with the fruits of those actions.

Saturn doesn't care about ur emotions, ego, excuses.... it only cares about what you are doing.

While the struggles delivered by saturn are often long what we overlook is that when saturn is in charge of delivering the 'good results' they are massive and long lasting too. Saturn brings stability....

Saturn is also the karaka of your work aka your career.... its not gonna give u promotion/recognition/raise they are departments of different planets. Saturn will bring to you two things the ability to do work and the ability to handle pressure.

Anyways now I won't bore ya with stuff and get to the point for which you all prolly read the posts... checking whether its weak/afflicted and remedies hehe

Signs of a weak/afflicted Saturn

First signification is quite similar to sun as it depends on sun basically if you have got your sun mastered saturn is nothing to worry about ....... in layman terms if you are disciplined, take responsibilities and are consistent with your work no need to worry about anything.

Nextly, saturn signifies time as I said earlier.... therefore the next set of checks is whether you value time or not?
Do you procrastinate? Are you punctual? Do you value not just ur own time but that of others too?

Nextly ofc, is about work and efforts, Do you expect quick results without putting in much effort and do you give up easily when things get tough.

Saturn is a very rough n tough planet all in all, and as the saying is, 'when the going gets tough, the tough get going' or it was something somewhat similar to it but u get my point right.... So keep going and don't give up.

Then there are delays and justice, do things get really delayed in ur life or do you feel life is unfair to you? {the second one also depends on ketu and jupiter and 5th house too tbh but well its a little dependant on saturn so I thought it was worth mentioning]

Next is well a few more questions, and u'd kinda figure it out whether its alright or is there something off

  • Do you feel constant fear, anxiety about future?
  • Do you overthink worst-case scenarios?
  • How do you treat helpers, laborers, or people below your status?
  • Do you feel lonely or disconnected often?
  • Do you often feel cold even when the weather and everything is fine?
  • Do you have joint pain often?

Now for the remedies

This is prolly the part for which y'all wait the most xD so here it isss

First is ofc respect time, build a routine, be punctual

Nextly serve those in need.... help the poor, the old, the hungry, the disabled and just do the seva without ego and without wanting something in exchange for it.

Take responsibility of your actions. Stop blaming others and own ur mistakes, be accountable. And face the consequences maturely instead of giving excuses.

Improve the significations of the house it is seated in.... Lemme give a few examples [there are exceptions ofc x planet in y house doesn't say much u need to see a lot of things but anyways its something to start going with nevertheless]

Say saturn is in lagna then you aren't grooming urself well. Start taking proper care of urself and ur health n fitness. Saturn in lagna is like putting ice in a fire basically. Depending on the placement of lagnesh, badminton and other stretching related sports are also quite a good remedy.

Another example saturn in 2nd house, eating habits are the issue, work on them... eat on time eat healthy.

And one more example saturn in 5th house, treat your stomach better, avoid oily stuff... decision making ability needs to improve, have some sort of vision in life, some sort of ambition in life.... Also focus on food while eating and eat calmly there is no need to rush

And the final one, saturn in 7th, treat ur partner better.

A few more general remedies

  • Stop rushing decisions
  • Avoid impulsiveness
  • Take steady, grounded steps
  • Sit on the floor while eating
  • Walk barefoot on grass/soil
  • Spend time in nature
  • Keep your space clean
  • Create a calm corner for yourself

Now like always if you want we can discuss some remedies with a more personal touch to you, for that comment the nakshatra of your saturn and of ur ascendant..... Along with the sign in which saturn and ascendant respectively are in d9.... Also do lemme know if any planet is seated in capricorn.

u/LeadingProperty1392 — 11 hours ago

How do I prepare for my next life?

I am very bitter and feel the only way I can ever get what I desire is to wait for my next life. What can I do to prepare myself?

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u/BodybuilderUpbeat786 — 5 hours ago
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