Friday, October 21, 2016

Naming Ceremony (Namakarana) Invitation

Sample Naming Ceremony (Namakarana) Invitation:

Hey, I am going to be named officially on <day> @ <Venue>. You know, it is not coincidence that I have been in that place once before for Seemantha (Baby Shower) :) 

I already know my name, are you not curious ? Then pls come and bless me and my parents with your gracious presence. I have heard lot of things about you from my parents and hence really excited and eager to meet you and play with you. 

Do you want to know what is special about my name ?
  1. It has first letters of names of my father and mother and one more letter of my own.
  2. Happy to share with you that both my mother and father thought of same name at same time when they wanted to name me. May be for the first time there was concensus or agreement between them because of me :) :)
  3. Other day my mother put Lalitha sahasra naama and I was surprised to hear my name in it. After all it makes sense as I was born on Friday :)
  4. Then my father was saying my name is there in Vishnu sahasra naama too and has beautiful meaning ("Pure", "without Sin", "Beauty")

Waiting to see you,
 
      - Little daughter of X & Y

Friday, October 14, 2016

Rama's Return to Ayodhya from Lanka

I saw below flawed posts in FB and WhatsApp.

1.Vijaya Dashami is the day Ravan was defeated by Ram.
2. Diwali is the day Ram returned to Ayodhya.
3. Time Gogle Map shows to reach Ayodhya from Lanka on foot is: 21 days
4. Which is almost the number of days between Vijaya Dashami and Diwali

Our mythology is more accurate then today's historians.












Now let us examine how this is not true

1. As per Valmiki Ramayana, Rama returned to Ayodhya in "Pushpaka Vimana" and not by walking. In a single day he reaches to Bharadwaja's Ashram - which is at outskirts of Kosala as time was not enough to return on time (completion of 14 years).  After war Rama sends Laxmana for Vibhishan's Rajabhisheka and hence it took some time for Rama to return to Ayodhya. 
Also note that Rama, Sita, Laxmana, Major Vanara leaders (Sugreeva, Hanumantha, Angad, etc.) + Rakshasa leaders with Vibhishana travels to Ayodhya. So it is highly in-appropriate to say they walked for 21 days without taking a break :)


2. Google map shows the time to walk without a break. It shows 21 days to return from Lanka to Ayodhya if a person walks continuously (non-stop for 21 days :) ). Is this humanly possible ? 
For eg: see image of google map which shows only 72 hours of walking from Mangalore to Bangalore. 

3. It is good to co-relate the science and technology with our Mythology. There is no doubt many secrets are hidden. However I am against to blindly accept without logical thinking. 

4. Instead, I will give you another food for thought: Pushpak vimana has a special feature of adopting/changing it's size based on number of passengers. It increases or decreases in size to fit as many as passengers as needed. Hence Rama along with many people could travel in it. Isn't it awesome feature ?