Navratri – a Hindu festival of worship and dance

Worship
Navratri is a Hindu festival of worship and dance. The word Navaratri literally means nine nights in Nava – Nine and Ratri – nights. During these nine nights and ten days, nine forms of Shakti (metaphor for goddess Durga) i.e. female divinity are worshipped.

Navratri is divided into sets of three days to adore three different aspects of the supreme goddess or goddesses.

First three days
The goddess is invoked as a spiritual force called Durga also known as kali in order to destroy all our impurities, vices and defects..

Second three days
The Mother is adored as a giver of spiritual wealth, Lakshmi, who is considered to have the power of bestowing on her devotees inexhaustible wealth

Final three days
The final set of three days is spent in worshipping as the goddess of wisdom, Saraswati. In order to have all-round success in life, believers seek the blessings of all three aspects of the divine femininity, hence the nine nights of worship. (more…)

Focus on vision rather than on the world

Hello readers!

There was a millionaire who was bothered by severe eye pain. He consulted so many physicians and was getting his treatment done. He did not stop consulting a galaxy of medical experts; he consumed heavy loads of drugs and underwent hundreds of injections.

But the ache persisted with great vigor than before. At last a monk who has supposed to be an expert in treating such patients, was called for by the millionaire.

The monk understood his problem and said that for sometime he should concentrate only on green colors and not let his eyes fall on any other colors. The millionaire got together a group of painters and purchased barrels of green color and directed that every object his eye was likely to fall on, to be painted in green color just as the monk had directed. (more…)

First vacation in USA

Good afternoon reader(s)!

After writing first post, I was thinking what to write now? I should not stop writing. This is really interesting. Isn’t it?

Anyway, Jeremy advised me to write about my experiences at Niagra Falls, NY. Yes, this is place where I spent my 2 days of Labor Day Long weekend and first vacation in USA.

We start traveling early morning of saturday. As usual, stop by McDonalds, Burger Kings, & Rest areas; it was total 8 hrs drive. We were tired when we reach Niagra Falls. After check into the hotel, we got out of hotel for food and were trying to get information on what to do next day.

We start walking toward 4th Street, very close to American Falls, I see CANADA right on the other side. I was so excited to see Niagra Falls now. There were so many stores of food, ice-cream etc & The Haunted House! There was a notice on The Haunted House that “If you are a heart patient please enter with your doctor.” It was really Haunted barns, houses, hayrides, and ghost town! I did not get in there. I did not dare!

Though we were hungry, we reached to Park, very very close to American Falls. And this is the moment when I and my wife said “WOW! It is natural wonder”. There are lights set on falls (from CANADA Side), to make it more attractive in the night. Some of the visitors said “American Falls are not natural. It has been made”. I do not think so. Do you? (more…)

What do you mean by KAPISH?

Since few days, I am thinking to start a new blog on my personal website but I have not decide yet what should I write? I never write and do not want to but I develop. Yes, I am a developer not writer.

Today, I am again on wordpress site and found they offer us to start our own blog. Isn’t this inspiring? This inspires me to register a blog, my own blog with URL!, and write at least something.

Before few days, I was in a meeting and at the end of meeting someone asked me for my email address. Immediately, I replied to him with my email address and my email address has word “KAPISH”. The person who was writing down my email asked me “Jaymin, do you know meaning of KAPISH?”. I said “I am INDIAN and KAPISH is the name of LORD HANUMAN of Hindu Religion. I believe in him”. He said KAPISH means “Do you understand?”.

Many thanks to Wordpress for making me write at least something. And I start with something religious. What are you writing today?