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Kailash is the resident place of God Shive and this is a mythological truth for the many Indian. Mount Kailash is full of natural beauty situated in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal. The political situation of Nepal is now stable after the last general election in 2008. It is almost ideal condition for tourist for enjoying the endless beauty of the rock mountain in Nepal. Mound Kailash is inseparable part of Tibet and Tibetan called it the Kang. The beauty of white snow decorates the mountain like an ornament in the Himalayan range. The Lamas have some tradition believe regarding the mound Kang and it is one of the sacred places for them. Lord Shiva is the symbol of destruction and all the creation in the universe is governed under the guidance of Lord Shiva.

The place is more then 22 k ft above the sea level and pollution free environment is ideal destination for energetic adventure tour lovers. The physical fitness of the tourist is a major requirement to join this most adventure holy tour of the world. The mountain valley is full of different temples of lord Shiva.

Manas Sarovar, the sacred lake is a dream destination of many devotees of Shiva in India. Thousands of Hindu pilgrims from Indian and abroad visit this place every year. Maximum tourists are from north India and north-east part of the country. An Indian passport is essential for an Indian tourist to travel across the China border. Of course, you need a valid Chinese Visa for that. It is always better to travel in group and it makes the journey more enjoyable. Our journey started from the International airport of Nepal. Daily flights are available from all top Indian metros like Kolkata, Mumbai and Delhi and Chennai. April to September is a nice part of a year for traveling Manas Sarovar.

Buses are available for Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal for crossing Tibet – Nepal border. The tourists have to travel on foot after reaching the Tibetan town Kodari. After that if all other condition are ideal for traveling the customs officer make you journey little annoyed. It is better to carry less number of digital & electronic devices during travel. The hotels provide all comfortable facilities for different traveling budgets. The hotels in Nyalam try their best for helping the tourist in such a high altitude at little expensive prices. The irregular electricity and telecommunication network is an uncomfortable condition in traveling Manas Sarovar.

The temples are the most significant and typical monuments of Indian architecture. The beauty of of old ancient Indian architecture are found in the ancient temples. These also shows the traditional and cultural values of Indian Cultural. The different temple structure are accompanied by the development for topical Indian traditions. In all parts of India temples are found in different glories. In the next few days we will visit some of the finest temples in the south India and try to find the history and cultural evaluation related to those temples. this also help to find the greatness of ancient Indian architecture. The stone made temples are the living place of God and Goddess like Ram and Shiva and many more.

Temple are not only a religious institution but also a meeting place of all people of the society. The worship is done in a temple regularly for health living and prosperity. This is a place where people can exchange the views and thought about life and spirituality. They finds the relation between the God and nature. we are a part of the whole nature. The old temple brings the history of pre-Christian epoch and the living style of common people of that time. The believes in the power of nature is one form of believes in deities. The significances of every symbol of god are become legends and adoption of those thought made the artistes to draw their thought in a 3D form. The organized religion at their early days made the maximum growth and successes to spread their thought among different part of the plant. In the time of the Great Asoka religious consciousness changed the living and increases the love for the nature. These history are alive due to the presence of the rock region of the Deccan and western India. These are some of the misty behind the old ancient temples

NDTV imagine, new TV channel has started the most popular mythological TV shop of India ‘Ramayana’, the immortal story of lord Rama. The Monkey solders of King Rama helped their King in making of Ram Setu and the stones that are used in that ‘setu’ are carring the name of load Rama. Rama wants to save his wife from the Sri Lank’s Owner Load Raban. The novel work for the master of whole universe by the monkey army made them some kind of respected animals in the universe. But in the western cultural the monkey has no such importance in their culture. Here somebody in India ask some one as a monkey is not a mater of shame for that person. This also indicates that he is a good option to start a good relationship as a friend. Hopefully the new TV shop will able to express the significance of Indian Monkey as a symbol of Gods friends. Their presence in the universe helps us to remember the Master and servant relationship between the god and human being. Being a master it is easy to become a god but it is difficult to get the same respect of God being servant. The geographical proof of the presence of Rama in Sri Lanka is till a matter of archeological research matter. The palace indicated in the great epic, Ramayana are still a topic searching by Google earth in Sri Lanka. Diffent ancient temple, mountain, stone discover by mythological traveling in Sri Lanka is still not enough. The existence of Rama is true for all Indian and any controversy will not able to play any roll in the popularity of Rama. This is not a political sense but the inner spiritual sense of many Indian. All don’t want to be another Rama but try to become another Monkey king Hanuman to help the inner true Rama to Kill the evil, Rabana.

we all love Santa Claus in Christmas time. He brings new gift for everyone. Children love Santa image very much. We bring to you the Christmas celebration of a remote part of India. Here Christmas is not celebrate in a grand festive mode. But the significant of this celebration is understood by everybody. I am taking about the North East India. Majority population of this part of the country are not belonging to the Christian community but love for God is very common in every common people mind. They celebrate Christmas like any other Indian celebration and pray for India. we all love India and God’s religion is to love all. It is a time when a old year say good bye and we welcome a new year. With the sprite of Christmas we can remember all the happiness of our past days and also forget the sorriness.

The place where I live is a remote hilly town. The nearest Church is nearly 40 km away from my home. The Church is almost 300 year old. Till the colorful glasses and windows looking gorgeous. The place is known as Makunda and it is at the border of two state Assam and Aizawl. Actually it is in a tea estate. During the 2nd world war some British discover this place to set up a hospital for helping the refugee. The Hospital is still going on. One morning I also join the prayer at that church. The natural hilly environment is very clean and fresh. Some Doctors and Sisters regularly arrange the prayer.There is a English medium school near the church. So the local people also celebrate Christmas time with their children.

In searching of a truth that how a man can survive in the world I know a very little in of the universe. People want a lot and spend a lot. The result of all he get a small for his own. Today read some lines of the New Testament. Here, I found some beautiful example for living. We always think about our earning and job etc. There are lot of animals and birds in the earth. They are living their life freely. They don’t think what they will eat in the next day. The almighty God, arrange dinner and breakfast for them. We are fortunately the best creature of God. So, we should not about that. But we should do our duty properly that will help are to join to the huge work fair of God. A bird doesn’t think about his winter collection a lion don’t think what he will eat next morning. We always think this dress is good for me and that dress is bed etc. God already has given beautiful skin and a suitable color in it. Why should we want to change them? We are men. We can change thing, using our knowledge and technology. Other animal don’t change their environment. The gigantic Dinosaurs were not destroyed themselves. It was natural phenomenons that changed the world and the Dinosaurs lost their lives. But human are in a regular interval changing their environment and the cause is better living.

We need more comfort and standard in our living style. In India the things are very much changed. The eastern views of life and the western views of life is some how getting a same flat from. In east we are ready to spend more we need. The west is getting benefit of our spending. In the top metros of India people can earn enough. But he has to spend more than that for his living stand. Once he changes his living style he can’t cut it short.

Once upon a time the west thought there was lot for business in India. So they employed us and earn their profit. We don’t have any sophisticated technology and but we can work hard. Now, we get the power of technology.

Many professions are grown up and many other just abolish. But the number of profession is no doubt greater then the other. In total number of profession china is at the top position than it is India. In the metros there are huge number of profession are introduce and most of them are services. When the English left the country they did not think about the today’s BPO and other jobs. News comes and it is that ‘jobs in west are lost due to the east workers.’ After all, we all need works and we have to work and it is a universal truth. As long we can serve other we can survive. Lastly one question left, and it is “Did you think as much service we get form other we don’t give equal amount of services?”     

We may take the term ‘freedom’ in two senses. One, in its transcendental or metaphysical sense (paramarthika artha) and the other in its empirical sense (vyavaharika artha). In its transcendental sense the term means generally the freedom of the human soul. Although in Buddhsim it is not spoken of as the liberation of the human soul, yet its meaning is transcendental.

 In the empirical sense of the term it means generally economic, social, political, religious etc. freedom. It is something like the economic or ethical freedom as advocated by the Carvakas or socio-economic freedom as advocated by Marx.

 There are many synonyms of the word ‘freedom’ like liberation, liberty, release, deliverance, salvation, redemption, moksa, mukti, nirvana, kaivalya etc. Although these words are generally used in the sense of freedom yet there are slight variation in there imports.

 The English word liberation comes form the Latin word ‘liberalitateous’ or the French word ‘liberalis’ which again comes from Latin ‘liber’. This word has no religious or transcendental import. However ‘Liberal Society’ means a definite society ‘advocating church disestablishment’.

 We generally used the term ‘liberation’ in the political sense, such as ‘the liberation of Europe by Allied troops’. It sometimes also means individual liberation such as ‘liberation of a woman from repulsive wedlock’ as in the case of a divorce.

The term ‘liberty’ means ‘freedom from the captivity, slavery, or oppressive control’. It also means ‘right or power to do as one choose’. It may means ‘right or privilege granted by authority’. We speak of natural liberty, civil liberty, liberty of press etc. Natural liberty means a ‘state in which there are no laws’; civil liberty of conscience means a state limited ‘by laws established on behalf of community’; liberty of conscience means a ‘system allowing all member of State to follow what from of religion seems good to them’; liberty of press means a ‘system by which anyone may print and publish what he pleases without previous permission’. In the philosophical sense it means ‘freedom from control of fate or necessity’. From this meaning we have a view viz. ‘libertarianism’ which is opposed to determinism and holds ‘that certain human actions are not governed by necessitating causal laws’.

 All these meanings indicate the empirical import of the term ‘freedom’ as earlier stated. Salvation is a term which is keenly connected with the human soul and God. It generally means ‘Saving of the soul’. It also means ‘deliverance from sin and its consequences’: admission to heaven brought about by Christ’. Sometimes salvation means conversion also. We have a use of a term like ‘Salvation Army’ which means ‘an organisation on military model for revival of religion among the masses’. The members of this army wear military-style uniforms. Thus the meaning of salvation quite stand for the metaphysical import of freedom as earlier stated.

 The word ‘redemption’ is mostly synonymous with salvation with salvation, because it also like salvation means ‘the deliverance from sin and damnation wrought by Christ’s atonement’.                

by:

Dr. Girish Baruah

India is a land of faith. Any part of the country is not far behind in maintaining the religions tradition of India, even through it has acute economical and political problems. The month of October is a time when all over India is in a festive mood. Naturally India may claim to be country of diverse culture and different groups enjoy absolute liberty to observe their own religious occasion with great festivity. The Durga Puja, a North-East India’s festival, for its great enthusiasm and solemnity has a universal appeal among all the Bengali speaking people all over the world. This Durga Puja is observed almost all part of the world where there are at least thousands of Bengali people live in a group. A five day long festival people enjoy to visit the Puja Pandal and love to eat good foods. All the people respective of rich and poor participate in it and ware new dresses. The festival is held in the Bengali month of “Ashin”. In all five Vedic God and Goddess are worshipped. It is also called the Sharadusab i.e. the festival of autumn. The youth feel it a time to enjoy the festival mood with their friends. People love to have the sense of hearing music and the love is on the air. Pop, Bengali songs and Bollywood numbers are played performance in live to enjoy the celebration. But, there is a miraculous legend behind the origin of this festival. Durga, The God of power and strength is believed as a protector of world. She loves her Children and brings a lot of blessing for them by killing the evils. Kolkata, Agartala, Guwahait, New York, and London everywhere Durga  Puja has a different significance. The image is made with clay and colorful dresses. At the end of the Puje the Idols are dropped in water and it is the time to say good by to a daughter who come after another year. At the end people feel sad for the God. 

Hindu people from all over the world throng to the temple and the bussiness people find the festivity mood of their comsumers to get a good profit.

A poor boy was employed at the house of a lady of rank as a servant. One day, finding himself along in the lady’s dressing –room, waited a few moments to make a view of the beautiful things in the room. A gold watch, richly set with diamonds, caught his attention, and he looks it up in his hand.

 Immediately a wish arose in his mind, “Ah! If  I had such a one!”

after a pause he said to himself, “But if I take it, I shall be a thief.”

“And yet”, continued he, “nobody sees me. Nobody ?

Does not God who is present everywhere see me ?”

Overcome by these thought and lay down the watch, he said, “No, I would rather be poor and keep my conscience than be rich and become a rogue”

Finally his conscience won over his evil motive and he resolve to live honestly.

Many people in Asia believe in the theory of reincarnation or the existence of born again after death. In the year 545 A.D a priest from Council of Constantinople church first write a book on reborn of second birth. The way the writer explain the theory in his writing was accepted by the west in that time. Every man wants to be immortal to enjoy the beauty of the earth. Death is not the end of life. The process of reborn is still a point of research for the people who are interested in the science and philosophy. People belonging to Hinduism and Buddhism are strong believer of reborn. The philosophy Hinduism and Buddhism is indifferent about reborn. As long as a man has the desire of enjoying the earthly matter, he’ll return here again and again. Different types of philosophy approve the reborn but the genetics and the environment science is not enough to explain the puzzle of reborn. The concept of transferring of soul is not only included in Hinduism and Buddhism but also included in the ancient Christian priest’s writing. Even the Sufi Muslims Poetry integrated the theory of reborn. If soul is eternal then it was present in our body before we born. If there is a possibility of existence of your soul in the never-ending future then it is truth that the same soul was present in the past that is before your birth. The immortality of soul is equal to the reborn of soul.

India is known as the home of religions as there are more than 250 linguistic groups is living together with different shades of religious faith and beliefs. The bond that links the religious minded throughout the length and breadth of the land is bhakti. ‘The aim of life is to attain bhakit’, said Ramkrishana (1836-1886), the saint-prophet of Bengal.

Bhakit is intense devotion to God, springing from a deep love of Him. It finds it a spontaneous expression in the Bhajan, or religious love lyric. Bhajans are composed by literate villagers in the remotest part of India known as pundits. These love song of God reveals the yearning of the human soul to possess him here and now. This ecstatic love of God flowers in the other religions sects as well.

Hence by religion in India is meant no formal dogma embodied in an institution but the realization and appropriation of God in the personal life of every single individual upon earth. This goal is to be achieved through Sadhana or self –discipline. The Guru, or spiritual guide, must be found, and he will show his pupil the path of mukti or moksha, the spiritual liberation. This, in belief, is the Hindu view of life. The Hinduism divided a man’s life in to three stages, from the ages of seven to twenty-one years when, in the past, a boy was handed over to a rishi or sage who dwelt in the forest and taught his pupil the Vedas as well as the cultural arts of music, song and dance. The second stage is that of the Sansari, when a man marries, rears a family and follows a trade or profession. The last stage is that of sanyasa, when a man renounce the world and all worldly duties, at the age of fifty-five years or so, and retired into seclusion to meditate and commune with God and attain moksha or seclusion.

Source : The influnce of religion, piloo Nanavutty