Did you know - Shiva's damru and Sanskrit grammar

Lord Shiva

A prayer that is also a Sanskrit grammar text book

Shiva Sutras written by Panini are simultaneously a stuti of Lord Shiva that recreate the sound made by his damaru and also a comprehensive list of basic sounds that form the basis of all sanskrit words.

Check video to hear the Shiva Sutras chanted by Pandit Jasraj and his disciples

 

Shiva's damru and Sanskrit grammar

Panini was a student of a gurukula (system of education in 4th century BC). He was a dull student, and was teased by many of his friends. So, worried of his situation, the guru mata (wife of guru) advised him to go to Himalayas and do tapas. So he went to Himalayas and started meditating to lord Shiva. Lord Shiva was pleased with his strong tapas. He came and danced before Panini. While dancing, the sound from his damaru (the small drum like music instrument that Shiva has) was heard by Panini as the Maheshwara Sutra that form an indispensable part of Sanskrit grammar.


To listen to Shiva Tandava Stotra composed by Ravana to please Lord Shiva  - 

                                               

                        - Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa Charitable Trust

To know more about Guru Maa’s teachings you may follow her on her account on Twitter and Facebook or log on to www.radhemaa.com. These social pages are handled by her devoted sevadars. To experience her divine grace, Bhakti Sandhyas and Shri Radhe Guru Maa Ji’s darshans are conducted every 15 days at Shri Radhe Maa Bhavan in Borivali, Mumbai. The darshans are free and open to everyone.

One may also volunteer to Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa’s ongoing social initiatives that include book donation drives, blood donation drives, heart checkup campaigns and financial support for various surgical procedures. Contact Shri Radhe Maa’s sevadar on +91 98200 82849 or email on admin@radhemaa.com to participate in these charitable activities.

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Did you know : Greatest Sanskrit grammarian of all time was a Pathan?

Panini was the most notable Sanskrit grammarian of all time. He was from Pushkalavati, Gandhara, that is presently the Charsadda region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan that is home to the ancient people who are now known as Pathans. A Panini temple was built recently in Kashi. Soil from the great grammarian’s birthplace was brought for the temple. 

Check video to know more about a village where everyone speaks Sanskrit 

 

          - Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa Charitable Trust

To know more about Guru Maa’s teachings you may follow her on her account on Twitter and Facebook or log on to www.radhemaa.com. These social pages are handled by her devoted sevadars. To experience her divine grace, Bhakti Sandhyas and Shri Radhe Guru Maa Ji’s darshans are conducted every 15 days at Shri Radhe Maa Bhavan in Borivali, Mumbai. The darshans are free and open to everyone.

One may also volunteer to Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa’s ongoing social initiatives that include book donation drives, blood donation drives, heart checkup campaigns and financial support for various surgical procedures. Contact Shri Radhe Maa’s sevadar on +91 98200 82849 or email on admin@radhemaa.com to participate in these charitable activities.

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Navratri Festival Special 2013 - Did you know? - Part 8

Mata Maha Gauri –The Holy Wife

Mata Maha Gauri –The Holy Wife

Mata Mahagauri the eight manifestation among the Navadurgas,  has several parallels with Goddess Oshun in the Yoruba tradition. Orisha, like Mahagauri grants love, intimacy, beauty, wealth and diplomacy to her devotees. Ọṣhun is beneficent, generous and very kind but like Mahagauri she has a great temper for those who threaten or pose a danger to her children. Oshun is Shango, god of lightning and thunder who loves drums like Lord Shambhu loves his damaru-drum in the Hindu tradition.


To listen to a beautiful tribute to Mother Oshun click on the following link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mt5SGyPPEQ

Maa Jagdambe Chowki & Mamtamai Shri Radhe Maaji's Divya Darshan

Date - October 12, 2013
Time -8 pm onwards
Venue - Radhe Maa Bhavan, Borivali West

For more details contact Sevadar Talli Baba ji on 9820969020
Share this invite with all your loved ones!

                                                                - Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa Charitable Trust

To know more about Guru Maa’s teachings you may follow her on her account on Twitter and Facebook or log on to www.radhemaa.com. These social pages are handled by her devoted sevadars. To experience her divine grace, Bhakti Sandhyas and Shri Radhe Guru Maa Ji’s darshans are conducted every 15 days at Shri Radhe Maa Bhavan in Borivali, Mumbai. The darshans are free and open to everyone.

One may also volunteer to Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa’s ongoing social initiatives that include book donation drives, blood donation drives, heart checkup campaigns and financial support for various surgical procedures. Contact Shri Radhe Maa’s sevadar on +91 98200 82849 or email on admin@radhemaa.com to participate in these charitable activities.

To get latest updates about 'Shri Radhe Guru Maa' visit -

www.radhemaa.com 

     

Navratri Festival Special 2013 - Did you know? - Part 7

Mata Kalratri - The ruler of the dead -Hel or Hela

Mata Kalratri – The ruler of the dead – Hel or Hela

Maa Kala Ratri is the seventh among the Navadurga. Kalaratri is the one of the fiercest forms of Durga who destroys all demons. Kaal Ratri is terrifying because she is death itself. Kaal means time. Ratri is night. The dark unknown period before we are born and the dark unknown that we return to is Kaalratri.  


Mata Kalratri was present in old European Norse mythology as Hel or Hela, the goddess of the dead and queen of underworld. She can cause disease, decay and death. She, like Kaalratri does not merely represent death but is death itself. 

Maa Kaalratri



Maa Jagdambe Chowki & Mamtamai Shri Radhe Maaji's Divya Darshan

Date - October 12, 2013
Time -8 pm onwards
Venue - Radhe Maa Bhavan, Borivali West

For more details contact Sevadar Talli Baba ji on 9820969020

Share this invite with all your loved ones!

                                                                - Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa Charitable Trust

To know more about Guru Maa’s teachings you may follow her on her account on Twitter and Facebook or log on to www.radhemaa.com. These social pages are handled by her devoted sevadars. To experience her divine grace, Bhakti Sandhyas and Shri Radhe Guru Maa Ji’s darshans are conducted every 15 days at Shri Radhe Maa Bhavan in Borivali, Mumbai. The darshans are free and open to everyone.

One may also volunteer to Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa’s ongoing social initiatives that include book donation drives, blood donation drives, heart checkup campaigns and financial support for various surgical procedures. Contact Shri Radhe Maa’s sevadar on +91 98200 82849 or email on admin@radhemaa.com to participate in these charitable activities.

To get latest updates about 'Shri Radhe Guru Maa' visit -

www.radhemaa.com 

     

Navratri Festival Special 2013 - Did you know? - Part 6

Durga katyayani and Mother Isis

Durga Katyayani and Isis the great goddess of Egypt

Maa katyayini

Katyayini, the sixth amongst the Navadurgas, has close parallels with Isis the ancient Egyptian goddess. Karyayini is a fierce protector of devotees who does not merely destroy their enemies without but also burns to ashes qualities like ignorance, anger and greed that come in the way a devotees spiritual growth.

Isis is like Katyayini a Goddess of magic and the power behind mantras and incantations. Just as Katyayaini is called mantrini, Isis was known as the Lady of the Words of Power.

Maa Jagdambe Chowki & Mamtamai Shri Radhe Maaji's Divya Darshan

For more details contact Sevadar Talli Baba ji on 9820969020

Share this invite with all your loved ones!

                                                             - Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa Charitable Trust

To know more about Guru Maa’s teachings you may follow her on her account on Twitter and Facebook or log on to www.radhemaa.com. These social pages are handled by her devoted sevadars. To experience her divine grace, Bhakti Sandhyas and Shri Radhe Guru Maa Ji’s darshans are conducted every 15 days at Shri Radhe Maa Bhavan in Borivali, Mumbai. The darshans are free and open to everyone.

One may also volunteer to Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa’s ongoing social initiatives that include book donation drives, blood donation drives, heart checkup campaigns and financial support for various surgical procedures. Contact Shri Radhe Maa’s sevadar on +91 98200 82849 or email on admin@radhemaa.com to participate in these charitable activities.

To get latest updates about 'Shri Radhe Guru Maa' visit -

www.radhemaa.com 

     

Navratri Festival Special 2013 - Did you know? - Part 5

Mother Yemaya - Skanda Mata

Skanda Mata and Mother Yemaya in the Nigerian tradition

Skandamata is Goddess Parvati in her role as mother of Lord Skanda or Kartikeya.  As Mata Rani is in her maternal aspect in this manifestation, she is believed to be extremely beneficent to devotees who seek her as Skandamata. Probably the best known depiction of the Divine Feminine as Mother comes to us in the form of the depictions of Mother Mary with Jesus among others.

The role of Supreme Mother in the Yoruba tradition of Nigeria is fulfilled by Yemaya. Yemaya is the ocean, the essence of motherhood, and a fierce protector of children. Yemaya is said to be the mother of all Gods in the Nigerian IFA tradition.

Skandmata 

                                                                                - Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa Charitable Trust

To know more about Guru Maa’s teachings you may follow her on her account on Twitter and Facebook or log on to www.radhemaa.com. These social pages are handled by her devoted sevadars. To experience her divine grace, Bhakti Sandhyas and Shri Radhe Guru Maa Ji’s darshans are conducted every 15 days at Shri Radhe Maa Bhavan in Borivali, Mumbai. The darshans are free and open to everyone.

One may also volunteer to Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa’s ongoing social initiatives that include book donation drives, blood donation drives, heart checkup campaigns and financial support for various surgical procedures. Contact Shri Radhe Maa’s sevadar on +91 98200 82849 or email on admin@radhemaa.com to participate in these charitable activities.

To get latest updates about 'Shri Radhe Guru Maa' visit -

www.radhemaa.com 

     

Navratri Festival Special 2013 - Did you know? - Part 4

Goddess Olwen

Mata Kushmanda and Welsh Goddess Olwen

Maa Kushmanda, is worshiped on fourth day during Durga Pooja during the Navratris. She is said to be the power that gives the Sun its power to nourish. Her abode is at the centre of the Sun. Kushmanda is the one who begins the cycle of creation by creating the anda or egg-shaped universe which grows and expands till pralaya.


The Welsh Goddess Olwen, who is the patron of the arts, creativity, excellence and the sun. Her symbols are late-blooming flowers, red and gold items and rings.  She is also called ‘the Golden Wheel, which signifies the wheel of creation and dissolution’, or the beginning of the cycle of the world. She is thus close to the depictions of Kushmanda.  

Maa Kushmanda

                                                                             - Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa Charitable Trust

To know more about Guru Maa’s teachings you may follow her on her account on Twitter and Facebook or log on to www.radhemaa.com. These social pages are handled by her devoted sevadars. To experience her divine grace, Bhakti Sandhyas and Shri Radhe Guru Maa Ji’s darshans are conducted every 15 days at Shri Radhe Maa Bhavan in Borivali, Mumbai. The darshans are free and open to everyone.

One may also volunteer to Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru Maa’s ongoing social initiatives that include book donation drives, blood donation drives, heart checkup campaigns and financial support for various surgical procedures. Contact Shri Radhe Maa’s sevadar on +91 98200 82849 or email on admin@radhemaa.com to participate in these charitable activities.

To get latest updates about 'Shri Radhe Guru Maa' visit -

www.radhemaa.com